The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-23
THE GOSSIP OF GOTHAM TOWN.
HOW THE NEW ATTORNEY GENER-
AL Is BEHAVING TO NEW
WORKERS..


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New York. June 22.-No end Of anxiety
has been aroused in New York by the
hostile attitude assumed by the new at
torney general toward those enterprises
which at present are among the most
| fruitful sources Of revenue to Wall street
men. As is well known the legality of
the organization of not few of the cor
porations whose stock Is dealt in largely
on the street is open to serious question.
Mir Harmon has announced his intention
OF having the department investigate all
these concerns with severity.
A regular panic was occasioned by a let
! ter ne wrote shortly after assuming Of
/ flee, and which letter has not yet found
its way into print. Briefly, it deals some
what severely with the Standard Oil
Trust and by implication shows that nu-
merous similar enterprises cannot rely
upon the neutrality of the attorney gen.
! eral in any venture they may undertake
/ during his continuance in office. This
drastic action on the part of Mr.. Harmon
| is attributed in one quarter to jealous
hostility to William c. Whitney and in
another to an anxiety to embarass the
leaders Of politics in New York by show
ing that they are connected with I'M
popular undertakings.
Mr.. Harmon, 1t further appears, has
views of his own with reference to the
federal judiciary. and those views are
that that body is guilty of entirely too
| many decisions which. upon review in the
| higher courts, are totally reversed: He
! mas pointed out that thepercentage of re-
Versals of the federal judiciary is mcom-
| promisingiy high, and that he presump-
/ ton is that the bench must contain an
| undue number of inCompetents. Again,
| he has said that this bench is losing ia
/ Vor, somewhat as the national Senate has
/ lost II, by tendency to mold aloof from
| the people. The fact that the poor man
| has so little chance TO become a pleader
| with any success before federal Judge
/ has been made the subject of a homily
from him which has attracted considera-
bic attention. In spite of his capitalistic
antecedents there istevery prospect that
| MT. Harmon Will become something of
| a man OF the people, for he has made him
| self very popular already in New York
! by insisting upon the correction of seve-
| RAJ ume-honoreq abuses IN the federal
! judicial system which weighed quite heav-
lily upon the poorer litigants of the dis
tlict. Indeed, it has long been the re-
proach or the national judiciary system in
! New York that it treated the poor man
much as if he were al beggar personally
soliciting AIMS from the judge of the
| court. The result is something like n
conspiracy to discredit Mr.. Harmon be-
fore the people, but ha has already shown
| himself too competent a man for that to
affect his standing.
Mrs. Emily T, V. Sloane, mother of the
young lady whose wedding brought the
plutocrats OF the country together the 9TH
| er day. is very charitably inclined She
determined some time last week to send
package OF clothes to the poor fund of
| DR.. John Halls Fifth Avenue PRESBYTERIAN
parish. Accordingly, she had the garments
done up in nice bundle and was arrang-
ing the finalities of the transaction with
one of her servants, when der brother.
Cornelius Vanderbilt, arrived at the house
and sent word that he must see her, at
once. =.
Can you wait a moment?" she asked.
Il am anxious to send this bundle down
to DIR. Halls church."
"Oh," replied Cornelius Vanderbilt, az
am gong right BY the church on my way
down. Give me your bundle and l win let
the sexton have It,"
Mrs Sloane was very grateful for this
kind Offer and ii Is in every way charac-
teristc of the man of millions, who is
never so happy as when an opportunity to
be useful PRESENTS itself So down Fifth
avenue walked brothsr. Cornelius. bundle
in arm, and when he reached the church
he found the sexton there. The latter re-
eeived the object thankfully, with many
words of appreciation of the kindness OF
the great lady who had remembered the
needs of the church.
Not many days after this Mrs Sloane
herself, on coming out of church. amid a
fashionable concourse, happened to espy
the sexton.
John" said She. @"did you get that
bundle ! sent YOU the other day?"
Yes m, was the cheerful reply, your
coachman brought it Tuesday, num-.
Sir Julian Paunceforte, the British am
bassador. had something of an experience
prior to his departure several days ago for
Europe. He likes to explore odd regions,
and one day, having nothing to do, and
the steamer not sailing for twenty-fouT
hours, he took trip e, the picturesque re-
gion north of the Bronx, in New York. He
was riding on a trolley at furious speed
when a woman carrying a basket signaled
to the conductor to stop. Now the car con-
ductors of New York, as every one knows,
are the most fnsolent creatures alive, with
the single exception of trolley company
directors, and this conductor not only re-
fused to stop, but proceeded to give the
woman a talking to as well, saying that
she ought to know better than to order a
car stopped at announcement moments.
"Stopv' exclaimed Sir Julian, interrupts
ing the TRADE. stop if she wants you
to-
p Again the conductor refused. The am
! bassador Immediately went to the motor
man and ordered him to stop. By this time
every ones attention was attracted, and
after some dispute the car was brought to
a standstill.
The woman, thanked Sir Julian, and
when she had alighted the conductor de-
liberately threw her basket off the car into
the road, splitting the contents.
Quick as a flash the ambassador leaped
up, grasped the conductor by the collar
and hurled him clean over the road. In
getting up the bewildered fellow fell head
first into fountain and was soused from
head to foot and all the passengers in
the car roared with laughter. The trip
was continued uneventfully after that,
and the drenched object did not say an
other word either to Sir Julian or to the
motorman.
Sir Julan's trip to England is said by
some of the observant to be connected
with the pending extradition treaty with