Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1890-02-04

business now. and whose future seem,
secure. IL is possible that Mira Gram
may 60 abroad in the spring for a visit
to her son, Minister Grant, ut Vienna
J but that depends on her health He,
present object in life, as above stated
is to see the completion of the Grant
National Monument. if that should
take place before the millennium.
II there be any buster man in New
York than Rev. Morgan Dix, of Trinity
corporation, he would do we'll to stem
up and be identified. Besides attend
Ing to the vast routine business of
the Trinity corporation, with its
S2o, 10000, 00O invested, preaching reg
ularly, marrying people, visiting the
SICK, and officiating over tho dead, he
is called upon by men and women Of
every walk in life for advice on all
sorts OF questions. No matter how
carly you 90 to his Office in the morn
ing you will 6nd q dozen or twenty
people ahead OF you. They all want
to see the distinguished rector of Old
Trinity in person, and explain to him
their various schemes and troubles
Tho writer Of this waited two hours in
his office the other day for an opportu.
nifty to get . word with him on . mat
tor of private business. When at last
the crowd had zone and We were alone,
expressed some surprise at the num-
Der Of the callers.
YES" said DR.. Dix" it sometimes
seems to me that will never get
through my days work. People come
to me on all sorts of subjects simply
because am at the head of the Trinity
corporation. whom they could get the
Same advice: from almost any business
man Of their acquaintance. get let
ters from all over tho world on tho
queerest topics imaginable, and If do
not at once reply to them, am bored
to death until do
At that very moment DR.. Dix's desk
was Uttered with letters . foot high.
There was . request from q magazine
for an article on the question: ''ls the
| world getting better or worseY' a sub
ject that DR.. Dix explained would take
up so much of his time to answer prop
erly that he dare not even attempt it.
There were Invitations to dinner, re-
quests from this and that parish for
financial aid, letters from mothers. ask
ing the good doctor to find employment
Tor their sons, one from q widow who
asked If DIR. Dix considered it q crime
for her to marry her cousin, and so on.
The great preacher goes through them
al carefully. Opposite him sits a pri-
vate secretary, who answers them all
as the occasion may require.
In personal appearance DR.. Dix is one
OF tho most striking men in New York
and he always attracts a great deal of
attention. He is strong preacher, q
deep thinker, and his voice has lost
none OF tho charm that made him IA
nous as preacher While not exactly
the fashionable preacher, he is called
upon by society to offfciate at weddings
that arc unusually profitable. His per-
sonal income is enormous and he has a
comfortable fortune. He gives away a
great deal of money, and has helped
more young men to get on in the world
than any preacher of the day.
1t doesn't make very much difference
these days how big man Is physically
or politically. once he comes to New
York he ceases very soon to be much of
press Of New York society, and almost
worth her weight in gold. walked down
Twenty-third Street yesterday and
neither man, woman, or child recog-
nized her or turned to look after her. If
the shop girls and women who elbowed
her as she passed along had known who
she was they would have stared their
eyes out. thinking perhaps they might
get a glimpse OF the magnificent dia-
monds about which they have read 30
much, but never SEEM. Mrs. Grover
Cleveland goes along Fifth Avenue,
Broadway, Fourteenth Street, and
travels like ordinary mortals in horse
cars day after day, and Is never recog-
nizsd. She never was very we'll known
in New York, but her distinguished
husband, it might have been thought,
would have escaped such q fate But
he has not. He walks up Broadway
every afternoon without attracting any
attention. He drops into the Fifth
Avenue Hotel, in the nest of the very
busiest men of the world, without caus-
ing ripple Of excitement He lunches
every day in q small restaurant near
his Office on Lower Broadway and not
one person out Of . hundred recognize
him. He takes his turn in tho little
Italian barber shop on Park Row, the
same As any other man, without at
tracing the slightest notice. He
waited fifteen minutes the other morn
ing to be shaved and took the place Of
burly 'longshoreman in the BARRIERS
chair. chatted affably with the artist
as his razor glided over the ex-Presi-
dents face. picked up his own hat,
brushed his own ,e6at. paid his afteen
cents and walked out of the place with
out even the barber suspocting who he |
was. He goes to the theatars with his
wife, attends concerts, lectures, and |
often occupies pew in St. Bartholo-
news Church on Sunday morning, but |
he is not stared at. seldom pointed out,
and has ceased to DO a curiosity. 1t 10
not that New Workers intend any dis
respect to the ex-Chief Magistrate. It |
is simply phase Of New York life.
Tho big men come here. mingle with
the little men, and are swallowed up in |
the vortex. They soon forget their
own Importance and probably enjoy life
more for not being SO onspicuous-at
least Mr.. Cleveland does, for he told .
reporter " no walked along