The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-09-15
THE GOSSIP OF GOTHAM.
HEIRESSES ARE BEING PERsE-
CUTED BIZ YOUTHFUL con-
sPIRATORS.

New York Sept. 1.-THE story that Miss
Gertrude Vanderbilt will wed young Moses
Taylor is received with some doubt in New
York. Notwithstanding the repeated ner-
alton OF the rumor. Another story about
this young lady is TO the effect that she
was shortly TO be engaged TO Lispenard
Stewart. the young ex-senator. These
stories are perpetually getting into circu-
lation. Miss Gertrude Vanderbilt is known
in society as the astronomer. because her
head. according to a malicious relative of
hers. is always among the stars. BE this
as it may. it must be somewhat annoying
to the Vanderbilt family to have these
stories of engagements put into circula-
ton so frequently. Indeed, it is said that
few unprinciplcd young society swagger-
ers have combined for the purpose Of help
ing each other in this way. Each one
pledges himself to spread rumor that a
fellow member of the coterie is engaged
TO some great heiress. Every wealthy girl
in society has in turn been victimized af-
ter this fashion. and the nuisance has at
tanned such proportions that there is talk
of combined effort to put an end to It In
fact, one particularly fragrant offender
has been given the cut so repeatedly and
so directly that his social position is prac-
tically forfeited. 1t would seem that the
lot OF the American heiress is very much
like that of the policeman.
1t appears now that the President Is 70
take up this autumn a line of sport that
for him is comparatively new. He will be
asked to join a party of gentlemen sports
men In tour through the great game pre-
serves which now abound in New York
state. These preserves belong TO the mill
lionaires of the metropolis for the most
part. and having been exceedingly stocked
and wei cared for, are by this time liter
ally alive with deer and bear. Among the
men who are TO make the trip is william
F. Whitney, and he conceived the idea of
inviting the President. That Mr.. Cleve-
land will go no one processes to doubt,
and 1t is more than probable that the occa-
sion Will be taken advantage of to discuss
some very big political questions. In fact.
the trip will afford a convenient excuse
for the assemblage of the leaders of tn
party, and perhaps Senator Hill viii make
one Of it. In that event the bears and
deer will be i'm a position TO discuss Amer
lean politics al least as intelligently as
they are handled by the average purvoyors
of rumors about third terms and presiden-
tial booms.
1t has escaped general observation that
the yachting craze, from which the coun-
try seems destined never to recover, has
given an enormous impetus 10 the Ameri-
can boat building industry For the first
time in many years the demand for skilled
Ia Dor in this line has exceeded the supply.
Already orders for boats to be completed
next year have been placed to an unpre-
ccdented extent. The unemployed boat
builders Of the country have been greatly
benefited by the revival which promises
to be enduring. In fact, no one is now
deemed quite among the gilded set in New
York who has not got a yacht Aboard
| there has already begun TO exist a decided
| jealousy of our national prowess in this
| direction 1t requires an immense amount
/ of capital to establish a boat building
plant, yet more than one new concern Of
! the sort is in contemplation. The labor
market has certainly benefited since the
American eagle perched upon the yacht
The rate of wages was never so high nor
employment so steady. The craze is likely
! to last for some years and to result In the
construction of many record breakers.
The last time Lady Henry Somerset
left New York il was understood that
some personal matters called her away.
The nature of them could be only surmis-
ed in the absence of exact details Now
however. owing to the total upset of her
plans for a rigorous temperance cam
paign in New York this autumn. the facts
in the case are being made known. They
may result in the complete abandon
ment by this lady of her present field of
endeavor.
Lady Henry Somerset's Oldest son is like
ly to inherit a rich and ancient title In
England. Even without this gratifying
prospect he is very well off indeed. But he
is not so aesthetic as his mother, Nor
are the other near relatives of the Indy
On in, ako
she is. In fact, many of them seem TO be
quite out of sympathy viii. her on this
point. When Lady Henry got mixed UP
in the personal squabbles which agi-
tated the temperance world recently they
implored her to give up the work Another
objection they had to 1t was that like
Frances Willard, Lady Somerset had Inn
bibed certain radical, not to say socialls-
tic. ideas upon the subject of the causes
which drive the working classes to drink
Lady Henry's relatives being IN the priv
ileged aristocracy they could not bus
regard all this with horror.
Now comes the story that this influence
has prevailed. For time at least Lady
Henry will lay aside her role of smasher
of champagne bottles over the head of
Satan, but her friends in America think
her retirement will be temporary only.
The laurels of Henry George are about
TO be wrenched from his brow very much
foes have been and even Shakespeare-s
That is to say, an attempt is being made
to prove that the great George deliberate
ly flched his theory from a suppressed
volume. which he copied ingeniously up
on a system of plagiarism all his own.
These charges have been made before.
but the book alleged to be the founda-
ton of them has never been obtainable.
Now, however, it is to be issued together
with a succinct assertion OF the claim
that George stole from it. There is no
apparent way of proving the claim, how
ever. even though the work in question
should ante-date George. Its title is THE,
Theory of Human Progression" by Pat
rick Edward Dove, and it was published in
1850, but subsequently forgotten altogeth-
er. A very scathing denuncia ion Of
George is in print for his lack of candor
in not giving Dove due credit. However.
every great writer has been accused of
enjoying unwon laurels and Henry George
may comfort himself that he is in the
same fix with William Shakespeare ana
others, who, like him, have been Obliged
to climb literary fences in a hurry.
Champion Corbet has changed wonder
fully during the past year. Those New
Workers who know him best are very du-
4ks, of h.