The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-01-07

in some office building or other and have
your business interrupted by the edihce
collapsing into the street. Yet this is
becoming no uncommon thing in New
York. Nevertheless, New York is not
nearly so bad in this respect as are some
other cities, especially abroad. London
has long been subject TO distressing acct
dents of this nature. So have Paris and
Berlin. In New York great care is taken
TO inspect the construction of new build
ings. The foundations are required to
be very solid and the walls must be
strong and firm. This is the result of
efficiency in city department.. For
cipalty take peculiar delight in
keeping the general community up to
high standard of public Virtue. The
Tammany tiger will not permit mere out
siders to be dishonest, whatever the beast
may permit itself to do. Hence the
Tammany relief committees, which are
now going from tenement to tenement
not only caring for the destitute inmates,
but examining the buildings themselves,
that they may not take a large constitu-
ency by surprise and fall in ruins some
evening.
So, while buildings continue to collapse
now and then, the casualties of this sort
are diminishing, and New York city will
probably cease to suffer from them en-
tirely before long.
THE AsToR DoMICILE.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Jacob Astor con-
tinue to leave their own private residence
in New York entirely to their servants
while they themselves, with their little
boy, live at 5l4 Fifth avenue, not far from
| Russell Sage's home. Thus the most eX-
tensive owner of houses in all Gotham
! lives himself in a modest structure which
| he leases. Mr. Astor has made a study
of domestic architecture and is thinking
of putting up an entirely new home for
himself 1t will be q modest affair, but
comfortable, of course. The difficulty
seems TO be in getting location, for all
| the good sites are either occupied or held
at too high price.
Many persons wonder why the young
couple do not occupy the still deserted
/ mansion Of William Waldorf Astor, but
| the truth is that the relations now ex-
! listing between the main branches of this
great American family are not particu-
larly cordial. To do John Jacob Aston
credit, he is a patriotic young fellow.
open and democratic in his ways, and a
profound admirer Of his country's insti-
buttons. He is not pleased that his near
kinsman sneers at the great republic by
implication in print, and has so expressed
himself. 1t has become an open secret
that William Waldorf Astor is displeased
| az MS cousins ulSpleaSure.
! ALL ABOUT ONE WORD.
There was q hot debate at the Union
club the other evening as to whether Mr..
| Chattield-Taylor, of Chicago, pronounces
the hyphen In his name, and if he does,
whether he used such an expression as
! 'offen the tioor' at recent ball. Mr..
Frederick Gerhard entered in the thick
of it, and was at once appealed to, but he
was compelled to admit that he was not
! competent to settle the dispute, not hav-
! ing the facts in the case. Finally il was
declared that the eminent young Chica-
| goan is coming to New York shortly, and
he can answer for himself If Mr.. Taylor
| does come he will be warmly welcomed
! by large contingent, which can never be
persuaded that ''offen" is in his vocabu-
! larry
The truth seems to be that New York
ers in society do not like the way Chica-
! goans have Of coming here and establish
ing an aristocratic prestige The Windy
| City's wealthy bellies always meet with
immense success among the marriageable
scions of the Four Hundred in New York,
greatly to the disgust Of Gotham dowa-