The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-13
THE GOSSIP OF GOTHAM.
An Epidemic Of Colonies Raging in
Society.
No Bribing J. ". Foster-How Grover
Cleveland Lost $50, COO in Kew York
Investments-Labor's Farewell to the
Metropolis.

New York, Jan. Newer IN our history
has there been such an epidemic Of coll
onels among the plutocracy as Is now rag
ing. New York society is responsible for
this. John Jacob Astor began &c. His
nlustrious example was generally followed
until on the day or GOV. Morton's iuau-
gurauon, six carriage loads OF colonies
escorted the executive TO the capitol. The
very latest man 90 get the title is W.
Seward Webb. Il has cost him 10 less
than 5000 already and the doctor is only
a Vermont colonel at that. Gov. Wood
berry appointed him an aide-de-camp on
his STAFF and the railroad man VIII here
after be Col. Webb. His first uniform
has just been completed and cost nearly
Sl,5o0. The braid on 10 is Of real gold and the
lace IS from Paris direct. The coloncrs
sword has a diamond in the hit Is
Damascus blade and stood the military
man a cool s2.7Oo Col Webb commands
thirey-two men mp in Vermont and he
means to give them an a dinner. He is
as great a soldier as Col John Jacob As
tor himself
This mad rush 20 become colonels on
the part Of the male ornaments of New
York society is creating trouble The
available colonecies at Gov. Morton's
disposal are all used up and there
Us great outpourmE to neighboring
states. Frederick Gerhard viii be made
a colonel by Gov Nerts OF New Jersey.
and the influence OF Senator George Pea
body WetmOre VIII De used I'm Rhode
Island TO get the military title for other
Huh
very soon be a veritable garrison.
Now, as every woman SIS supposed to
love uniform, the matter becomes Sc
rious TO those young men who do not
happen to have influence with some gov
ernOr or other. There are numbers OF
heiress unengaged IN New York and they
have eyes only for colonies. All await
their soldier boys.
Shortly before John w Foster sailed
for China, party Of Wall street men
went TO see him on the subject of the
Chinese indemnity. This indemnity is
destined TO have an important bearing
upon American politics Should the in
demnity be paid in gold our own treas
ury reserve VIII be drawn upon rather
seriously. Should il be paid in silver. the
demand for the white metal will I'M
doubleday create an enormous demand
for the product of western mines.
and boom che silver states immensely.
1t can thus be readily seen how closely
our national interests are bound UP i'm
the settlement Of the dispute. The Wall
street men visited Mr. Foster I'm body
and urged him to favor gold settlement.
Cur diplomat became very much in
censed at this. He declared that the rep
reservations of the bankers were a gross
violation of diplomatic ethics, and that
he would act as he thought best i'm the
interests of China. No sooner had in
telligence Of this incident reached bank
ing circles la the west than there was
rejoicing. China would rather pay the
indemnity in silver and since Mr. Foster
viii act as China wishes, IL Is pretty GER
tain that he, too. will be "a silver man.
In that event silver will have a revival.
MI Fosters anger is taken to mean
that he opposes the attempt to make
the negotiations of John Chnaman a
private speculation Of Father Knicker-
booker. At any rate the treaty Will
be looked forward to with interest by
American financiers.
William Waldorf Aston viii be kept
quite busy for a short time owing to
complications connected with his vast
estate in New York. but ne win return
TO London before long Many of his ten
ants are quite dissatisfied with his agents,
and a committee was appointed to wait
upon him and state the grievances. But
Mr. Astor positively refused to see any
one on such an errand. OF course he
will attend no social functions In Pail
Mall he has now some fame from the
fact that he never refuses aims to a
woman who begs but invariably refuses
a, man. The consequence is that all
women know that they can depend upon
Mr.. Astor's bounty, and Loudons femi-
nine beggars are his warm partisans.
The impression that Mr.. Aston has large
realty holdings in London is erroneous,
lie invests, when he really invests, in
New York property alone. Mr. Astor's
second son, John Jacob, now in his teens,
is to be sent to Harvard, and before
long viii come to his native land to
enter a preparatory school The other
children are to be educated abroad. The
report is in circulation that should a re-
publican administration return to power
in 1896 Mr. Astor win try to be made
American ambassador at the Court Of
St. James. II is no secret in London
that w. ". Astor covets the post.
In December last Mr.. Cleveland lost
$4,000 in cold cash out Of his private
fortune. The amount represents an I'M
fortunate investment made this past
/ summer in a block Of railroad stock by
his fiscal agents. Considerable effort was
made to suppress the details, but they
are slowly leaking out.
This Is the fourth serious loss Of Mr..
Cleveland since he re-entered the Presi-
dency. A very erroneous impression pre-
walls that Mr.. Cleveland IS a millionaire
and that Mr. Whitney invests for him.
Mr.. Cleveland IS worth to-day, perhaps. a
quarter of a million, and Mr.. Whitney has
nothing to do with his financial affairs.
The President does not superlnteud these
Investments, which is one reason, per-
haps, why so many turn out Ill. Some
Of his money, by the way, is going into
office buildings. Mr.. Cleveland believes
in these structures and he has some in
terest in a well known New York edltice
Of the kind Those who oppose sky
scrapers may be interested in this fact.
But there is decided need for more judg-
ment in the management Of the Pres
idenrs fortune and his recent loss is rep
resented TO have embarrassed him Sc
riously.
NO regret Is expressed in New York
at the forthcoming departure OF the Fed
Grafton Of Labor from the metropolis.
All the union men agree that It VIII be
good thing for the movement The city
IS torn by the contentious Of rival fac
tons in the labor movement and It is
felt that the federation has been greatly
Injured throughout the country by the
fact that its headquarters were here.
Now, however, a great revival Is looked
for and the organized wage Garner hopes
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