The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-10
THE GOSSIP OF GOTHAM.
GEORGE W. VANDERBILT GOES TO
VISIT THE GEAR.

DruytOn's Activity III society
observation-disclosures Deals - The
Costume show Postponed-Lnbor
and the Army.
New York. March 9.-The departure Of
George W. Vanderbilt upon his long pro
jected tour of Russia has been deeply
regretted in New York society The young
scholar had been giving some very mag
niieent dinners in the brown-stone Van
derbnt palace opposite St Patricks ca
thedral. and there had been hopes that he
had permanently given up his books for
less severe delights. The Russian itin-
erary of this man of millions is strictly
academic undertaking. MIR Vanderbilt
proposes to make study of Russian in
! situations and dialects. and through the
influence of Mr.. Creighton Webb his
! kinsman. who gave him letters to Minister
/ Breckenridge and Consul General Craw-
ford. he will obtain an audience with the
/ czar or more correctly with the emperor.
since the Romanoffs have discarded the
word ear" MIR. Vanderbilt will spend
several months in a traverse on horse
back from the capital to the Crimea. re-
! tAA INNS " 1ANSIoN ~ AAAt HAAtAAAt 0A MAY
Audiences with the sovereign are very
| hard TO obtain in the Muscovite realm
nowadays. particularly since the court is
| in mourning. Moreover. Mr.. Vanderbilt
viii be obliged to leave his shoes out
side the door when he enters the royal
presence. but any pedal frigldity he may
| experience will be rapidly dissipated by
the pair Of slippers which an attendant
1 puts upon his feet
/ 1t should not be inferred that people
/ who see the emperor in Russia must
necessarily take their shoes off. That
act is essential only on occasions Of such
special favor as is this one TO the rich
1 New Yorker.
Mr.. Vanderbilt will rough it on this trip
\ of his. Only his cousin, king kissam,
4 viii accompany him, ana one valet will
/ serve both A good deal Of this journey
/ will be made in the company of Tolstoi,
| who has for a year past been CORES
/ bonding with young Vanderbilt. the latter
/ having deep respect for the educational
/ theories of the former The great literary
] light of Russia regularly travels on horse
/ back through the country and the party
/ Will go over some hundreds of miles to-
/ gether. 1t will be a most interesting trip
| and the New Yorker viii undoubtedly
enrich an already superb collection. This
| collection, by the way, viii be left, it is
4 understood. to various scientific institu-
tions upon the death of the owner.
j. Coleman Drayton, who seeks to di-
vorce an Aston. is now taking up the
challenge so defiantly hurled at him from
the social arena. He is in other words,
{ going out a good deal, and numerous
/ functions in New York have been graced
by his presence-the Belmont dinners in
| particular. So far. the Astors have re-
Trained from appearing at any house in
which Drayton is welcomed. The people of
assumed position can ask this gentleman
and defy the whole 400, but persons like
| the Goulds dare not in the present em-
| bryonic state of their social existence, run
| the risk of offending the house of Aston.
| The enemies of the house of Aston, and
| there are many of them, and in high feath-
! er. socially at that. have been very
ELUSIVE to Mr.. Drayton Mr.. and Mrs.
| Frederick Gebhard are the only persons
able to steer clear of entanglements, APP
| parently for they are on friendly terms
with all the cOmbatants, and more re-
markable still are much liked by William
! Waldorf Astor. who in the removal of
bric-a-bric and other objects de yertu
from his Newport villa, sent the young
| couple a most beautiful Serves vase. To be
| sure, Mr.. Gebhard may feel the necessity
of acting diploma tically just now to every
| one. He is rapidly making a name for him
| self as a flnancier and increases his for
tune daily one of his new plans is the
construction of elevated railways on
new principle. They can be run up much
more cheaply than has heretofore been
deemed possible, and being built in tiers
one above another are adaptible for rapid
and slow transit. Russell Sage is now in
teresting himself in the idea. That Geb-
hard is rapidly acquiring an immense for
| tune is conceded on the street
Clerical circles in York Protestant
| Catholic and Jewish. were much Hurried
| the other day by the sudden inquiries
cabled from Europe inquiring about the
man who was heralded over two CONT
nents as Mgr. Capel. This clergyman has
been utterly forgotten and neglected for
some years. and the report that he is now
quite i'll, which, by the way, is discredited
and that somebody or other in authority
| al the vatican proposes to look him up
| has summoned him from oblivion in a
trice. The brilliant man has been severe
ly frowned down by the authorities of the
| Catholic church in America, in spite of
the fact that he was at first received
with open arms. He is at present living
on a ranch in California being tutor 10
lad whose mother is anxious for his spir>
itual welfare.
The first rebuff he experienced here
was when he became convvfal at the
banquet of the police captains Of New
| York. Then came stories from London
that Capel had made a deplorable hasco
as a financial manager and was not in ia
vor with churchmen there. When he was in
! Philadelphia the monsignor made scene
| in the cathedral there by threatening to
| leave the pulpit in the cathedral IL people
persisted in interrupting his sermon by
moving about and coughing. Then he
made enemies of the Catholic hierarchy by
alleged haughtiness and general self-in-
! diligence. So the brilliant fellow drffted
to the west and found his Lethe in Califor-
MIA. 1t is to be noted that his side of the
stories was never heard. Some say he Is
too proud to notice the accusations
against him. He made enemy of the
New York police, for one thing. by thor
oughly exposing their connection with
! the bunco swinders of the metropolis
/ This sudden interest in Capel mystifies
/ churchmen over here.
Although elaborate arrangements had
been made by the first families In New
! York to make the historic tableaux sue
/ cess, it is likely that the matter will fall
! through after all. Mrs. Astor and Mrs.
! Elisha Dyer, Jr., had to withdraw from