The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-05
THE GOSSIP OF GOTHAM.
THE SEASON or EASTER LILIES
AND OF CAMPAIGN BUTTONS.

Secretary CarIisIe's surrender-The
Daughters Of the RevoIution-Lan-
thorn Light on Crane-ChicaEo In
vades New York.
Copyright 1850
New York. April 4.-The scent OF the
Easter lily IS in all the air Of Gotham.
and hurrying messengers are Forwarding
with profane eXpletives tho holy work
OF decoration for Easter Sunday
Every year in New York sees the prep
arations for Easter more and more unl-
versaL Even those scots whose Puritan
prejudices against the spring festival
were in past years most pronounced have
surrendered al discretion, or 20 change
the figure. are drifting with the tide
Of the times.
Easter is the florists great harvest time
OF all the year, his last opportunity until
Christmas 10 levy a tax upon the entire
community. and he is improving 30. Be
tween this and next Monday morning
the prices of cut flowers Will have shrunk
like a wooden unshlrt.
Just a hint 10 the effect that violets are
the swell flower Of the spring. as they
have been for some little time.
Just another hint; a great many nat
ty gentlemen who will not wear roses
or carnations or pinks in the buttOnhole
look with favor upon the small lowly
cornhower. It is better TO be cornhow-
cred than to be corned.
The yellow Jonqun is also sometimes
worn. Some simple fower-thats the
rule.
At any rate Allison badges have made
their appearance IN New York.
This making Of campaign badges and
buttons is a snap, II you can hit the
mark right.
! well remember how. after Harrison
was nominated at Minneapolis. the Blaine,
Mckinley and other badges and buttons
which had been 50 common. disappeared
like magic, and all along the thorough
fares could be seen nothing but the glim-
mer OF the Harrison gliding upon the
Harrison blue. The badge ana button
maker who can pick the winner at ST.
Louis and Chicago can make his ever
lasting fortune.
A cent each is a hllariously exagger-
sted estimate Of the cost OF ordinary
badges or buttons. and the things are
either sold at 10 cents OF a quarter each,
or chucked into rubbish heaps as use
less after the fight is over. The big or
ders which are given out by the cam
900 buttons each of Quay, Morton. Reed,
Allison or Mckinley varieties, are, OF
course, placed at low rates for the guam
tity, and there Is a tremendous comDeti-
are all made by machinery. and one man
and boy can turn out thousands in a
day.
In off years the badge maker gets his
living from the secret and beneht soci-
cites. i know one badge maker who be- |
longs to forty Of them, for business rea-
sons
Peace on earth good will to men," finds
In the. presidential candidates notable
exception.
The Mckinley hustlers are shaking stray
delegates out Of their hiding places in all
parts Of the country, but the campaign /
~ be, at least refuse to appear fright /
ened by the onslaught.
Ask any man you meet who IS his ia
vorite candidate and he will say Morton
or Reed or Mckinley. Ask him who ne
thinks Will really get It, and seven and
half times out of ten, he Will pun his
beard and say: well, II looks good deal
like Allison"
There is a feeling that Allison as resid-
uary legatee Of Brer Harrison may elude
the tar baby by the road side. and even
dodge the bull sickening thud of the dark |
horses left hind foot.
And II may be so; and then again II |
may not be 50. The managers of the show
are very much afraid the Ohio man may
stampede the convention. They don't say |
The anti-Carlisle campaign Of the Amer
lean association Of architects, which has |
been so bitterly fought out in New York |
has, by one OF LIES little ironies, been |
crowned with victory i'm Chicago.
The selection Of Henry Ives Cobb Of that |
city as supervising architect of the gov |
eminent building there marks the final |
cave-in OF the treasury department, which |
for a long time, even after the passage |
OF the pill requiring government build |
ings TO be designed by competent archi-
tects not connected with the department, |
refused TO see the light. Carlisle has seen |
Il now.
Government buildings of the MulIett
and succeeding eras have been useful to !
Tighten bad children into better behavior. !
IF you don't behave ! will take you out
and show you the New York postofiice."
The terrified Johnnie shuts up. But the
bogie building Is of no use to older peo-
pie, either morally or aestheucally.
Cobb, by all accounts. is a good man
and has done splendid work in the past
surpass the buildings erected under the
old system and even Secretary Carlisle
will become reconciled to the win or
congress.
Architects have pretty hard time Of II.
anyhow. Here is the New York city hall |
as yet but an irridescent dream, although
II is some years since the chief architects
in the country were invited to submit
plans for vast new building. Now the
legislature forbids the erection of any
more buildings on the City Hall park
urged thereto by the municipal reformers
of the Goo-Goo type-and where else TO
put new city han no one knows; and so
there you are.
1t isn't anybodys fault in particular.
Dul some OF the architects who went to
considerable trouble and expense prepar-
ing plans feel almost as If they had been
buncoed.
When he is dead, though, a great archi- |
tect is not without honor in his own coun-
try Richard N. Hunt was one of the
three greatest originative builders this
country has seen, the other two being
Richardson, who designed Boston's Trim |
ity church, and the lamented Chicago ge-
MUS who was the head architect Of the
exposition. All three are dead. by The
way and Stanford White of this city
people as the likeliest successor to the
primacy.
Well, this isn't what I started to say
The artists Of New York are going 10 |
make a memorial of Mr.. Hunt i'm the
shape of monumental seat with foun- |
tam attachment, recessed in the Central
Park wall on the Fifth avenue side some
where near the Metropolitan Museum: so
that the profession is not without honors
even II 1t does miss a fat fee now and
then. ~
BY the way, speaking of the MetroDoli-
tan Museum, reminds me that over in
London they have just been voting in par
Ito rra.aV sl,s.