The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-04
THE GOSSIP OF GOTHAM.
NOTORIOUS DEBAUCHERIEs OF
NEW WORKERS IN EUROPE.

New \ Orkt Aug. 3--Lhe United states
senator and the New York millionaire.
who came home from Europe last week in
each others company. after having been
caught in a London raid upon one OF the
uuspeakable resorts OF that metropolis,
are anording those men who indulge wan
ton tendencies a very valuable and much
needed lesson. II is pretty well under
stood that resorts exist in both London
and Paris. frequented almost exclusively
by Americans Of means. In fact, II has
become notorious that our countrymen Of
means on the other side take advantage
Of their isolation and freedom from obser-
walton 70 plunge into the widest and most
reckless dissipation. New York has one
citizen Of great wealth and high position
who goes abroad every year for the sole
apparent purpose Of reveIling in Bacchan-
allan orgies
So thoroughly is this tendency of our
countrymen appreciated in European capt.
tails that the proprletors of Questionable
resorts bid against each other for the
patronage Of liberal Americans. In both
London and Paris there are professional
guides whose business il is to escort WISH
tors 10 and from these haunts of infqulty
These guides are very literally fed by the
proprietors of dens. The stray American
Is taken from one to another and revels
In the vileness Of all under the impression
that he Is seeing foreign life. The innO-
cent fellow never supposed that but for
fools ike him these places would not ex-
list. The average LOndoner or Partisan has
never so much as heard Of them. once
"A fracr gv, In
famous resorts become so frightful that
the police are forced to interfere. 1t in
Variabiy happens that an American Of al
most national prominence is caught in the
police drag net A few months ago it re-
quired the utmost exertion of our ambas-
sador at European capital to prevent
the exposure Of man thus Caught whose
name has been prominently mentioned
In connection with the governorship of
one or our largest states. Vienna is par
ueularly rich in episodes of this descrip-
ton. These prominent debauches are a
source Of infinite annoyance TO our diplo-
mats. one senator, honored and respect
ed at home, was put in a pen over night
with pickpOcket and contract
ed loathsOme skin disease,
which prolonged his stay in Eu-
rope considerably. 1t is said that at the
seaside resort which he frequented to ef-
feet a cure this great man had a spy glass
with him continually, and when he saw a
countryman approaching In the distance
he got up and fled. lie is now rising star
in politics, but has not been to Europe
lately.
The recent London raid, therefore, IS
very gratifying TO our diplomatic service.
Meanwhile, American travellers viii find
IL profitable TO keep away from the prim-
rose path Of dalliance.
When Secretary Carlisle comes to New
..wN H.. N..aa. y.
days, his visits are connected in the pun
lie mind. with the national finances. Bur
that is not always the case The states
man is deeply perturbed with the havoc
wrought by Cupid within the limits of his
domestic circle. The members Of his fam
lily In whom he takes most pride is un-
derstood to have formed an attachment
which is looked upon with anything bur
favor by the paternal eye. 1t appears
that when cooling himself in the moon
light at the window of a summer resort
hotel. the secretary once had his medi-
tations respecting bonds rudely interrupt
ed by the sight of his hope and pride
enraptured on the beach below by .he
presence Of an adored object. The adorcd
is a New York parsonage of prominence
in spite of a very short mundane cXis-
tence.
Mr.. Carlisle next morning investigated
the matter very quietly and made some
surprising discoveries concerning III
strength of a hearts devotion. The wor-
ried and perturbed look seen on his couu-
tenance of late must not, therefore he
traced to our monetary system, now re-
stored to a normal condition, but to the
anXietes incident TO a gradual realiza.
ton of the futility of interfering with he
tender passion. The situation has become
tense and the few who understand It await
developments with interest.
]. b. Walker, whose cosmopolitan build
ing is rapidly becoming one of the most
picturesque sights on the Hudson has re-
Gently made an arrangement with Mr..
Rqdyard Kipling to write twelve articles
for his magazine from India 1t is I'M
derstood that Mr.. Kiplng will leave for
India in company with his wife early in
September. This remarkable young Brit
ish author has been for some years maxi
ing a careful study of the physical phe-
nomena and the strange people in the
arctic circle 1t Is said that some won
derfui sketches of the EsquimauX and the
sensational conditions under which they
live. will shortly appear over his sigma
ture Kipling is no longer in the position
of the man who writes for mere money.
Indeed, he takes pride in the fact that
Notwithstanding his enormous literary
revenues, the sums he receives for the
productions of his genius by no means
equal in magnitude the scale upon which
he lives. The present trip will be one of
the costliest literary expeditions ever un-
dertaken. 1t involves much personal risk
for the fur clad Kipling will cling 70 the
high and giddy mast as he takes note
of conditions in the uttermost north.
Already the case of the young con-
vcted murderess, Maria Barberi, of New
! York, has been the occasion of a serious
division among the prominent society
women who have taken it up. The whole
of the metropolitan fela1ninity is by this
time on the stump in the unhappy girls
! behalf The Italian countess who sue
ceeded in inducing numerous leaders Of
New York fashion, including some of
the Vanderbilt women, to take up the
fight was adroit enough to get the ear
of the governors wife. The division is
caused by a difference of opinion as to
whether a fun and free pardon should
be asked. or whether Imprisonment be
deemed the alternative to electrocution.
Some of the Sorosis women favor the
latter. At any rate, it is a com fort TO the
fair pleaders to have to deal with gov
ernor who is, so to speak, of their own
class-a gentleman. In Flowers time.
and in Hills, the ultra fashionable held
themselves aloof from the executive man
sion at Albany, not caring to be indebted