The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-09
GOSSIP OF GOTHAM.
Col. Aston Got His Title by Feminine
Influence.
Sir Julian's Mushrooms-Plants Over
Which Fifth Avenue Worked Itself
Into a Decentralization
Keepers of Carriages.
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New York, Dec. S.-A social war has
broken out within the coterie of Gov.-elect
Morton's administration to come. 1t is al
ready threatening to make a wreck of that
ship of aristocracy which has heretofore
been assumed to be in waiting orders be-
side the ship of state, and such names as
those of John Jacob Astor, Lispenard
Stewart, Archibald Rogers and Seward
CONSERVATION is due TO the unexplained
and misunderstood eagerness Of the metro
politan millionaires TO be made colonies.
John Jacob Aston, or to give him his new
distinction, Col. Astor, has longed for a
military title ever since his cousin. VIII
liam Waldorf, went away to England. This
longing has been attributed to the new
made colonePs wish to wear a Uniform in
the presence of potentates abroad, but that
is an erroneous impression. There has al
ways been an Aston in the militia of New
York state, that is, ever since there have
been available Astors In the next place.
Col. Astor is a student of matters mill
tary and particularly of military engineer
ing. The colonel has been much hurt by
insinuations that his military ambitions
have an Interior purpose beyond the glory
of his native land. The assertion can be
made on the highest authority that Col
Astor will not wear his uniform in effete
pulieus The monarchs of Europe will not
be as favored, therefore, as the people of
the colonels native state
Bearing these details in mind, II will be
understood that the young gentleman who
has forever ceased to be Mr.. and who for
the present is colonel next year he may be
Gen. Astor) was much mortified to dis
cover that his military aspirations were in
danger of defeat through the multiplicity
of rival ambitions. All the gilded youth
wanted Mr.. Morton to make them colOnels
There was Perry Belmont to begin with
His democracy settled him. Then there
was Foxhall Keene, but MIR. Morton is OPP
posed to "horsey boys" to employ. of his
own genial apothegm. Finally there was
Lispenard Stewart. Archibald Rogers and
George Vanderbilt We're also candidates.
Archie" stood a betters chance than any
one for he is very rich and very ''swel''
and his wife is even richer and ''sweller "
Archie has had the rare honor of kiss
ing the hand of the Princess of Wales, the
OSCILLATION having been perpetrated some
three years ago.
Naturally with so few. oolonels to Gre
ate and the entire geunessebaore or as
Col. Astor calls it, joonls dory wild to be
created, and there was a autter. The talk
it gave rise TO made music in all the clubs.
| Everybody with the semblance of a social
standing attacked the wife of the COVER
nor-elect For this charming lady, who is
a step-mother, has ambitions for all her
husbands children. She is anxious that
they do" well. This amiable weakness
is well known to the women whose word is
law socially, and for fully a week Mrs
John Jacob Aston, Mrs. Paran Stevens
| Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Mrs. Dyer
Mrs. Kissams and other splendid DANES
| beseiged the superb up town apartments
| where Mrs. Morton is living. Mrs Archi-
/ bald Rogers gave a tea in honor
1 of Mrs Morton's daughter Alice, and
1 her husband was made a military man
/ Mrs. Astor invited Mrs. Morton to her
/ Christmas party up the Hudson and Mrs
! Paran Stevens put in a word for "Lissy.'
| The result is that New York state to-day
1 boasts a Col. Astor, a Col Stewart and a
/ Col. Archie Rogers, This is woman's era
and don't you forget it.
! 1t is now definitely settled that Waldorf
Aston, son and heir OF the English branch
! of the family will get the $50, 000, 900 of New
York real estate for which his father is
taxed. The property will be made over
| to the boy by a deed of gift instead OF
! through testamentary bequest. This fact
has been made known by the family's re-
| cent transactions in the realty market
Master Waldorf is an utter stranger to
New York. He is now living at Cliveden
in England, and is being educated under
| the supervision of private tutors, it beins
! his fathers intention to send him TO OK
! ford. The young chap--he is still in his
/ early teens-will be the greatest landed
| proprietor in the history of New York, but
| he has lived in his native city but two
years during his life. To all appearances
he will never know much of the metropo-
lis, except that his enormous income pro.
| ceeds from it, Master Waldorf is remem.
| bered in New York as very sweet-face6