The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-30
THE GOSSIP OF GOTHAM TOWN.
MIR. BAYARD Is TO RAISE ROW IN
LONDON AND NEW WORKERS
WILL HELP.

CroIser's Plans for Autumn-LalnOat
Has Decided That Miles Shall Com
mnnd Our Army-Turning the Gar
den Hose on "A COunt-BimetaIIfsm
I'm New York.
Copyright.
New York. June 2s-Fer a number Of
months past preparations have been max
ing in New York to have an unusually elab-
crate celebration of the Fourth of July in
London. It may seem rather odd that the
American metropolis should be the scene
of preparation for a celebration in the Eng
Ish one, but it is even 50. Ambassador
Bayard is very anxious. it seems, for the
/ affair to be quite imposing. and he has
! peculiar reason for this. It will be remem-
/ bered that his remarks at a recent London
| dinner We're most unfavOrably
compared with those of his
/ brother ambassador in France.
and said to be lacking in true American
ism. Those criticisms hurt Mr.. Bayard
greatly for he is sensitive on the subject
of his patriotism. His friendly remarks
concerning the British have. as is well
known, been construed into a tendency to
snobbishness, and only the obligations of
his position restrained him from replying
to his detractors with spirit
There was one thing he could do, howev-
er, and the approach of the nations birth
day gave him his opportunity. Mr. Bayard
determined to celebrate the Fourth with
unexampled brilliancy, and TO profit by the
| occasion by making ringing speech cal
cuiated to silence once for all the voice of
SANDER He Immediately placed himself
in correspondence with all the most prom
inent Americans he could reach. and whom
he knew to have in contemplation So
journ in London during the week which in
cludes July 4. His efforts have proved uni
forInly successful. Already it is announced
that among the guests in London for the
grand independence Day dinner will be
Chauncey NJ. Depew. Seth Low. Wayne
MacVeagh, ambassador to Italy, and nu
morous others equally prominent. The
American Society, just formed in England
through Mr. Bayards efforts. is giving
hearty aid to the scheme. Fireworks will
be an after-dinner feature, and Mr.. Bayard
will make the speech of the evening.
An extraordinary degree of interest has
been aroused by the knowledge of the ef-
forts Mr. Bayard is making for this occa-
sion. 1t seems that he has even forwarded
to New York to Americans in sympathy
with him rough drafts of his speech and
even Mr.. Cleveland has seen these notes
and approved them. The address will en-
body, in fact. the administration idea of
Americanism, and may even restore Bay
ard to his old place in the list of presi-
Dental possibilities. London has got wind
of these doings and a hint of what may be
expected has got about already. 1t will be
a great day for Mr.. Bayard, evidently
Richard Croker is constantly in corre-
Spondence with the Tammany leaders here,
! he W "
vans fight this fall have much more in
them than the boss admits. For one thing,
the breach between the big men in the or
ganzation is being healed, thanks to Will
liam c. Whitney. Nay, 1t appears that
Croker will make a decided departure for
! him. and actually address the mass meet
| ings next autumn. All the Tammany men
| have been imbued with the idea
| that their chance to recover lost
prestige is in winning the cleo
| lions in November, and every effort
is to be made with that end in view This
| is why the reformers are already in the
| field There is no such thing as overcon-
! fidence in their ranks, and the differences
| of opinion between Plat and the reformers
| have been much misunderstood. Gov Nor
ton has all along been eager to bury differ
! ences, and. thanks to his diplomacy mat
| ters have been very much smoothed over
| The governor has asserted not merely his
independence of Plat. but his independ-
ence of Strong and his supporters Mr.
| Morton acts solely as he thinks best, re-
gardless of any fractional views He will
be no mans man, not even reformer's
| man.
Tammany, therefore. in no way blinds
itself TO the situation. 1t is not counting
upon divisions in the enemy's camp, but up
| on harmony in its own and there can be
no doubt that it is getting harmony.
The literary set in New York We're very
much interested in what Harrison S.
Morris said and did before he went to Eu-
rope the other day. Morris is believed to
have done more than any other man to re-
! store Philadelphia to her old literary rival
| ry with the metropolis. Efforts have been
made to get him to leave Philadelphia and
settle in New York, but he cannot be in
duced to do that.
Harrison Smith Morris is descended from
the well-known Morris family of the Quak-
er City. His visit to Paris and London as
is generally known, is to inspect this years
salons and the Royal Academy exhibition
In his capacity as managing director of
the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
He was born in Philadelphia in 1856 and re-
ceived his education in that city. He ear
ly devoted himself to the study of liter
allure and the fine arts, and was one of a
coterie of young men engaged in business
occupations who kept the literary lamp
afame in the Quaker City during a long
period of Indifference to art and letters.
Morris first book was a volume of poems
which he and the late John A. Henry pub
Hshed together. Other of the group men
toned were the late Charles Henry Luz
ders, Francis Howard Williams, and more
recently owen Wister. Some of these
young men organized the Pegasus Club
of Philadelphia, which has held monthly
meetings for several years, at which the
members read their latest contributions in
the line of poetry and receive criticism
thereon.