The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-01-14
THE GOSSIP OF GOTHAM.
The Four Hundred Becomes a Political
Organization.
Will Thompson be Recalled p-Myste-
rious Prevalence of Lottery Tickets.
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rious Prevalence of Lottery Tickets.
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New York, Jan. 13.-It is somewhat
unusual thing TO find society "buds" in
fuential in politics, but such has come to
be the case in Brooklyn. The new ad-
ministration of Mayor Schieren is practi-
cally under the auspices of a coterie of
young ladies whose fathers and mothers
took prominent part in the movement
that landed MIR Schieren in the mayor
atty chair 1t is, therefore, only natural
that such exclusive young ladies as Miss
Jessie S. Dixie, Miss Glib and Miss NAL
toy should find themselves in the novel
position of distributors of patronage. All
these society misses and many others as
ISOLATED with them are members Of the
first families of Brooklyn, and have,
moreover, q recognized position in New
York's four hundred. They have secured
such gratifying recognition that appli-
cants for the most humble positions in
the municipal service besiege their front
doors for an Endorsement, and the practi-
cal politicians find their occupations al
most gone.
Naturally this state of affairs Is not
pleasing to the latter. Already the new
administration is being dubbed ''petticoat
government" but it is replied that the
new order of things cannot possibly have
worse results than the old order did.
Meanwhile the four hundred on the
hither side of the big bridge are watching
the course Of events, with view Of prof
iting by the experience of their sisters.
Already Mrs. John Sherwood has been en-
treated to look up the subject OF ward
politics in the interest Of Gotham bellies,
and Mrs. Paran Stevens is said to be
scheming with Lispenard Stewart with
reference so the succession to Mayor
Gilroy. 1t is a notorious fact that the
four hundred in New York has never
deemed itself properly recognized in the
distribution of municipal patronage.
TENEMENT EVILS.
At last New York's tenement house
horrors have been properly and effectively
presented, and 1t is to the literary men of
the metropolis that thanks for this are
due. Edward Marshall, who led the rent
reduction movement for the New York
Press, has become the most prominent
citizen of his age in the city. He is still
in the early twenties, and until he
brought upon himself the hostility Of the
landlord class by his agitation of tene-
ment horrors, was principally known as
an editor and writer Of fiction. 1.-THE
cause only needs Moses" he said re-
Gently in answer to question 1.-THE
tribe is all ready and willing to follow.
and when the Moses appears there will be
an upheaval in this city"
William Dean Howells and Edward
Marshall spent whole day together
among the slums of Gotham recently
What the impressions of the master
realist can have been as his youthful
guide piloted him about it is rather hard
TO divine. Perhaps they will be duly set
forth in coming work. OF course, il
cannot be presumed that the inhabitants
of the slums will return the compliment
in a work wherein will be set forth what
sort of impression Howells and Marshall
made as they wendell their way, together
through this human detritus.
LOTTERY BOOMING.
Mr.. Richard Watson Glider is sore per