The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-28

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ally to put them on TO a square game. He
works with the green goods men and
| brings them victims when the gambling
! dodge won't work, and when victim dis
closes anOrous propensities he always
knows frail lady who will help to play
the badger game upon him.
The bunco steerer used to be iE the
habit of greeting stranger effusively as
Judge Smith Of Wayback" Informed
with much dignity of his error, he passed
the word to his pal, who presently went
| of with Squire Jones of Goshtown and
| told him lot about the folks 'to hum -
This doesn't work now. The papers
have printed the story so many times
| that the first rencontre would awaken
! Squire Jones' suspicious. The present
method is to get the names from the
! hotel registers by various devices of a
| number of visitors from rural districts
! and then to make hasty study of their
| homes.
Suppose a man comes from Swanton
| Center, VT An air of verisimilitude can
| De given to bald and unintePesting mar
rative by study of the gazetteer and
map. And when a man says: ''Why,
| Squire Jones. how are youl Don't re-
member me, l suppose Saw you once at
| the Center but that was years ago. I'm
| from Franklin myself. Been here four
| years now," it's very convincing,
especially when backed up by some bit of
state gossip, easily CLEANED from the
Boston, Springfield and Albany papers
And the squire who hesitates is lost
IL Is only in the case of the most trans
parently stupid visitor that the clumsy
old device can be worked any longer But
by more subtle methods I've known even
a city man of some experience to be taken
IN. Only the newspapers don't print it !!
| He never squeals
SOUTHERN MEN IN NEW YORK.
In proportion to population, there are
more southern men than western men in
New York, perhaps because the tide of
| emigration sets so strongly to the west
The southern element here is particularly
strong in two lines-law and literature
President Deshon of the Southern Club is
himself a lawyer, and a representative of
the new SOUTH" or younger clement
Roger A. Pryor and Col Fellows, both
| able lawyers, are ex-confederate veter-
ans. Ex-Gov. Wise of Virginia is a New
York lawyer now. In literary circles
the great popularity of southern stories
| has at one time and another brought
| to the metropolis people from every
| southern state. | have been in drawing
room where almost every picture was
| mute reminder of southern scenes, and
| cOnversed in a single evening with Mrs.
| Bryan, the Atlanta poet and novelist;
Mrs. Belle Hunt Shortridge of Texas,
| and Mrs. Lucy Polk Smell of Tennessee, a
niece or something of President Polk, be-
sides minor lights. At other times Cable
| and Joel Chandler Harris have been the
center of a more masculine assembly.
John Keller, the president of the
Press Club, is southerner.
SO is Mrs. Gaillard, who
| edits some kind of a medical journal Mrs.
Burton n. Harrison is the most famous of
all the southern women here resident.
Mrs. Rives-Chanler is not New York
woman, but is often seen here. So of
Matt Grim and Octave Thanet George
Cary Eggleston is from the south. A
considerable proportion of professors and
undergraduates at Columbia are from
below Mason and Dixon's line.
AT THE BEACHES
asked Long Branch hotel man if he
expected the worlds fair to hurt the sea-
side business this year He replied that
he anticipated the most prosperous season
in the history of the Branch.
was naturally surprised, but he ar
gued thus: ''In the first place it will be
the hottest summer for many years To
keep up the general mean temperature of
the year, which seldom varies much, a
very hot summer will necessarily balance
the cold winter. The number of people
who go to Europe will be smaller than
usual, and the number of those who come
to this country from Europe very much
larger. A good many of these people will
visit the beaches as among the sights of
the new world. Just think of the boom
there was at Fortress Monroe when the
feet was there OF course everybody
will go to Chicago for one week, maybe
two. Then it will be as hot as Then
we will catch 'em on the rebound
find these views quite general At
Newport, which is unique among pleas
ure resorts in having the finest cottages
in the country and almost no hotel accom-
mOdatiOns, lively social season is antici-
pated when many foreign notabilities are
entertained along Bellevue avenue. So of
Mount Desert. The Jersey and Long
Island beaches live very largely upon local
patronage.
And, brothers in misery, suppose-iust
suppose-that cholera does come! Well,
on the whole, the beach combers are not
repining.
GOTHAM GENERALITIEs.
The Press Club fair is big, surging
success. Everybody goes there, and it is
worth seeing. 1t is the biggest fair on
record in a single building.
After us the deluge, as the thief said
when he stole the lead pipe from the bath
room.
This is the way an expert sizes them up:
AT present men doctors have more skill
than women, but women are more careful
and painstaking. Please note, however,
that this is said only of the best men doc
tors and of all the women.
Up to a certain point conservative"
and ''old fashioned" are synonymous. A
conservative man is called by others old
fashioned, and an old fashioned man calls
himself conservative.
DR.. Parkhurst is now claimed as a con-
vert to the woman's rights doctrines
James Gordon Bennett, besides publish
ing the Herald, is a heavy owner in a
cable company, the proprietor of big Job
min ting est q hlishrnnnt aud the .Ln,,c-,l,t