Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-10-30
EX-HOSTLER lN SOCIETY
Young MT. West Stirs Up Ridge
 wood, N. J., Greatly.
HE WORKED IN A LIVERY STABLE.

HE WORKED IN A LIVERY STABLE. But Since He Has Become Heir to S125.- 900 He Has Built a Fine House. Is Pro posed at the Swell Club and May Marry Waitress In the Hotel.
 RIDGEwoop, N. J., Oct. 30-The peo- pie of this pretty town for the past two months have been having better timo gossiping than they have had for the bet ter part of n decade, and all on account Of young Englishman named John West who, after being hostler at the Herbert House for two years, announced that he had fallen heir to a fortune of SIPS. GOO and that he was going to stay in Ridge wood and invest it in real estate.
 The Four Hundred of thn place felt themselves in pretty pickle when this announcement was made. What were they to do: Could they receive with opon arms youth who for two years had clean cd horses at the inn? Yet the fact TO- mained that he had Sl25. 900 in cash, and. apparently to prove that he had he proceeded to buy $l, 400 tandem team and lot a contract for $15, 900 house to be built on one of the most fashionable streets. But to counteract that again 1t was rumored that he was engaged to ono of the waitresses of tho hotel and was Go- ing to marry her.
 And so the people of fashion of the town thought and thought, and talked and talked about this young man. and thoy are still doing it, undecided as to how they will treat him-ignOre him or take him up. All sorts of rumors were flying about concerning him. It was said that when he came to RidgGwoOd he was penniless and had to walk. His for tune was estimated from $IOO. QUO to 10 times that amount, and finally 1t was said that his namo had boon proposed at the Ridgewood club; that his election would speedily follow, and that society was waiting to receive him with open arms, stable or no stable, q waitress or TO waitress.
 The Ex-Hcsiler's Story.
 MT. West was found by a reporter with out any difficulty at the Herbert House, where he was waiting for his coachman to bring around n new horse he had bought in tho morning and which he was going to try. He is small and slight, with dark hair and n mustache which shows promise of becoming bigger some day. He also has what is called in this country an English accent.
 II don't know what all this fuss is about, he said to the reporter. There isn't anything wonderful about my got ting Sl25, 900. for l have always known that l was to get it, you know, and 1 am going to have more when my father dies l didn't havo to work as n hostler, you know
 What made you leave England and become one:" he was asked.
 Well, you know, my father. David West, Is a rich man. who lives in Now market, England. He is n retired captain of the British navy. My grandfather $ name was John LRncolot West, the same name as mine, and ho lived in Ingate- stone. Essex. It was he who left me the money. Now. I wont to Harrow and then travelled all through Europe. Asia and Africa with my father. I had all the money I wanted and spent most of my time with the horses.
 Now. I had chum named Arthur Donelly, son of Sir Peter Donelly, an Irish baronet. Well, now, you know, one day We had a littlo quarrel. and he fell to guying me and said that I couldn't earn my own living. That mado mo hot, and wagcred him ElOO that I could earn my own living with my hands, and he took mo up. You know people look at things differently in the old country from what they do here. so without letting my people know l sailed on the Campania on her second trip and landed in New York in June. 1892, with $35O in my pocket had a friend there, and through him came down to RidEewood within a month after landing and went to work for Mir Estis the well driver. After working a month at that l found l was not strong enough, and so I came to work for Mir. Herbert as hostler. You know. he added, II was considered the best amateur rider in New | market.
 My father wrote to me to go home. l though ho didn't know what kind of work | was doing but I knew what guying Id get and liked the country and staid. for know it would bo only short tiuo before I'd get this money" Engaged to n waitrc-..
 Have you $l, 100 tnndem'" was asked.
 ''Yes. and bought 1t from an English doctor whose nnmc I cant give, but who l drove 1t at Newport all summer where it | was considered the hnndsumcst in town. | And have the hest cOaChman in Bergen county too
 1 Well is it true your finncee is a wait ress In this hotcI:''
 | r-wcli-rCally, now, you know, | won't deny that am engaged, but it s not to R;dgewood girl, assure you, | and that is all he would say on the sub ject.
 Has your namo been proposed for the
 
 Ne es." Mir. West drawled. adding that he did not care to tell who proposed him.
 And that is the story of the young man who has kept the social circles of Ridge. wood in a ferment for a month and Is likely to keep on doing so for somo time to como, for he Is going to give big | champagne supper on Nov. II, when Inc comes of age. and when his new SI5, o0C house is opened ho intends to give a house warming which will astonish tho natives.
 There seems to bo some doubt. how ever, about his name being proposed al tho club. MT. Walton. the secretary, saiG that he know nothing about it, and hC would know if it were so, and he also de nled that n split had come in society upor the question of the admittance of tho young man.
 The last thing that MT. John Lancelo said to the reporter when they partcC was. And l got that ElOO l wagere( too"
 | Reward Offered For DynamIters. | WILkEsBARRE, Pa, Oct. 30. - Tn, county commissioners offered reward O S1, OO0 for the arrest and conviction of tn men who blow up the Hungarian shant, with dynamite. TheNatest theory Is tha some boys planned the plot and carried | 1t out
 BRIEFLY TOLD TALES.
 Tho schooner Sunbeam, whose beach ing at Tuckerton, \. J., has been report cd. has become a total wreck.
 Two women of i'll repute wero foun, | dead in bed in Denver and the police be