The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-09-08
THE GOSSIP OF GOTHAM.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND AND HIS
ALLEGED NERVOUS COLLAPSE.


ess-Ibe QueenIy Bride.
New York. Sept IAN entirely new
turn has been given 10 the politial situation
in New York by the discovery Of an ad-
ditional reason why Mr.. Cleveland can un-
der no circumstances he factor in the de-
| veloping national situation. This reason
Is nothing else than the state OF the Presi-
dents health. OF course. any assertions
that Mr.. Cleveland is ailing are apt to be
received very skepticauy He has time
and again been reported 70 be on the verge
Of dissolution without any reason what
ever for such asseveraton But noW a
well authenticated case Of debility can be
made out. based on the Presidents own
admissions. The trouble with the chief
magistrate is Of an inevitable nature con-
sidering his occupation. He is Frustrated
by overwork. For fully a week and more
he has not been himself. owing to his lack
Of opportunity TO take needed rest.
This may not seem a very serious mat
ter, but AGr. Cleveland has long been sur
fering from nervous strain. He wrote to
his physician in New York and TO several
men who enjoy his personal friendship out
lining his plans for rest. His repose will
have to be complete He does not get sleep
enough. AS an instance Of the peculiar
nature OF his trouble may be mentioned
the much misunderstood incident of the in
terview with Gen. Ransom. Gen. Ransom
had been invited to see the President.
Mr. Cleveland was anxious to see him
personally, 1t appears. and the general
announced that he would be only too hap
by 10 see the President. But he heard the
stories of the Presidents overWOrk and
sent word 10 Mr.. Thurber that he would
postpone his visit to Gray Gables If the
President was too much occupied TO see
him. But Mr.. Cleveland sent word back
TO Mr. Ransom that he was DESTROYS of
talk. These negotiations leaked out some
how and led to a report that the Presi-
dent had declined to see the general
whereas IL was the general, who had been
anxious to spare the President fatigue
Again, II appears that various other per-
sons DESTROYS of seeing the chief magis-
trate have been told that Mr.. Cleveland
was not in the very best condition to be
interviewed. In many ways the President
is not quite himself Official business pur-
sues him to Gray Gables and makes it
impossible for him to retire early. In the
day time he is compelled to take much
exercise to escape insomnia. He is rather
irritated also at recent criticisms of his
policy on the money question which makes
him out TO be victim of the cunningly
devised traps of the money power. His
eagerness for the single standard dollar
is declared to have caught him in the
vise-like grip of the banking element 1t
is on the contrary well understood that
Mr.. Cleveland is rather ION the outs"
with the financiers at this time. The syn
dictate in Wall street feels that it is he
who has get the trap and If anyone is
caught in the money wise his name is not
G. Cleveland. Be these matters as they
may, however, New Workers on the in
side thoroughly understand that his
health alone would be sufficient reason
for Mr.. Cievelands retirement from the
cares Of Office.
1t is understood that the Princess Co
lonna viii ultimately settle in New York,
having determined that here alone can
she best crafty her social ambitions ald
at the same time escape from her hus-
band. Her three young sons will live with
her. Indeed, 1t was her anxiety to have
these boys educated in this country which
made her submit to be mulcted of the
sum of $4,000 yearly, which sum is to
come out of the annual income of $l75,0O0
which she enjoys through the liberality of
her step-father, John W.Mackay. Mr.. Mac
kay himself insisted that the boys must
be brought up as Americans If they were
to live on his money. This determination
was well konwn to the prince who made a
very adroit use of it in effeeting the mari
tai settlement. He is now a very lacka-
daisical youth, is this prince. He has
shaved off his moustache and effects the
effeminate decadent costume now so much
in vogue among Italian swells. On this
account he has recently won the soubri-
quet of the "Sunfiower Colonna." He has
threatened to come to this country every
year to see his sons. He would undoubted-
ly make a sensation in New York with
his Italian airs.
The young Duke of Marlborough has left
more or less heart burning in the glorious
wake of his course through the ocean of
society. His letters of introduction We're
almost entirely to the opponents of the
Vanderbilt dynasty. Hence his brilliant
appearance at the functions of Mrs. Alva
Smith Vanderbilt and his almost total re-
nunciation of the Cornelius Vanderbilt
clique This episode has caused a decided
recasting of forces in the great impending
social battle of the autumn. If the Corn
elius Nanderbilts are not to have any Of
the dukes and earls who come this way
theirs will indeed be a rather forlorn sit
uation. The duke himself has been very
adroit in his management of his visit He
is a remarkably diplomatic young fellow,
and seems to have the most generous of
dispositions. Nothing comes amiss TO him
and he is most democratic in his manners.
His personal emblem has been very con-
spicuous at all the social affairs at New
port, and in New York he himself revealed
it constantly. 1t shows brilliant winged
steed being driven furiously aross blaz-
ing sun, and is supposed to depict meta
phorically the fortunes of the mighty
house of Marlborough. The family tradi-
tion would make this duke the lineal sue
cessor OF the great soldier Marlborough,
who, according to prediction, should out
shine the great founder of the duchy by
having a career far more brilliant than
even the famed fighter. The young duke
himself looks every inch a youth capable
of demonstrating the verify of that fore
cast. He is brilliant and energetic and yet
he never loses his own head. 1t is known
that he would not object to gliding his do
mains with the dollars of an American
heiress. The rivalry for his favor has set
metropolitan society agog.
Gov Morton of the Empire state is evil
IDENTIFY determined to prove the falsity of
those statements which maintain that a
man of seventy is not strong enough to
be a presidential possibility. Always fond
of athletic sports the elderly gentleman
has recently taken them up with fervor
that nothing can lessen. His latest inclin-
alton is towards, bowling, a rather IA
tiguing sport, it must be admitted, but ne
xypa III nf nd Ia