The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-02-28

band have set up fine household here
Mr.. Yerkes sid to me the other day that
he thought that he could in a measure, ac-
count for the lack of pride which rich men
feel IN New work city, as compared with
the local pride entertained by residents of
western cities and towns.
It was his theory that a very large per-
centage of the rich men Of New York city
was made ur of men who had acquired their
fortunes elsewhere and who came to New
York tomersly enjoy existence. Many of
them left behind them interests which re-
CURED more or less care and Watcnfulness,
and while they call New York home and
abiding place, the heart of each Of them was
really In the western and southern towns
where the fortunes had been made 81 am,
myself" said he, "a New Yorker when in
New YORK, but, Of course, am Chicago
man clear down to my heels. l am deeply
Interested in the development of Chicago,
but am not particularly anxious about the
growth of New York" This certainly does
explain good deal of that indifference and
lack of civic pride which has earned for
New York very Justly the contempt and de-
rision of the bright and growing cities of
other sections of the country.
FIFTY BALLS IN ONE NIGHT.
New York, at this season of the year, is
essentially city of balls and dances; but
in these the Four Hundred and the One
Hundred aud Fifty are not A man whose
business takes him among the balls on the
east and west side, where dances are given,
tells me that on at least one night this win
ter fifty dances took place. The average,
he says, is somewhere between fifteen and
twenty five at night And these are the
| balls that yield enjoyment of the genuine
type. All the various orders aDd labor and
political organizations have their balls. All
the commercial trades are represented in
these merry affairs. The employees oil
every conceivable industry turn out and
swing their partners to the lascivious
blessings of the string band. The other
night the necktie cutters assembled in one
of the big halls aud enjoyed one Of the mer.
| REST balls of the season. The Blacksmiths
Helpers have their dances, and the Coach
mems Literary union meet in the socia
whirl
So it goes clear through trade, commerce
and the industries while the frivolous
functions of the Four Hundred are decid-
eddy mot in it." If Mr.. Rhinelander d.
! Peyster were to be caught at one of these
balls, the spectacle of "Bertie, the amb. ;
as he energies from his reception on thu
stock excha' &C. would be nothing in com
parison. But, while these events lay NJ
claim to representing neither the inner cir
Gle nor the outer fringe of our ''bes
| socie y" they, nevertheless, represent
good type of American men and women
with fine sprinkling from Ireland ant
other foreign parts. 1t is here you see NOR,
graceful dancers in one night than you vii
see in weeks round of alleged gayety OF
Fifth and Madison avenue. Here you flint
the maddening waltz in it's native purity
and the bewitcning dancing in tn, barn,
not only It'll you can't rest" but until yo,
have no desire to. In addition TO these w
have the "tough balls;n but these presen
phase of life it were better not to dwell
on in chapter devoted somewhat to tn
Four Hundred.
MEN WHO ARE NOT IN SOCIETY.
In one of his outpourings the other da
Ward McAllister told his reportorial frien
that Joe Choate, tho lawyer, for who's
brilliant genius he actually confessed re
gard, was mot in society for the reaso
that he cared nothing for it. This remar
is significant. There are no Joe Choates i
the so called social set The really brill
emit men and women of New YORK are NO