The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-30


leave their native New York for time
The question Of most interest in this
connection is, how they can do it? What
can these men own 70 enter oblivion with
such dignified ease? Despite the current
charges OF wealth brought against Tam,
many men, no accurate estimate OF their
individual holdings is to be had Here
are the ratings of most conservative cal
culators.
Richard Croker. ..................S1 $50 900
Thomas F. Gilroy. 500. 600
Hugh J. Grant....... Aoo oOo
Henry ID. Purroy. ........ 20 900
IL VIII be noted that Gilroy is credited
with more wealth than Croker. and there
Is httle doubt in the minds of well in
IOIliieo observers that the mayor is worth
much more than the one-time boss.
socially there will likewise be note
worthy changes. Mr. W. X. Vanderbilt
VIII be ablead most of the year. Mrs
Faran stevens proposes to spend d great
poruon OF the coming year abroad. George
Gould returns TO Europe late in the winter
unless he mobiles his present plans. Mr..
Whitney remains in Egypt during almost
the whole period of cold weather in his ma
tive cline. Old faces will be missed and
new ones will greet the year in almost
every department Of society, bushes and
politics
The lottery company which was driven
from Louisiana by Richard Watson Glider
has fled to Honduras, as everyone knows
put TO the establishment of the opponents
OF its pernicious activity, 1t is doing bust
ness in New York. An alleged EMPLOY
ment office has been discovered to be
nothing but a branch of the concern oper-
ated so quietly that no one even yet sus-
poets that II is not what il claims TO be
with the exception of the few who are
watching keenly all the operations of this
gambling octopus, Arden Kulling. the
gray haired but shabby old man who has
grown rich out of lottery agencies. is now
busy in New York inventing accounts of
$4,000 prize drawn by bowery habitues.
Prize drawers are as a rule hired for the
purpose, like green goods name getters
and hand shakers, and ii is whispered that
the police may be questioned before the
LeXow committee concerning their connec-
ton with the swindle. Kulling usually
goes about disguised in a long gray beard
and flowing coat, and might be taken
for a country farmer. He has many dis
guises, however, and is said to have clear
ed $4,000 as commission during the past
year out OF lottery tickets in New York
alone. The lottery is not suppressed by
any means.
The Goulds have won in their campaign
for social recognition. There is no longer
L
has taken the whole family up and the
Burdens are preparing to follow that dis
unguiShed example Not only that hut
Mr.. Gould will shortly be seen in the Aston
drawing-rooms, and the Conelius Wander
bits have already asked them to the Fifth
avenue palace.
The element which has heretofore been
hostile to the Goulds is now in a somewhat
embarrassing position, but arrangements
have been made to accept the situation
gracefully Mr.. and Mrs. Gould are GER
tainly charming and liberal entertainers.
and their advent places a colossal fortune
at the disposal of society. Mr.. Gould re-
Gently sent Ward McAllister a very hand
some antique hall clock and that gallant
creature suggested that its donor and his
fair wife shouldwatch the new year in
with him in front of its venerable face.
This news did not fail to create a sensa-
ton and betokened i'll a semi-oficial wav
the formal recognition of the Goulds as
members of the Four Hundred The COM
ing year win witness unrivalled prodieaIi-
ty on their part in maintaining the new
dignity. Nevertheless it was Mrs. Paran
Stevens who made the Gould family. So
cially.
There promises to be a decided scan
dial in judicial circles in the metropolis
before long and the scandal promises
to extend as far as Washington. II
grows out of the activity of a small
clique of financiers who for weeks have
had mysterious information in advance
regarding important decisions of the court
of appeals at Albany and of the supreme
court of the United States at Washing
ton. The men involved in the deveIon-
ment are, in few cases, noted fnanciers
They have or seem to have an organized
bureau. and whenever an important de-
cision is due they peddle it about Wall
street fully week in advance of its an
nouncement. How they get this early
information about the doings of one
of the highest tribunals nobody appears
able. to find out. John c. Sheehan
gained unenviable notoriety through his
efforts to sell a court of appeals decision
but his work in that line is outdone by
the present clique. There is undoubtedly
a leak somewhere.
Such advance information Is undoubt-
eddy of the highest importance as Il
usually happens that interests of great
magnitude are affected by the decisions
in question. Chief Justice Fuller Is re-
ported to be quite concerned over the in
cidents and the justices at Albany are
equally exercised. It is but fair to saw
that the justices themselves are known
TO be above reproach in the matter. but
it scenes probable that somebody is
leaving the temple of justice in ruins
and running off with it's plumber The
into trouble unless it ceases its oprea-
tons.
The death of Robert Louis Stevenson
has given an impetus to the sale Of his
works and the New York publishers
are coming money as a result Yet
they treated him, for the most part. with
great unkindness, with the exception Of
that syndicate magnate, S. s. Mcclure
stevenson always remained grateful to
MIR Mcclure for his appreciation at
time when appreciation was the bread of
life to him. A friendship sprang up be-
tween the two men, and for a time they
were Damon and Pythias over again.
Wholly unlike, the bond between them
grew closer and closer. 1t is a fact Of
Considerable literary interest known to
but few people that Stevenson studied one
of the principal characters in The Wreck
er after Mcclure.
Nothing could be more in accord with
the glad spirit of holiday time than
Little Christopher" nightly enjoyed by
crowds of merry-makers at the Garden.