The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-02

the palace district, and the private watch
men cannot cope with an organized gang
of bandits For months it has been evil
dent that heroic measures would soon
become imperative, and now that Mr..
Astor has taken the drastic action all
Fifth avenue hopes he will succeed in
administering a much needed lesson.
There is no longer much doubt that
New York city, under its new mayor, Col.
w. L. Strong, will not be forced to endure
Puritanic conditions so far as enforce
ment of the excise laws is concerned.
Those dreaded dry Sundays are to be fig
ures of speech merely. 1t was with in
finite pleasure that convivial souls all
over the metropolis learned that the re-
forming colonel is fond of good glass of
port himself and has a well stocked cell
lar upon which his personal popularity
as a host is largely founded. Mr.. Strong
possesses, too, an interesting collection
of TASKS, demijohns and things of that
sort, and the smoking room of his house
is adorned with these trophies of good
cheer
The 'better element" to employ phrase
that now stands for a peculiar class of
New York's population, is very apprehen-
sive about the reform ingredient in Col.
Strong's calibre. There will certainly be
interesting developments before the new
mayors term is very old.
That daughter of the house of Astor
who sorrows in the name of Drayton,
seems destined to be the center of new
sensation, although it is related closely
to the one which recently proved so dy-
manic to her domestic organism. 1t seems
that formal overtures for reconciliation
have come from the Draytonian element
of discord and are now under considera-
ton in Historian purliens. The Astor's
are. in truth, holly opposed to any sort
Of reconciliation, as they feel convinced
that the suit for divorce must certainly
end in their kinswoman' favor. This cir
cumstance it would further appear, mas al
ready dawned upon the other side, for
tbe evidence against Mrs. Drayton, it
turns out, will scarcely hold water ii
is understood that Mrs. Drayton's final
action will depend upon her mother, and
the mother, while incensed against Dray>
ton is thought to have some considera-
ton for the children.
Mrs Drayton, it seems, first aroused her
husbands suspicious by fondness for
theatrical and masquerade balls. She GER
tainly attracted no end of attention by
the serpentine sorcery of her foothght
agiIitv 1t will not surprise knowing ones
If hostilities are declared off and all COM
batants shake hands.
The unexpected temperance of Mrs.
..WiIle" Vanderbilt in New York society,
when she should have been vegetating
amid the chill splendors of a Newport au-
tumn. is not due to any abandonment OF
Family plans. II is entirely the result OF
an incident, of which the world generally
knows nothing. Mrs. Vanderbilt and her
daughter Consuelo, who are deeply at
tacbed to one another, were out walking
together at Newport on recent Sunday
when they happened to pass a church out
of which a body of worshippers We're
streaming. Here they came race 70 lace
,,'ith a we'll known New York society wo-
NAN accompanied by her brother-in-law'
who has political influences. Mrs Wander
hilt got a cold stare. not to say cut d.