The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-05-23
OUR new YORK LETTER
THE TOWN OVERLOOKING WITH
NEWS WHICH GETS ScANT NOTICE.
There'n He . Reckoning by and by,
Though, Because OF Tammany's Course
In Police Matters--Mrs. Macksy and the
Meissonier Portrsit--street Singing.

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| Though, Because OF Tammany's Course
In Police Mstters--Mrs. Mackay and the
| Meissonier Portrsit-strect Singing.
NEW YORK, May ss.--[Special. For a
| full week this big town has been chock
| full of the sort of news that In ordinary
times would fiji the newspapers TO over
flowing and cause no end of talk-news
that has forced some degree Of recognition
even now, in spite of the overpowering in
| terest I'm the war.
Perhaps the most truly important OF
| this news has been that relating to the
latest developments with regard TO the
police chiefship. 1t must certainly have
seemed the worst New York news that
| has transpired in "A long time TO DIR. Park
hurst, Recorder Golf and the others who
| fought so hard few years ago for Tam
many's temporary overthrow. That any
/ one should dare to think of putting Will
| liam H. Devery-he who was indicted and
showed off the force i'm 1894 because of al
| legged misconduct of the vilest variety-in-
| TO the chiefs chair i'm 1898 must be bit
ter dose to the reformers.
| Devery.
Yet there are plenty OF New Workers,
men outside of Tammany at that, who be-
| lieve the police force will suffer not mt all
under Devery. Barring the charges made
against him by Dr. Parkhurst's society,
which were not sustained in court, these
persons say Devery has always borne the
reputation of being highly efficient Off
! Ger. That he will strive to maintain and
| increase this reputation, whatever may be
| the ultimate result of the present effort to
"vindicate'' him, is thought 10 be highly
probable, since the people demand as near
| ly perfect police administration as may
| be. In behalf of Chief McCullagh it ought
to be said that his administration has been
of an exceedingly high order.
| 1t is highly indicative of Tammany's in
tentions, by the way, that no serious
charges have been made against McCul-
lagh. The strongest Tammany men do
not claim that he has been n bad chief.
Devery Is a good Tammany man, a friend
and almost an idolater of Mr.. Croker, and
| Devery has long wanted the chiefs job,
chiefly to show the reformers that he is
genuinely on top and they are not in 1t.
| That is all, but that is enough, and this
furnishes the key to Tammany's plans for
| the future. Tammany men, and Tammany
| men only, are to share the spells. How
| ever, while the reformers and McCullagh
seem to be powerless just now, there Is no
| doubt at all that they, too, are making
| plans a-plenty and that the fight of 1894
| will in due time be fought all over again.
| Nor is there any doubt that Tammany
| is destined to have another fall after
awhile, especially if Devery's accession to
| the chiefship should be followed by any
marked degree of ''wide openness.'
| The Msckays.
Another piece of this week 8 news that
would have filled broadsides in some of
the newspapers in peaceful times was fur
nished by the marriage on Tuesday or
| Clarence Mackay to Miss Duer. This event
was adequately reported as il was, but the
reports were as nothing compared to what
they would have been last year, for in
| stance.
1t is many long years since the Mackays
began to furnish the great American pub
lie with interesting news. The story OF
| Mackay's rise from abject poverty TO fabu-
lous wealth is like fairy tale. His career
since becoming rich has been chcckered
J with adventures, including robberies,
shootings and stupendous financial con-
tests. His wife's daughter, Miss Bryant.
Mackay, was one of the principals in an
international romance, whereof marriage
was an incident and divorce the finale;
|
iarly sad and mortal accident, and for
years his wife has been one of the most
widely talked and written of women in
the whole world by reason of her persistent
residence abroad, her prominence in titled
society and her lavish expenditure of the
money won so wonderfully at the begin
ming of the Mackay career. 1t has beer
rumored for some time in New York that
Mrs. Mackay intended to settle down anC
remain In America for some time aftel
the marriage of her son that has just taker
place. but the .ruInor has now been def
nitely set at rest by an authoritative state
ment that she will return to Europe or
June /.
Mrs. Mackay's original aversion to thu
? United States Is said to have been caused
by the oft repeated publication of the stor,
, that she was a washerwoman before sh'
married Mr.. Mackay. 1t is u wonder, 4
that is so, that she can dwell across thu
Atlantic with any comfort, for she ha
been treated quite as discourteously Their
rs here. Her most disagreeable experience
In all probability was undergone whei
, she engaged Meissonier, the famou
, Frenchman, to paint her portrait 1t wa
unquestionably a great work of art, tech
, nically speaking but 1t was much great
, er libel upon Mrs. Mackay than the stor.
that she had at one time worked In laun
dry for livelihood. No one who knew
her could sec the canvas without recognize
, ing the original, yet the features wer
: coarsened and vulgarized almost beyon
) description.
A tremendously bitter controversy fol
lowed the pictures completion, and
course Meissonier came of first best Il
: Paris, where it ragged, but Mrs. Mackay re
taliated by putting the picture out OF sigh
till after the artists death, and there
, some color to the story that 1t was th
: cause of her removal from Paris to Lon
. | don.
, Patriotism In New York.
No moro impressive evidence of Ne'
York's patriotism Is to be observed ut an
time than the general conduct of tn
crowds that gather in front Of the bi
: newspaper bulletins in Park row. Thes
crowds sometimes reach half way acros
. City Hall park and number tens OF thot
& sands Thew are not made up of idleI