The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-10
THE GOSSIP OF GOTHAM.
THE COMING UPHEAvAL AMONG
THE FOUR HUNDRED.
Sir Julian on the Rnmpage-Hoyv
whitney Has Hurt His Presidential
Chances-AnOther New York Bill
IiOnnire.
Copyright.

! New York, Nov 9.-James j. Van Allen
/ will not suffer socially as a result of his
recent escapade. He is going 10 Egypt
this winter. having organized a yacht
/ ing party. included in which Will be the
/ cream of the Four Hundred. Dr. Seward
| Webb is sticking staunchly to his friend.
/ Thanks TO him, there will be none Of the
! terrible revelations expected and New
/ York society breathes freely. 1t is an
/ open secret that the entire Vanderbilt
/ family used their personal influence to
rescue Van Allen from his predicament.
A number of families are said TO fear
4 the consequences of a general public
/ cleansing of soiled linen. This feud is
/ societys one dread. Rumor, as the late
Ward McAllister pithily puts it. is ever
| flying about New York with the deaths
head of scandal Some of these days,
he would add, the peril viii become in
evitable and the country win be shocked.
Indeed, whether deserved or not. society
is rapidly acquiring reputation far from
enviable. The old timers are perpemally
| expressing wonder that the moral explo-
sion is deferred so long. No concealment
is made of the fact that Mrs. Cleveland
will under no circumstance have any
thing to do with New York society. fear
heads of its members. How long will the
esclandre be deferred?
The departure of Miss Joanna Davidge
from New York ought to permanently
settle all rumors of the approaching
marriage of William c. whitney Miss
Davidge was a sort of governess in the
Whitney family, but she was always
treated as one of the Whitneys, being
a nv nd
riage of Pauline Whitney terminated her
close personal relationship with the fam
lily. Every poor beggar in New York
has a feeling of personal regard for this
lady, as she never refuses q petition for
| aims, fact which is responsible for Sc
rlous inr9ads into a rather slender in
| come. The rumor of the lady's engage
| ment to Mr.. Whitney diffused a lively 10y
| among the beggars OF New York who
keep list of persons like Miss Davidge.
! Her presence in the household explains
the IOndness of mendlcants for lettering
about the Whitney brick palace in New
0rK. Ihere is, by the way a feeling
that whitney is not doing exactly a wise
Ihlng IN permitting the marriage of his
uaushter 70 man who is practically a
| member of the British peerage. The fact
VIII be used against him in case the
presluential lightning strikes his way.
IN TACT. his vast wealth his former
| STANDARD oil activities, and this marriage
| OI ms daughter are anomalies in the
record of a presidential possibility.
z, Mr. a. J. DreXel VIII be a decided adj
qltion to New York society this winter.
lie has decided to abandon his native
Philadelphia for awhile and make his
nome nome on Flfty-hrst street in superb
| private mansion. Mr.. DreXel IS now a
man OF fabulous wealth. He inherited
S3o,OWVQ from his father few years
ago and this sum, il is said has become
fully $50,0O0,O0 owing to fortunate fnan-
cial operations Mr. Drexel now has n
place among the Astors and the Wander
pits as a billionaire. 1t is understood
mat his social campaign this winter win
De something dazzling. 1t has lately
been discussed, by the way, that the
blood of the Bourbons, the royal house
of France, flows in the veins of the
DreXels. The rather modest artist who
founded the house in America never al
els may employ the cadet Bourbon arms
the famous escutcheon of the five tapers
They do not do so, as they were always
unassuming, even II the Queen of Por-
tugal is their distant kinswoman. Mr.
Drexei will be warmly welcomed in the
most exclusive circles, and an effort will
don Philadelphia for New York the lat
ter city being deemed best for the dis
sipation of a million or two yearly. W
K. Vanderbilt's only quoted aphorism
is to the effect that Philadelphia is a
hard city to be extravagant in, and II
does one no good to be rich there.
The scheme to discredit the Brooklyn
bridge management is said to have beer
traced to a cortere of New York capita.
| isis VINO are anxious 10 obtain cOntrO
of the structure. Russell Sage and youna
George Gould are declared to have ensi
, | neered much of the business. The ele
waited railway management is much dis
pleased because the city will not hear OF
any use of the bridge by them as a thor
, | ough fare between the New York ant
Brooklyn system for their own trains
Again, the better the bridge is conduct
ed the more is the reproach by implca
} ton cast upon the l. management. Con
, sequently, every fault in the Brooklyn
| hid hoe Ell - -
tack diverted from the L. which, as al
! New York knows, needs reformation fai
more than does the bridge. A chance re
mark of Sage's gave the scheme away
and the bridge once more enjoys some
measure of public appreciation. II II
pointed out that after all there is only
crowding is therefore not to be wonder
ed at. The star of the structure is AGAR
in the ascendant, and the old proposition
, | of ornamenting the high pillars with a tri
umphant eagle or statue is being dis
cussed anew. After all, New York is PROUD
of the great bridge.
| New York society now deems Sir Julfar
| Paunceforte brute. The British amba g.
sadOr has, indeed, lost all his popularity
with the metropolitan fashionable coter
les. For when he got back TO Washington
= lately he instituted a rigid Investigation
: into the doings of the gay attaches Of thu
embassy. These doings consisted almos
entirely of social diversions al Newpor
with the cream Of metropolitan aristoc
racy. The serious business Of diplomacy
| had been utterly neglected. Sir Julian is ?
bluff parsonage, little given to trihes. Fl,
summoned Messrs. BaX-Ironsldes and Ro
Maid Mackay, the principal Offenders. Il
his presence, and read them a severe lee
ture. He even went so far as to reprovC
them for what he called the British ma
tional sin Of heircss hunting Bax-Iron
sides has acquired a tremendous reputa
tion in society as q man Of marvellous ad
ventures. His experiences In the deser
OF Sahara, when he FED from hostiI,
Egyptians on the back of dromedary
and wrote reports for the foreign ofic,
while 80 doing have thrilled the oDtir,
-Four Hundred. He had made numerou,
engagements for this winters season II
New York, but pitiless Sir Julian mad,
him cancel them all. The Ambassador
thinks there IS altogether too much trifjrf
in diplomatic circles as It is He will heal
of no more of it. Therefore New York so
cietv is incensec, and Sir Julian will no
he the big man among American heiresse.
that he he's been.
Baron Rothschild set the fashion Of us
ing CRATES to draw carriages in London
These stately animals are very eficaciou,
for the purpose, and thew even excel horse,
in being dOcile and easily driven The I'll
raffe viii shortly be introduced into New
= York fin the Same capacity. The fad 1vortIf
have been taken Up long ago hui iDdf
viduals were afraid 10 undertake II sin
ely, fearing tie effects Of the innovation