Telegram-herald., 1891-12-20
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Last week We were I'll waiting frem
day 70 day fer ths snseunesDeat of sss
AsssA Of Cyrus ". Field The dssth Of
Mr.. FIELDS wife. the disgrsosfsl financial
fsAlurs u his ssn aad the vesry over
his own aRaiss. which has not seaaed
sinss Jay Gould caught him sad
pineAsd him four ysars sso. combined
te bring Mr.. Field AlArniagly near the
dark river. bat the repsrts are ssw that
he Il on The road 70 recovery. A mar
vclous family 10 this Field family Of
four brotAers-DAvid w.. the lawyer.
now past eighty; Cyrus. the dnaneisr;
Stephen. the supreme court justice. and
Henry NJ, the theologian, editor and
author. They are beuad tegetAer BY
the closest ties. Every year they have
q reunion and they ell hal, each ether.
Rev. Henry, who 10 quite n extsnsivs
traveller, told me once that whceever he
was the least bit out Of sorts Cyrus used
TO A. him out and starr him % . trip
around the world. One Of Cyrus FIELDS
fsds before the Gould cyclone struck
him was to cable 20 . number of friends
in London 20 meet him at dinner on .
certain day and hour At the Langhan
hotel, London. He would then take
passage on . schedule ocean liner. ar.
rive Ia Liverpool ~ . eertain hour.
catch train and reach Londsn on the
day and - near - possible tho hour
named for dinner. He tsld me that
while be had eut this caper ave times
he had kept his company waiting only
ence. Two years ago ! sat b.
side Mr.. Cyrus Field at one Of Gen.
Shernsn's birthday dinners, given a.
his home, In Seventy -arst street. We
talked great deal about the Atlantic
cable and It's early vicissitudes. When
told Mr. Field that - . barsfooted
boy In 1855 had stoed on typs box In
. country newspaper o6ics and had
''set up" the story of the laying Of the
tlrst cable he became greatly interest
ed. quoted the message which had
passed over the cable before Il parted
and was particularly anxious to know
what had become Of the cable operator.
Do Ssuty. who, from Hearts Content,
Newfoundland, filed the country with
his messages: 'yt still works" "There
il still pulsation," etc. He informed
me that his brother Henry. white round
ing up st Gibraltar few years ago. had
found De Sauty there, Acslng manager
Of N eastern telegraph company, ss
full Of vim and hope - when he had e.
sayed to keep electric life in the 6rst
cable. During the evening ! suggested
to Mr.. Field that he was one Of tho few
Americans entitled TO see . monument
erected in his honor for the inestima BILE
service rendered in knitting the two
hemisphercs together with his cable.
saw that the idea pleased him, bat he
simply remarked that ia this country
public monuments were seldom built
for dead mcn and never for live ones.
am grati6ed to learn that, despite his
reverses, Mr.. Field still has . snug for
tune left.
6scisty and It's Fisnnsry.
Tho arst great event Of what our 20.
called society" styles the ''sesson"
has come and gone and tk, city still
stands unshSxen on its soi u founda-
tions- The Patriarchs' ball was no bet
ter or worse than its predecessor.
though the supper, excepting st tho
Buffers own table, was worse than
usual. which, Of course, Il not due to
Delmonio0, but to the economy Of the
managers Tho printed reports next
day wcre profuse in telling who was
present and what the women worc. but
the incidents best worth noting were
precisely those which were not pub
lished The list Of those who conf
IDENTIFY expected to be invited, but who
were not, would include. II printed. At
least one eminent editor, who II re-
ported to have returned from abroad
expressly TO secure the social rscog-
niti.n for which no has % long and
vainly striven. Nor was his '.inms-
diats representative" among The ps-
trisrchs- Mere striving u . weak word
to cover tho almost superhunan strug-
giles made by some people TO get into .
set which docs not want them. and into
which people of sense would not want
TO get Another sad blow was struck
at the young man whose name indi-
Gates that he Is the big g,in" Of the
younger portion of the Four Hundred,
and who expected. and was expected,
TO open this ball. But the dowaeers
carried the day. and Butler Nc
Allister. with the leading lady In
the SET led the cotillon. This il
taken to BE- a sure sign that McAliister
Is not TO be dcposed this seass : II
would be sad TO see this old and faith
full servant discharged. particularly as
he claims 10 have been the original
founder Of the pa,riarcha II was
nearly twenty years ago. in ie7a,
when he conceived the idea. taking IL.
though. he confesses in his wondersul
book. from the London almanacs. But
his originality crops ost In his propos-
ing men instead Of women a. patrons.
or. a. "a very bright. clever man" pro-
posed 10 call them, pstriarehs. The
number was limited 20 TWENTY-FIVE.
each to have the right TO ask four wom-
en- and ave men, incladinr himself and
family, while distinguished strangers
10 the number Of nfsy might be invited.
Some Of the original patriarchs like
John Jacob Astes. william n. Tr.vers
and two o. three mere, are dead. but
these places have not been merely
Alled--tAs number has been doubled.
There Are Row ffty patrisrchs. ss6 Il
n funny 10 80 how the newcomers
lave puaheA the old originals dsvp 1.
The liss Thus she popular he Lanoey
Kane. who was third In the list, IL sevv
tweaty-second. and Ward heAiiisser.
who was fourth. 10 twenty -seveatA--
that ss. IL the original pisn Of twenty
Eve mad been STACK -. be vcn,d have
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