The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-23

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| 70 whom he is extremely devoted. Mrs.
| Alger Is modest and retiring, and has a
| dread OF publicity. One time she was pres
ent when reporter interviewed the general,
and IN the course of a running converse
ton she made some pleasant remarks.
/ When she saw her words in print, attributed
70 her, 1t disturbed her so much it made her
I i'll. Now, the general always asks re-
/ porter, if his wife is present, not to bring
her in the interview.
DIR. TALMAGE AND HIS NEW CHURCH.
There are half-dozen good stories in
| circulation about DR.. Talmage and his ex-
periences on the ocean. The Aurania had a
| very rough passage from Liverpool, and the
| good doctor paid tribute to old Neptune in
the regulation style. In fact, he cast his
| bread upon the waters in quite a different
way to that prescribed by the Great
| teacher. Now that it is all over, DR.. Tai
mage doesn't mind saying that he never ex-
| pecJed to reach land again, and his fellow
| passengers report that he was so afraid of
the winds and the waves that he actually
locked himself up in his cabin and refused
to be seen.
Be that as it may, DIR. Talmage is back
in Brooklyn, as full of vim an dash as ever,
and is pushing forward with his character
| lstlc energy the plans for his new church
and Sabbath school, The new tabernacle is
| to be great structure in more WAYS than
one, and besides combining all that is good
IN church architecture, DR.. Talmage has
planned TO have the largest and most COM
modlous Sunday school room in the world.
| He intends to have accommodations for
| four thousand children and teachers, and
| every facility for their study of the Bible
The church proper is to contain all the
latest appliances in the matter OF heating
and lighting, and the seats are to be so ar
ranged that his great audiences may enter
and leave the building in very short space
of time. During the DOCTORS absence in the
Holy Land, number of his
leading members joined other churches,
but they have all returned to the
Talmage fold and are aiding their pastor in
every way to make the coming church a
model.
1t may interest the reader to know that
DR.. Talmage's Life of Christ" is already
begun, and the publisher hopes to make
100000 out of its sale himself, besides add
ing at least $3.50, 900 more to DR.. Talmage's
bank account. 1t may not be amiss in this
connection to say what will probably sur
prise great many readers, that Talmage is
millionaire, and although he gives freely
to the poor, and spends great deal on him
self and family, his enormous income
from his salary as pastor of the taber-
nacle, from lectures. marriage fees,
sermons and other literary work, is quite,
If not over, $4,000 year. Mrs. Talmage
is the fuancier of the family. 1t is she
VINO makes all the DOCTORS engagements
and does his banking business. She is a
charming little woman, who devotes all her
time to her husband and her family. The
Talmages live in splendid style, and the
daughters are not only expert musicians,
but they can speak fluently half dozen
languages, and are indeed most cultivated
young ladies. DR.. Talmage will soon start
on a lecture tour, and by the late fall his
church will lie in readiness for occupation.
1t is promised that the dedicatory services
shall be the most elaborate ever known ia
this country.
A NEW NEWSPAPER FOR NEW YORK.
New York is to have new newspaper.
There seems to be no more fascinating bus
mess for capitalists than going into Journal
ism. The fact that Park Row is a grave
yard of newspapers does not deter them
from trying the experiment. The new
paper is to be published i'll the afternoon, is
TO be republican in politics, modelled alto
gether on the principles followed in the
west, and is to be sold for two cents COPY.
The money for the enterprise is furnished
by syndicate of capitalists in Kansas CITY.
Everything is to be done on au elaborate
scale, and if the plans of the managers
hold out, revolution in the
newspaper methods pursued by
the evening papers is promised. While
it is very doubtful if any of the
afternoon newspapers are more than pay
ing expenses at present, the morning papers
seems to be doing unusually well. Mr..
Pulitzer's friends say that he made $780,
600 out Of his paper last year, and it is
known that Mr.. Benefits papermade quite
half that much, while those papers owned
by Mr. Dana, Mr.. Reed and Mr.. Jones
very likely cleared S250,O00 each. 1t NAV
be, from study of these facts, that the
western syndicate has been given the
courage to come to New York and give
Col. Shepard and the others now in the
field coed race
NEW PORTRAIT OF JAY GOULD.
Benjamin Constant, the great French
painter, who has just arrived in Paris from
America, has made public a secret that was
intended to be jealousy guarded Only a
very few people in New York knew that he
was engaged on a full-length portrait of
Jay Gould. This he finished before leav-
ing, and was so satisfied with his work that
ne begged the little wizard of Wall street
to permit him to take it to Paris with him
and exhibit it in the salon. Mr.
Gould, who, whatever other faults he
may possess, is certainly modest refused TO
comply with the request, and the picture is
now in his possession in his house on Fifth
avenue. His son George. however, prom
lsed that his father would permit the artist
most intimate friends of the great
financier have had an opportunity to
inspect the PICTURE but George Gould
says it is life-ike in every respect MIR.
Gould is devoting less time than ever to
Wall street affairs these days, and will
probably spend the summer abroad 1t
must not be understood from this that he is
not interested in speculation. He still reads
the stock tape with all the eagerness of a
Spectator, but he has not so much at stake
now as he had half dozen years ago, and
the rising and falling of prices does not
affect him so keenly. He may be seen any
afternoon on Broadway walking by the
side of his son George from the Western
Union building to their home on Fiftn
avenue, a distance of quite five miles. This
exercise was forced upon him by his phvsi-
clan, who demanded that he should give
more attention to his health. Mr.. Gould
has always been dyspeptic, but is now
freer from that great American disorder
than at any time within the last dozen
years.
SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
The National Society of the Sons of the
American Revolution is an organization
almost unknown to the average newspaper
reader. Nevertheless, such a society exists,
and has branches in every state in the union
Col. William Seward Webb son of the old
time New York journalist of that name,
who married the youngest daughter of
l.