The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-29

ume of testimony
kins, who has lately established the fore
most school of design in New York, could
live luXuriously off the yearly profits if
anything should happen to her handsome
fortune
Il could mention John Jacob Astor.
George De Forest, Heber Bishop. Cass
Garfield, Miss Clews and as many mora
in my set who could earn livings at
electricity, yacht designing, teaching
languages and bridge building. But
think" continued the hostess, trihe tri-
umphantly, Il have said enough to con-
vince you that our New York milionares
and millionairesses are no less serious IN
their view of life and its duties than their
aristocratic brothers and sisters on the
other side"
Heel.
The bullying Partisan concierge Is
here, in New York, or a creature so like
the pitiless doorkeeper of the French
apartment house, that already the unlucky
flat dweller is ground under his tyrannous
heel. 1t is not the resident in buildings
where flats rent for a moderate sum- and
the location is questionable, who knows
the inhabitant of the palatial apartment
building and apartment hotel Now the
price of fine apartments is higher in New
York than any other city In the world.
On Fifth avenue it is difficult for a family
to rent floor under less than thousand
dollars month. This signifies an area
about as large as a farm house attic divid-
ed up into GREATNESS little rooms with
daylight in the front and rear room only.
Ii is sad TO relate that the New York
landlord has taken a leaf out of his for
eign brothers book of rules. When you
rent a fine fiat on Fifth avenue you must
expect TO keep your head in a hornets
nest or your hand ever in your pocket
1t may be very gratifying to your pride
to live in a place where a splendidly ap-
pareled six-footer stands on the sidewalk
10 open your carriage door, another pushes
the gilt and crystal revolving stle to ad-
init you to the public hall, and third
sweeps you into the elevator just as II
you were staying a. the Waldorf-Astora.
Your friends compliment you on placing
yourself so comfortably, but you wear
hollow smile because nearly everything ex-
cept the naked rooms you live in are eX-
tras, and every one of those minions with
the bearing and manners of ex-noblemen'
are vampires with their teeth In your
purse.
In a Partisan apartment house you have
to do with one concierge and his rutness
wife. In the New York apartment mouse
you must fight a half dozen who can ~
orally force you to break your lease anu
move if you refuse to yield to their ue-
mands Their demand is money, at regu-
lar and frequent intervals, from every
member of your family If you deny thef
claims you will find your ring at the ee-
Vator bell is not heard, your letters alo
delayed in coming up, you open your dool'
yourself, visitors are gratuitously lnisii
formed as to your Whereabouts at tle Gu
trance of the building, your wood ana Oo''
arrive tardily when most needed, your
quests for repairs have to be repea,11
again and again, and your prlVa'e Ss
ants are openly annoyed ana lhsu".e
It is quite futile to complain, because
betterment comes by way OF chause
hall or elevator men. They must an no
money, and so successful are they IN a.
forcing their demands that to one Ia
dwellar on Fifth avenue the elevator
confessed that he rarely accumulated F
than SEQ month"; in tips. He admit
that the door boy and street boy the Ja
itor who cleans the public halls anu
ianitor who distributes coal and Woou,
bow who runs the freight ana sei
elevator and the house porter ana .II
Derintendent. each and all Jared neal"
well.
Art Treasures All Coming TO An"
lea.
Tho ,r,nortatinn If foreign antiques
our rich Americans increases eve ,.,n 81
THE custom House officials will tell you
and the bric-a-brac collectors ecHo - am
sertion. What with their fortunes
their determination to own WnaI ,,,b
our millionaires so far outbid d, ,ng
tious European buyers at the saa al
by and by very few of the really -
tiques will be left on the othel rt
exemplfication of this was re- Pas
teresting duel played between Lo.rt M
berry and Mr. Berwind of New ~ Nv
a desk of richest inlay once use1 ma
poleon. Lord Rosebery IS a "a I'LL
but the American capped every o' md
Earl could not follow his rlVai, .bsr Cd
let the desk go. 1 ne 0o.sesrtc
lectors felt as Lord RoseDeIS syer
that the Americans are grasp't'ithy &
thing. Benjamin Gable, the "e't :, bu
Congressman. who is preparing 20 bo
in Washington a copy of a Fai its iut
Of the Louis XIV period, has IoI sxar
rior adornment purchased a peIleO. :, Ve
ple of the Louis Quinz decorauO' ,-sned
ice. Though he buys this grea. a b
palace. he proposes only to usT he ca
Of il. All the inside walls "ill IA aDpI
fully sliced out, brought over aliu case
TO the Washington house. MI. Eng
not experimenting; old Dutch al L,.sb sta
houses, Flemish ceilings and hus,in
ways are brought over Wno4e ~
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