The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-19
SOME BOGUS COUNTS.
THEY COME AND Go AWAY, THINK
ING AMERICA NOT ALL 1T
MIGHT BE.

Myriad of Politicians Here-T. C.
Plat Puts on "a Dotted Shirt and
Tie to Meet Warner Miller, and
Hill Keeps on His Hat--A Crusade
to Reform COney Island.
F Manhattan Beach. July 17.7-Manhattan
Beach is the place foreigners know about
as we know Carlsbad and Nice. Every
body who crosses the water touches at
these spots for a day. Manhattan's regis
ter list shows more titles in one week
of summers heat than all the other re-
sorts in two months of that time.
Bogus counts there be here as well as
real ones, but after sauntering around
for a day the former pack their trunks
and leave. They had supposed that to
come to Manhattan with a, foreign ac-
cnt and a foreign title would insure in
PRODUCTION to all the heiresses of Amer
lea. But when they find that Count Boz
guski is of no account unless suitably pre-
sented with letters they bid good-by to
Manhattan and go away feeling that
Americans are much less title-crazy than
reported. The presence of three of these
gentlemen, all wandering aimlessly up
and down the promenades. last week
brought these facts strongly to mind
Manhattans three peculiarities are Wv
idly present this year-its verandas it's
music and it's politicians. The former are
broader than ever, the second louder and
the last more anxious Even the yeran-
das and the music fail to hold them, and
you see them gathering along the
beach anxiousy inquiring of the wild
waves the things they cannot ask else
where.
T. c. Plat, the much pictured man to
whom each new portrait is sword
thrust, and who wants to be the power
behind the throne, wholly invisible from
the front thereof. comes down to Man
haitian every afternoon as the sun cools.
He always takes the same boat, sits upon
the same corner of the upper deck, puts
his hand in the same pocket for q penny
for the musicians, and waits until Ger
tain number have stepped on the boat be-
fore he leaves his seat. People VINO have
been here twenty years back remember
than he has always done the same thing.
He never smiles on these trips, and re-
lakes only after he has put on a dotted
shirt for dinner by the waves. The day
he expected Warner Miller he wore, not
two dotted shirts, but a dotted shirt and
dotted tie. .7.
David b. Hill spends his summers on
the same water route, but little way
of. He likes the Shrewsbury, That river
famed for oysters and catsup, and he
has rooms in a very beautiful hotel over
looking the river There are awnings and
vines at his windows and there is back
stairway, down which he comes TO es-
cape observation. He drives much in a
little dog-cart and looks very handsome.
He Is a fine looking man, d. y. Hill. HIS
hair is black around his mead, and when
ne has his hat on and his coat buttoned.
ne looks like a beau deal. With hat off
and coat hanging loose there is little
up the glory. Mr.. Hilps country place up
the Hudson~is the finest private house
in the world, but Hill loves the romantic
Shrewsbury.
The epidemic for "going round the
world" continues, and Manhattan gets its
share of it. A trip around the globe IN
cludes a stop-over ticket at this Babel
of America. Here all tongues are heard
and all dinners tasted. Here the Ferris
wheel and the merry go-round reyolye
forever.
The next he-world-rounders expect