The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-18
THE GOSSIP OF GOTHAM.
MIR. CLEVELAND IS TO MAKE A
LONG FOREIGN TOUR IN 1897.
The Monster whitney weddInE-
How MIR. Bayard Plans 10 BE Re
appointed Ambassador.

exist considerable misrepresentation as
TO Mr.. Clevelands real position with ref
ereEce TO third term. This is all the
more curious, inasmuch as his attitude
has been made clear and public weeks
ago and ought not TO be al this time a
matter of doubt It has been wondered.
for instance, that Mr.. Cleveland makes
no utterance himself on the subject
But the President has a high idea Of
the dignity OF his position and on that
account would never dream Of placing
himself in the position of Miss Betty
Baxter, who refused Capt. Crown be-
fore he asked her. Again the assertion
that William Whitney has been chosen
as Mr.. CIeveland's political legatee is
based upon nothing more terrible than
the fact that the former was in the lat
ters confidence from the start and has
been written to freely by the chief mag
istrate upon the subject of third terms
in general Mr.. Cleveland is believed
TO consider it almost insulting to the
people of the country to for
mally refuse to allow his name
to be considered for third
term. This is owing to the fact that
the people would never allow a third
term to any President and his
official declination of one would imply
derogatory impression to the contrary.
The President indeed is very much hurt
at the attitude he has been made to as
sumo by certain indiscreet southern
friends of his. II is even alleged that
he has purposely been thus embarrassed
by not few of his pseudo friends.
Accordingly, 1t can be positively stated
that all third term talk is sheer bur
lesque. No one believes in 1t who Is
friendly to the President. Mr.. Whitney
has no arrangement with any one to
secure the falling mantle. Besides, Mr..
Cleveland is going abroad in 1897. For
the past five years he has talked of the
pleasure and profit he would derive from
foreign travel. He knows next to moth
ing of lands outside of his own, and he is
particularly eager to visit Japan and
China. Among the men with whom Mr.
Cleveland has talked over these projects
are Col Lamont, Mr.. Thurber and Rich
ard Olney. The President would spend
about two years abroad.
Now, however, Mr.. Cleveland feels that
he has been made just a trihe ridiculous
He simply cannot do anything. 1t would
be absurd for him to refuse third term
1t would be insane to express a willingness
to accept one. The presidential situation
is thus Arthurian in that the hand of des-
with no answering palm to grasp it. The
simile is Speaker Crisps. and now deemed
very opposite.
The latest arrangements for Miss Whit
neys wedding indicate that II will be a
very grand affair. 1t is 10 take place
early in November. Bishop Potter has
been chosen, II is said, to perform the GER
emony and the supurb New York home
of the ex-Secretary will be the scene of
the nuptials. Everybody who is anybody
will attend.
Miss Whitneys rousseau has already
been ordered from Paris. The wedding
dress is to be-white satin trimmed with
pearls and the veil will be surmounted by
the famous jewelled diadem for which
| Mrs. w. c. Whitney is understood TO
have paid $4,000. Young Cornelius Van
deTbilt will be an usher and Miss Alta
Rockefeller a bridesmaid. Shortly before
her own wedding Miss Whitney will act as
a bridesmaid at the coming Rockefeller
wedding. Whatever may have been
thought of the Sloane affair. the Whit
ney one promises TO excel IL in splendor.
Mr. and Mrs. Grover Cleveland will GER
tainly attend and one of Gov Morton's
daughters is also to be a bridesmaid. AS
gathering of great flereOnages, the
nuptials of this young lady will live long
in social annals as a very field of the
cloth of gold among occasions of the sort.
The cost Will beggar calculation and Cupid
will battle in golden fountains indeed.
1t is now a well understood thing in
| Tammany cities that Hugh j. Grant will
be nominated as the organizations candi-
date for the mayoralty of New York
when election time comes around once
more. This may seem like a far look
ahead, but IL has been decided upon.
Mr.. Grant is believed to deserve a vim
dication as well as a reward for his
heroism in hauling himself into the breach
a fIrf limo w as-
comparatively sure of a denomination like
wise, there is every prospect that the
fight will be simply the old one over again.
Mr.. Grants wife has taken her place
already as a leader in Tammany social
circles. She has all possible admiration
for her husband and every confidence in
his political future. She has made him
many friends and the opinion is freely ex-
pressed that Hugh J. Grant has immense
ly bettered hrs position in the world by
this marriage. For one thing he IS an
xious to bestow q higher code of ethics
upon Tammany and he has been losing
many of the traits which in former days
made him conspicuous as a leader among
the boys. Grant processes to be one of
the boys no longer and his wife has been
the instrument of that momentous alter
alton in him. Mrs. Grant has said that
whatever it is right for her husband to
do is right for her to do and that if Mr..
Grant becomes one of the boys so will
she. So Mr.. Grant may feel under obi
cations to behave like a very sedate citi-
zen.
Nobody now looks very seriously upon
the attempt of a woman hailing from
northern New York to prove that she
is the widow of the late Jay Could
There have been numerous such efforts
before, and were all the claimants trust
worthy the late wizard of Wall street
would have been the champion bigamist
of his day. Not one of the Gould heirs
has condescended to notice the claim
thus sensationally set up. The Wander
bilt family has heretofore been the prin-
cipal sufferer from these wives. The
late w. H. Vanderbilt was claimed by
more than one woman not very long
after his death as her lawful husband
But nothing more serious than offers
of compromise resulted from such Incl
dents. OF course, IL would occasion a
tremendous sensation were these par
ticular women's claims substantiated
but the developments of the past two
weeks fail to reveal anything of the
least tangible nature to make good the
self-styled Mrs. Gould's allegations. AS