The herald., 1898-03-05

his fortunes to Morgan'S some years
ago, and is now one of the most impor-
tant pillars of the firm doing business
in the white marble building cornering
on Wall and Broad streets. His special
duties consist in working out all the de-
tails of the consultations which Nor
gam advises, and. without the help of
just such man he would have found
it difficult to accomplish many of the
schemes which he has carried through
to a successful conclusion.
Those who know both Morgan and
Coster say the latter has acquired the
ability to take up Morgan's thought at
exactly the point where he leaves off
and carry it through to the desired con-
clusion. They say, also, that Coster
has acquired the same peculiarMies of
personal bearing that have become so
marked feature in his chief, and that
though he cannot of course, make
himself half so truly terrible as Morgan
-he is still able to strike CONSERVATION
into the heart Of any ordinary mortal.
KLONDIKE DINNERS.
The Klondike fever has taken hold
of New York with a grasp that is really
iCIlIdI hdUlc, dLu, enough,
those who seem to be most affected
are generally men whom you would be
least likely to suspect of susceptibility
to the diseaSe,-men who are holding
good places here in which they would be
far more certain of anna ssing a COM
potency in time than in the digging of
gold away up north. OF course it would
not be possible to say how many men
of this sort are going, but the number
is large and the rush has probably only
just begun.
My attention was first drawn to the
matter by the keeper of one of the mid
die class restaurants that boast accom-
modations for the more modest sort of
public dinners" so-called. This man
is a great gamer by the craze for gold
digging, for it is quite the thing here
now to speed the departure of your
Klondike-going friend by the giving If
such a dinner, and in consequence this
restaurant has had an unprecedented
amount of this kind of patronage.
Within the last three or four weeks
half dozen Klondlke dinners, each
consisting of from thirty to sixty
plates, have been given there, and from
the elaborately printed menu cards
which the proprietor proudly showed
me I am justified in the inference that
all parties concerned were decidedly
well to do.
One interesting result of the craze.
though quite natural when you come to
think of it, is the fact that it has
worked much benefit to a large mum
ber of bright fellows who are not at all
bitten herewith. Some of those 60
ing to the Klondike have been serving
as heads of departments in big com
mercial and other business houses and
their places must of course be filled at
once. This necessity has to my knowl-
edge proved the opportunity of several
aspiring capable young men who have
been long but almost hopelessly wait
ing for promotion, and have now been
advanced to the vacated posts.
A GROWING CUSTOM.
The giving of these various "public
dinners" of which speaking to toasts
is one of the features, is rapidly in
creasing in New York. Only the most
important are reported in the newspa.
pers, of course, but there has hardly
been night since the first of the year
that several such affairs have not
taken place, and on some nights there