The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-21
THE GOSSIP OF GOTHAM.
WALL STREET CONSPIRACY To IN
JURE CHAUNCEY DEPEMrS
CREDIT.
His Notes GO BeEgins-Mr. Wander
btlt Is Now Very Religious and
Reads Holy Books.


cey ~ Dspew went TO Europe a week or
through the tactics Of some of his Wall
street enemies who went about saying
that the great orator is financially embar-
ressed and compelled to ask the indulgence
OF people 10 whom he is indebted for large
sums. II may surprise those who have
been led to look upon Depew as mill
lionaire and a friend OF millionaries to
learn that his name upon a note is no I'M
familiar thing TO the financiers. Now De
pew has some very bitter enemies-people
] with whose schemes he has interfered at
! one time or another. They are perpetually
seeking to embarrass him If only for re-
venge. One trait in Depew makes him
peculiarly liable to injury Of this kind con-
nected with want of friends. This trait is
readiness to endorse a note for any friend
in need Of the accommodation. Not many
days ago quite a number of notes bearing
the endorsement Of the great fnancier
were seen on Wall street. 1t may sur
prise the uninitiatcd but 1t Is a fact that
Chauncey NJ. Depew's endorsement is not
always sufficient to sell a note He is
known to be rather open handed and gem
erous. As he once said of himself the
dollar he gets has usually wings.
Consequently, when. in the early days
/ of July. Wall street bankers saw the
/ Depew notes in the market, a hostile ele-
| ment combined to discredit them. Every
/ man brought into contact with the money
market. knows how easy 1t is TO throw
| suspicion upon even the highest credit.
/ There was no difficulty in pointing out that
/ Depew's endorsement must be about in
many strong boxes; that he is always
| branching out into various schemes; that
| he is rather an extravagant financier. and
/ finally that he has not by half, so great
a fortune as is generally supposed.
The Depew notes dragged. and the fact
| proved somewhat humiliating. The great
| orator was about to sail for Europe and
he did not like those bits Of paper 10 be
/ floating about behind him. II proceeded to
/ Wall street one morning and entered a
banking house.
! II want to take up those notes with
my name on Them he said TO the head Of
| the institution.
"Impossiblcr' was the reply.
"Impossible?" echoed Depew.
Yes. They're all sold"
Depew went about to various other
| places, but could not find anyone who
! u
/ liberal inducement.
Now It transpires that the whole cpl
! sode was a trick on Depew. once MS
| back was turned the notes were taken
| out of their resting places in safes and
hawked about. solely for the purpose Of
/ humiliating the after-dinner wonder.
The trouble Benjamin Harrison has got
himself through certain remarks he made
| on the subject of boomers has not sur
prised those who had opportunity of lis
tening to his conversation during his re-
cent trip to New York. on one occasion
he went to a church in Harlem. No one
| in the edifice knew who he was, for Mr..
Harrison is rather fond of strolling quiet
! ly about TO avoid recognition. 1t was an
! evening service, and in the course of It
two or three young women wearing bloom
ers entered with great noise and crowded
| into pew near the ex-President. Nat
urally they attracted considerable atten-
ton, and Mr.. Harrison picked up his hat
and walked out.
Girls who could go to church in bloom
ers, -" he remarked subsequently would
go to their mothers funeral.in the same
attire"
There was quite a discussion on the sub
| ject in the Fifth Avenue hotel and tho
/ eX-President's party agreed that there are
! occasions when even the most liberal
would feel offended at the presence OF
| boomers. Mr. Harrison, however, does
not object to bloomers in their proper
| place.
! New York is having considerable trouble
| over the coming Corbett- Fitzsimmons
fight. even though It takes place in Texas,
not the Empire state. An arrangement
| has been made by a prominent company
| to reproduce the battle in every detail
almost simultaneously with its. enactment
by the principles down in the Lone Star
state. This is made possible by the latest
! oF -. -
soon as a round is finished a telegraph de-
| cription of 1t can be used as the basis of
lens of sliding scenes prepared in advance.
The picture would be life size and the ma
ture Of the scene made very realistic
There seemed to be money in the idea
until the City Vigilance League and other
similar organizations got wind of IT. They
threatened to set the police upon the pro-
jectors of the enterprise under the law
forbidding any one from encoura ging prize
fighting. 1t is pointed out. however that
there are already in operation various
kinetoscope prize ring exhibitions with
which no one has undertaken to interfere
| The problem is a knotty one.
The metropolis proposes to turn dscom-
future into triumph in the matter Of the
escape of the postoffice thieves from New
Yorks most noted jail. The incident will
be used by the Empire state delegation to
illustrate the urgency of the need for the
establishment of a series of entirely new
national prisons. This has long been a
pet idea with New York contractors and
politicians. It is believed that the first
institution of the kind would be located
near New York city. There is a scheme
on foot to have about million dollars an
propriated to begin with and then when
the site has been selected another mill
ion can be obtained for the purpose of be-
ginning the building itself Other parts
of the country will be interested and II is
likely that ten millions will be appropriat-
ed before anyone fully realizes the nature
of the project. OF course, there is no de-
nying that the average United States pris-
oner has a very easy time Of it in the wav
of being able to make his escape. for
county jailers never take as much care
of them as they do of ordinary prisoners
Still, the idea of building national prisons
has so far only commended itself to con-
tractors.
When Sir Julian Pauncefote British
ambassador, returns from England il is
understood that he will be asked by nu-
merous dissatisfied Englishmen, resident
in New York. to restore the discipline of
the embassy in Washington. The young
men Sir Julian has about him are accused
of neglecting all serious business in his
absence for the dplighfz of Tho bo,. 80