The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-11-04
.THE GOSSIP OF GOTHAM.
Fierce OuaTTelS Are Raging ThTOughOu.
New York Society.

cav that now attracts attention in New
work., The situation this season is so
,,nioue that the whole of society is prac-
,.c7Ily divided against itself. 1t is all the
rssult Of the old quarrel between those
7boa are termed in scorn the KnickerbocIl-
az element and the new" people. At tie
baad of the former element is Mrs. Aston
,rbfs lady is so designated because she is
the eldest of the line, and has success
f1Iv established her right to be so styled
instead of Mrs. John Jacob Astor. 1t would
anpear that the new people have gone
IN for extravagant forms of enteytain-
r,ent and for those bizarre amusements
which may do in a gay capital but which
are pronounced out of place in a genuine
aristocraoy such as New York now claims
IN rogsess For example the latest idea
from Paris is the Humpty Dumpty din
nor Intended as a substitute for the Turk
t-h dinners which were the vogue last sea
,on The walters at these dinners are clad
in traditional clownish costume and the
feast consists of eggs in all sorts of cul-
tnarv ACKNOWLEDGEMENT salads, and
eo forth. The younger set have been Civ
inr these affairs with great enthusiasm
for weeks past, but Mrs. Aston has de-
cIared her intention of dropping from her
list anyone who is implicated in them. She
thinks such affairs make society ridiCu-
lo,1s where as the new people point out
that the Prince of Wales himself has given
Humptv Dumpty dinners, and that they
are no more undignified than masquerade
- all CIR O. ic n 4
vided on strictly Humpty Dumpty lines
and Mrs. Astor leads the ants. The mat
ter is important only as accentuating the
hostility between the Gould and Have
never element and the Astor-Nan Rem
seIlaer party. 1t is not unlikely that we
shall have some very bitter personalities
injected into the doings of the entire So
cial season as result of this imbroglio.
Nearly all the first families are involved
in some quarrel or other. Not in the mem
orv of the Oldest society people has so
much disharmony existed among those
who in view of their wealth and position.
should set all the world an example of
proprety and good feeling
An interesting instance of the social war
IN New York at present is the trouble
that has arisen ovor the matter of chap
erons There are in New York several
women of good social position, but of very
limited resources, W no ldlld6C W en-
out a subsistence by dwelling in the
houses of the wealthy in the character of
discreet friends of the family. They fill
out vacant places at table and are very
useful when theater parties and the like
are in need of an elderly cicerone. 1t is
TO Mrs. Willie K. Vanderbilt that the
growth of this system is due. She has
caused to be billoted, as it were, some very
aristocratic but poor southern women in
the houses of the New York plutocTats
on some such basis as that outlined above.
But latterly there has been quite free
use of the ChaperOn by members or the
fair sex whose position is rather that OF
the adventures than anything else, and
the result that this duenna-like person.
age is not the guarantee of propriety she
once was. Therefore, some young ladies
have been doing without her entirely, and
in one case Mrs Vanderbilt has refused
to receive a Well-known debutante whose
father is prominent in New York and
Philadelphia financial circles, because she
regularly dispenses with a chaperon. The
consequence is that Mrs. Vanderbilt has
added TO the unpopularity which she now
enjoys, and a general protest has gone
forth against duennas of all kinds. 1t is
about settled that the New York girl will
have no chaperon at all. 1t remains to
he seen whether Mrs Vanderbilt has
power enough left to save the chaperon.
There is a new Tammany to be born.
The entire organization is on the verge
of an internal revolution, likely to be
far reaching in its effects and no less
person than Grover Cleveland is said to
have an interest in the developments of
the regime to come. Henry .. Purroy IS
the instrument of the changes. There Is
every reason to believe he will yet dim the
elories of John Kelly and Richard Croker.
His ambition is to make Tammany the
rUvifar Of Ma lie thinks
that as the tigers old role of debaucher
Of municipal politics is about played out,
II must appear in the new and startling
character Of active reformer
Purroy will certainly be the next ma
tiOnal charcter of Tammany creation. He
Is Of Spanish extraction, although there is
Irish blood in his viens. The story of his
past is as oXtravagant as tale by Dumas,
and unlike other Tammany characters he
has achieved wealth without displaying il.
Then, too, he is about the only tiger war
rior who has been able to make serious
impression upon Grover Cleveland. Many
democrats think Tammany is in bad odor
with the party an impression which Mr..
Purroy will be instrumental in removing.
A wonderful future is probably before him
and in the days of his power many will
recall the stories of that fair Latin ances-
tress Of his who is tabled to have carried
her household goods through New York
streets upon her head as Richard croker
mother once did.
Levi p Morton has had interesting
experiences with servants long before
John James Howard became a political
issue As a man of means Mr. Morton
naturally surrounds himself with persons
competent to render personal services of
various kinds. Having more than one
mouse it follows that the eminent repub-
mean is compelled to leave
Whole property in charge of
lew of his retaners. 1t hap
pened recently that Ellerslie was so left
lor considerable period last summer dur
ing Mr.. Mortons absence in Europe Be
lore the castle had been fully taken pos
session of, and while the servants still
ueemed themselves the masters of the
mouse, it appeared that some of them had
agreed to disagree. The disagreement
was Of decidedly acrimonious nature and
i'oN literary turn when one lacky grab
yea book after book from the library
shelves and pelted an Objectionable foot
man through the spacious halls with the
literature Of the ages Mr.. Morton APP
iearod during the thickest of the bonn
paIamcnt and that mild hammered politi-
'iah must have been shocked al the use