New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-12-09
AZ ELEPHANT THAT NEJER GROUH "hD'

THE DELIGHT THAT COUNTRY PEOPLE TAKE IN
THE GOVERNORS ROOM AT THE CITY HALL
The claimants of Nev-York City vary somewhat
from year TO wear but there is always just about
the same number Of them. Country people wneh
they come 10 the city, demand elepnants' anu CIV
plants they shall have They would be n'sconSo'''e
there we're not a certain number OF ackho"ieuse'
sights" for them take in and talk over III ''e
ork winter evenings after they nave returne" "
their farmhouses The Aston House and the Bo"crE
Years ago used TO be considered az absolutely eS-
xs,ial in the programme Of the countrymans city
nu but these long ago lost almost all OF their ee-
Msntine properties: and the Brooklyn BRIDGE tne
0bsllsk and the Statue OF Liberty .assufne' iHe
swinging trunk the Mapping ears and the genera
ponderoSty 81 the true elephant
There is one elephant. however when Keeps us
place year In and year out II is not eno''"ou'
1t doesn't snort much you don't have TO wear
your legs OH, to get TO the top OF It, nor acquire
crick In the neck in getting n good view OF H.
This highly respectable and HISTORICAL eiepha',
is the Governors Room In the Sity Hail. WIZ, dow an
,ne odme Governors OF me 5.at He,teh,n5 coun-
trymen. ,,n .,o,
Nov that thu Whole state has got up on its nina nina
legs 30 TO speM and is barking prodigiousy over
politics and the race for the Governor cnhi =. ..
Uan the pictures OF the Of oyt Interest, and there
an unwonted docking TO the CITY na, H Ha lust
which one Of III The Governors is favorits it. Is
hard to say but there is generally an adn,rlhs
crowd In front OF the portrait OF John A. DIN, iooh
,ng old and feeble In his heterogeneous nfiIoIm,
put gith his hand laid firmly. on ms Iaho ..a
c'uer: II any attempts 10 haui u H..n a
american nag shoot him on the spot ooVeiny ~
Msrcy seems to be another. ana me iaian md orm
Ways stop 10 admire his broad forehead ana n,,n ~.
mouth. The gay young country bucks. VINO ar
meditating the siege Of some maidcns heh h ~
s,snd iongingly before Governor Norman VII
e.No IN the elegance Of beautifully nttlhg pioan
e.otn. gloves and silk hat, presents an apPenI -
winch the young men know would be inVIhr,',p.e
ssou.d they only duplicate H.. Governor lonphi"'
~ ms trim knee-breeches looks exceedingly atu a.
i've Then there are Governor Clinton arrayen III
Snouders: the sharp featured and high.
governor jay: the keen and bIsiness-iike Inroop'
Ssfke. who stands like country parson: IN. POI e.
"c Young: the fussy-looking King: Bouck VINO =:
- variable country squire. standing on the ,svas
Sne sood-natured Yates; the astute face OF foIa,o
STsymour: Morgan. looking the soul OF integfi'y'
vnsnf, Fenton. Lewis Hunt. Seward ana isn. d,
sIhere. too. is Martin Van Buren,, who attcT WIZ
sssscsme President and at one end Of the long 'ou
sssnds the slender Alexander Hamilton WIN on a
sietched hands urging his financial reforms ,c
MS record Secretary Of the Treasury. Jne'e
eIso a portrait OF Washington standing py a.
cMte war charger. painted by Trumbull ana ~
;yvns down on the mahogany desk and chest %,
- hsswers at which the Father .. his Country nseo
well" says Squire Backwood. who comes from
Ssna1oharte. as he turns with his wife for last
~ At the line OF portraits. well. Mary them De
See lockin gentlemen. ] reckn they wouldn't De
q calm and peacable-like though, II they knew
~ petky Democrat who IN tryin' 70 wrisge into
'~'' place agin. What do ye think?'