The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-16
MAJOR RIVALS IN MANHATTAN.
Ills observations on Current Events
in the Metropolis.

10, in an aftermath OF Dewey, watching
49,. bulletin boards and reading the news
,,,,srs for the latest news of the interna-
,ioaa1 Yacht races, and listening TO the
,,,,,t,rar comment on these and other al
nod topics. The Major had picked up
come bits of interesting gossip about them
all
81 am no yachtsman," he said to a Morn
ing News reporter yesterday. MY nauti-
o,I oxperiences have been confined to jour
news on the ships plying between Savan-
rsb and the Northern ports, and I have
found these experiences comfortable and
sotisfying. I have no desire to change
,bsm for the uncertain pitchings and toss
mos of a single-stick cup winner-or loser
With about twelve feet of beam and $50
feet of dizzy hight l somehow
think that on the ocean liner the pro-
horizons are being better observed and that
am more comfortable than l would be
aboard the yacht"
Nevertheless, one can't be in New York
tor many days, at this season of the year,
without becoming infected with the yacht
ing enthusiasm. l know some people up
sbera who are as clear and hard-headed
business men, ordinarily, as are manu-
featured in thisaage, whose conversation
,yravifates between recollections and rem
iniscences of the reception to the Admiral
and surmises and conjectures as to the
prospective winner of the America cup.
They will pack themselves aboard one of
The atrocities known as an excursion
steamer and for the entire day win watch
the sluggish evolutions of a pair of beats
that are trying TO get through the water
without any wind, in time to permit one
Of them to claim and secure the days v.c-
tory. They will devote the rest of the af-
ternoon and evening to telling what they
have and have not seen end in comparing
the relative merits and winning prop
critics of the jib-spinnakers, or some other
apparatus, belonging TO the Columbia and
the Shamrock.
"They do say" continued the Major,
''that the Shamrock is going to win the
race. They give all sorts of reasons for
it, most of which are absolutely unintel-
ligible 10 me, but two of which l can I'M
derstand The first of these is that the
sails of the Columbia do not fit as we'll
as they should, and the second, that Mr..
c. Oliver Iselin, the managing director of
the syndicate that owns the yacht, inter-
feres with her management in tle races,
to such an extent that she has been seri-
ousy handicapped There were other rea-
sons assigned for the danger of the Sham
Involved in technicalities that it is not
for a land lubber like me either 10 ex-
plain or understand them When they
were told me, l received them with proper
thankfulness, decorum and gravity, but
TO save my life l couldn't tell what they
are about From it .all, though, 1 gather
that the Britishers have a good boat, web
designed, well built, well fitted with sails
and well handled, and that there is more
than passing chance that the America
cup will take its first trip from this side
of the water to the other"
How is the Dewey presidential boom?"
Mai. Ryals was asked.
Well" was the reply, '1t happens
strangely enough, for il is not the case Us
ua,ly, that my New York friends are not
politicians and for this reason heard very
little political talk. Everybody seemed
wiling and anxious enough TO worship
Dewey, but whether they are as ready 10
vote for him I don't know and didn't take
much trouble TO find out. The country
seems TO be in the throes Of its pc
Tiodic spasms of hero worship, that have
cropped out four or five times before in
its history and when it is in this cond-
ton, the nation is no more accountable for
It's actions, than village community with
camp meeting in progress.
There was plenty of talk of one of our
ex-heroes, though. l heard the tale of
Capt Carter's crime and trial and its side
lights told in at least a half dozen different
ways, and learned that in New York they
are better acquainted with the scheme for
the improvement of the harbor of Savan-
nan than we are here, with the harbor at
out doors. When l was in New York they
were talking about the approval of the
sentence Of the courtmartial by the Pres
ident and l heard many expressions of
opinion as to why ID had been done just
mo Tbsa inf Orr Cd
II 10 conjunction of two circumstances,
The Ohio campaign and the Dewey celebra-
ton"
They tell me-" said the Ma
jor, that when Marcus Aurelius re-
turned from his trip abroad and began
tentative examination of the public
pulse, he found strong indica toms of a con-
dltion of discomfort in Ohio He observed
that the history of the Carter case was
making excellent campaign material, and
mat the Mclean cohorts were using it for
all 1t and they were worth. They were say
ing that the President was delaying con-
hrmation of the sentence until the statute
Oh limitation had run against the other
conspirators. They were proclajmlng from
the housetops that one man could not be
guilty of a conspiracy by himself and that
lhe President, aware of this fact, was
paying political debts in this coin of de-
lay"
MT Hanna, say the wiseacres, saw that
tnls would not do, and he advised the
PRESIDENT to confirm the sentence of the
courtnartial. To do so at the time when
tne press of New York was devoting its
TINE and attention to the coming and re-
eepuon of Dewey would permit it to pass
~ comparative quiet and without attract
Jug the attention that would otherwise
Se me case Now the wise ones are wan
uer!hg about the trial of the men who are
Iged with conspiring with Carter TO de-
maud the government and are anxiously
@"aiuhS the time when these cases are
ne brought before the court"
Ch' yes, there is all sorts of talk in New
d Io.h, There is no dearth of subjects Of
IS'scuSslon nor of men 10 discuss them. 1
as alued many things while I was there,
H. oi; strangely enough. there was a nau-
NIL wang about them all. They began
'i ',n me welcome to the great sailor,
rssed through an intermediate stage of
s ell racing and concluded with a discus
~ ~ oI the frauds in the construction of
bo system for the deepening of the har-
Nv oI savannah They talk a great deal
mere and very often they have some
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