The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-02
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ouiet Life OF Mrs zen vi MOI
Dix and His Work-Cleveland
a Lawyer.
(CoDyright)
v-w YORK, Fe That nothing sue
.r-s success is shown in the case of
e-' EcAllister. The New Year ball.
Loas If which are still reverberating
,I.,-rsv hill parlors, has made him the
,aI.ed about of all the social leaders,
,hos given him prestige and an infu-
SO far above his fellows that he has
.,,sp a rival, much less an equal Nc
l.m...,r,s life is pretty well known. He
I'D his ups and downs. He is one of
= most remarkable men ia this country.
- sbrewd financier. and SO good
=, If the value of money that he man
m an income of perhaps $4,000
vaqr to live as well as some CT
reighbors who spend three
rs that amount He is an ex-
in the art of dinuer-giving, and he is
laof tine best cooks in this country. He
ole ~ u,ore a salad as well as did Sam Ward.
a. nrince of good fellows, in his palmiest
las He is a story-teller, the equal of
g. Horace Porter or Chauncey III. Depew.
I'D he is more than either OF those gentle
s,sr-he is a conuoisseur Of wines. 1t is no
i'o in The wine trade that not one man
sTf If A hundred knows the difference be-
.r'asn fairly good sherry and one that
= worth its weight in gold. You will
.oa men at the various clubs holding up
tbsr glasses to the light and proclaiming
.5at this Burgundy or that champagne has
M superior or equal, when, as a matter of
fscr after they have passed the dead level
n GOOD wine, the judges are SO few that
,seasy to impose on almost any one. Nc
AlIster is not one of these. He has wine
CELLAR collected at great expense from all
quarters of the GLOBE, and while he is not
drinking man at all, except that he likes
wine for dinner, he can tell, without seeing
hottie. the age, richness and value of the
article.
When he selected the wines. for the great
New Year ball supper he showed his good
Judgment. although he was severely criti-
clsed for departing from the usual custom
Of taking what the caterer said was the
hast Since that time he has been the re-
ciDient from wine merchants and dealers
ali over the country of sample bottles of
their goods, for which they hope to get a
favorable word from him, for it is known
now that if McAllister says his wine is good
or bad, the sentence will fly from one club
10 another, and from one dining-room to
another along Fifth avenue, until the fame
and fortune OF the wine has been made, or
it has been ANONYMOUSLY turned out of
good society.
So with the florist. They are so eager to
serve him now, and through him gain
trade, that there is hardly day on which
he does not receive n sufficient assortment
of cut flowers to keep his parlors looking
like a conservatory. 1t is SO in other mat
tors; and those who have dined around his
hospitable board say that he gets the best
joints the best game, as we'll as the freshest
and most delicious vegetables of any man
il New Y ork; not that he pays more for
them than does his neighbJr, but because
he is Ward McAllster, and can make any
wine merchant, florist, caterer or butcher
independent for life, by saying the word.
MRS. GRANTS QUIET LIFE.
well-equipped brougham dashed
through Central park the other afternoon.
The driver was in deep mourning, and the
sole occupant of the back seat was con
spicuouS for her pale face and widows
weeds. 1t was Julia Dent Grant, widow of
Gen. Grant. She was out for her afternoon
airing through the park. There was a
stream of carriages and horseback riders,
but not one person Of that fashionable cav
alcade knew the distinguished woman.
Mrs. Grant looked what sue really is--far
from well. She mas been ailing for long
time, and is very seldom seen in
poor. She attends church regularly
when her health permits, drives
out because her doctor insists on it, aud
lives a quiet, peaceful life among her own
circle of friends One of her most frequent
callers is gen. Sherman. He often dimes at
Mrs. Grants house, and is on the most init
mate terms of friendship with her coterie
of friends. When Gen. Grant was alive,
all the big and little men of the country
who visited New York paid their respects
to the hero of Appomattox, but they have
forgotten his widow, and now she is seldom
troubled except perhaps when some old
soldier whom her husband befriended comes
to inquire after her health, or some of the
dead generals most intimate friends pay
what may be called duty CALLS
1t may not be generally known that Mrs.
Grant has a large number of the private
papers Of her late husband which, if not
of extreme value, would make entertaining
reading. She has under advisement the
proposition from leading book publishing
house to write book. 1t is not likely she
will do SO, however, for her means are
ample and her health will hardly per
life now is to see that her husbands
last resting place is marked by a suitable
monument. She is bending every energy
in that direction. Every once i'll a while
an effort is made to induce her to have the
generals remains taken to some other city,
but this she will never consent to. George
w. Childs is still her business adviser and
confidential friend. He never fails to call
upon her when in New York, and in turn
Mrs. G ant never makes any move without
MS advice.
1t may be added in general way, for
the benefit Of those persons who like to
gossip, that there is not the slightest truth
in the reports that constantly come to US
from over the ocean that mrs. SartoriS, the
beautiful Nellie Grant, is about TO leave
her husband This fabrication has been ex-
ploded a good many times, but, like Ban
quos ghost it will not down. Mrs.
Grant is on the most amicable terms
with her son-in-law, and is shappy in the
poSs assion of the love and respect Of her
orawny sons, who are all doing well in bust
ness now, and their future seems secure. 1T
Is possible that Mrs. Grant may go abroad
n the spring for visit to her son. Minister
Grant, at Vienna, but that depends on her
health. Her present object in life, as al I'VE
stated, is to see the completion of the Grant
national monument, if that should take
place before the millennium.
REV. MORGAN DIX AND HIS WORK.
II there be any buster man in New York
tAan Rev. Morgan Dix, of Trinity corpora
uon, he would do well 'to step up and be
identified. Besides attending TO the vast
routine business of the Trinity corporation,