The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-06
GOSSIP OF GOTHAM TOWN.
NOW THE BELMONT BROTHERS
ARE QUARRELING ABOUT
POLITICS.
Happiness and the DulSe-A Youthful
Vanderbilt Who Has "A Desire To
Go ON the stnge and Try Acting.

w Oh thc sNuBe Hnu AcnnK.
New York. Oct 5.-Now that the first
sensation Of the announcement of Miss
Consuelo Vanderbilts engagement is
over, the usual dismal predictions as to
the young lady future are current. YET
Notwithstanding all that has been said
to the contrary, these international al
liances generally prove happy. The last
of the kind, that of the Earl of Craven
and Miss Bradley-Martin, has resulted
in undeniable matrimonial happiness.
Even the present Lady Beresford was not
unhappy as the Duchess of Marlborough,
and there is the Countess Castellane, who
is a happy wife.
The engagement, by the way, suggests
the. extraordinary number of plutocratic
weddings scheduled for this autumn
Here is a partial list:
Gertrude Vanderbilt to Moses Taylor.
Consuelo Vanderbilt to Marlborough.
Pauline Whitney to Almani Pajet.
Miss Rockefeller to Mr.. Mccormick.
G. M. Pullman, Jr., to Felicite Ogles-
by.
Moreover there are various impending
announcements of engagements fully as
interesting. including that of Miss Rock
efeller's sister. 1t is an encouraging fact
that marriages among the American plu-
tocracy usually result happily even If
there have been exceptions here and
there.
Mr. Box is getting into trouble with the
clergy for preaching the philosophy of
materialism. His volume "Successward,"
in which he assays in the role of peda-
gogue to teach the young American bus
mess man the A, B, c of his calling, is
pronounced in shocking taste. Every
thing, according to Mr.. Box, is to be
Judged from the standpoint of business.
We must go TO church and worship God
because such things have a favorable
effect upon mans business prospects.
We must marry well because that helps
business. We should be honest, for bust
ness reasons. Ethics have their founda-
ton in business consideration, according
to TINS business-like young man. The
result is that Mr. Box is being rather
coldly regarded by the prelates and priests
to whom he has forwarded complimentary
copies of his lepidum novum libellum
Political matters are decidedly compli-
Gated by the battle of the Belmonts
These three able, popular and influential
brothers can not agree upon the one who
shall wear the political laurels of the
family. Perry Belmont has heretofore
been the statesman of the house and
the democratic ranks. He is becoming
dangerous even to William c. Whitney
Now the other brothers, August and
Oliver II. p, have said that they pro-
pose to be statesmen, too. Perry, how
ever, announces that one statesman in
the family is enough. He achieved
brilliant success as temporary chairman
of the recent convention and there can
be no doubt that the democrats will
make him their gubernatorial candidate
next year. But since o. II. P. and Au-
gust have suddenly become clamorous for
political honors, there is trouble. The
ingenious intellect of Timothy Dry Dol
lar Sullivan has suggested that Perry
could continue in his leadership of the de-
mocracy, o. H. p. could lead the repub-
licans and August should lead the popu-
lists. Thus all the brothers would be pro-
vided for.
On the republican side of municipal pol
tiles Roosevelt certainly leads Should
the present excise conditions prove tri-
unphant at the polls he will certainly
have a dominant influence and his well
understood ambitions be afforded a wide
field. Thus Teddy and his teeth" to use
the current vernaculaF, are the lion of the
situation, while another young man comes
TO the front on the opposition side in the
person of Perry Belmont
Society viii greatly miss yourg Al
fred Vanderbilt, son of Cornelius who
has just been placed by hts father a. a
preparatory school to be educated for
Harvard. The young man greatly dis
tinsUished himself by his acting when the
little comedy was played at the Break