The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-07

Al -lOuI u street.. near I4AlU avenue.
de isn't more than 10 years old among his
bright and beautiful children Charles II.
Foster, sometimes called the lightning cal
! culatOr Of the stock exchange, is a great
| fisherman. Henry G. Trevor is a great
| lawn tennis player and likes to give bache-
Tor parties to young ladies. Rich bache-
| Tors Of New York reciprocate social atten-
| lions in this way, as is no more than fair.
| The last bachelor party" which Mr.. Trevor
| gave was at Delmonico's and delighted the
| young ladies and their chaperones. it cost
$1,000. r. L. Beeckman, Of the stock ex-
| change and a member of an old New
/ \ OTk family, is the champion lawn tennis
player of America Daniel Starr is the
| champion billiard player Of the stock ex-
change. He married a daughter Of Peter
Gilsey, after whom the hotel was named
! Wilbur Bacon was member of the Yale
college boat crew. r. W. Setback, another
stock exchange man, was at one time cham
pion amateur OarSLaau of New York state
and is powerful atheete. He put up one
of the heaviest dumb bells made 10000
times. r. w. Rathbone was once cham
piOn amateur single scull oarsman of the
United States. Benjamin Williams was
formerly the champion amateur feather
weight boxer of the United States as well
as the champion mile runner of this coun-
try. Philip Harding is the sweet singer of
the stock exchange. He initiates the cali
ope to perfection and turns the stock ex-
change into a steamboat that adds new
agonieS to hurly burly.
A good many financiers and stockholders
are sea-dogs in their way. Some of them
make long cruises in their yachts. Com
modore Arthur E. Bateman owns the
steam yacht Meteor" and lives a great
deal of the time on board Of her. He has
cruised from Labrador to the river Amazon.
He was formerly in the United States Navy
and is of a bold and energetic character.
James Smith, ex-President of the stock eX-
change and ex-CommOdore of the New
York Yacht Club, owns the yacht 'Es-
telle." Thomas w. Pearsall owns the
''Banshee, an Irish name, meaning spook.
She is fast sailer. Roger Maxwell, Presi-
dent Cf the Central railroad of New Jer-
sey, owns the very fast sailing yacht
shamrock" Washington f. Conner,
Mr.. Gould's old partner, is a veteran yachts
man. Mr.. Gould long ago presented his
yacht to his son George. J. Pierpont
Co., bankers, owns the big steam
yacht "Corsair,n which is about 500 tons
register. 1t is an expensive luxury keep
ing yacht Mr.. Morgan's probably cost
him 100000 and | presume that it costs
81, 800 a month to run 1t. This would in
clude fuel, provisions and wages for d crew
of say thirty men. Captains of these pleas
ure yachts are paid from 500 to $125 a
month; first mates, S45 to $50; quarter
masters, $35; sailors, $50. Some financiers
have yachts on the inland lakes. Alfred
Sully, who is worth 1000, 900 or $1,000, 900
lives at Hackettstown, N. j., but comes to
New York daily, has a fine yacht of this
class and entertains his friends royalty.
Stock brokers are apt to be fond of a
quiet game of cards. The champion poker
player of the stock exchange is David
neI, f1.,1r,N
| ator, was great player. He died worth
| 81, 100000, being the only one of Jay GOuld's
| brokers who was shrewd enough to keep the
fortune founded upon his commissions. Mr..
Osborn managed Mr.. Gould's celebrated
corner in Northwest stock, when the latter
squeezed the bears till their tongues seemed
TO run out. Mr.. Gould, by the way, in
| speaking of this corner once said, in his
customary low tone of voice and dryneSs of
enunciation: 81 considered the stock cheap
at so and began to buy. People were dis
posed to sellit down. My brokers had Or
ders to buy. Before / knew it they had
bought good deal more than there was.
Then the price began to go up. | think it went
to $50 l think l was induced to part with
some at that price, Mr.. Gould smiled
family at the recollection. 1t was assuredly
"a liberal act to permit any one to 'induce"
him to part with some" at more than
three times as much as he paid for it. The
| bears felt sore over that experience for
| years. Charley" Osborne, as the ablest of
Mr.. Gould's brokers', made the furry
brethren fairly howl with disgust. They
had sold themselves into the deepest kind
of hole and their only recourse was to take
hold of the rope that ''Charley" Osborn let
down to them and to pay handsomely and
try to look happy. This famous broker
used to play high poker with Jordon l..
| Mott the iron merchant, who is now worth
about S5,000000. On one occasion, years
ago, heard Mr.. Osborn won $25, 900 from
| Mr.. Mott at one sitting. 1t was a trife to
| the merchant, many times a millionaire,
and he rose from the table with the jovial
remark:
''That's nothing. I'll go down and mark
| up the price of the potsn
Calvin s. Brice, the railroad president
and chairman of the democratic national
committee in the last campaign, is a great
poker player, and together with ex-Congress-
man James 0'Brien, Col. William Brown
of the Net0S and others have some pretty
| high play at Delmonico's at Fifth avenue
and Twenty-sixth street, the limit being
$50. A loss or gain of $4,000 or $1,000 at
one Of these games excites no comment.
Many of the Wall street men belong to
whist club. 1t was organized by w. S.
Gray, who married the eldest daughter of
the famous William r. Travers 1t is made
up for the most part of members of the
union club where whist for years was a fav-
orite game There are professors" who
teach the game of whist to persons desir-
ious of being educated into its mysteries.
A. j. Queckburner is one of the giants
of the consolidated exchange and also one
of the best alEround athletes in the country.
He is champion of all the clubs in New
York including the New York Athletic
Club, winning the highest medal last year.
He is especially formidable in the ''tug of
war" in which the athletes take hold of a
rope and try to pull their opponents to their