The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-31
NEW YORK TOPICS.
DRIFTS AND UNDERGRADUATE OF
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The Town Is Empty of Society
Folk, but 1t Is Very Crowded
Place Nevertheless - Rarely OF
Never Were There More Strangers
in the City-PicrpOnt Morgan,
Chauncey Depew and Russell Sage.
How Depew Keeps Posted on the
News of the Day-The Sage-GouId
PIan--A Wonderful Current His
tory in Scrap ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Reeds Collection of Cartoons
which Mrs. Reed Does Not Appre-
ciate.
New York, Aug. 30.-This crowded
town-never so crowded in point of fact
in it's entire history-is still almost as
empty" of the fashionables as it was
in July.
1t is true that celebrities are return
ing from abroad by every steamer and
many of them are with us daily. Pier
pont Morgan has been at his resk
nearly fortnight after an unusually
protracted foreign vacation. Chaun-
cey M. Depew has been some
what in evidence a part of
the time ever since his re-
turn on the same day as Mr.. Morgan's,
Bishop Potter was with us a day or
two, is now in the country visiting
his fiancee and will soon be back at
work. Russell Sage has been in evil
dence every day all summer as he
has for many many summers. A list
of those who achieve things and who
are now active in New York's daily
life might be extended to fill a column.
But for the purposes of the society
columns of the Metropolitan daily,
there is nobody in town yet, and this
shows, perhaps, how genuinely super
fetal in this country is that part of the
population called Society. 1t is quite
different in England. There most men
of affairs are also social lights, while
here most of them are either shut out
or decline to enter Both DR.. Depew
and Mr.. Morgan are of the latter class.
Both could shine in the most exclusive
society circles If they chose, but, while
both are of extremely social proclivi-
ties and both are occasionally to be
met at ultra fashionable gatherings,
neither cares to enter fully into the
fashionable life of the day.
When in New York or Washington
DIR. Depew is perhaps the best posted
man so far as current events go, in
all America. He keeps thoroughly
abreast of all the worlds news worth
knowing and all the important COM
ments thereon, and does 1t easier,
gentle reader" than you keep posted
on the doings and sayings of your own
city and its suburbs.
Depew's method of keeping himself
well informed is an interesting ex-
ample of how the men who lead in
the worlds work do things. In the
first place. while he doesn't trust any
one but himself to read the important
news, he doesn't waste the fraction of
a minute hunting for the news in the
papers, nor does he devote any time
to reading the essentially non-import-
ant things.
Every day in the year when in
America he notifies a clerk that he
wishes to keep specially well Informed
on certain subjects. Just now, for
instance, undoubtedly, the coal strike
is one of these. So also is the politi-
cal situation in his own state, also
President Roosevelt's doings. And of
course the New York Central Rail-
road, the Vanderbilts, ETC., etc, are
standing topics. Early every morning
the clerk detailed to do the work goes
carefully over a selected list of papers
and cuts out every last scrap of news
or comment on all the topics indi-
Gated, besides everything of interest
on any news topic that may come up
fresh and the interesting general
news. Having cut the slips out he
Classics them rigidly, pastes all re-
ferring to the strike on one big sheet
of cardboard, everything pertaining to
the Vanderbilts on another and so on.
When Mr.. Depew reaches his desk,
either in New York or Washington, he
finds on his desk, not the newspapers
to be laboriously gone through in
search of the news, but the news and
views of all the papers on the topics
he wants to read about, prepared in
the most convenient form for perusal.
In this way the genial junior senator
from the Empire State becomes better
informed in an hours reading of the
matter pasted on his big cardboards
than anyone could become from the
reading of uncut newspapers in half a
day.
Senator Depew doesn't confine has
study of the news to the cardboard
perusal Of the days journals, how
ever.
They enable him to know the news
as presented by the New York, Wash
ington and Philadelphia papers only,
whereas he is quite as vitality inter-
ested with respect to certain topics In
what the press of the interior has to
say as in what Is said by the big East
ern journals. In order to crafty this
interest he is a persistent subscriber
to the clipping bureaus and daily re-
ceives great bundles Of clippings there
from. NATURALLY large proportion
of these clippings refer TO himself per-
sonally, and he reads them on rail-
road trains, while waiting for dinner
or luncheon to be served-in fact in all
sorts of odd intervals the whole day
through, always having two or three
bundles in his pockets to consult when
ever the opportunity may offer. OF
course. II isn't possible for him to
know absolutely everything that is
said In print about himself, but he
comes peEilously near II.
In a measure. It win be observed,
Senator DepeW's method OF keeping In
touch with the affairs Of the day is
ike that OF certain foreign potentates.
who. Of course, cannot possibly ind
time 10 hunt out the news for them
selves in the newspapers Of the world,
printed as they are In many Ian
guaRes But there rs this radical dlf-