The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-28
THE GOSSIP OF GOTHAM.
The Metropolis a Splendid Place for
Lawyers to Get Rich.
Some Make 800, 900 a Year-ChoIera
for Fun-The New Rule of Bunco.
Something About New York's Club.

for Fun-The New Rule of Bunco.
Something About New York's Club.
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| New York, May 27-This is what the
lawyer said when the ash on his cigar
grew long and faky and the light was
dim
| yes, New York is the paradise of law
| yers, and their purgatory. 1t is terribly
difficult for a man to get started, but sue
cess brings competence at once. Dozens
of New York lawyers have incomes of
over $100, 900 a year They are not the
men you hear of most either There are
Howe e. Hummel AS they deal almost
exclusively in criminal and theatrical
work their names get into the papers very
often. Yes, they make money, good
deal of it, but it comes in driblets and not
in nice fat Jumps, as a rule. You'll find
good many quiet old buffers
estate lawyers, who sit all day in
their offices and are never seen in
| court-who make good deal more
| Coudert Bros make big income. Inger-
| soils is trifing compared with some, yet
not bad. Corporation business is very at
| tractlVe. l know OF a firm whose gross
| income in a year is $3.50, 900. Allowing
| fair sum for office rent, clerks and type
writers, and a liberal slice for the junior
| partners. that leaves well over 500 900 for
| the head of the firm. And your readers
| wouldn't recognize this name if you told
| it to them. No, the men who get into
| court in the causes celebres and have their
names in the paper aren't the men who
| earn the money For instance, some of
| the best incomes are made by Brooklyn
| firms who have the management of fat
| estates, and get the reputation of conser-
| vatism. BOurke Cochran is an exception
TO all rules. His income is enormous.
"The place for alawyer is where the
money is"
| MINNEHAHA AND THE PILLS.
There is in one of the great hospitals of
| New York a full FLOODED Indian girl act
| ing asa nurse in the woman's ward. She
has the black hair and physiognomical
! peculiarities of her race, is pretty with
| the bloom of youth, tall and 1.-THE of fig
! ure and of most prepOsSesSing appearance.
| She has been thoroughly educated at
| Hampton Institute and at training school
and has all the advantages of an educated
and intelligent woman.
/ am told by the eX-patient of the hos
| pital that the wild blood of this Mime
| haha of the pill and pestle shows but in
| one way, and that rather an advantage in
| a room where there are sick women At
night her tread is absolutely inaudible
! She moves as quietly as her great-great-
| grandfather might have done on the
| quest for scalps-much as a cat does
! when there is forbidden cream in sight.
| During the day her step is no more noise
less than that of other women, though
! always light and springy.
| 1t might not be bad idea for some
| benevolent person to train up a whole lot
! of Indian girls for a gainful occupation,
| to which they seem so well adapted by
| inheritance. t:
| ''cLUBMEN."
Much reiteration of that disgusting
| word 'chappie" and much printing of pict-
| ures of dudes sucking their cane heads
| have given rather perverted notion of
the New York clubman.
The vast preponderance of New York
clubs and club members has serious OBJ
| iects in life. Only three or four are purely
social in their nature The Union League
| and Manhattan were formed for political
reasons. There is a,hOst of literary clubs,
| whose members are humdrum, hard
working people. The president of the
| Century Club is Daniel Huntington of the
academy, of the Authors Club is f. G..
| Stedman. of the Players Club is Edwin
Booth The Aldine, Lotos and Grolier
Clubs all have literary members and are
delightfully."- dudeless.
There are more chappies on the ''wait-
! ing list of the Union Club than all the
| others put together. But they have to
! wait so long before govt and Bright's dis
| case kill of the older members that the
brashness is pretty well worn off most of
them before they really get in.
The chappie is not myth. He exists,
but there are not many of him, and no
more in the clubs than anywhere else.
CHOLERA FOR FUN.
Two young ladies went from New York
to Asia Minor. l have just heard from
them.
They are in a little town with an unpro-
nounceable name upon the Black sea-or is
it the Caspian, or what is it, My geog-
raphy is a trife hazy. Anyhow, they are
not far from Sinope.
One of the girls is a missionary and went
to Asia Minor to persuade the Turks that
the belief of the Franks is a great inn
provement on MOslemism. As she doesn' {
carry along any dudes, wife murderers
and rprize-fighters in her reticue as
samples of our boosted civilization she
may succeed. The other girl is rich and
went along just for fun. Both are physi-
clans recently graduated.
In their new field of labor they found
cholera going merrily ahead. Nobody
seemed to think it unusual. In fact, it
wasn't.
OF course those two innocents, fresh
from the disSecting room, had to pitch
right in fighting a disease they had never
seen, and one of the most dangerous
! known TO man at that.
The two young women have charge of
quite an establishment, a house with
thirty rooms, and five servants under
them, and all sorts of queer oriental GO
ings ON, but ] fancy their biggest job is to
try TO beat some idea of cleanliness
into the thick head of the unspeakable
! Turk.
Queer idea Of foreign travel for fun,
isn't it,
THE BUSCO GAME.
Tho buucO stecrer has as many tricks as
a mule, and what he doesn't know isn't
worth knowing His victims aren't al
ways green comtrymen, either.
The huuco stoercr doesn't contne him
self ~ one line OF operations. An Is fish
/ that comes Ia hfa net He L. willing "a