The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-05
SWELL FOR ONE DAY.
CAPT. MENTIONS $1,000 NEW YEARS
COSTUME.

/ Took Fifty Boys to Help Him Hear
It-GorEeous Creation OF satin. Vel
vet, Lace and SvansdOwn-NewtOn
n Philadelphia ''Nev Years shoot
err"
From the Philadelphia Press.
| Robert Newton, an humble, but honest,
| worker in a morocco factory, Travelled
te streets of Philadelphia yesterday. and
| celebrated New Years day in a marve-
/ lOus costume Of silk, satin, velvet, plush
and embroidery. that he says cost 81 800.
/ all paid out of his own savings of years
He was the most splendid New Years
shooter of his generation. and though
he was almost Frustrated with the labor
of bearing the astounding creation, even
though fifty satin-elothed pages helped
him. he was resting serenely last evening,
| conscious of the fact that the ambition
of lifetime had been realized, for to be
| the champion of all the shooters has been
his dream of years. He will rest on his
laurels, for he said at his modest little
home at 955 Leithgow street, last night,
that having distanced all competitors, he
will not be New Years shooters again.
/ Il have set the pace" he exclaimed
proudly. Now let others follow me if
they can. What disposition will be made
| of the extraordinary costume. has not
/ been determined.
Newton is the captain of a club which
| bears his name, and he was the central
/ figure in all the days proceedings. The
/ club which bears his name was second
/ airy, not alone to him. but as we'll to al
| most every other club which made any
/ pretension to being a fancy organiza-
/ ton. More than two score OF New Years
| associations, paraded through the city
| streets, and there was ermined princes
and jewel-bedecked kings, and courtiers
/ in silk and costly lace, galore, but the
! constellation about which all reVolved
/ was the $3.50 costumed captain of the
| Newton Club.
He was a constellation. literally and
| hguratVely, for the silk and plush Won
der was in the design of crescent and
! star and the rim of the crescent and the
/ points of the star. were supported by
/ Lords Fauntleroy, some of whom chewed
| tobacco, and others of whom smoked Gig
arettes. Still, the effect was one that
seemed to impress the crowds who
| thronged about faVorably. and wherever
the captain and his satellites moved. they
were surrounde by wondering and ad-
miring thousands.
This wonder of the day was brought
] out into the Light of day from the little
/ frame building on Cadwallader street
/ above Girard avenue, where it was made
about 3 o'clock yesterday morning. The
work on 1t was done in the greatest Sc
/ crecy. For three months a quartette of
| embroiderers has been plying the needle
| necessarily, and in the last three weeks
the work has been kept up day and night
| Even the worlSwomen. the captain says
| were kept in ignorance of the exact de-
| sign of the suit until it was carried out
/ INTO the street yesterday morning.
For an hour previous to the event the
neighborhood was in furry Of excite
ment. Half a hundred little bows and a.
! few overgrown ones, whose upper Inns
were the abiding places of certain bunch
! es of bristly hair, had disappeared into
the house where the suit was made, and
had reappeared in a few moments com
/ pletely transformed. Torn stockings had
! been hidden from view beneath other
| stockings of stunning pink. Where before
had been bottomless coats We're now pink
silk Lord Fauntleroy coats and white
blouses. Brimless hats gave way to caps
curly, glossy wigs Then all the little
/ Fauntleroys, while the captain was get
ting ready, shied thanselges to. a Neigh
boring store, paid 10 cents to have their
| shoes gilded and made various outlaws
ior cigarette or penny likes" OF chew
Four men emerged from the doorway
| carrying, with straining backs, a great
! load OF fluffy silk and swansdown. Then
the lords danced into the middle of the
street and seized the edges at designated
places. And while tns populace stood
! wondering the bundle was unfolded, and
| there was evolved a monster crescent,
forty-seven feet wide and embroidered
| with countless roses. Again the men
! disappeared into the house. and this time
! they brought out two side capes, equally
as wide as the crescent, and similarly dec
| Grated
Then came a thirtyesix pointed star
whose branches were united with bands
i of pink ribbon. Lastly came a four-point-
! ed star and then the captain. He took
/ up a position behind the smaller star, the
| crescent and the larger star were tied
to him with ribbon, the populace shout
! ed and the captain almost weighed to
the earth with the load, marched proudly
| down into Girard avenue, a smile of sat
| isfaction on his lips, and the eyes of ev-
| erybody, especially the pretty girls on
| his costume.
At Fourth street the remainder Of the
! Newton Club fell in line, and the line
of march was taken down Fourth avenue
| Thus it passed through the southern sec
ton of the city and toward evening re-
sumed the march uptown. At o'clock
! it had reached Germantown avenue and
Lehigh avenue. The captain dragged
along rather than walking, still smiled
with the smile of a victor The nice little
Lord Fauntleroys asked those who watch
| ed them for chairs that they might rest,
and then the procession slowly passed
I out of sight.
| This is the estimate made by the cap
| tain of the cost of the material that en-
! tered into the construction of the costume:
Yards. Cost
/ Plush Observation-Disclosures. 500 $500
/ SaJln ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. ~ 6U
! 1900 dozen arasine (for making
/