New-York tribune., 1892-08-23
SHPINKTNG FROM THE PUBLIC GAN

SHRINKTNG From THE PUBLIC GAR.
This is a great year for BuzzardS Bay. 1t
seems queer that BuzzardS Bay should break
out 50 all of a sudden. aS il were. and become a
social political industrial. cpstOlaiy and " two
for center. Great newspapers that have a cir
culatiOn of several millions daily keep clever
correspondents on tap there and have special
dispatches at intervals of fifteen or twenty
minutes with scare heads and thrilling descrp-
tons of natural scenery and marine views and
a great man i'll catbOat III the foreground OF
all Of it and then other great men from Boston
90 down there and Sit on the piazza or 90 fiShing
in the catboat, and. whichever they do, give
their whole minds 10 the consideration of the
ctiSi< and have pictures Of themselves taken
while they are doing it, which are Immediately
printed, 50 aS to impalt confidence 10 people who
are afraid there is nobody Oh deck thor
oughly competent to take care of the country
and then Mr. Whitney, who was chief engineer
Of the Chicago Aquarium. arrives and discusses
the sitfation with the great man on the piazza
and the great man writes some letters, which
are wired all over the country and-wcll. its
high daddy pretty much all the time this sum
mer at Buzards Bay. Occasionally +. c.
Benedict in his steam yacht, puts in there and
is pointed out as the man who drew a check
e. cover all the expenses incurred by Con-
II cticut Democrats in defence Of the ConSt-
tuition of that State and at intervals George
Fred Williams sits Oh the piazza diff using
rare and useful information with his mobile
and easy working mouth, while he itradiatcS
the coast with his pleasing smile. There's so
much going on at Buzzards Bay that it might
well be mistaken for land boom.
And yet it is not. That is, it has not de
velolcd in that direction up to date, though it
may do 50 later Under similar influences
barring i,cncdict's yacht which couldn't get
there. and George Fred, who was then only a
Hopeful bud-a land speculation grew up in the
neighborhood of Washington few years ago
which vai of considerable pccuniary advantage
to the great man the piazza and did no
special harm 10 the bank account Of Mr..
William c. Whitney. What makes Buzzard' \
Bay so uncommonly lively and atiractiyc-it
is now called the Mecca of Democratic pill
gr.ms-iS the fact that the great man on the
piazza is down there dcvoting himself with
untiring assduity, to keeping aloof and
shrinking from the public gaze. IT is said
E, be so interesting and impressive a spectacle
that people flock to Buzards Bay from Boston
i'm large numbers t. see him shrink and hold
aloof. The report that the business of the dime
museums in Boston has scnsibly fallen of since
Gray Gables opened has not been verified, but
it is by no means incredible large portion
Of The shrinking and holding aloof is done by
mail. and this business at the low price of two
cents Il shrink, has materially increased the
revenues of the postal service since the adj
iournment of the Chicago Convention. The
great man has also the kindly aid Of the neigh
borS, who get up clambakes and church fans,
straw rides and hucklcberrying parties simply
10 give him the opportunity 10 shrink from the
public gaze. On these occasions the repre-
>entatives of the press are duly informed,
kodalss are kept swapping all around the neigh
borhood, and the wires are hot for several days
befoxs and after the event with accounts of