The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-14
THE GOSSIP OF GOTHAM TOWN.
THE WONDERFUL SOCIAL sPLURGE
OF THE CALVIN s. BRICEs.

Mr. CIeveIaad's Narrow Escnpe-Gov.
Morton Has n Daughter Who VIII
Not Wed-The Future of Miss Fair.
Queer Cranes Over Books.
New York. July 13.-Vcry few families re-
! Gently launched into the vortex OF exclu-
! sive society. have managed to attain the
! success with which the Brices have met.
As all the world knows. they are now set
/ tied in the famed William Waldorf Aston
villa at Newport. for which they are pay
! ing a higher rental than any seashore
palace has ever brought. that is, for $1,000
for the season. and the sea
| son. It should be remembered,
is short. Already the very best people
arc beginning to covet the notice the
great senator from Ohio. 1t appears that
the scale upon which they are living beg
gars all description. Their butler and their
footmen wear the most gorgeous lIveries.
Mir. Brice IS proving the most fascinating
Of hosts. and the other members of the
now ultra-fashionable family are equaling
himself The question puzzling the lead
ers Of fashion is what object the great
Ohioan can have in all this. The series
Of lawn parties, dinners and other affairs
has proved simply irresistible. and when
1t was announced that Mrs. Alva Wander
bilt was to be specially entertained at the
villa in a week or two and that the Jack
Astors are to have an elaborate soiree in
honor Of the Brices, a feeling of amaze
ment began to permeate the social atmos-
phere. Senator Brice himself is most in
different TO functions Of this sort He is
a most brilliant man, but he avoids rather
than courts the blazing light Of a social
throne His wife, however, has been man.
aging the social end of this innovation
and although it was not heretofore sus>
pected that she had views of the kind, her
taste for distinction as woman Of fash
ION has been elabora tely. displayed of
late. She very cleverly outwitted the
Goulds in their efforts to be the first in
the field at Newport. That was a great
coup Of hers in having the entire British
embassy at her place and giving them the
most gorgeous of dinners. There were
there Lord Westmeath, the Hon. John
Ford and the Hon. II. 0. Bax Ironsides
Mrs. Brice and the Misses Brice were can
tivating, and the verdict was that there
can no longer be any doubt of the assured
position of the Brices in general among
the aristocracy
Senator Brice of course. was not there.
lie has been very busy with that cam
paign of his in Ohio, and with the possi-
biliues and the political future of Paul
Sorg. Now the riddle of the situation is
10 nnd out how Senator Brice can recon-
Gle these activities with his own ambitions
1t is understood to be alarming him in Ohio
TO have so much to do with the gayaties
IN New York and in Newport Can IT
De- II Is asked, that these social filings
are perpetrated by the females of his m
lily regardless of himself? The thing is not
probable. but It is possible. The senator
now spends good deal of hts time at his
office in Broadway, New York There he
tolls sometimes until far into the night
Meanwhile, his daughters and his wife
are living royalty at Newport where al
ready they are the most noted OF horse
women. and the livery of the grooms as
they follow the heiress of the house about
the beaches attracts general attention
Brlce cannot surely mean to release his
mold upon Ohio politics. He has too MANY
railroad charters to get through the Buck
eye State legislature to do that Yet the
story goes about that Mrs. Brice will fol-
low up her advantage this winter nv Ieas
Ing palace on Fifth avenue-rumor saws
the vacant Vanderbilt one on Fifth ave-
nue-and then set the Four Hundred agog
with the magnificence Of her career. There
Is certainly no doubt of her position. The
Goelets and the Astors and the other real
areiters OF fashion are passionately de-
voted to the Brice cause. Where will II
end? wa ~
Social circles in the metropolis are
rather agitated by the adventures of a
very wealthy and decidedly popular vouna
man whose efforts to make an impres.
SION upon the heart of one of the govern
ors daughters have proved singularlv IN.
awaiting. The young man is worth S. OOO-
GOO and his disinterstedness may presume,
Dly be taken for granted 1t seems that
ne visited the governor at Ellerslie and
formally asked permission to sue for the
love or the young lady. Mr.. Morton is
Understood to have told the suitor that
ne must gain the consent of the fair
maid herself before he could consider the
matter as a possibility. But the youne
man intimated that he feared his efforts
In that direction might be futile without
some parental encouragement. OF course.
IL is TO be understood that the facts in the
case are given from observation ONLY not
from the evidence of the only nersons
competent to give them, namely. the neo-
pie concerned. However, the young man
finally proposed to the young lady and
was rejected ii seems. much to the gerier
al surprise. That did not discourage him.
and he is said to have repeated his nro.
posal, but always disastrously. and he
has been seen to leave the young ladv's
presence very dejectedly. The incident is
beginning to attract attention in the inner
social circles, and even bets have been
made among the feather-brained element
OF the -Four Hundred as to the ultimate
result. The governors neutrality in tbe
matter is deemed a very fine show of
tact.
1t is conceded in New York that no act
In all the career of Richard Croker has
more injured him with the rank and file of
the Iammany organization than the scrape
a Sya6 IN oath
performance of his jockey, and, in conse-
Quence, OF certain acts on the turf attri-
buted to him. If there is one thing upon