Arizona republican., 1898-04-07

others he was known as the socia1 secretary of Mrs. Calvin s. Brice, the eastern social leader. We judge from the following extract from the Wash ington Post, entitled "A Tragedy in High Life" that MT. -Beaty has with drawn from the responsible position which made him a central figure at Washington, New York, Newport and elsewhere in the Brice itinerary Here is the sad tale in full:
 eve refer with melancholy awe to social event which, according to the New York Journal, has just thrown the metropolitan aristocracy into a | species of despair We refer to the occultation of MT. T. Sanford Beatty, erstwhile the purveyor of sweetness and light in the household of the Hon. Calvin s. Brice, but now vanished from the constellation. The mournful intelligence is conveyed to respectful and a stricken world in these appro- priately dismal terms:
 "'T Sanford Beatty is not in the Brice mansion On Fifth avenue, the windows of which are saddened, nor at Beaulieu, in Newport, the lawn of which grieves, nor in the Corcoran House, at Washington, nor in any other of the Brice palaces.
 T. Sanford Beatty has gone to San Francisco, and with him have van- ished, suddenly, the sumptuous din ners, the enchanting receptions, the joyful festivals, which attracted so much attention of fashionable society in every season, captivating the young and the sedate, amazing even the most generous among the wealthy.
 T. Sanford Beaty directed them. as Neptune directed the waves of the ocean. He was the judge. the com mander, and the executor of all the social exercises of the household, a major-domo more tyrannical than the mayors of the palace, who became soy ereigns in France in the time of the nonchalant Merovirgians.
 He is not in disfavcr; his ab- sence is not the effect of revolution. He has gone and the initiated, who tell everything, say that gone are the sumptuous epochs of Calvin S. Brice's social career. Now there is no major domo, there will be no series of state dinners every week on Fifth avenue. no performances of gymnasts and trained animals on the lawn of Beau lieu. no festivals in Washington led by the gracefulness Of Calvin S. Br'ce.
 "It is one of the defects of modern very mOdern-iournalis that an august event of this magnitude cannot be discussed without an acCOmpanyiDg 2 l swarm of eXtravagant conjectures. Our esteemed contemporary, for ex- | ample, records with becoming rever- ence and sorrow the sad evanishment | of Beaty, but it must needs go on to say that with him goes the sumptuous and graceful hospitality that has made the Brice residence famous throughout the land. With all possible respect for our esteemed contemporary, WE must insist that there is TO ground whatever for these melancholy prophe- cies. There is no more cultivated and gracious home between the two oceans than that of Mir Brice, none where the true spirit Of courtesy and kindness is found in more attractive manices- tation. There can be no lack of re finement and good cheer where thi; spirit reigns supreme.
 "We have no objections to the man. ner in which MT. Beatty is compli- mented:
 "'T. Sanford Beatty to these was in. dispensable. Tall, broad -shouldered handsome, elegant, with the trimness of his black beard in a point, and the placidity of his large eyes, he was present in person whenever there were fashionable young men asking for { diversion, in mind whenever ideas fol new dinners and coalitions were in tht air.
 Tt has been said that here in Wash ington, he was the idol of the gildet youth; that he furnished them witt models and with thoughts with in spiration and advice; that all ths Willie boys sat at his feet as greater men once sat at the feet of Gamaliel And if that be true of Washington why should it not be true as well O. New York? We accept all this, in an. case, and wait the departing Beat! upon a breath of adulation He i beautiful, as the Journal says; he ha. pointed beard and large and tunefu eyes. His disappearance will make al aching void-if, indeed, vacuum b. possible-in the New York aristoc racy. But it is our firm belief that tn, Brices will continue to dine them selves, and occasionally to feed {; friend notwithstanding the occu'atio1 of that resplendent star known in tn, upper circles as T. Sanford Beaty. Le us hope so, anyhow"
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