The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-12
SnclETY'S STAKE IN SLUMS.
,,,ERICAN LORDLINGS WHO ARE
DOING LENTEN DUTY.

alexander MADDEN Works i'm RAN
daII's Island, While Norman God
lard, John Hammond, Joel Thorn
and Young Arson Stokes. All in
the smart Millionaire Set, Are
unercetic in City Mission LabOrs.
several Effective Working Re
cines for Gaining Admission to the
Most Exclusive Circle of Society.
New York, March 1O.-The cause of the
roor has become a tremendous interest
=, the most dandifed American lordling.
If vou doubt this, just lead the conversa-
tton round to philanthropic work, and dis
cover that your delicately perfumed, Lon
don-clothed companion at dinner party
has got what he calls his stake in the
New York slums. The pleasantest phase
of this philanthropic craze, now at its
hight in Lent, is that most of The smart
Young men are genuinely earnest in their
work.
The mirror of fashion and the mold of
form in the young dancing set is Alex
ander Hadden, who comes of the very
most aristocratic family in New York,
and who devotes his spare time to work
ing among the boys in the reformatory
ON RandaRs Island. once week it is
his Lenten habit to toll over to the
drearv building on the East river island
and have dinner with the boys. One of
his finest accomplishments is carving,
and he delights the inmates by stand
ing at the head of the long table, and
Juggling the last shreds off fowls doing
artistic feats with joints and gossiping
along. in cheerful, elevating talk, with
his proteges as he portions out their
meat once a year he is host at Ran
dalrs Island. and the boys his guests, for
he lays them such a feast of good things,
toasts and compliments, warns and en-
courages 50 heartily, that they obey him
implicitly and follow his advice when their
period of reformation is over.
Norman Goddard and John Hammond,
who are both social lights of no small
magnitude and the former possesses for
tune. give the best portion of their time
and energy to working among the East
Side boys. Young Mr.. Goddard lives a
portion of every year in two plain rooms,
practically disappears from the ken of his
equals and courts the acquaintance of any
sorry youth who needs guidance in the art
Of plain living and high thinking. Mr..
Hammond is the moving spirit in boys
club associated with Hartley House. Joel
Thorn whose father is one of New York S
most prominent millionaires, devotes his
spare energies to the neighboring guild,
and young Arson Stokes has pretty well
made up his mind TO forsake society for
the pulpit He has a mission of his own
in helping boys to get educations.
PalatiaI Stairways.
The way into the parlors of magnificent
new houses, rising to adorn the upper re-
~, IL n=t M a
tal splendor, is up stairs that, whether
they wind or not are magnificent beyond
anything ever seen before in America.
When Levi P. Morton, Coils p. Hunting
ton Mrs Belmont, Mrs. Paget and scores
of other house builders interviewed their
architects they deeply impressed the men
OF plans with their desires to own grand
stairways. The Huntingtons, actually set
the fashion and stirred up envious emula-
ton by spending $4,000 on the stairway
OF their Fifth avenue palace. Mr. Victor
Newcomb hardly spent as much, but he
got as good an effect by using richly
carved rose and black marble, paneled
with mirrors. That was the top notch
reached until the Astors, and ex-Gov.
Morton adopted eurving white marble
steps, the balustrade running to the cell
ing, but opening at intervals in ovals
through the fretted marble, SO that the
steps seem in reality to be a series of ex-
quisite Juliet balconies.
A later fashion, however, has arrived.
The first time it appeared was in James
Speyer's, the millionaire bankers house.
Out OF the hallway of his Madison avenue
nome springs lofty path Of wonderfully
wrought black iron. The design for the
udiustrade was done in France and the
pattern of iron Is as richly ornate and
seemingly almost as delicate as venetian
rose point. The steps are all openwork
u lfon' with a verdant way of emerald
green velvet running up the center, while
Top OF the rail is bound with green velvet
"A stairway of this type costs about $25, OO0
eua seems really more in keeping with
domestic interiors than the marble gor-
geousness.
Mrs. FACETS Dining Room.
Housebuilders and owners have nut
some OF their fads behind them. 1t is too
V"sy Tor dWeller in a fiat or a ginger
Wead seaside cottage 10 have cheap imi-
tduoh OF japanese and Turkish rooms for
Eef charm to retain any hold on the ex-
CiuslVe New Yorker, so the Jap and
IIehch rooms are faded fashions The
fancy now is to dwell in domed apart
Henls' TO have rooms with the walls left
IL me rough and then absolutely covered
WIN mirrors or tapestry. Mrs H. F.
~ SAdhple, possesses the finest
IA" OF mirrors in New York. It is a min
ialufe imitation of the galerie des miroirs
al me palace of Versailles. 1t is similar
~ nshted and is used for ball and re-
p'on room on great occasions In Mrs
ie mont s, Mrs. Rhinelander's and Mrs.
S.e~s' houses the walls of the drawing
Inns are absolutely unseen, for the rich
'psstrles that hang from ceiling to floor,
lney did in medieval days. chiefly then
u" keep out drafts and hold the heat.
one of the very most talked of rooms
t--s winter in New York is the dining hall
=" mrs Pagets house. 1t is the first of
sileS Of wedgewood rooms. others have
zen patterned on this one, but none are
o beautiful, for the dining han is long
""u iofty and the gray-green walls, half
way panelled with carved oak. are deco
,a'tu with lovely white wedgewood fig
o'es. The doors in this apartment is so
rI0luea that when closed the walls are
form and only one acquainted with
1 room can tell where the doors are
u ma the concealed knob that springs
oyin open. Not only does the carpet and
t5'Neu furniture exactly harmonlze with
'lt walls. bIt wed ure.nrao1 oI,g,,, .,.4