The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-14

lily and Mr.. Clevelands family long refused
to sit for painters. That Mr.; Cleveland
is now favoring a Detroit artist is not a
very pleasant circumstance to metropoli-
tan painters There would, from the ma
te~ial point of view. be big money in a
painting from life Of the President, but 1t
is very hard to get him TO sit and when
the present job Is finished he Is likely
to wash his hands Of portraiture for good
New York is making elaborate prepa-
rations for the celebration at the Wash
ington arch on the last day of April.
From military point OF view, the oc-
casion will be historic, and, with the pres
ence of Gov. Morton, End, In all proba-
bility, of President Cleveland, the con-
course of visitors attracted TO the me-
tropolis will be very great. There Is to
be a great bah in the evening, at which
Mrs. Morton will be the lady of honor,
and every fashionable feminine in town
is to be in attendance. The arch itself
the center of commemoration, is now a
superb object, all white and respondent
the recent disagreement of its fair sur
face by a bottle of red ink, thrown by
the reckless hand of a boy, being entirely
effaced. The splendors of this coming
occasion are expected to eclipse any sim
liar event of the kind ever witnessed
in New York. The affair however, will
be rich; not gaudy. The governor has
set his heart on having the festivity most
brilliant. The social interest IN II is ex-
IRENE. Even the clatter and wall OF the
flute, rehearsing the grand march COM
posed for the occasion, clatter and wall
that made Fifth avenue weary, are en-
dured when ii was said what occasion
was being rehearsed FOR There had been
a protest filed with the police, but the
property belongs to the governor himself.
ana the noise Is only temporary,
so endurance was resolved upon. New
Workers are certainly sacrificing them
selves to make this celebration grand.
Never has the marriage season immedi-
ateIy following Easter in New York been
so gorgeous as il is now. Archbishop
Corrigan has no less than nineteen mag
nificent weddings TO onciate at between
p ~ "a Ia Ntaka
Potter has near score. The florists are
doing a roaring business and the jewelers.
find the demand for wedding presents a
very hard one to FILL The Burdens, the
Vanderbits, the Marquands, the Gerrys,
the WetmOres in fact every one In society
has some relation or other soon to wed.
Weddings are most costly things nova
days and the tradesmen reap golden har-
vests from them. The clergy, too, find
them convenient pecuniarily, and only
the father of the bride objects, usually 1t
is invariably the function of the clergy
man to condOle with the father after a
wedding, upon losing a daughter through
matrimony. Brockholst Cutting, the
prince Of first best men, and the delight
Of fashionable dinner talks, made the Jest
that the minister is letting the old gentle
man down gently-in other words, cheer
ing him up after the expense has made
him miserable. Be this as 1t may, 1t is 40
secret that a New York clergyman in a
fashionable church looks much to his
wedding fees as to his salary to-day. Five
hundred dollars is no very high sum to
give to a fashionable pastor.
All the Vanderbhts Will be back in their
native land by the middle of May, with tho
possible exception Of George W. The
brick mansion on Madison avenue recent
ly purchased by Mrs. Alva Vanderbilt. IS
being very gorgeosuly RENTED. 1t seems
that William X. Vanderbilt, Jr., recently
in Newport attending to the putting to
rights of the marble palace there win turn
his attention to the New York purchase in
a few days. His own apartments In the
house are very fine He has a library,
billiard room and a smoking room OF his
own and a whole suite of living apartments
on the second floor His man Sambo has
been working about the place OF late, put
ting his masters books and papers TO
rights, and that means that young Willie
X will soon be here. Sanbo Is but one Of
the rich youths servants. He Is going 70
be a very brilliant figure in the social
horizon this young Vanderbilt, and seems
destined to prove man OF mark. He e
bright, genial and unusually intelligent
having his mothers good looks and refine
ment Mother and son are much devoted
to one another. il is likely that young
Vanderbilt should the promise OF his
youth be made good, viii become some
thing very different from the average spec
linen OF la jeunesse doree with which New
York Is too familiar.
"John Abrams" Is playing at the
Empire thcater 10 such large and fash
ionable audiences that the date originally
set for beginning the Sowing the
Wind" performances 50 that a new com