The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-12

| he shall have abundance; but from him
| that hath not shall be taken away even
| that which he hath 1t wasnot added.
land may the Lord have mercy on his
SOUL" but it might have been. Him
that hath not and is billed to lose even
| that ought to have some surety as to
his immortal soul But this is getting
| away from the problem of the centrali-
zation of capital 1t is. however. a
question that cannot be disposed OF in
one paragraph, anyhow.
NTHE AAFRIcUs CLUB rARLoRs.
Sailing up the sound some days ago
with party of friends-and. by the
way. if there is prettier body OF water
in the world than Long Island sound I
should like to know where it Is located
we rounded in at Indian Harbor,
which is the port Of entry, SO 20 speak,
of Greenwich, Conn. The handsome
summer hotel which stands On a beau
tiful and commanding position on the
harbor was at one time the clubhouse
of the famous Americas club, of which
Tweed in the days of his glory was the
prime factor. On the floor OF the main
parlor there Ii a carpet which was made
for the Americas club more than twen-
ty years ago, and which is to-day al
most as bright in its colors as it was
the day it was put down In the CEN
ter Of this carpet there is fowery ring,
in garish red, and beautiful copy of
the Americas badge, which consisted of
the tigers head The name of the club
is woven in, and the head of the tiger
has the ferocious snarl which distin-
guishes the symbol Of Tammany to-
day in the cartoons One of the
corner rooms now used by the hotel
people was especially fitted up for Boss
Tweed, and here we find the tiger head
of the Americas club carved in wood
pieces. In the Office of the hotel there
is large photograph of a group of the
Americas gentlemen taken on the front
piazza of the clubhouse. / studied it
carefully to see whether could find any
OF the potential men of the Tammany
Hall of to-day in the group There was
not one that / could recognize The
picture of Tweed in this group is very
good one indeed At the time it was
taken, some twenty years ago or more,
Mr. Tweed had not grown stout, and
his beard and hair were still dark. He
had very benign appearance. and he
is really the only man of character or
consequence in the group In their
boating costumes and general negligee
these sons of Americas resembled In the
picture very much a gang of western
cowboys and plainsmen. If 1 had had
with me on this occasion some of the
local politicians whose memories GO
back thirty years, they could doubtless
have pointed out the various members
of this group who. after footing the
city for years, died in exile, in
prison or in distress One has
but to stand here upon this spot,
contemplating Mr.. Tweed and his band
of freebooters, to understand something
of the mutation of politics. and the
inquiry arises in the mind: us
history to repeat itself in New York?'
To saunter through this great hotel
parlor, resting the eye occasionally on
the tigers head of the Americas club,
is to be reminded of Thomas Mast. the
artist, who very justly claims to have
fastened upon Tammany and its cohorts
the symbol Of the fierce tiger. Mast
and his pencil were great factors in the
overthrow of the Tweed ring, back in
the seventies, and the whole country
became pretty well familiarized with
the beast of the jungles which he intro
duced into our politics. 1t is there to-
day. Speaking of Mast. saw him
abstractly on the corner of
street and Broadway
the other. morning, as though waiting
for an inspiration or a street car. He
is beginning to show his age very much.
His hair and his Vandyke beard are
tinged with that shade of gray which
indicates an early poisoning into the
snowy white of old age. Aside from
some sporadic cartoon work which he
upon weekly newspaper here which his
son is publishing. 1t is a rampant free
trade organ, and, of course, highly mug
in it's attributes. Mast has re-
vived an interest in himself through the |
cartoon contest which he is carrying on |
with the well-known artist, Baron de |
Grimm, in the Herald De Grimm is |
charming German, who was sent over
rom Paris by Mr.. Bennett some,seven
Or eight years ago TO make drawings for |
lis evening paper. He came on con-
.ract of $4,000 per year He didssome
excellent work on the Telegram for
year, and then began general work as
In illustrator of magazines and periodi-
ais He picks up a very comfortable
income also from the theaters here MAX
ng designs for fancy operate and ballet
costumes Heis about 45 years of age, and
lie has all the ebullient spirits and man.
1erisms ola boy of 30. He is most COM
1anionable fellow. and his efforts at af-
.er-dinner speaking are delightfully."- /
Although he has been
here some seven years, he is not yet
sble to ''wrestle with the vernacular."
IS the boys put it. He is splendid
artist, and am inclined to back him
n his contest with Mast
JOHN A. CoCKERTLL
Guilt and Innocence.