The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-12
THE GOSSIP OF GOTHAM TOWN



New York, Nay I.--Now that the pure
ly political excitement over that erratic
cleaner of metropolitan streets, Col War
ing, is subsiding. the literary Juror he
has become responsible for is increasing.
That the colonel is an author, a we'll
known writer of fiction is a fact hereto
fore totally overlooked in the general es-
innate of him. Yet for years Warning
has been devoting himself TO works OF
the Imagination II wiz interest those
warriors throughout the country who
have been denouncing his lack OF mar
tial experience to know that the colo
mel is noted as an author of war stories
which from time 10 time have been print
ed in the magazines. Whip and Spur
is a popular book of his. a work of the
imagination, of which the material was
supplied by his war experience as colonel
in the Missouri cavalry during the war
Indeed, the frontispiece 10 this volume
shows the colonel in full military uniform
and looking, it must be acknowledged
every .nch a soldier
AS for the literary men of the me-
tropolis, they know him very well. He
is a member Of both the Century ami
the Authors Club. He is. frequent
visitor to the latter, and attends the fort
nightly meetings with regularity ana en-
connected with recent American literary
movements that the colonel mas not at mis-
fingers ends. As for the colonels own
literary performances, an idea OF how he
writes may be CLEANED from the followine
extract. 1t is the introduction TO orc of
the best of his war storles-"W ettstein"
1T is a pleasant thing 70 be a colonel
of cavalry in active field service '(The
G. A. r. men may wonder how the colonel
knows this) There are circumstances
of authority and responsibility that fan
he 2 shark a al feh
ever dull, CLOVIS in all our breasts and
which generations of republican civiliza-
ton have been powerless to quench. We
may not have confessed it, even to our
selves, but in looking back to the years of
war We must recognize many things that
patted our vanity greatly on the back
things so different from all the dull rou-
tine of equality and fraternity of home
that these four years seem 10 belong to
dream land; oyer which the
fmy haze OF the life before
them and of the life after them draws a
misty veil. Equality and fraternity A
pretty sentiment, yes. and full of sensible
and kindly regard for all mankind, and.
fun of hope for the men vino are TO come
after u.s."
II may be noted, too. that the qualifca-
ton of his original utterance which Col.
Waring made has had a soothing effect
Many military men, indeed, deem il an
apology, although some truculent old sol
diers consider 1t ar. ag8ravation Of the Of
Tense, since, they declare, II makes them
out needy tramps gloatins over the money
bags of the well-to-do and awaiting a
chance to make of with them.
Rev. Charles II. Cotton, the priest who
succeeded DIR. McGlynn as pastor of St
Stephens suddenly becomes the most in
teresting clergyman in New York. Rare
indeed is the honor which the vatican has
paid him. and the Catholics are inclined
TO think that nofwIthsta nGing recent de-
velopments, he will II time BECOME, In ef-
feet coadjutor 10 the archbishop In
deed. those who pride themselves on being
well informed in matters Of this sort af-
firm that the honor Of the Monsignorate
and ultimately the succession to the arch
bishopric arc in store for him. BE this as
il may the fact remains. that Father
Cotton is one OF the coming man In the
American church. He had done brilliant
things in the face Of every discourage
ment When he took charge of St Steph-
ems that famous parish was hostile to
him. The church was in very bad finan-
cial condition. Now everything has
cha nged. The congregation Is devoted 10
him. The church is flourishing temporarily
and spiritually.
In everything else connected with Catho-
lie affairs he has been equally successful
The archdiocese, thanks to him, has been
enabled to meet the hard times most CT
fectively. The poor have been provided
for Work has been found FOR the unem-
ployed. Catholic Institutions have been
enabled to enlarge the scope Of their bene-
ficence
But it was in certain difficult matters
of diplomacy that Father Cotton las