The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-06
THE GOSSIP OF GOTHAM.
One Possible Origin OF Mrs. AStOIS
Fatal Illness.
Lord Randy's Big Jag-Why One E-em-
Der OF the Union Club Spanked An
other-The Eulalie VIII Visit Us
Again.

Again.
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II has been conjectured that 2Ir. Will
lam Waldorf Aston would return TO New
York and make that city his permanent
residence hereafter I'm view Of the fact
Of his wife's death. This is. however, an
erroneous impression. because Mir. As
tors interests render II out Of the ques-
ton for him 10 abandon London. Mrs.
Astor herself was long anxious TO make
a foreign tour that should include pretty
much the entire world, and were it not
that her illness assumed SO sudden a
change for the worse. this trip would
have been begun. Mr.. Astors three uv-
ing children are now at school. The old
est is at Elton. The next boy is not very
strong and is being educated under the
supervision Of private tutors. while the
little girl was on the point Of entering a
girls school in Paris when her mother
died.
Mrs. Aston. during her residence I'm New
York, was noted among society women
by her passion for skating. She and her
husband or a brother would be our i'm
was In proper condition FOR the geld pas
time. Once she fell on the ice and severe
ly injured her arm and chest This ended
her skating for that winter, and the sup
position Is ventured here and there that
the fall Of that day may have been the
beginning Of the illness that eventually
terminated fatally. Personally the de
ceased lady was quite popular ana fire.
quenty gave dinners TO her husband
employees.
1t has reached the ears OF the navy
department at Washington that the al
legged arnor plate frauds which seem
ed to so many TO implicate the good faith
Of Andrew Carnegie. have long since been
explained. but that explanation has been
suppressed in the interest of a prominent
official connected with the Treasury de
partment IT appears that whom the whole
matter was laid before the President he
imposed a small fine for Appearances
sake and when the papers went to the
Navy department they were suppressed
in spite Of the protest of the Carnegie
concern, which desired that its side OF
the story should be 90 TO the people The
Carnegtes are thus in the position OF a
concern which has been judged in advance
OF the presentation Of its own side Of the
case.
/ in the emergency Mr.. Carnegie him
/ self was consulted by Mr.. Frck when ne
reached this country. He. il seems. was
/ for printing the suppressed information,
/ but that the concern could hardly do with
/ propriety, because IT, would have been
violation OF official ethics Instead of
/ that, however, the Carnegie concern made
! the offer which has recently been surpris-
ing the navy department. This oner is
/ nothing less than that the concern shall
/ itself stand the expense Of ballistic tests
TO prove its plates satisfactory. Mr. Car
I negie VIII even accept any terms Mr..
4 Carnegie has very literally thrown bomb
1 shell INTO the camp of his enemies and il
is very likely that one high government
official will soon be utterly compromised
great deal of comment has been
aroused in New YORK. BY the assertion
that Lord Randolph ChurchilIs present
physical collapse was FASTENED. If not
directly caused by experiences in the
metropolis of America. Lord Randolph
had. of course, an entree to all the clubs
/ here and fell In with a gay coterie Of
1 young fellows 10 whom he connded that
/ he wished to indulge i'm his drug propen-
/ sites in quiet and geutiemaLly way II
/ is an open secret that least d third Of
/ the young men in New York society are
slaves 10 seductive drugs Of one kind and
/ another from opium to absinthe. and Of
course Lord Randolph had no difficulty
! in getting what he wished. 1t appears
4 that he visited a famous opium resort in
/ the Tenderloin no less than SIX times and
at last came near losing his life as "a re
suit of being carried unconscious to his
/ carriage on a cold and rainy night The
aristocrat left New York a hopeless
wreck, and yet no one in the inner circles
I of the four hundred suspected his ALL
ment, with the exception OF those who
aided in aggravating it. Lord Randolph
carries with him on his journeys q unique
flower receptacle constructed out of a
skull and cross bones The flowers that
bloom from the summit are in singular
contrast TO the make UP of the object Of
! which they are contained, and at the
( Knickerbocker Club It was said recently
! that the contrivance is almost an emblem
I of the life Of the noble lord himself
Jolly James l.. FOrd's head hasn't been
turned in the least by the success Of his
book The Literary Shop" II is good,
| solid, well-shaped head and rests on a
stout neck which is, again, articulated
with a robust and well-knit body-which
! physical outfit is precisely what one would
suppose while reading the book 1.-THE Lit
| erary Shop" is "a merciless revelation of
the hidden machinery of the book and
magazine trade, and chides the charla-
| tanry of the profession with healthy sa-
! tire and pungent wit. | suppose Mr..
Fords chapters upon Robert Bonner I'm
| derwood Johnson and 1Ir. Edward j. Box
are the funniest, but there is world OF
wisdom in his advice to young writers to
avoid the dangerous society of good wo-
men. 1t is by quip and paradox that Ford
punctures pretense and by sunny humor
that he unveils cant. OF cohrse, such a
book sets all the bookmakerg chuckhng-
/ except d few of those who are dashed by
| it's satire and are too stupid or sensitive
/ to take q joke-and l find that the non
/ professional reader appreciates il as
/ keenly.
The mp. reader doesn't often have such
/ a chance to get behind the scenes and see
/ the broomstick sea-waves and sheet-lron
/ thunder Of the trade OF letters.
| Although intimations that the Princess
+ Eulalie will return TO this country have
been made almost from the time when
/ she took 50 charming a farewell Of US, it
/ has not been thought likely that she
/ would be able TO come back for year or
two at least. Now, however, we have in
/ formation that the princess Will be here
in the summer unless she is prevented by
the condition of her husbands health
which has always been delicate The prin-
/ cess has written to the Spanish minister
here to see If arrangements cannot be
made for visit by herself on a somewhat
/ less ostentatious scale than her recent
!