Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-20
LIVE NEW YORK TOPICS.
October in Many Respects the Most
Pleasing Month in All the Year.
The Creed of McAIlister's Band-0Id Dutch
People-The Count Of Paris-Ccektafis
and Their Results.


Copyright 1880, by the United Press.)
Special Correspondence Of the Gazette.
In many respects this is the most pleas
ing month of the year liz the metropolis.
The dullness that pertains to the streets
in midsummer has been thoroughly over
come BY the return of that lively por-
ton of the community that seeks recrea-
ton in hot weather at the seashore, in
the mountains or on the other side of the
Atlantic. Now is the time when women
do their 'sfall shopping, when politi-
clans make their deals, tbeaters their
opening hits and all men their plans for
the year. October is the month that
paints the forest in cOlors of gorgeous
hue. Here in New York it pegets the
general use OF red paint at the clubs and
hotels. OF course, it is not good form 10
return to the city before November, ac-
cording to the creed of McAllister
band, but the solectoi who linger at
Lenox are not New Workers. The four
hundred of the city are a good deal like
certain British landlords. Absenteeism
has made them aliens and or metropoli-
tan life as ii throbs in the pulses of this
great town they know nothing.
TRUE CONSERVATIVES.
Speaking of the inner circle of New
York society reminds me of a recent ad-
venture that befell me. l had occasion
not long ago to make a visit to one of the
poorest tenement districts of the East
Side. On my return l passed through
shabby looking street, the houses of
which had evidently once made some pre-
tensions to elegance. In fact there was
bob
tied by the arstocrats of the town. 1t
bears a name noted in the historical and
social annals OF New York. On one of
the houses-a three-story brick affair
with trimmings OF white marble-was
this sign: "Myndert Van v, Bell
hanger.'' My curiosity was aroused and
I entered the shop of this workman with
the old time name. He was q typical
Hollauder in appearance. l told him
was Dutch on my mothers side and he
became quite confidential, showed me his
coat-of-arms and finally took me up
stairs to meet his father and mother. 1
learned from them that the family
had been in New York for $50
years, that they had always main
tanned a knowledge of the tongue of
their ancestors and that even the bell
hangers children could speak and read
Holland Dutch. They also SAID thar
there were a number of old Dutch fami-
lies IN the neighborhood who still kept
up many of the customs pertaining to
their ancestors Ia the days of Petrus
Stuyvesant. They were all poor, proud,
wholly unknown TO the new generation of
So called New York society. On further
Investigation l found that this little col
ony of deceyed aristocrats Is the most
incorporating circle in the metropolis.
II you have money you may in time get
an entrance into the McAllister circle.
Unless, however, you can prove that you
possess pure strain of old Dutch blood
you oan never gain the friendship of
Myndert Van V, the bell-hanger,
and his immediate neighbors.
AN UNCRowNED KING.
Is New York really Democratic city2
Surely the adulation pail to the Count of
Paris and his son would indicate that
there Is well developed tendency to-
ward monarchical forms among certain
metropolitans. OF course it is all very
well to say that the count is being feted
because he was staunch friend of the
Union, but is that the only motive for
this widespread applause for a man who
comes TO US tainted by most Disgrace
full political intrigued? BY the way, the
Duo Orleans had a lively time while
IN this city. He is fond of high living
and Is an epicure Of preeocious but un-
deniable talent. One evening he took