The Press., 1893-09-07
MEN AT SARATOGA.


 The vulgar exhibitions of newly ed wealth which the leaders of tammany hall and their families are making seem to be creating an impression which is likely to affect the public mind. News papers are beginning to point out tIis phase of life in New York city, and th thoughtful citizen put this and that t- gether. It may be that along this Ii . will come the awakening that is ncct = sary as preliminary to reform in the lo- cal government of our chief city, whoe,, people are quite too indifferent to tl,. plain drift of things. The New Tor correspondent of the Philadelphia Press writes:-
 This display this summer has been quite as offensive, vulgar and persistei l. as it was in the days when Tweed was in his glory. We do not see so much of it in the city, because the opportunities fer display here are not so great, but in tl' country resorts, and especially at Saratr- go, it has been so pronounced as to driN,, away scores of persons who have been iu the habit of making yearly visits to tn [ resort For instance, a tammany ofIici,I who only few years ago was glad to lunch at a 18-cent restaurant and whosA early training was amid the most humbl and menial surroundings. has taken finr cottage at Saratoga. No man cou1l li>" as he does who is not in the receipt of il handsome income. His family is gorge ously, conspcuously and most fashiona- bly, gowned. Their diamonds reproselt small fortunes, and in the glare of thH electric lights of the dining-room and pa lors flash with superb brilliancy. Thi man, elevated by the favor of tammant to post of great importance, seems tp have gone almost daft with his suddenly acquired wealth, and declares with st. perfiuous adjectives that he does not care what the newspapers say about him-pr, | cisely the words MT. Tweed used only a few months before he began to mcditatr on the glories of his career after that ca reer was ended, and he was in the soli- tude of Ludlow street jail.
 Men who not longer ago than the tine whom MT. Hewitt was mayor of the city were humble tammany henchmen, earl ing three or four dollars day, strut u piazzas of the great hotels there, dress, d | conspicuously and in costly raiment, ,spo1 = ing jewels and jewelry, going forth each day to the race track with great wa,is e. pn0 in thair every night to the gambling house, which is run with open doors, stalking ther money at the tables A gentleman WI O returned from Saratoga recently told this anecdote of an experience: "A frierd asked me if I would like to go to u c clubhouse, saying that it was one of the sights of Saratoga, and that good mal persons went there simply to sec the game. I had never been in a gambling house, and l conquered my prejudice anl went. l saw there young man playil; a game which they told me was roule' He had the gamblers countenance, and | they said that he was losing money in large amounts, and had been for sever days, and, when I asked who it was, I | was shocked to hear that he was the son of tammany politician who, whatev, his other faults may be, know is not a gambler himself. could not help thinl ing of the time when this boys father was earning only $.15OO year as an hun,- ble tammany clerk, and I wondere,l whether the father, after all, would net | prefer to be poor man, with his sen earning an honest living, than to sec tn; { son spending in this way some of tho | great wealth that has come to the fath' r by reason of his association with tammany hall.
 ''I went up to the Windsor hotel, per haps the most expensive resort in tLr United States, and I was told that Mr. Croker had been spending a season therr, living in magnificent luxury. It was only a few years since the utmost income Of MT. Croker was $500O year, and he has had no ostensible business except poli- tics since that time unless he calls his racing stable business. There was n time not very long ago when MT. Crok' r was compelled to board at a $2 day he tel when he went to Saratoga"
 This display of the men might possibly be endured, but the desire to emulate thu rich gowns, the splendid jewels, which the families of many of the richest tam many leaders display is revealed by the other families, the heads of which have not yet become so conspicuous in tan,-
 many as are the chief men there. Thcsc
 women reveal all the evidences of newly acquired wealth and overpowering desil c
 to make display of it, and herein, ptr'
 haps, lies one of the greatest danSe, ' which the present regime in tammal y
 will be compelled to face. It will be i , social jealousies, the envy of women, th, rivalries which will be established be.
 tween the families of different tammal ; : leaders, that perhaps the most disturbil ; } elements in the career of the present tan } many regime will be discovered. It was exactly that which laid the foundation O. the overthrow of the Tweed dynasty. I
 |, A loan of $500 eighteen years ago to ;
 poor young man is likley to bring Chau
 cy M. Depew the substantial reward
 $1,000,000 Paul Hatchez, the yout' a throve and nrospered and a letter rec,iy, ,