The sun., 1894-10-20
LIVE ToPICs AMOUR ToWN.

The football sharps will be little bit in doubt
to-day whether to go TO Manhattan Field. at
l55th street, or take n run to Orange. Tn
doubtedly the popular team this year is the
Princeton eleven and the champions are sure Of
a rousing reception in this city on account OF the
sharp contrast which their conduct In the neRo-
tiatons for the big annual game affords TO the
vacilating and ex exasperating tactics OF Yale. The
public has, apparently. decided that Yale is
afraid of Princeton. and there II very well
grounded belief that the former champions. in
showing the white feather at this time sacri-
hcng much of their popularity. The Princeton
team go M against the Cornell eleven at Man
haitian Field, and though they will not. in all
probability. have much OF u struggle to defeat
the Cornell men, II is certain that their opponents
are handy lot of players, and abundantly able
TO give them good fight. A good many of the
football enthusiasts will go TO Orange to make
direct study of lalc's work. The air was thick
with rumUrs all day yesterday about the char
acter OF the playing of the New Haven eleven,
and as the Orange Athletic Club team is very
strong one. 1t is not unlikely that the Yale men
will be forced to show their best form. Tho
theory about town was that there has been a
great deterioration in the Yale line, and that
there IL considerable revolt against Hinkey.
1t IL pity that The games could not have been
arranged for different days, 80 rs to give the
football enthusiasts o chance to see both OF the
teams before they come together and nnd out
Nn' lcoi Ttoebu VI 1ulc hppaitHb itai Vi Inv
champions.
Six OF tho pictures seized bv Mr.. Comstock at
the store OF small dealer on sixth avenue tho
other day are precisely similar 10 enGravings
which have for long time adorned the walls OF
the Metropolitan Museum of Art. They are
copies of famous nudes" " which are exhibited
in the public galleries of Paris. The dealer
whom Mr. Comstock arrested brought these
facts to the great m0n's attention but that per-
announced dealer
nothing whatever to do with the question. Then
he luggcd the dealer of TO court, arriving there
ended by locking his victim up all night in n
police station; A. time advances the mystery
of Comstocks powers and autocratc rule in
America increases in depth, width, and volume.
question which interested good many
akeholders of election bets came up yesterday
afternoon when the news of Mr.. strauss with
drawal rs candidate for Mayor became gen.
orally known about town. Every year "A consid-
cradle number of men blossom into millionaires
over night about election time. They figure in
the papers as stalking enormous sums of money
upon majorities in Texas. Maine. and Ohio. and
are lavish In making $1,000 bets with other
election millionalres upon the majority in Penn
sylvania or in the Massachusetts GovernorshIp
contest. These seem TO be the particular issues
that call forth the enormous newspaper bets.
The wagers are usually made in uptown hotels,
al about 10 o'clock at night and are registered
amid thronR OF adlnirlng spectators. Nobody
is at all deceived by them, and the fact that
so generally understood that the newspapers
S m te HTS % % any
On local issues this year, however, there is Rc-
tually great deal Of heavy betting in the up;
town resorts, and the amount OF money wagered
upon Strong and Straus has been by no means
irconsiderable; Many OF the Stockholders are
now in Quundary. Where n bet was expressly
stipulated as upon the Republican ticket against
the Tammany Hall ticket IL will undoubtedly
ha 10 HsRtE salaR DaN~ I4nn h..
men who backed Straus personally against
Strong claim that they have right TO withdraw
rule. oppose this plan. The question is, whether
the wager cover the contest between the rival
the personal success OF the candidates already
named
Thomas c. Plat has never been known as
club man. Probably very few members .of tho
81. Nicholas Club or the American Geographic
cal Society, for instance, are aware that he has
belonged 10 those organic tions for years. Mr..
Platt's study OF geography is almost entirely
limited 10 the political map OF the State Of New
York which he has made for himself and which
he carries in his mind. II is a fine piece of car
Biography, but Mr.. Plat has never explained the
details OF its construction 20 his fell
low members OF the Geographical Society.
Mr.. Platt Joined these societies, as he has .
great many others simply because some one
asked him 10, and he goes on paying his dues
interest in their affairs. Thus when the Ameri-
can Yacht Club WAS organized Mr.. Plat went
in, at some ones solicitation, Rs a charter mem
her, and he has kept up his membership ever
since although he never owned Yacht or
showed any interest In yachting. Of course he
is a member Of the Republican club. but he
seldom goes there. He belongs 20 the Alumni
Association OF Yale University, which conferred
upon him the honorary degree of LII. D., hut he
Is rarely seen at meeting or dinner
nf the society. The oaly club that Mr.
Plat ever gets any use out OF il the Lawyers
club, which he Joined about i've years ago, and
where he often takes luncheon, Mr.. Plat IL
looked upon as an artist in turning down NAL
contents, but that isn't the reason lie is a mem-
Der Of the Metropolitan Museum Of Art. Per-
hRps he couldn't himself tell why he Is. II Mr..
Plat is asked why he is so much OF club man
on paper and so little OF one in fact. he replies
that he never has time 10 go To clubs He has
never been an officer In any OF his clubs because
he doesn't take any interest In them. The lobby
~ the Fifth Avenue Hotel is really all the club
that he needs. and he can usually find there
every body whom there is any necessity Of his
seeing. IL may be added that Mr.. Plat is not =
member OF the Union League Club.