Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-07
TALES OF GOTHAM.
What is Seen and Heard in a
Walk in the Big City.
PHASES OF THE GREAT WHIRL.
Men Who Come and Go-Tony Pastor at
His Best-Pretty American Women.
Congressman Tom Reed and
His Better Half
specinl Correspondence OF the Gazette

Special Correspondence OF the Gazette
New York, Feb IL have been in the
swirl and hurry burly of New York affairs
for good many years now, and l have been
strongly impressed within the past three or
four years with the radical change that has
come over the big city. Tenor even less
years ago New York was, IN the eyes of
other cities, great, big uown that was very
wicked. Information concerning it was
CLEANED usually from books that assumed
to illustrate New York after dark, or from
pink-tinted sensational papers.
All this is changed. New York is not
only 4 city containing 100000 souls at
every hour of the night and day, but for
several hours OF the day nearly mil
lion men and women more are temporarily
in the metropolis. They come from every
part OF the United States and from Europe
as well The result is that New York is a
great cosmopolitan city in the same sense.
The whole country keeps its attention
turned to New York just as all France is
moved by the pulsations of Paris. Like
France, which applauds what Paris ap-
proves, the United States Is now influenced
as IL never was before by anything that
New York may do. Like Paris, New York
IS quick to applaud aud swift to condemn.
The man or woman who is famous to-day
may be well nigh forgotten tomorrow.
There are men walking the streets OF New
York day by day who have held high Of
ice and have come near winning the high
est of them all. and the big city passes
them by and does not notice them. The
men whose features the comic papers of
New York like Puck do not see fit to keep
before the public eye are soon forgotten,
and in a sense are looked upon as being
back numbers.
was moved 10 this train of thought by
meeting on the street the other day Z man
who fifteen years ago was as powerful as
any man in the United States. He had
narrowly escaped being nominated for the
presidency, and was confident that the
great prize would yet come to him. 1t
never did and ii never will. The man was
Abram 5. Hewitt, and no one on the streets
Of New York seemed TO know or care who
the bent old man was. Yet he had been
congressman for many years, one of the
electoral commission that gave the presi-
dency to Mr.. Hayes, and mayor of New
York. When he ran for a second term in
the latter Office the city buried HIM under
adverse votes and then proceeded to forget
him. II was all very characteristic of New
York.
Another man died in comparative OBJ ]
security q few weeks ago. who in his day
was the most powerful man in New York,
as he once showed by arresting its mayor,
and who had a more than national reputa-
ton. Yet he complained sadly few days
before his death that no one in New York
knew him any more. His name was Wall,
ing, and he-w was once the chief of New
York's police with reputation similar to
that now enjoyed by Inspector Byrnes. He
was another example of the men
whom New York has for time
ioniZed and then turned its back upon.
Ten years ago William Henry Hurlbert was
one of five journalists. the most powerful
in New York, if not in the country
namely, James Gordon Bennett, Charles a.
Dana, WhiteiaW Reid ami George Jones'
Among all OF the brilliant men of his day he
was the leading wit and principal bon
vivant. BE left New York, and rs usual
New York paid him no further attention
He came back few months ago and found |