The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-23
WHIRL OF GOTHAM TOWN.
DULLNESS IN WALL STREET AND
ON tbs EXCHANGES.

Mrs. Frank Leslie to Lecture-Young
Talmage on the Plat Torm-Hope for
Young Women-casting the Statue
of Beecher-A Glimpse OF Kate Chas o
Sprague-John C. Fremont in His
Old Days-The Interviewer" as the
Photographers Assistant.
(Copyrfgatl
NEW York, March 22-The fat and Jolly
Wall street broker is having the hardest
time of his life just now to make both ends
meet Never in the course of his somewhat
excitable career has he found it so hard to
make dollar. To those on the outside it is
something of problem how he manages to
pay his office rent But this may be
accounted for, perhaps, when it is known
that he splits commissions, does little bit
of trading in the bucket shops, ana scalps
fellow broker when opportunity offers
The public is not interested in Wall street
lust now. and SO the brokers must live
upon each other. In days of lang syne
the broker was being to be envied. He
was usually pictur ed as rotund individ-
ual, dressed IN the most costly raiment,
! living like Sybari5e. His ordinary lunch
con consisted Of pate de fois gras, canvas
back duck and terrapin, wa he'd down with
cha m payne galore. Tho q were the halcyon
| d1ys that seem likely never TO return again.
| The pattles, the canvaS-bacS and the terra
! pin are pleasant memory, and in place of
the magnums of champagne, there is
modicum of beer only. The costly
raiment that once set all the
town talking about the extravaganza of
| Wall street men has given place TO very
quiet-looking business SUITS good many of
them too much worn, and most of them
costing a third less than the garments of
| old 1t is approximately dull, not only in
| the stock exchange, bnt on the produce, the
cotton, the coffee, and every other exchange.
How long this may last is a problem.
| Things will probably not be- very much
better until the public gain takes a hand
in speculation.
One Of the incidents that will show the
effect of the hard times in Wall street is the
depreciation in value of the seats in the
various exchanges. A few years ago a
membership in the stock exchange was
valued ut about $50 900. 1t can be had now
for less than $4,000. A seat in the CON
solidated exchange was worth about ST.
800. One can now be had for about $500.
And rents, too, are not nearly 30 high as
they were at the period mentioned above.
Splendid offices can now b. obtained at
very reasonable figures, simply because
only very few mon can afford such quar-
ters. The average broker carries his Office
in his hat, and he is having the hardest
time in his life to keep the aforesaid hat
above high water.
| MRS. FRANK LESLIE TO LECTURE.
Mrs. Frank Leslie has determined to take
the lecture platform. This will be news to
a great many people, particularly Mrs.
Leslie's friends. She will appear in and
around New York few times during the
coming spring and then viii make her
annual pilgrimage to London, where she
will also be heard. She has several lectures
written chiefly on social TOPICS and the
agent who is managing her predicts a big
| SUCCESS for her new undertaking.
All in all Mrs. Leslie is one Of the most
picturesque figures i'll New York life. Be
SIDES being a handsome woman she has
large income, has hosts of friends, and en-
joys the unique distinction of having had
more offers Of marriage than any woman in
or out of the circle of the -Four Hundred.
She has managed, however, TO elude all
these pursuers, and has remained single
simply because she has not found man
that she loved. Mrs. Leslie lives in
splendid quarters in an uptown apartment
house, gives capital receptions and is o. of
the most entertaining hostesseS in town.
| Besides this, she is a business woman in the
best sense of that much abused term. She
writes TO all her correspondents no matter
how trivial the subject involved may be, at
tends to all the vast details of her great
publishing house herself, and in addition
has time for large round of social enjoy
ment.
DIR. TALMAGE's SON AS A LECTURER.
Here is young fellow who is also trying
to make hit as a lecturer He is manly
looking, about o. with clear blue eyes
broad shoulders, and an intellectual face. 1t
is Frank Dewitt Talmage, only living son
of the famous Brooklyn divine, and he
gives the lie to the ofI-quoted sentence that
great mems sons are usually worthless.
Unless all signs fail he is going to make
big hit, and he is doing it solely
on bis own merit and not on has
fathers name. Like all of DR.. Tai
IMAGES children, he has been carefully
tutored He was student under DR.. Mark
Hopkins in Williams college, and is now
finishing his education at the University of
the City of New York. where he will
graduate in June and be the class orator,
the same college from which his dis
tinguished flasher graduated with the
highest honors in 1858. 1t Is not improbable
thai in the fall he may become
a student in some of the great theolo-
gical Summaries with the object
of finally preparing himself for
the pulpit. Without in any way seeming
to fiatter the young man, | may say that he
is man who is bound to be heard from in
the future. He has more facts stored in his
head than most men of his age. He is a
tireless reader, and an easy and graceful
writer. He has Travelled all over Europe,
and visited with his father nearly every
city on the American continent 1t is not
at all unnatural that his mother from
whom he inherts much of his beauty,
should be well pleased with her promising
son.
HOPE FOR YOUNG WOMEN.
1t is whispered in tie precincts Of the
Four Hundred that Mrs. Mabel Wright
Yznaga, the belle of three seasons. who sur
prised all New York by getting married
and departing for Europe with her million
ate husband the day after, is to be pre-
sented to the queen at the next drawing
room in May. Naturally enough, this has
caused a commotion among the young girls
with whom the bride so long associated.
For presentation at court means as much
to-day as it ever did, and it is still supposed
to De the GROWING achievement in a
woman's life.
Perhaps the most curious part Of Mrs
Yzuaga's matrimonial venture, and that
which CAUSES most astonishment among all
classes, is the fact that she was the only
member Of her family who was in society.
Her name figured in all the social reports OF
the day. Sha was a welcome guest at all