The Savannah morning news., 1902-06-15
NEW YORK TOPICS.
DRIFTS AND UNDERCURRENTs OF
THE METROPOLIS.

Guardian SandWtch-Bat masterson
Energies From Myth Land and
Skaters the Worlds IIIusion-The
street of the Dollar and It's Gossip.
New York, June 13.-The city. is
dreadfully lonely. When j. p. Nor
gan is away it is like an orphan. There
is one man in New York, however, who
isn't lonely a bit. He is the unhappy
person in the Millionaires' Club
(Which the modest members insist on
calling the Metropolitan Club, who is
looked to especially to see that a GER
tain brand of gold tipped cigarettes
which certain of Mr.. Morgan's friends
most affect, is kept on hand always.
A member of the club who entertained
me there last week and who is not
above retailing the less private gossip
of the place, described feelingly how
every employe holds his breath when
the great Morgan calls for him or even
looks toward him. And those cigar
cites! At any moment of the day or
night Mr.. Morgan may demand thou
sand of them to be brought instanter
The Metropolitan Club has to be
long of them as a result. 1t is conf
IDENTIFY assumed by the employees that
If he ever happens to call for them in
vain the offending employe may pre-
pare for particularly painful death
A certain delightful and somewhat
loquacious and quite impecuniOus MEM
Der of the club "a petty millionaire
whose money really amounts to not
more than two, or at the most three
millions) came to hold forth to me at
great length in a corner of the smok-
ing room during the evening. He is
suffering from a keen sense of wrong,
and he cannot keep il to himself 1t
is connected with some exceedingly
rare and precious brandy that was OBJ
tanned one time by the club. In SOL
emn council of the House Committee
it was decided that it should be served
not only in tiny glasses, but that new
er, never should any member get any
quantity at one time. The next day Mr.
Morgan tasted it and at once ordered
that bottles of 1t, many bottles, should
be sent to his house. They were
There wasn't an employee who would
have dared to tell him that it was
against the rules made and provided
My millionaire has never been able to
get over it. He feels that here in
deed is case of capital grinding the
face of the poor. The club employees
would have laughed at him, he says
if he had asked for pint bottle. Deep
in his soul he knows that a mere tri-
millionaire in the Millionaires' Club is
indeed Lazarus and that Dives can ride
all over him and drink his club brandy
whenever he feels like it.
One reason why the ordinary citizen
likes Jerome is because he fights hard
but good humoredly. What other man
in the thick of the political battle
would think of giving a housewarrning
at his political club and inviting his
bitterest opponents, both the open foes
and the treacherous enemies? The
District Attorney proposes to open his
mousse at Rutgers street with a grand
solree for all He says, in substance,
to his friends the enemy: "You don't
believe in my methods, and certainly
don't believe in yours. But personally
I think you're a good fellow and I'd
like to have you think the same of me.
We can fight each other just as hard,
arrerward. So come around to the
house warming and get better ac-
quainted."
Thus he wants to get Dry Dollar
sullivan and Derris McCray, who are
fighting for the Tammany leadership
In the Sixth: Devery and Police Com
missioner Partridge; Tom Foley. Pat
rick Diver. Abe Gruber, Mayor Low
any and everybody who'll come and
behave themselves and not get drunk
and smash things. It wouldn't be
surprising TO see Devery and Diver
and Foley and Gruber come, for they
can fight man and still like him.
Partridge possibly wouldn't come. and
If the Mayor did, several people would
have to be treated for shock. And
when they all got there-if they came
would the police reserves have to be
held in~readiness? One cautious friend
of Jerome's, on reading the list of pro-
posed guests, wrote:
I'll come. But please make it
fancy dress party. l want to wear
suit of chain armor''
That sentiment which constitutes an
ex-President oracle upon national af-
fairs finds parallel municipality in the
case of the eX-Chief of Police. For
long after his retirement Superintend-
ent Byrnes was interviewed on every
police matter. Now ex-Chief Devery's
scope Is broader. He is Sir Oracle on
city politics in general and when he
opens his lips the barking of the dogs
is hushed in expectation. No man
knows the petty and seamy side of
politics better than Devery. Hear his
characterization of the triumVirate in
charge of Tammany; Murphy, "a fine
nice SPORT" Qronical, doubtless); Me
Mahon, "a two-spot;" Haffen, "a Joke"
It's all very Deverean. But when he
turns on Richard Croker he prejudices
himself. for Croker stuck by hin-not
wisely, but too well. 1t helped to de-
feat Tammany. Probably is was the
principal cause. Tom Dunn, Chief
Croker of the Fire Department, and
Senator Plunkitt are others that come
in for the Big Chiefs criticism. They
replied enthusiastically. Says Dunn:
An empty barrel makes a lot of noise
when it rolls down hill" Croker. the
business-like, concerns himself only
with the criticism of his department.
It's false" he says concisely. AS for
the imperturbable Plunkitt: "Oh, yes.
Devery," he Eliminates; "a great, big,
fat mani" Nevertheless, Devery's in
terview has stirred 'em up. They'll
keep an ear turned toward him from
now on. He may yet turn into an anti
Tammany leader.
One of those things that is always
happening to the other fellow struck
the heirs of Martin Anderson recently.
Martin was worthy resident of Ho-
boken. In 1910 he deposited 5000 in a
New York bank. Then he lost the
book. 1t is to be supposed that he
either forgot the deposit or thought
that the loss of the bank book for
feited the account. In any case. he
never made any attempt to get the
money, nor did he mention it in his
will. In the course of time the bank
got tired of having the money accu-
mulate and advertised for Anderson
or his heirs to call at the bank His