The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-06-24
THE GOSSIP OF GOTHAM.
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New York, June 23.-For some time
past there have been rumors to the effect
that Mayor Thomas F. Gilroy contem-
plated long sojourn abroad, and when
the departure of Richard Croker for Eu.
rope was announced the first impression
was that there had been a mistake of
names, This supposition seemed the
more likely in view of the fact that the
charges brought against Gilroy in connec-
ton with alleged corruptions in the city
government of New York have been of a
nature to clear him of any downright
law breaking. For Gilroy is one of the
most acute men in Tammany, and would
hesitate to place himself in compromis-
ing position for very obvious reasons
1t is certain that any investigating com
mittee would find it hard to get him in its
clutches.
Now, however, there come stories bear
ing every Semblance of verify, and which
are indorsed by competent authority to
the effect that for over a year past Mr.
Gllroy has been arranging for a trip to
Europe at the expiration of his term. and
that this trip will Dlast many months
This is one reason, according to some, for
the peculiar investments the mayor has
been making, and for the care he has
taken to conceal the nature of his prop
erty from everyone. Few persons, for
instance, are aware that Mr.. Gilroy is
weather. that Richard Croker ALL his
fortune has been made OUT of Tammany
and consists of real estate, stocks, bonds
and gilt edged securities generally. The
real estate is nearly all in the name of
the mayors wife, but his investments in
stocks are make through broker. AS
recently as six months ago Mr.. Gilroy
made transfer of some of his invest
ments to new securities, and the amount
thus involved amounted to $300000.
In addition to that he took an interest
in two trust companies which managed to
control East Side business in realty
through his efforts and cleared tens of
thousands of dollars. Besides this there
is water company and a gas concern in
which the mayor has felt lively interest
for nearly year Even the politicians
who surround Mayor Gilroy would be
astonished to learn that his income has
averaged $4,000 year during the past
six years. His fortune to-day is at least
81, 100000, in assets which can be traced
very easily as his, but so Shrewd has the
mayor been that even those who know
him best can scarcely credit the fact.
The mayor lives like prince in a quiet
way. His stables are luxurious, and his
home in the city, while modest outside,
contains splendid evidences of wealth
His country home is not so elaborate in
teriorly, but it is certainly pretentious.
The mayor is becoming quite literary and
has a fine library. His sons, as is well known
are doing well, or rather one of them is
His wife wears finer diamonds than any
woman in New York, and on one occasion
showed them so onspicuously in parlor
car as to arouse the hostility of Tam
many politicians wife who was in the
same conveyance, and thus began some
rumors that the gentleman who looks so
brave as grand sachem when he wears
the high hat of his Office might have
trouble in explaining where he gets all
his wealth.
GILLAM's RENowN EMBARRASSING.
Bernhard Gillian, the cartoonist, is be-
coming one of the powers of metropolitan
, life. fact which is perceived by an in
creasing number of New Workers., some
what to the artists own embarrassment
AS the leading pictorial advocate of the
= Republican party, it is natural that he
should come in contact with his party's
leaders, and through his intimacy with
Whitelaw Reid, Levi P. Morton, Thomas
B. Reed and Others as powerful, he is now
| prominent party man. His influence is
, so quietly exerted, however, that its ex-
istence is not suspected except by the few
who have occasion to discover it.
In addition to his fame N this direction
is the renown his cartoons have won for
him. This renowu causes him to be be-
sieged by the fathers and mothers of
aspirants for artistic fame, and they come
to his studio in unpleasantly large num-
bers for his advice in educating young
man or young woman who wishes to be
cartoonist. Gillam's own opinion is
that young women are not desirable sub
jects for aid in this way, as they seldom
= continue in the artistic career. He ex-
plains the fact by their tendency to get
! married, and domestic life effectively
} ends any longings for u career with the
pencil. Thus it follows that he receives
} the young women coldly; but as the en-
courager OF MANY rising young men in the
art world of New York, he has won quite
Z a reputation. To have Gillian for patron
is enough to make young reputation.
Gillian is one of the few artists in this
! country whose pencil has made him a
power in national politics.
THE CONDUCTOR AS POWER
3 The railway conductors whose trains
| roll into New York are now another rec
ognized power in the metropolis. This is
1 owing to their influence with the passen-
gers who use their trains with more or
less regularity, and who invariably are
3 guided by their advice in such matters as
1 the selection of hotel or the purchase of
, one thing or another. This fact is well
3 understood among the tradesmen, and
Y
t them for the good word of the gentlemen
in uniform. Some of these men are quite
, well acquainted with the leading men of
| the nation, and have won for themselves
almost national reputation.
5 1t is well known that when special
, trains are wanted for whole parties il is
5 always insisted that certain conductors
3 shall be chosen to run them. BENJAMIN
! Harrison has his own fagorite and the
( Nanderbilts have one also. James Buck.
= ley, President Cleveland's favorite con
ductor, has taken the chief magistrate
out of New York on many occasions, but
/ he Is also in high favor with the Astors
2 whose train he runs regularly whenever
they go on a voyage by rail. Sarah Bern
! hardt is particularly devoted TO one man
in the service in this country. and when
J he is sick she requires recommendation
from him before any man can run her
| train. Henry Irving usually left the Sc
lection OF his hotel TO his conductor when