The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-06
70 BREAK INTO SOCIETY.
Even Great Wealth Does Not Open the
Doors.

A Case of Money Lending and What
r Meant The Swell Girl Who Fell
IN Love With Her Dancing Master.
Double Paw for Cure.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
New York, March 31.-Readers of Eng
,tsb novels are familiar with the bust
mss of lending money on prospective in
Laritauces. Such operations are not in
sncb vogue here, are not possible to any
considerable extent under our laws, but
there are occasional instances of advances
being made at ruinous rates to young men
who are not yet out of college, or who are
living in elegant idleness on handsome
allowances made by millionaire parents.
BIacxmail is generally an important fea-
trre of transactions of this class, the
lender depending for his security on his
damaging knowledge concerning the hab-
it, of his clients. AS a rule the shylocks
are content with getting their usury, and
make themselves disagreeable only by
their efforts to collect what is due them,
but now and again one hears of some am
bilious fellow who tries to pay his way
into fashionable drawing rooms by the
mil he gets over swell spendthrifts.
It may be set down as an invariable
rule that such attempts are failures; for
il is generally recognized now that al
though New York society includes only
very wealthy people, and although great
wealth is essential to admission to the
highest ranks, money alone will not serve
rs the open sesame Not a year passes
that does not see the collapse of several
a,,fl ?
circle by excessive liberality in semi
public functions, by hiring or buying
houses on the avenue, by sporting steam
yachts, by appearing regularly in the
park and by attending divine service at
DR. Halls or DR.. PaXton's. These
methods don't go. New York is not an
old city, as the world goes, by any means,
but time counts here largely, because
there is such tremendous aggregation of
colossal fortunes that society would fall
by its own weight if the line were not
drawn at something
BESIDES MERE MONEY.
hemost remarkable instance illustra-
tive of this is the relation of the Wander
bilt family to the circle dominated by the
Astors. 1t is but few years since full
RECOGNITION of the great railroad people
was accorded by the older family. 1t
must be a severe shock to some of the
newly made rich to find themselves pos
sessed of all the advantages of immense
wealth except the general homage paid to
it, Such had better emigrate to smaller
cities, or better yet, stay where they are
and not invade the metropolis.
Butabout money lending. An instance
has Just come to my notice that has
slightly novel favor. A newcomer in
New York, call him Mr.. Southern, ap-
peared 10 be a very good sort of fellow.
and readily made pleasant acquaintances
among the men he met in Wall street an d
the hotel corridors. After a time he had
invitations to clubs, and was proposed at
one or two, but his candidacy has not yet
been acted on, as the waiting lists where
his name is included are tediously long
He is about 40 years old, good natured,
evidently anxious to please and very little
given to those gaucheries of conversation
ana manners that generally characterize
the parvenu in society dramas. 1t came
IN his way one day to be of financial serv-
ice to one of his newly-found friends,
man more than twenty years his junior
The borrower was not bad sort of a
chap; he was careless. extravaganza and
inudicious, but he was not the utterly
worthless spendthrift that he might have
been. / do not think that he had pur-
pOsely played Southern for the pur-
pose of getting a loan when he found him
self
SINKING INTO DIFFICULTIES
that he dared not explain to the head of
the house. Time ran on, and Southern
and the Young fellow saw much of each
other. They became rather close friends,
and when the young fellow needed more
money southern supplied it without a
mqrmur. The playing" was all on his
side, for when at length the indebtedness
n eli h Ia nd
there was no probability whatever that
the Young man could ever repay it until
ne should become possessed of his fathers
fortune, Southern began to throw out
hints that although he did not exactly
need the money, yet he felt that he ought
10 receive quid pro quo in some form.
Inc young man was not surprised, of
course, but he was considerably worried,
Tor he had got into a comfortable way of
drifting along and letting Southern help
MN out. After several days of irritating,
nervous scheming to devise some impossi-
Die way to meet his obligations he made
frank statement to his debtor.
Its no use,' he said, Il can't pay you
IN a dozen years. I'm dead sorry. but
cannot help it. l don't want to appear
uhgrateful, but really, don't you know,
you shouldn't have let me get so deep l
ulunt realize where / was. / don't see
what can do about it,
my dear fellow, d" cried Southern, "you
take the matter too much to heart;
wouldn't have worried you for the world
u d known how sensitive you were. !
uoh want the money until you are en-
SErely ready to pay it without feeling it.
meantime there's thing or two you can
40 mat will be of genuine service to me.
you We got the entree into the upper set.
Leu me hitch on add kind of float in with
YOU
his was the first intimation the young
man had that there was "nigqer in the
Hood-plle," and 1t made him sit up. He
hardly knew whether to be offended, to
put on indignation, or to reason with this
nan with the faulty of his course, its
SnIolrness, impossibility, etc. Whatever
ne t.1, 1t was sufficient to make it per-
Ecu! clear to Southern that he had been
lurking up the wrong tree. Then ensued
dramatic scene. Southern pleaded
WIN no little pathos that he didn't care
55iraw about the thing himself. 1t was
MS laughter he wanted to benefit. She
was being educated so that she would be
FInFoR ANY SOCIETY.
Ia me world, and be worthy of the best
husband IN New York And as for him