The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-01-30
CIVIL WAR COMING.
BLOOD IN NEW YORK'S STREETS
Ii the Newspapers Do Not Treat
the AristOcracy With More
Respect.
from the Chicago Times.1

WI. w illldm ASGOF Has DurlcQ HIS
wife without his distinguished aunt
being present at the ceremony or even
interrupting her social duteis for brief
period Of mourning. He has paid
New York florist $4,000 to express
bereaved husbands woe by keeping a
bank of lilies always fresh on the de-
parted ones grave. And so he sails
away to Europe to indulge in toy jour-
nalism, build up a landed estate which
shall be ducal in extent if not in fact,
and fit his sons to become members Of
the British aristocracy by purchase
or marriage.
Mr.. William K Vanderbilt, another
Of our conquerors, has also sailed for
Europe. He did not bury his wife, but
placidly put her away with an allow
ance of $3.50, 900 year and a life ten
ancy of villa at Newport and pal
ace in New York. He humbly con-
tents himself with apartments in the
etrOpO]tan-or as it is nicknamed,
the Millionaires' club,-of New York,
at rental of $4,000 While they are
being redecOrated and refurniShed to
his taste he goes abroad, perchance, to
meet again the winsome Nellie Neus-
tretter, his alleged fondness for whom
impelled Mrs Vanderbilt to prefer to
live alOnS.
Yet are not all the members of New
York's reigning families going abroad.
Mrs. j. Coleman Drayton, nee Astor
for example, is even now speeding
towards Columbia S shores, where abide
the free and the brave. Whether or
not she comes to defend her suit for
absolute divorce brought against her
on statutory grounds by her husband
will only be learned on her arrival
The Bradley Martins, the Rhneland-
er-GOelets, aad the rest of the haut
ton are all agOg for her arrival.
1t is, indeed, great season for New
York Never were there more impress
sive family quarrels; seldom have
more correspondents been on exhlbi-
ton at afternoon teas and kettle
drums: not for years has there been so
much scandal with broad gilt edges to
talk about. The only trouble is with
the wicked newspapers: which insist
upon printing the accounts of the es.
capades on Murray Hill just as if they
had occurred in Cherry street, utterly
overlooking the fact that the former
vulgarly immoral This is obviously
not right. The pleas ures of aristocra-
cy ought not to be held up to the view
of ribald populace. We sympathize
fully with Mrs. Paran Stevens who in
the chaste and refined language for
which she is famed, says Indignantly:
1.-The papers have no business to poke
their noses into this AStOr matter
Why can't great families have their
feuds without the rabble raising such
a row? Do not fancy because | speak
with warm affection of the American
Astors that | am cOndemning William
Waldorf. | am not. He has perfect
right to become an Englishman. The
press drove him out of this country
just as they are driving others. |
know two more great society leaders,
men of millions, who are going to quit
this country, which, owing to the press.
isn't fit to live in. | would leave
American to it's fate myselfif | could.
Why, there's no justice, no law here
If the press is not muZzled, and that
soon, the streets will yet run in blood
Mark my wordS!'
Earnestly. apprehensively we call
upon the press to mark Mrs. Paran
Stevens words. Indeed, the press has
always marked this lady's words
marked them sometimes with daShes
less too literal reproduction of her lam
guage should shock the vulgar who are
excluded from her refined salon. But
we insist that Mr.. Dana shall no long
er poke his nose into the Astor feud.
We demand that the rabble-made up
of Whitelaw Reid, James Gordon Ben
net, Joseph Pulitzer and their col
leagueS-Shall cease to make row
about the feuds of great families"
Shall those useful members of society,
Mrs. Paran Stevens and two men of
millions. be driven abroad by ribald
press? Never. Better that Gotham's
streets run with blood up to the bride
bits. And they will be thus ensan-
guinea for Mrs. Stevens has said it,
and called upon all mankind to mark
her words. Undoubtedly she means to
enforce her prophecy When she APP
pears in PrintingHou square with
her fathers time-Worn butcher-knife
and cleaver in her ais tocratic hands
we advise the journalists of New York
to lie down and accept their deserved
fate with meekness and resignation.
STATE OF ONO, CITY OF TOLEDO, :.