The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-09

was much I'm love with his aunt Mrs.
Coleman Drayton. The lad would stand
for hours beside her chair. and one Of the
most beautiful portraits IN the AstOr col
/ lection represents the pair together. Wal
dorf Astor seems destined 10 have a
unique career
That blum and hale representative OF
I British aristOcracy, Sir Julian Paunce-
fote viii soon return 70 this country In
I his ambassadorial capacity, but his re-
. ception from the social point Of view VIII
prove decidedly chilling. Sir Julian has
. mOrtally offended the entire Fifth avenue
I cOtories in New York by what are now
I Familiarity termed his mushrooms" 1t
4 seems that the ambassador does very little
I with his spare time TO introduce into good
I society here youthful scions OF English
| aristocratic houses who have got them
/ selves into scrapes at home. but who come
I 10 "the states" with letters Of introduce
I ton from socially powerful relatives ad-
dressed TO Sir Julian. Sir Julian imme-
I dlately takes each newcomer under his
ambassadorial wing and pushes" him.
Through him some half dozen shady char
acters have made their way into Fifth
avenue drawing rooms. BY the time the
youthful. but shady, sristocrat has
''splurged" in the houses OF his American
[ friends. there comes some revelation that
makes all his entertainers look ridiculous.
1t appears that Sir Julian was remon-
strated With by a committee of Knicker-
booker Club members and he promised
to reform, vowing solemnly TO grow no
more mushrooms amid the decayed cod
fish of our aristocratic soil. But on top
of this the ambassador inflicted another
mushroom upon Fifth avenue and when
he comes back Sir Julian will be boy
cotted.
quite a sensation has been created
among the philanthropic millionairesses
by defalcation on the part Of profess
sional missionary. a missionary is a fe-
male whose business it is to dispense the
the charity Of an employer and the
employer IS, OF course, woman Of
means. Thus, Mrs. c. Vanderbilt, Mrs.
Seward Webb, Mrs. Z. +. Shepard anu
others employ these functionaries. They
must naturally be persons of discretion
and discernment and, above all, of in
tegrity. Yet it has just come to light that
a well-known hirelng OF this description
has been robbing her mistress for over
two years. Her method has been to over
estimate the expenditure essential to the
accomplishment of some charitable
scheme, and by a protege's pocket she
has gotten together quite a sum. The
episode has shocked many women of
wealth who propose to do away with the
middle woman of their charity altogether.
The defaulter in question was permitted
to retire in disgrace and will not be
prosecuted.
Much indignation has been aroused
among that numerous class of New York
ers who keep their own carriages by the
proposal 10 register them all for purposes
Of taxation. The idea is by no means a
new one, but has as a rule escaped no
tice because the persons so menaced
have had influence enough to ward off all
taxation. The fact is that every man or
woman in the metropolis who has a car
riage feels the necessity of more adequate
protection against the extortion to which
their luxury exposes them. In the first
I. place, the police have been levying petty
blackmail by their habit of demanding 81
weekly from carriage people, who must
necessarily block the street in which they
live occasionally. Then the regular cab
bies' have so arranged it that every
time private carriage collides with one
of their own vehicles, the driver of the
former is held responsible.
Whenever a family which has used a
"cabby's" conveyance affords itself the
luxury of a carriage of its own. the cab
by revenges himself by colliding with it
whenever he can. Then, too, the law
of damages is unjust to private owners
of carriages, since they are held unduly
responsible for street accidents. The
whole matter of carriages is becoming
a serious problem to New York society peo-
pie and the movement for an organization
of them into a protective league is very
generally approved. 1t may seem a very
nice thing for a woman to step into her
carriage and drive off in charge of the
liveried lackeys who go with such a tourn-
out, but it is a source of infinite heart
burning as well.
The really colossal scale upon which ex-
penditures connected with the drama are
made in New York is attracting attention
even in a metropolis long accustomed to
such liberality. Manager Rice, who has
certainly achieved a record in that line
Is outdoing himself in this years effort
Such a production as Little CHRISTOPHER
Columbus" now running at the Garden
theater is in reality a vast capitalized in
dustry and we'll illustrates the present
tendency among capitalists of the stage to
put money and liberality that an
ordinary business man would display in
investing in a manufacturing plant. 1t
is necessary, therefore that to succeed
at all a play must have lang run and
little Christopher Columbus is very for
tunate in having proved such a hit. Mr..
Rice is to-day one of the most important
characters in America connected with the
stage and he is continually being impor-
tuned to take hold of new attractions.
He is still very young looking and is a ia
miiiar figure on the Rialto, with his ulster
and his stick. 1t is stated in the profess
sion that he carries thousands of dollars
home with him nightly from the Garden
| theater, but that may be a stretch of the
imagination. David Wechsler.