Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-12-30
mi II Is a Hollow Mockery
10 the Hotel Hermit.
CLASS NOWADAYS.
x..stor Platt Is One, but He Has
Means Of Relief.
,ppBwINvHNrssoMH NEW JOKES
j. AZ These Latter uny "Herinits.
nave Lived In the Same Room
for Many Years

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d. mar newshoy who eats his New Years
some eieemosynary Institution en-
n. ,he day more han many OF the rich
w no 1--we in palace hotels and brown
IA, ,nar.lens, Paradoxos In great city
M. 4 add to rs COSMOPOLITAN callousness
Y, " ry,tery. In one OF Bret Harte's poems.
'.m,s before he became a London feuil-
lam. the boy in the far and al timc isola.
a west, asked bis father what was Christ
4, and the only answer the frontlersman
n, make was; at Is day"
4, many politicians and men OF wealth
" year l. only day and nothing more.
IN. day that they do not enjoy. but be
III II Is legal dies non they do not 80 to
|'.n,,s-those who play at buslness-and
Az o.ten go through the farce OF trying to
n. themselves believe that they can get
s.,ash the Holiday without being bored.
Nm however. are very frank with their
1.fss and DO not juggle with them In the
y. They candidly confess that New Year
|. lime whom they are forced to recognize
holiday BIT that they have long
y ceased to celebrate 1t in the glorious,
r,l way Of our ancestors. Some OF them
I round and repeat languIdly Tennyson's
|,sls lines beglnhlng:
RING cu, the old, ring in the new,
King out the false. ring in the true.
n, social aspects OF the day are entirely
=, As far as a big city is concerned. ex-
| a WITH few who emulate the past. toll
n, the present and abhor the future
/ n, are tho Bourbons who never change.
| 4 tSrrre. Chauncoy NJ. Depew celebrates
N Year and also every other holiday, half
s.lsy and evening festival Nothing
. IA, him, and as the Frenehman said OF the
. sa,t exuberant Peeksklll orator. ''ho could
Nm ss ennul away from 70 lost in shool."
In New Year ne IL at home because many
e.hls o. the great railroad he Is preal-
|a,i q call and pay their respects to him.
4 4 teeps open house. receives in an infof-
III way, has a Joke to relate to each visitor.
! y siler they are gone he calls on some Of
Ihyanderbilts and Chats about the changes
Isi.hsve taken place In social and railroad
Ir,e. 1t Is said. but 1t cannot be estab.
|a.sd as authentic. that Mr.. Depew makes
Ifa rule 10 tell brand new Joke every
IN Year 10 the head OF the Vanderbilt
ssay. SO New Year 10 always happy
ias to the great Rftor-dinner orator.
n dismal contrast are the hours spent on
en day by many Of the hotel hormits--
rn who are rich. unmarried and spend
truses yearly residing in hotels and
tginy up sllt-edgs appearances. FIX
s.iior 7. c. Plat Is not a hotel hermit
kuap he is happily married and has
s1ltrhiidrcn, L'it he iives Mt a hotel sna 4
atss Of the most oFacular OF corridor
nr He has a bucolic disposition and has
Esg forgotten how ho enjoyed the first
tns year in his old Tioga County home.
Nv nan who has ever sung in country
eftA choir and in glee club at political
<tilhEs has soul for holidays. The ex-
iu,i,f has not been able TO disennnBle
anlli from his early environments, and
,aifya to him mean something. Besides
$hstfks hard every day and he welcomes
iiiiasy as a time for rest and innocent
'Altil recreation. lie has sons married
r. generally every New Year he quits hla
aitane quite Of rooms at the hotel and. In
r1nny with his Gne-looklng wife, goes
u homo Of one OF his sons. where he
pa, good dllner and a warm welcome.
hsl his grandchildren on his knees
~ ings the old songs he used to sing
pa rural lad in northern New York
a domestic gathering, a reunion OF
acr and children, and the New York
1skil leaders, Identity is completely loat,
'rti'Fliy Of his holidays arc spent in this
w and hundreds OF politicians who can
Ne hotel are simply informed that
y Plat is not in" They leave their
Ttand 20 sadly away.
iel the plush-eovered scttees that dado
ltng holei corridors are ornamental
Y The "hermits' On New Years Day the
-'n on any other day. Life to them
'e' l'ng holiday. and wealth has brought
n i'heiy. One OF the most noted hotel
<nis' Is General Charles f. Furlong,
vas on General Grants stan at one
= end Is now a friend OF the Grant Tam
ne Is a well-ptesnrved bachelor. haa
10y 10 burn" and does nothing hut
cut ways to enjoy himself and make
mqpFable. But, like the man IN Bret
poem he knows that New Year "
DAY His social routine ia not dis
~ AZ all by the birth OF a new year
IN ~ aun 10 shining, he goes out for
q An1 returns in tlme for lunch. II
N, ialnlng, no roads the papers. talks
ana goes over his war experi-
En- Fer quarter OF a century the ue-l'
IN sM lived In one hotel and he has &C.
Wy lne same spacious room. DurlnG
~ fsnod he has never slept With the
It1sws Closed. no matter how cold or wet
4. 'uthsr. and yet he has never. been
q ne Keeps the door Of his bathroom
,1l.a5 winter and breaks the Ice TO battle.
tsl % bobby ~ walking, and he often
x nu thlrts milas day. RETURNING IN
q Ky. sl hearty dinner. on New Year's
r,m i such "demnitlop slow day,
Max forty miles 10 work Oh the ex-
-,s,,s BOREDOM. The General Is unique
$500 generous and philanthroplei
a@'Hss nliaosynist, and hater OF bolt
~. ne Is friend Of Princess Olga
|.1ss''aa 81 Yalsa. Russia, ana Is tho god
al her beautiful daughter. They
i n; .aak about aim which beglns:
sh,6isate prince o. hotel herniits grand.
~ ~. o. The eorr!ior chorus band.
Aff. AZ Hide tweH,t miles a day
hfl. I'm lltAes1me. nappy. young ana gay
l.le,'-s vs. u hotel hermiis there Is Edwin
~ w flch bIoker, who has been over
81 M, ssafs n Tho same room. His regular
NJ N t,..4,eF vary. There IL corner IN
4, ,eQf where be has sat few hours
~, ~ ior twD decades. which Is now
ts, Lord'r corner" The broker on
~. .ne year appears az usual 10 his
Il ~ fAclrillly graets his friends. half
Il 1s AZ nrretlng that Il Is New Year.
n w poes remember It be mentions 1.
N.Y. end rcmi-humorously. as II u
XHt u.y when the Exchanges are closed
S nuflc Of TIM ticker lF M. heard
NJ 81 ~ naney TO burn" but he does
n n quiet way,
.rls Z, rtaAfles =. Ccen, ex-Assistsnt Sec
N OK. ~ ircafury was amqnE tho noted
...@+ W one az fna ht,ua oaraeanaarihe he