The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-20
THE GOSSIP OF GOTHAM.
Why Hetty Green Proposes TO Invade
Wall Street.
society's Cotillion WARNS. Clsve-
lands Contest With New York soci-
ETY. ana the Gould's Trip to Norway.

I Wall street live in considerable dread just
/ at present Of some Of the projects Of that
I eccentric investor. Mrs. Hetty Green. This
woman has for six months past been buy
/ ing in large blocks the pure hasable stock
| of the western roads. So carefully and
/ quietly has she gone about this, however.
/ that no intimation OF what she was about
reached the exchanges until it was TOO
late to prevent her from attaining a de-
| cided voting influence in the spring meet
ings. An effort was made to secure her
/ holdings by one syndicate at a consider
able advance, but although Mrs. Green
could have cleared $4,000 in one transaction
by selling, she would not do So She has
long been very hostile to C. r. Hunting
ton and the Gould Union Pacific interests
Now Mrs. Green announces that she will
DO her best TO bring down freight rates.
Her object in this IS to boom a large sec
ton in the west in which she is interested.
and which she alleges is being retarded by
the enormous tribute levied upon il By
the railroads in the shape Of traffic We're
Mrs. Green enabled to precipitate a freight
war the results would be serious to vari-
Gus stockholding combinations. Mrs
| Green has already been approached by
! numerous tinanciers in the interests of
compromise, but she refuses to do any
thing TO reconcile any conflicting interests.
When she said recently that the railroads
were running the country the assertion was
taken as an open declaration of war. 1t
/ is now deemed a certainty that Hetty
/ Green will take a good snare Of her mil
lions TO Wall street and the prospect is
very discouraging to more than one fire.
quenter Of that notorious thorouyhfare.
II promises TO be case Of jay Gould in
pettcoats.
Mrs. Hetty Green's personal pecuIiari-
ties are consequently being dwet upon by
some of the Wall street men who mean
10 put her in an insane asylum, rather than
let her get control of the hnanciering of
these western roads. To this auti-Creen
feeling is due the story that this woman
Is mentally unbalanced and tells fortunes
by cards and tea cups. Mrs. Green has
these oddities. but her mental makeup
is perfect Any woman who can make
hundreds Of thousands year ought to
| have no difficulty in establishing her SAN
ity.
Some envious mortals are repeating at
the clubs that George Gould obtained the
countenance OF various socially prominent
families by extricating the scions thereof
from financial embarassments of one kind
and another. There never was any foun-
dation for those assertions. An effort is
likewise being made to spoil the party
which Mrs. Gould win take With her To
Norway and Sweden this coming summer
That effort is likewise doomed to failure
The Goulds will cruise about the northern
coast of Europe for eight weeks. 1t is
possible that Mrs. Paran Stevens may 20
with them Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt end
Mrs. Gould are now quite warm friends
The latter will be the guest Of the foamer
when the new palace at Newport is COM
pleted.
Some misapprehenslon has been created
by the statements recently made mat
coolness exists between Mrs. W. X. Van
derbtlt and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt
The two ladies are on very intimate terms
of friendship ana in order to refute the
rumors TO the contrary Mrs. Cornelius
Vanderbilt made it a point TO he present
with her husband and ner daughter
Miss Gertrude, at the recent dance in Mrs
Ogden Mills house. Mrs Willie X. Ven
derbilt was there likewise with her dau;rn-
ter, Consuelo, and all present had occasi ion
to note the curdiality of all tho members
of the family toward each other So
ciety understood the incident as a formal
notification that willie" Eimaclf j., the
villain Of the play. Snobs Who have IN
dertaken 10 criticise Mrs. Willie and to
give her the cold shoulder have accepted
this warning. Father knickerbocker's list
to quote the term applied by society to
the catalogue Of patrician names contains
Mrs. Winie's name. Father kniek rbock-
er's list also virtually includes the name
OF Gould.
Anthony Comstock has gathered some
very startling information about New
Yorks opium dens. He has long been
endeavoring to eXterminate these resorts,
but his efforts have been baffied to a CON
siderable extent one place in New York
is patronized almost exclusively by the
wives of the plutocracy. The most revolt
! ing scenes are enacted and the foulest
of human vices are INDUCED in with brazen
| freedom. The worship of joss is cult.
Mr.. Comstock has heretofore kent his
/ knowledge to himself until he could at
tack the evil with some show of success.
| The opium den keepers have, however,
! combined to fight him and the effort to
! discredit him before the Lexow committee
is partly due to their efforts They have
terrified their wealthy patrons into con-
trbuting large sums for defense
through dread of exposure. 1t is even
said that the opium fends Matched plot
to kidnap Comstock. One idea is to have
a legislative Investigation Of New York's
opium dens with a view to the enactment
of measures for their suppression Some
very sensational facts would then be made
public and many families of social posi-
ton would be utterly compromised 1t is
sometimes alleged that a third of New
York's club men are opium feuds Many
physicians reap golden harvest in en-
deavoring to cure the habit Some of the
dens operate ingeniously as establish
ments for the cure of the disease. An
effort is being made to enlist Frances
Willard and the temperance societies
in crusade against opium, and the move
ment promises to attain considerable pro-
portions in very short time
The Dyerites ana the Ritchies. This is
the latest division among the plutocrAcy
of Gotham, and the breach is so wide
that society in Philadelphia, Chicago and
Boston must sooner or later be dragged
into it. The war has arisen over the
dispute among the partisans of the re-
spective leaders of cotillions in New
York. one cohort maintains that Mr.
Elisha Dyer, Jr., is more graceful. less
self-conscious and in every way better
than any leader of coullions in the coun-
try. But an influential section of New
York society contends that the honor
belongs to Mr.. J. Wadsworth Richie
dnhapptly, the leading families have
divided on the question Mr. and Mrs
John Jacob Aston are Dyerites The Van
derbilts are Rttchies. Now, both the gem
tlemen who have occasioned these melan-