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DUKE AND PHOTOGRAPHER.
A Newport Story About the Much
Talked-of Marlborough.

A Newport Story About the Much
Talked-of Marlborough.
An amusing story involving the Duke of
Marlborough and his fiancee is now going
the rounds, says Newport correspondent
of the New York Advertiser. A few weeks
before Mrs. Vanderbilt, her daughter and
the Duke left Newport a photographer put
his camera in good position in front OF
Oliver H. P. Belmont's Newport residence.
While the photographer had his head hid
den beneath the black cloth, focusing the
house, he felt some one touch his shoulder
II say, can't you take us in a group?"
said voice.
The photographer saw before him slight,
well-built and boyish-looking man and a
tall young woman with black hair and eyes
and a portly, well.fed man with a ford
face. Addressing the young man, the
photograp her answered that he never took
personal photographs except in his studio.
The young man looked disappointed. The
Young woman said, "Oh, wouldn't it have
been fun?" and the trio passed on. A wit.
ness of the incident said later to the
photographer:
you're slow. Why didn't you take a
picture of those people this afternoon
Didn't you know who they were? The
young fellow was the Duke of Marlborough,
the young woman was Miss Consuelo
Vanderbilt and the older man was Oliver
H P Belmont"
Lord! But wasn't I slow?" answered
the chagrined photographer. III could have
made good thing out of that picture"
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abled steamer were safely put aboard the
Senator and conveyed to Benicia."
subsequently the Antelope, having been
greatly lightened, foated with the hole
above the water, and soon thereafter was
snug y lying at her berth in this City.
An eyewitness of the collision stated
that as soon as Captain Bushnell had
given the necessary orders for careening
the disabled steamer he jumped into the
bay, and climbing to the breach aided with
and suffering, in proven ting the water
from rushing into the hold. In this posi-
ton, with materials hastily obtained, he
partially succeeded in closing the leak.
His conduct throughout was that of the
cool commander and intrepid sailor.
Captain Bushnell has sacredly preserved
q certificate appointing him September II,
1852, the first United States Steamboat In.
spector on the Pacific Coast. The docu.
ment is signed by the Hon. Ogden Hoff.
man, United States District Judge.
Among the passengers on the Antelope
was the famous actress and adventures,
Lola Montez.
In the prescribed limits allotted to the
writer it is impossible TO narrate in ex-
tense all of the interesting incidents in the
maritime career of this Pacific pioneer
pilot. He has a record of disinterested
heroism, of total obliviousness of self in
the hour of peril, and of generous mag
culpable or careless conduct jeopardized
his own reputation as a skillful and dis
Greet officer. He is Justly proud OF a GER
tifcate appointing him the first United
States steamboat inspector ON the Pacific
Coast.
Of the larger steamers which have piled
on our bays and rivers. Captain Bushnell
has commanded and piloted the following
named: Senator, Antelope, Confidence,
Wilson G. Hunt, Alameda, Ell Captain,
Oakland and New World.
During the last decade he has conveyed
on the ferry steamer Piedmont many
thousands of local passengers between
San Francisco and Oakland, besides hosts
of tourists and travellers from every nation
in Christendom.
notwithstanding the innumerable priva-
tions and hardships to which he has been
and still is exposed, his mental and physi-
cal powers remain unimpaired. AS he has
guided so many of his fellow-travelers in
safety to their destined earthly haven,
may he at the close of his life's voyage find
anchor in the haven of eternal rest.
HENRY B. LIVINGSTON.
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Mining Company was organized, Captain
Bushnell became prominently identified
with the expedition. He and the late DR..
J. c. Tucker OF Oakland constituted the
committee on contracts. He transported
the Nicaragua troops from Granada to
Virgin Bay.
Among the many perilous positions in
which the pioneer pilot was placed while
navigating the inland waters of this State
may be mentioned the following, chron-
icled in local journal of October II, 1858:
COLLISION BETWEEN THE ANTELOPE AND
CONFIDENCE.
"On Monday evening last these two
steamers came in collision on Suisun
Bay. The latter was on her upward trip,
and the former bound down. The Ante
lope lying next to the Solano shore headed
in as near land as possible, but the Con-
fdence, either not obeying her helm, or
by some mismanagement of the steamer,
swung her head around and dashed into
the Antelope, penetrating several feet,
knocking in the superstructure, plunging
through the heavy beams, and cutting
hole in the hull extending below the water
line.
although the collision was frightful
one, Captain Bushnell directed the
passengers to go to the opposite side of the
boat in order that she might be careened,
and then she was run ashore. The Con-
fidence proceeded on her course up the
river without stopping to make any in
quiries. The Senator, being behind on
her upward trip, soon hove in sight. Un-
der the careful superintendent of Captain
Bushnell the 300 passen gers of the dis.
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How Women Look Into the
Great Political Kaleido-
scope.
TWO BOSSES IN PRIVATE LIFE.
Wealth Is the Substratum
New York So.
ciety.

NEW YORK, n. Y, Nov. 5.-The kalei-
doscope of politics continues at every eye
in this week, and according as it is handled
exposes colors most agreeable to the
wishes of the gazers Even women hold it,
and turn it, seeing in the optical instru-
ment coloring of their future power OF
voting. There are here several femi-
nine clubs nightly in session, planning
for votes by the proxy of male electors.
Like the Primrose Danes of England the
club members become proselyters among
the male relatives and lovers, and so in
fluence politics. 1t is difficult to obtain
insight into these clubs, for their members
close doors behind them as rigidly to male
entrance as are those of Turkish ha-
rem-pronounced, says travelled voice
now at my ear, "Ahreem," and mean
ing simply home. During registration
days these club members really made
up lists of male acquaintance, whom
they were to call upon and to make
sure that these had registered. At port
able zinc registration booth on the kerb
side of fashionable street not far from
the corner of the Fifth-avenue Bank for
ladies, 1 noticed drawn up brougham
and pair from which alighted voter,
while fair friend on the cushioned seat
watched him enter to inscribe his name.
Nor do the duties of the bright-eyed po-
litical missionaries end at obtaining
promise of registration; for they angle
for declaration of political principles.
For instance, a very active feminine can
vass has been proceeding in behalf OF
great social favorite, who is judicial
candidate-the fascinating son of William
". Evarts-named Sherman Evarts.
AS was half century ago his distin-
suished father, whom the Union best re-
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members as grand Attorney General and
Secretary of State and the legal savior of
Andy Johnson from Impeachment, young
Evarts Is lady's man, and gifted with
Evartslan wit and repartee, the which fem
mines adore, | think, nowadays more than
manly beauty.
Election day. Halloween and Ali Saints
day having passed, that mythical term
known as New York society will now begin
It's winter campaign. Why mythical2 Be-
cause unlike what is known in Boston,
Phlladelphia, Washington, Baltimore, Gin
clnnati, Louisville and Chicago as society is
IN this city, differing herein from social
life in those named cities, so punctured
with 1ealousies and SO divided into discord-
ant cllques that it has no homogeneitv;
and, as the Parlsians say, no prestige en-
Increment. lime and again clever men
like McAllister and clever women like
Mrs. Paran Stevens have undertaken to
form an exclusive set, patterned after that
OF the Wales or Lady Jeune sets of LON
don, yet have failed. To follow social
news IN the daily papers here is to derive
curious ideas, for each one has a society
reporter OF Its own, who takes merely in
dlvidual views, and nearly always writes
from hearsay. Unfortunately the sub
stratum OF New York society is wealth,
and Tom Hoods Miss Kilmansegg with her
golden leg, or William Allen Buffers Flora
MacFlimsey, could be cited as the true
heroine of New York society. Elsewhere
in the Union it is different. The SUBJ
stratum of society in Boston is mental
mplishment; and in Philadelphia.
Baltimore and Louisville it is family
Ostentation hangs like a Frankenstein
over New York society and deyours its
niceties. The Gould wedding exemplified
this. and the Marlborough Vanderbilt nup-
tials more than emphasize it.
The same ostentation prevailed in the
social gathering at an exhibition for
fashionable charity of a gallery of por-
traiture in the rooms of the Acad emy
of Design. There different families
have forwarded pet ancestral or
more modern. portraits, and meet to
handy jealousies and to out-ostentatious
aspect will have occurred next week.
when another horse-show comes. Or at
the opera. What goes under the name
of New York society becomes more hol-
low and fuller of insincerity and more en-
comprised with shams winter by winter
But had the pleasure last week of at
tending wedding at village church sit
uated within an hours journey from the
city, beside the most charming portion of
that American Rhine-the Hudson River.
The bride was daughter of retired mer-
chant and herself writer for mag
azines. The groom q young lawyer
"the world all before him, where to
choose" etc. There were abundant
means for providing special trains, or
or mass-meeting of bridesmaids
in a chancel, for gorgeous gowns to be
exploited in half a dozen newspapers by
reporters, and, indeed,
for full supply Of ostentation. Every
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thing connected with the wedding was
the very reverse of ostentation. There
had not been an inundation of the
mails with invitations to every body
whom the families knew by name or resi-
dence, or who could be traced through
the gilt edges of that preposterous volume
called the Elite Directory. Warm friends
only had been selected for invitation, and
as they arrlved-perhaps not hundred in
all-they were met by coaches and con-
veyed to the church. This was
Gothic temple of granite covered with
scarlet and brown, giving a gorgeous
show of reception. If it was autumn
without, there was spring and early sum-
mer inside, with roses and violets pretJily
dispersed about the altar and chancel. A
procession of Sunday-school girls who had
been scholars of the bride preceded her
and the sire up the aisle. No hundred
fantasies, bot instead an amateur friend
of the bride, who knew how to improvise
variations of the wedding march and on
the cathedral music from Faust There
was a poetic solemnity about the rite so
different from the f1ippancy to be wit
messed at big society nuptlal function.
The bride wore the traditional lace and
white silk, and had the sweet taste to discard
jewels-for are not the charmed ring and
Iove-lit eyes the best jewels at wedding?
Every church guest had been also invited
to the family villa, not far distant.
Therefore there was none of that division
OF wedding guests into sheep and goats,
as it were, which characterizes the fash
ionabie wedding in New York City,
whereat one set of guests are substantially
told you may come to the church as goats,
but not as sheep to the wedding feast, and
to the adieu at the house. There was in evil
dence an abundance of bridal presents, but
modestly and unpretentiously arranged.
No affection showed its serpent head.
General Joy of the whole table prevailed
and the best man selected to give the
bridal toast was not hurried by any os-
tentatious grandeur around him SO as to
commit the comic and startling blunder of
a recent groomsman newly tedged
lawyer fresh from reading Bishop on mar
rage and dlvorce-who at a city wedding,
instead OF giving the health OF the bride,
was overcome with stage-fright and STAN
mered out ''the health of the correspond
ent." No temptations to indigestion or
tipslness were offered at my countryside
wedding, as l have seen at ostentatious
weddings in the city. The whole affair
was more suggestive of marriage in Cana
OF Galllee than of the diamond wedding
once lmmortalized in verse by banker-poet
Stedman. Yet the brides father was able
TO have outshone any one in financial osten-
tatlon had he so chosen. Several of those
guests Will be at the st. Thomas
mob, amid which a Duke and Duchess
will be made one flesh, as well as at the
festivities in the new Madison-avenue pal
ace, where Joy will be reckoned by the ten
thousand OF dollars, and where Sherry,
the great caterer, just returned from Eu-
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Edgar Allan Poe's Cottage.
New York Vanity


Those OF us who. at the invitation Of the
Shakespeare Society of New York, have
lately visited the poor cottage at Fordham
where from 1874 to 1S49 Edgar Allan Poe
lived and starved, where he saw the wife
of his youth perish from cold because his
now immortal work could not sell for the
pittance needed to cover her slight form
from the bitterness of winter, cannot fail
to be In sympathy with the efforts of the
society to do most tardy but most
merited justice to the poet who, while SUBJ
dued by that "most unmerciful disaster
which followed fast and followed faster"
still wrote lines which the world will not
willingly let die. The Shakespeare So
ciety asks the public for $4,000 to move the
poor cottage TO site where 1T can be per-
petuated and maintained as shrine. Be-
fore 1t the society proposes statue OF the
poet, the grounds to be entered by gate,
over which 1.-The ominous bird of yore,"
the raven, which idealiZes at once his de-
spair and his genius, shall brood in lasting
bronze.
1t seems hardly possible but that our
generous and appreciative fellow-citizens
who have literally contributedt to deserved
memorials of Tennyson, Keats, Shelley
and Goethe, and to all the immortals of
other lands, will fail to hold up the hands
of the Shakespeare Society. But If the
public are to help US in preserving the Poe
cottage their subscriptions should reach
the society at once, as the city has already
begun the widening of Kingsbridge road,
the course of which will demolish it un-
less promptly moved and placed on new
foundations. Contributions handed to
Harrison Grey Fiske, the Lotos Club;
Nelson Wheatcroft, at the Empire Thea
ter; j. Henry Magonigle, at the Players,
or to A. R. Frey, the recording secretary,
will reach the trustees of the Poe Cottage
Fund of the New York Shakespeare So
ciety and be promptly and gratefully ac-
knowledged through the public press.
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rope, bringing Regent st. Bride cake,
Egyptian quail and Boulevard bonbons
from Paris, will show fashionable palates
how wealth can astonish with bonnes
pouches.
Re-referring to the portrait exhibition, I
may remark that photography has dealt a
deadly blow at the olden art of portrait
painting. At the photo galleries of Sar-
ony, Dana and Parkinson can be seen full
or half-length photos which. when coIored,
present better likenesses than the most
accomplished artists of palette or
too, of cost between fifty and five hundred
dollars in favor of perfect portraiture.
And chemical science has resulted in Sc
curing a Photographic picture which lapse
of time will not fade. It is not generally
known that the very first picture of the
human face ever had through the camera
was taken here in New York in 1888, on
the roof of the now demolished New York
University. Its professor of chemistry
was Dr. John G.. Draper, he who wrote
the best history of our Civil War-and he
was an English emigre-and the invention
of Daguerre had just been made known
in this country. Daguerre had only taken
not attempted the human figure or face,
because under his coating of plate the
camera had to be fixed too long time for
impressions, and this at best was shadowy;
but Draper applied new chemicals that
would fix the features with distinctness.
He has, in note to his edition of "Kanes
Chemistry given an interesting account
of his first daguerrotype OF a human face.
And that taking is now In possession
OF his grandson, physician of
this city. Then the metal plate in
time gave way to the glass, the
ambrotype, and the, as now, chemically
treated paper. l was sorry to see the
old university building torn down, because
it was additionally historic, in that
another professor-Mo rse-frst expert
mented for his telegraph on the same
roof with stretched wires and a magnetic
battery. In the building also Samuel
Colt had chambers fronting Washington
square, and in them he invented his re-
volver. A faddist in photography of this
city recently made census of it's operators
in the art, and as result found that over
100000 photographs were here annually
taken, irrespective of those covered by the
kodak fad which now seems epidemic over
the world.
Amid all the changes and mutations in
the hotel life of this city. the old 42-year-
old Fifth-avenue Hotel holds its supre-
macy. / can count, twenty-five hotels
that have arisen since it was opened,
but it still challenges them all. It is
the Republican hotel par excellence, as
the Hoffman House is the Democratic
hostelry. During the weeks past the
Fifth-avenue Hotel has been crowded
with Republican pilgrims and local Re-
publican bosses. Looking into the dining
room the other evening, as searching for
friend, I saw two of its oldest political
guests at different tables dining with their
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A Conditional Reward.

Woman-My husband has disappeared
and may be dead. want to offer reward
for his body.
Chief of Police-Yes, madam. A de-
scription will be needed, and this, with
the reward, will no doubt prove effective.
He may be alive, you know, in which case
we may soon be able to return him to you.
Woman shan't pay cent of reward
unless he is returned dead; Just remember
that-New York Weekly.
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Gin NutteraOrprat.

Gin ,Gebtsselebrter" in elmer Staot
Obios = feline 100 Meilen bon Stem
philaoelp6ia Der ben Manael on
juriltiiden GenntniHen bllrA prable=
reien gu perbefen in6t uno li6 i'm @es
brau6e Der Wahrbeit elmer meiien Spar=
iamfeit befleibigt, faste er lei in Der nd6z
iten Sibung oes Greisgeri6ts an Ii Der
porliessnben 25 proseiie betbeilist.
9ieie gebauptuna erregte berebtigte
3peifel, ndbere grtunbisunSen ersa=
ben ieood, oab Der uSiinser Der Sbe-
mis-" tpirtlid In s prOseiien i'm 3reiss
eeridte betbeiligt mar, eine 3abl, Die
tpobl bon teinenl anbern Nobofaten in
Der betreHenben Stabt erreidt tpirb.
gs ibeint oies I'M eriten Momente iebr
3u @uniten oes Mannes 81 ipreden, Der
in folder Weiie nit Nrbeit iiberbdnft
iit, bod senauere grfunbisunsen laf-
len bic Sadie in einem anoern lihte err
i9einen Infer juriitiides 2i6t trat
ndmli9 in allen s prosenen als &ldser
auf, tueil er oialelben in ber Common
pleas Court perloren Yon a6t
prosefien a9t berloren, bas 1T aller=
bings elm 9ro8entiab, Der niht gebo=
ten tperoen faan.
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Hroit ,.mo innner spieoe er yro i. +.

gDas Der 3eif ppnt Is. Wsai nod
unbei1doist gelaIIen, bas bat Elm nod
ltdrferer 8roit am IL. pollenbs aerit0rt.
Ser ettpas fdmdbere pom Is. fonnte
ni6t piel meitern S9aoen anri6ten.
Damit bat man Die Sroitperiobe als be-
enoigt seglaubt, bat Nabpflan5unsen
porsenommen unb fid sefreut, bab bic
erTrprnen Gartoffelpflan5en auf's nere
gu treiben beaannen. Stun bot Der geif=
riae Mprgen abern,als einen beftigen
ssrolt nit sis eebra6t uno jebt biirfte
10 sielnli9 nit allem aufgerdumt fein,
mas Die Gdlte bes @efrierpunftes ni6t
ertraaen tann. g8ill Die 9latur INNER
tpieber Nabts serit0ren, mas fie an fon=
nieen Sagen gef6affen bat 2
gSas Die Sahe Inn 10 iibler ma1t,
1T Die peite gusoebnune bieier Sr6lte
auf ale unirer Staaten biz meit in ben
Siiben binab. 9ln man1en Srten 1T
auberoem mod S6nee sefalen, bel
Srinioao, Gnl., 3. 9. 5tu6lf 3olI tief.
4ber mir linb es ni6t einsis, ipel9e
unter fold sreuli6en Witterunssper=
bdltnilen leioen. Oie falte 2ufttpeue
bat am Sreitag aud europa erreibt
unb bereits lieaen traurige 5roitberi9te
aus alien Sbeilan llniers friibern 6ei=
matblanbes pDr. Sn Sra1lfreib Itebt
es in ben Weingegenoen bebenfli6 aus.
Sn gnslanb, S6ottlanb, Solano, gel=
glen &c. berri6en bittere Gdlte unb
G6neeltiirme 8iener 9epeifen Ipre=
den bon f0rmlihem Winteripetter, be-
ionoers in ben Mlpengesenben, uno elm
slei6es gilt pon sans Seutldlano uno
Der S6weis. Seftigen Sdneefaa bat=
ten iie am 6reitag uno Samftag i'm
@liaB unb i'm Sdmarsmalo bat bieier
1ogar Serfebrsf0rungen perarlaBt.
98as bel allem Dem fir S6aoen ent=
itanben, peroen mir III ben nd6fen
Sngen su bDren befommen.
llno beute Morgen bel uns abermals
TrpIt
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OcHprbett>

slm 10. Mai in Drrpille, g., Strip
Dpsle, i'm Mlter bon 61 Sabren Inb 3
Monaten, na6 ldngerer Grdnflidfeit.
9psle ftanlmt aus WDnigen, aanton
Bern G6meis, utlb binterldbt feline
stpeite 6rau uno feds Ginber aus eriter
gbe.
glm 18. Mai in Stem pbilabelpbia,
Mefieite, Grau Garab Slider, i'm Ml=
ter bon 60 Sabretl.
Sas gllter bes In unirer porlebten
Summer als Derifprben gemeloeten Gb.
Mosbarbt mar SO Sabre, 6 Monate
unb % Gage, mas mir anf sedllberten
Munl1 biemit beri1tigen.
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SITS tvirflid, 10 abel
1os Sfrpnicle" {chreibt 4.

9as yGbronicle" i9reibt:
,llbrihsbille befinbet li1 ni6t in gu=
ter Sinansla9e, lonoern es 1T tbatidd=
li6 bas Gesentbeil Der Saa. Die Si=
tuation, iDie iie unier Stabtratb ins
Muge gu failen 9at, lit cine iebr ernite
uno es beitebt iogar Die MDgli6teit,
bab Die Staotbertpaltung in Die 9ano
zines 8ermDgeftsperpalters iibergebt,
tpelder i'm Snterelie unirer gonossldu=
biger Die Stellerll erbebt. Sin Wlit=
glieo bes StaOtratbes tbeilt uns nit,
Oab Die Staot lid iotpobl nit 3ablung
oer 8onbs5inien, als nit Der GiiflD=
fung fdliger Sblisationen, i'm &iif=
itanoe befinbe unb baB ein5elne @ldu=
bigger bereits bon Der giniebung elnes
8ermD9ensbertpalters ipre9en. ST
iaet uns, oab Der ganse Srubel bur1
Die gDeigeruns elmer Mnaabl bon giir=
germ 3ur 3abluna ber StraBenauflagen
entitanben unb beranlabt mDroen lei.
Menn bieIe Nuflaaen tpeiterbin nidt
besablt tpiiroen, lei es !pegen zines fir
uns ungiinitigen @eriAtsenti6eioes
ober aus anoern Griinben, 10 feien Die
sr0Bten Sdmierisfeiten gu sepdrtlsen.
Die steuerrate lit nun bel Der bDhitsu=
ldBisen @rense anselan9t uno fam
ni6t tpeiter selteisert tperben. Sollten
Die Soften Der Strabenpfldfteruns auf
aasemeine @ednuna seieBt meroen
miiiien, 70 tuerben pielleiht aud Die
0Drtbeile Der slettril6en 8eleuhtuns
uns perloren seben. Gurs, Die Nus
iidten feben ni6t siinitig, uno es 1T
n0tbis. OaB oas publifum oabon in
Genntnib 9eiebt peroe."