The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-12-06
SHALL WE USE COCKADES?
TIE QUESTION THAT PERPLExEs
THE ANGLOMANIACS.

c,e Reason Why American Million
aires Are Cautious in Their Display.
sill Fighting the Great McATisterI
Rovaltys Endorsement of American
Beauties-The New Years Ball-A
venetian BalI-Among the Artists.
NEW York, Dec. 5.-The fashionable
rorld always like to have something to
mildly worry about 1t got through with
che servants cap business. Now it Is debat-
inc the question of introducing cockades on
che hats Of coachmen and grooms.
AS 8 matter of fact, cockades are seen
every day on Fifth avenue. They are gen.
sraIly timid and more or less unaggressiye
cookades. But they are the genuine article
az far as they 90. The practice is not, how
over. general, for the reason that society
has by no means decided that the thing ia in
GOOD form. Some have argued that the cock
sde. like coat-of-arms, had to be sorne-
how matter of inheritance, and to depend
upon rank or something OF the sort. The
other side has said nothing OF the kind.
Won may have your cockade, say these peo-
ME provided you conform to certain conyen-
10 5. One of these oracles says: RULES
nj etiquette governing the liveries of serv-
mis- are as clearly defined as those controll-
ing drawing-room precedence. As, for in
stance, a foreign ambassador shows his ma
tional colors in the cockade with single
Gilt band about his hat; dukes of the realm
assume triple bands aud gold cockade: a
marquis reduces the bands to two; earls and
yiscounts to one; barons, knights and bish-
OBS are allowed silver trimmings, while the
gentry are confined to simple black. Gold
sticks, scarlet coats, nosegays, etc., are re-
served for nobiemen of high degree, but the
simplest commoner may put his mon In
bright livery, powder their hair and sport a
high hat ornament without the slightest Of
Tense to form"
Nevertheless cockades are relatively
scarce. Why is thisl Since we adopt the
English groom and the English footman
without any apparent qualm, why stop at
any OF the appendages Of funkeyIsml
Perhaps the real answer will be found in
the growing hesitancy on the part of peo-
pie OF the greatest wealth to parade their
riches. why, SIR" said society man to
me the other day, ''if the Astors and Van
derhilts and Goulds and Marquands and
Beekmans We're TO put on the outward show
Of people OF the same wealth and social
standing IN Germany or Italy, not to mem
ton France or England, we should have
storm OF restrictive legislation that would
soon made 1t impossible for wealth to &C
cumulate and arrogate as it does. Our
Goulds do not taunt their wealth in the
streets, and they do not care to have their
places described too frequently In the
papers. 1t stirs the ire of tnet public which
Mr.. Vanderbilt 50 courageously damned.
So the American millionaire, while he has
palaces, does not parade too large a retinue
of Hverled servants. He turns his money
over and over in stocks instead Of spending
il on land and servants as th9 Englishman
does. lie has one eye Oh his millions and
genius OF the politician in keeping the at
tention OF the rofanum UoIgaris off his
charging heap Of dollars"
STILL FIGHTING THE GREAT M'ALLIsTER.
The scramble for the leadership of the
Four hundred is still on. Mr.. McAllister
has, indeed, not res Rned and evidently does
not intend to resign. But he is regarded as
doomed. The luminosity aroused by his
book, and still more by his newspaper writ
ing, is too considerable to be queuched.
TIE younger element are crying for q
new leader. The older element, unwilling
to forget Mr.. McAllister's distinguished SER
vice at Newport at Tuxedo, at Lenox and
in New York and still retaining a cheerful
recollection of the McAlister dinner table
creations, preserve a dignifed opposition to
the talk OF new leader. They probably
see that McAllister's downfall is Inevitable
before the season is over, if, indeed, it may
not be said to have already occurred. But
they DO not propose TO do the Brutus act in
the crisis of McAllster's dethronement.
Young LIE Grand Cannon is to be the next
leader of the -Four Hundred. This. | sup
pose is settled; though if the successioDcan-
not be established without too serious a
row it is possible that New York society
may pull out" Cannon and substitute a
dark horse.