The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-08-28
GATh'S VARIOUS TOPICS
ENTERTAINING "REMINISCENCES
OF "JIMMYm o'BRIEN
The Difficulty of Obtaining Publicity
for the Facts Of the Tweed Ring
Rottenness-Smart Waiter

studying New York at the bath, along her
many beaches, and find at the West End,
which came into being during the civil
war, when first knew it, all the crowd and
gaiety then delightful, repeated in this
Spanish war.
Wars inevitably assemble the urban peo-
pie into closer intercourse and dissuade
them from going far away from their
trade center. Summer housekee ping is
equally made nervous in war times, and
the better hotels get the cottagers.
The Improvement in the Jewish families
of New York between the two wars is most
apparent here, where I see the daughters
of the mothers once saw as daughters also.
Saturday night Is court scene among
these prosperous and dressy people, whose
ladies in youth and nearly up to middle life
are as rich in person and in physical con-
trast as In apparel. Were the Hebrew So
ciety at this hotel seen in some foreign cap
!tal as at the Saturday night dance and
veranda promenade, it would take record
as among the most brilliant courts in the
world The two nations which bait the
Hebrews most are the German and French,
who yet owe to the Jews their advance
ment in the arts: Heine, Spinosa, Meyer
beer, Neander, Rothschilds, are a few
names only, and the baptismal names of
Europe are nearly all Jewish.
Said Travelled foreigner to me: 1.-THE
last place I should go to in America to ac-
quaint myself with your country would be
to college faculty or sanctum of re-
viewers. They pull mo lever, perceive no
changes. But your public schools are great
factories of patriotism and produce all the
inventors and machinists.'
HAS the present war some education for
Europe?" I asked.
"G!eat education, like all your wars.
Remember that Germany, which was then
Austria. made as much fuss about your
annexation of Texas as it does about your
appearance in the Philippines. Your an
tagonst when Daniel Webster was secrc-
tary Of state was Austria
1.-THE effect Of the presen. American war
Is TO force upon Europe constellation
government. or European union. AS that
will bs resisted by army arstocrats, q
speedy, better emigration to America will
arise.
'Your way of trade is much better than
Europe's; you manufa cture the savage into
being 90 wants, and cater to your new
RuPh . oouyy we tHpeCt u lTdUe WITH MIN
only for his servitude, raw materials and
taxation Nothing has ever been wit
messed half as curious as Brother Jona-
than's appearance in the Pacific ocean,
You already see the welcome You get from
Spain's old subjects in Porto Rico; how
different from Plzarro and Cortez. Your
hardy experience with material obstacles
has been your salvation"
COnPV Island 70 10
Vanity Fair in the world, It's number of
nude or almost nude shows extensive and
going on all day as well as night.
Bismarck follows Gladstone soon, their
careers long previously ended. Bismarck
was nearly Teutonic knight Gladstone
British rhapsodst and agitator Dura-
ton was large talent in BOTH Bisma rck's
seizure of Germany in 1866 was in the direc-
ton of homogeneity, Austria having been
an italian and exterior leader of Germany.
but the doggedness of France militarized
Germany and sat Bismarck aside. to be
Kind of Prussian Kossuth or Garibaldi.
German literature, not Bismercll nor Will
liam, was the real power--the writing of
Luther, Schiller, Goethe and Wagner.
Disturbed self esteem is proving unon
France and Germany. Europe has no
leaders, yet it Is not at rest. Enough of the
feudal and ecclesiastical period is left TO
stay wholesome settlements; too many Of
ficials require to be fed
Jimmy OBrien, ex-sheriff of New
York. a potent leader, the author of the
ruin of Tweed's and Sweeney's ring. said
to me last Sunday: Come, dine with me
the RnmSo0 =,
We went along the ocean front of half
decayed former Long Branch and through
the fine fresh village of Monmouth Beach.
the least exploited, best part of the settle
ment. We passed Dave Hill, ex-governor.
on the road, and Archbishop Corrigan, 70
both of whom the sheriff spoke. Then we
took four miles of the Rumson road through
country of corn. cattle, salt pond, fish
hawks nests and the noblest parks and
residences continuously on the globe
almost appalling, sheriff, this wealth
and grandeur of New York! To leave
1t is to admire 1t the most in exile"
The sheriff was New Yorker and no.
as much enthused as l. He said. however.
II have been well over Europe, and they
have nothing there like the Rumson road. -
What elegant palaces, so wide, so clean
so unobtrusively princely! What low, vine
arched gateways, hedges, Landscape gar
dens, groves, terraces! The Rumson road
falls back from the sea with the Never
sink on Its flank and the sea winds do NOT
sinite the woodlands, which in the languor-
GUS scent of the salt grows strong as beauty
beyond the breath of Neptune.
AS we sat down at old Thomas, colored
man of Canadian parentage, and ate Can
adam black bass and plover, with no drink
but Wisconsin Lithia water-for the sher-
j.. If neither drinks nor smokes-I asked him
various leading questions. to the following
results:
Thomas here" said O'Brien, used to
make $4,000 a year at Saratoga as head
waiter. I always gave him fifty for the
season and many gave him hundred to
two hundred. He blew 1t all in at Wal,
street and now rents this villa for the Rum
son road gentry, and think does pretty
WE'LL"
"Shkriff, they tell me you have made
heavy losses in Wall street,"
II am ahead Of the street; that fellow
Seymour failed with $4,000 of mine, but
Isaac Bells son said to me: Mr.. O'Brien
our office is open to you without money;
when you want to DEAL feel al home there
] have old friends like Flower who tell
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