The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-18

nit to carry a revolver, if she should
wander out some fine day and bag a
brace of lawyers.
Purely as a spectacle the funeral of
Archbishop Corrigan last week was
wonderful, in fact unique in this part
of the world. The long procession of
priests, the solemn and elaborate GER
emonies, the swinging censers, the
ancient chants, the great crowd of
grief-stricken people, praying and
crossing themselves in the street out
sde-all these seemed to lift the event
out of the busting, nervous atmos-
phere of the twentieth century and
take it back to the middel ages. Ger
tainly there has been no funeral for
many years characterized by so great
an outburst of public grief. The eff
feet upon tn city at large of the Arch
bishops death has been a surprise to
many who moderated his influence
here outside of the Roman Catholic
church. Always a man of scholarly at
tainments rather than of affairs, a re-
cluse in so far as his position would
admit, without those Snowy qualities
which win wide public notice, he had
still, perhaps almost in spite of him
self, become a great force in the life
of New York. How great the vacancy
he leaves is now coming to be appre-
ciated since his death.
A tragedy which, because of its ter
ribe suddenness has shocked the COM
munity more than Archbishop Cor
rigan's death, is the Ford murder and
suicide. Both Paul Ford the writer,
and Malcolm, the athlete, were known
to u very wide circle of acquaintance.
no eh he
brother whom he murdered before kill
ing himself may at first seem revolt
ing, yet the decision of the family has
won general approval. Whether or
not the facts justify it, the belief is
widespread that Malcolm was treated
with something less than justice, and
far less than generosity by his family.
That he should have been cut off by
his father, and that his brothers with
large fortunes at their commands
should have permitted him to be con-
stantly harassed in money matters has
an unpleasant look. The double fun
eral has the appearance of a tacit and
rather fine confession that Malcolm's
crime had its excavations. So APP
palling are the attending circumstances
of the tragedy-the condition of Mrs.
Paul Ford, the return of the divorced
wife of Malcolm, stealthily fastening
to their terrified son upon hearing the
news-that bitterness against the muir
derer seems to have been wiped out
in pity for the survivors.
Ills a merry life, the wine agents.
Also it's an expensive one. Some of
its trade secrets" came out in a re-
cent suit brought by the agent of one
brand against the agent of a rival
brand for alternating the professional
affections Of a sub-agent Agent No. l,
it appears, took the sub-agent in hand
when he was selling cigars and edu-
Gated him to be a champagne promoter.
First he paid the noVice's debts. Then
he gave him $4,000 for a years ex-
penses, besides his salary of $1,000. The
expense money he was to use by be-
coming a free spender" and putting
his particular brand of wine. Here is
the whole duty of the wine promoter
summed up in a sentence by the newly
educated agent:
THE duties of a champagne agent
consist in calling upon the consumer
as well as the retailer, attending pub
lie functions and entertainments and
other social gatherings and lavishly
spending money furnished by his en-
ployer."
To Go this cost him $4,000 the sec
ond year, and thereafter he continued
at the rate of $40, 900 a year. Still the
firm figures that he is worth more than
the money, for now when he seeks to
break away the company tries to re-
strain him by injunction, claiming that
they had given him an expensive edu-
cation and that they ought, as a re-
turn, to have the benefit of his gen
ial and ingratiating personality"
(Which is his chief assets now that
the training is completed.
We are becoming quite Partisan here
in allowing the demi-monde to set the
fashion in certain matters. There is
in Central Park a restaurant which
for years has been the favorite late
afternoon and early evening resort for
flocks of y-plumaged birds who ar
rived in hansomes or coupes accom-
panied by gilded youths. or even more
gilded gentlemen still struggling to re-
tain the appearance and prerogatives
of youth Drinks on the broad piazza,
supper with the music playing over
head. and a drive away into the cool
dr!veways OF the park. is the rest Of
the programme. The place is well con-
Quoted and the restaurant service good,
but there Is a distinctly half-worldy at
mosDhere This year society has de-
cided 10 take up the place. and 10 go
there g. 20 be good form" this sum-
mer Already the crowds have begun