The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-07
THE GOSSIP OF GOTHAM.
Mike Dryers Removal From Brook
Ign to New York.
full Waste-The Broadway Process
-Generalities.

Mr.. Whitelaw Reid AginR-A Fright
full Waste-The Broadway Process
-Generalities.
Copyright, 1881
New York, May 6.-Mike Dryers re-
moval from s:32, 500 house in Brooklyn,
which wasn't fine enough, to New York,
invites for him comparisons with other
metropolitan sportsmen.
There are those who sneer at Mike be-
cause he races his horses for money.
They are usually men who have lost on a
Dwyer mount and revenge themselves by
swearing at the owner for working his
horses to death, which he undoubtedly
does. His horses must earn money. The
interests of those who are silly enough to
bet at races are another story.
What is there wrong in this2 What
are purses for if not to be won3 And
why may a man be blamed for winning as
| many as he cam
The old idea used to be that a racing
| stable was the recreation of a gentleman
| of means. That definition doesn't hold in
/ this vicinity, where Richard Croker. with
| no visible means of support, keeps an ex-
| penSive racing stable, and John A Morris
the lottery man, is the king pin of the
| business. Dwyer made his start in the
! world in the humdrum but respectable
| business of a butcher on Myrtle avenue
| Brooklyn In his modest early purchases
! of hOrsefiesh he mingled business and
| pleasure so successfully that his stable
was means OF earning money instead
| of Squandering it. Unless meat selling is
| to be deemed inferior to lottery promo
| ton as means of livelihood, Dryers
| CT pfS HI,
| some Of his turf rivals. 1t is claimed that
! his race track has been run too ex-
| clusively upon business principles, but
| the Jersey pool ring can give points on
| wickedness to anything on the New York
! side of the line.
Sneering at the Dryers is apt to be
| pot and kettle piece Of busidess.
wHITELAw REID
Whitelaw Reid, who has recently re-
| turned TO New York from a somewhat
| prolonged western trip, looks as old as
Horace Greeley did ten days before his
death. Not that Mr.. Reid is in any danger
of breaking down like his illustrious pre-
| decessOr. On the contrary his health is
good and he takes a keen interest in life.
But his gaunt form, thin face and grizzled
hair show the effects of time II is TYNE
of face which, like Mark Twain's and j.
J. Ingalls,, looks fairly young in a picture.
but shows age all the more when seen in
the flesh.
Two other men from Mr.. Reds own en-
tourage are here with us, a walking re-
hinder that the war was long ago
Murat Halstead was like Reid, a fiery
and untamed war correspondent, who
wrote vivid dispatches on the head of a
barrel and called for more fighting Mr..
Halstead is still one of the hardest work
ing journalists of the country, and his i'm
V,v,a .-sT 8, i 10 IL. q
everywhere. Reid, on the other hand is
recluse. He prefers to work at home,
and is rarely at the Tribune building,
where, indeed, he has no longer INACTIVE
duties. Halstead turns out more COPY
than any two youngsters, though he is
probably not in as good physical condition
as Reid.
But the liveliest gentleman of 60 or
whereabouts you ever saw is Joe Howard.
whose ''Jr." stands for perpetual youth
Howard was coeval with Reid and Hal
stead before the flood. He turns out an
avalanche ofcOpy daily, is always cheerful
and clipper, and is as light on his feet as
if his hair and beard had not grown white.
since his memorable Fort Lafayette ex-
perienCe
Not many more of the old timers are
about. j. G. CrOly died some years ago
Maj. Williams is still in the harness. but
his war time experience was in the fight
ing, not the writing line Brethren, the
war was thirty years ago!
THE BABY ON THE STEPS.
A physician in the maternity ward of
great New York hospital has plenty of
occasion to blush for his sex The pitif,Il
human wrecks that drift across his path
tell such story of mans perfidy 1t is
the teStlmOnyOf a hospital doctor. based
upon long experience, that nine out of ten
OF the young women who are brought to
the hospital to become the mothers Of
illegitimate children for the first time
are, as he phrases it, 'really nice girls -
They are neat, intelligent and grateful for
attention. They do not use bad Ian
guage. They are the victims of
men, not their enticers Some of them
are of foreign birth and come from
lands where betrothal hiss nearly all the
legal and social force of a marriage. and
this fact has been cleverly used for their
downfall Nine out of ten-without any
question as many as that-might' become
honorable and useful members of society
If they had chance, They do not get it.
At some of the hospitals the children can
be kept or transferred to founding asy-
lums. From others the mother must take
her child, often for lack of ROOM within
ten days from its birth. There is no lack
of maternal love in these women They
cherish their babies while they can; then
there is the basket on the door step. fur
tive ring, hurried flight and the bottom
less pit of the gilded hell Of the Tender
loin district waits for its victims Starva-
tion does the work
Doesn't it seem as if this frightful waste
might be stopped}
WALK UP BROADWAY
The promenade portion of Broadway is
less than mile, Below Fourteenth street
are book stores and business Pretty
women are not interested in either. ex-
cept that when the latter is bad pin
money requires extra ingenuity. Above
Thirty-fourth street there are uninterest-
ing half blocks. Between these two
points, with Madison square as its center.
IS one of the liveAest boulevards of this
obate spheroid We are developing n
race of boulevardiers So pronounced are
they becoming that women who know
what IS what rather hesitate to walk
along Broadway more than is necessary.
fearing the fire of insolent ewes. Other
women, more bold or more ignorant. find
IN the endless procession keen delight.
The windows of the shops are show full
OF interest, but the pave itself surpasses
them. Here are shown the most daring
costumes Here the scented dude. his
trousers rolled up, shambles along, his
monocled eye agape, eXpreSsionlesS and
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