The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-01-06
LIVE roPIcs ABour 1oWN.

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Another and LARGER club gave its members,
through its Committee on Elections. a great
deal To think about recently. owing TO the way
In which applicants for membership were re-
jected. Men were proposed. and then their
names were passed after letters Of
dalton Ind been received from influential
members; or they were more effectively and
promptly gotten out OF the way by the moro
conclusive process OF final rejection. This
course continued. and the victims included SO
many men who were seemingly In every re-
,pect eligible that after a while the members
of the. club teRsn TO ask one another what
the final test OF fitness for membership might
he. II became such 4 matter OF comment In
tho club nftera while that some explanation
was unoficially demanded, ana the commit
tee replied. unoficially that IL was proposed 10
Increase the mcmberslip no more than pos
sihle. as IL was rar,dly approaching the con.
stitutional limit. The method adopted was 10
reject men for very fanciful or c%aptions oblec-
tons, AS q result many suffered the humiiia-
tion OF having their names PROPOSED and re-
lccted when the real ground lay not IN tho
character % the applicants. but In tho doter-
m%ination OF tho governors to keep down the
size OF the club. some OF the most diiapDolnt-
cd men allowed It 10 be understood thst they
favored n positive announcement OF tho
OF having men brought ny when It was reilly
IA lore zone conclusion that they would DO
bowled over. This was the situation. in 80
made the Organization willing to secure new
men. ind tho question OF dispute among the
members was luckily avoided. Nevertheless,
II had become the conviction NJ n majority OF
the members that when new members were
no longer wanted their friends should not be
submitted to the Embarrassment Of having
them either ignored or rejected. Young Tom
my Taller. who has lust been rejected for q
Ia some OF the most astonishing garments that
were ever permitted in the indulgence OF SPORT
Tuxedo This winter with a driving coat OF vel
low box cloth made with n short-waisted jacket
and skirts 20 the knees. These, skirts were
full and gathered. and With the large buttons
on the garment and tho top hat that accom-
panied the rig, even Tuxedo people were start.
led. One or the incOn-ruities OF those extraN'
ngtncies OF sporting costume which Mr.. Taller
wears arise from the fact that personally, he
is rather u Notwithstanding person with u
mild expression and II pair OF glasses.
The factory inspectors who reported on The
unsanitary condition OF some OF the expense 70
~dressmakers' establishments have unluckily
no control over other features OF their business.
Indeed. It Is doubtful II anybody has control
over one phase especially which il TO he OBJ
served by many people. The Fifth avenue
stages. as we'll as the few remaining horse car
lines. are pntronized late IA the Afternoonby
little girls loaded down with heavy boxes. ap-
n~arently quite bevond their strength TO carry.
The Firth avenue stages are in particular the
they cause the other passengers Il FORGOTTEN In
the ~ mpathy their pathetic appearance arouses.
They are II Usually clad in poor and insufficient
clothes, and are rarely more than ten years old.
The heavy wooden boxes they carry are
marked with The names OF fashionable and en-
pcnsive drcSsmakers. and the garments they
carry are probably worth TWO or three hundred
dollars. But the bearers are one OF tho most
pitlHble sights that the streets provid as the
girls struggle along under their cumbersome
aud nnwieldy burdens.
The English Idea that certain mythical man
ncrisms. handed down perhaps from 1870 or
/ 1870 aaa I.pVI 80 aaA.ar g, .x... go. ..y,tp
from this country. Greens into unconsciously
humorous paragraphs in the English papers
frequently. The reader is left to imagine what
these so.Callcd Americanisms are. They are
not always n demand for Ice water, because
the people credited with thom are sometimes
,nlv seen over the footlights. The latest para
graph Of this sort is The work Ola London
critic. who. in writing about lrving's produc-
ton OF Richard Ill.," says. Miss Julia
Arthur, whom no one would suspect OF being
an american. gave a fine rendering OF the
probably 20 be congratulated on deoelving all
of her audience except this acute critic. and
she do IL, To be "sasoee ca Of having como
from America il egidcntly damning In the
estimation Of this, Sherlock Holmes who has
penetrated the skilful disguise. Now that
Miss Arthlr's dupliCity has been revealed. IL
remains 70 he seen how sho snail be treated.
She may throS of an IN" or two. as one drops
ballast from n sinking balloon. but the sus-
picions now aroused are bound to become a
certainty. 1t would be interesting to Obtain n few
al the characteristics that arouse such ''suspir-
ions IN London, even when the subject OF them
proves 10 be "A clever actress who ms pr.sum-
ably acquired by this time the so.cRllcd Eng
fish accent. BostoniRns pride themselves on
talking English as she IL spoSe In London.
and vet r. would bc n courageous New lorker
who should dare 10 assert that no could detect
q Rostunian. every time. after II fair investi-
piCi"hs o. astuto critics as To their nation
ATTY. MSS Arthur II only one OF a number OF
clever American women VIII" are in the front
rank on the English stage.
The fact that Joseph Il. Mc"ullach. late
editor OF the Glnbc- Democrat OF st. Louis, left
no will. although his estate Is valued at sew.
eral hundred thousand dollars. will no: sur
prise any one who knew him IN his newspaper
office. II he had left "A will people mi xht have
wondered when lie found time TO draw It.. lilo
wasa tircless worker. and even after he be-
came editor OF the Globe Democrat, could not
give up many OF the routine details OF office
work that would naturally fall - the share
Of his subordi1ntcs. II was said that Mr.. Me-
Cullagh ave RACED about sixteen hours work
n day. In e..ry large newspaper Office there
|, "A mass OF business correspondence that 10
usually taken care Of by the heads OF the vari-
GUS departments. and IL was ALWAYS n surprise
To men who had worked In other oaices to find
that Mr., McCullagh did Il great deal more
than his share OF letter writing. Several
years ago he sent to n newspaper man In this
city an order for an interview with a man
wluse name Is known from one end OF the
United States u the other. Mr.. McCullaE III,
who Is credited with inventing the interview
form Of telling news, wrote explicit direction,
MS TO Low the interview should be written. The
subject of IL was u theological discussion that
was then waxing hot IN ~. Louis. and that
there might he no mistake as to the point lie
forwarded all the articles that his paper had
published on tho subject. The man 10 be- i-
t%cryieW"l vas interested In the discussion.
and after reading the articles he talked to the
extent Of a column and II hnlf, Mr.. McCullagh
sent an appraciatiys lc' ter 10 the newsvapSr
man. He discussed the relative merits ~
various kinds OF interviews, and enclosed his
check for SO, which was pavIncnt At the rate
Of $50 n column. III, in view of the subioct
this amount Is not sufficient, me wrote. pleas
let me know AT once II may lie said that the
interviewer thought that II was sufic ont.
The season OF big public balls Is one OF profit
and JOY 10 the caterers and walters in this
town. The wine-rOom privileges alone are
worth II snall fortune. The distinctive char
acter OF lovernl Of these biz balls that was 81
noticeable a few years ago has. to a certain
extent, been lost. Tho turbulent scenes that
were nh annual occurrence at one OF them dis.
appeared about three wears ago under police
pressure, aud despite the attempts OF callow
youtns each wear since then 10 repeat them,