The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1904-06-17
NEW YORK MIILIONA1RES-
AS They Riot in NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
tracts Of the Great City.

noaey-made New York is full OF these
,>o,nolexities and acute contrasts be-
tween those who have everything.
those who have almost enough and
those who have little. and it is not
strange what discomfort should be SO
widely spread and that the song OF the
millionaire. who considers himself
oycrtaxed. should have so much OF
a vail as the refrain of the poor man
nuzz,ed how to make both ends meet.
The materialisrn OF the age has or
dained a higher standard OF luxury
Clothes never cost so much: woman
-ainer, exacts the annual expenditure
OF 4 small fortune 1t is the fashion
to apologize if a dinner dress Is worn
more often than the posSesSor CON
siders advisable. and to ieproach
those with long purses for appearing
habitually in the same gown.
The extravaganza Of the age. the
expenditure. all rises to the surface
in New York as it does nowhere else
in the country. Such extravaganza
seems to- be massed and centralized
in the parade of 5th avenue; the palm
gardens, even on a rainy day: the
boxes at the theatres and races. the
garden party for charity and the occa-
sional fashionable wedding. Country
clubs and country houses conducted
on scale of up-to-date luxury are
full of this prodigality of monster au-
tomobiles. expensive dress, tour-in-
hand coaches and all the delicacies OF
the season.
The men OF the hour in New York
are less Chauncey Mitchell Depew
and Beurke Cochran than Alfred
.Gwyune Vanderbilt and James Henry
Smith. whose weekly. daily. hourly
income is adroitly computed. 1t isn't
brains that "c,ss ice" in the matter OF
cutting coupons. even when their pos
SCISSORS are very comfortably OF.
What ordinary-everyday millionaire
can compare with Rockefeller and
Andrew Carnegie. Alfred of the Van
*derbilts and James Henry of the
Smiths.
How much more has this millionaire
got than the other millionaires. is the
cry of ready-much-much- ch-money cash
basis Manhattan. The preachers from
their puipits are bewailing and de-
nouncing the vulgarity of riches; vet
never was it so much the thing to be
vulgar. The New York upper world
reeks with such vulgarity. All the
millionaires of California Nevada and
Montana. if not of Colorado. are
erecting palaces to compete with and
,outshine those of the Vanderbilts, AS
tors and James Henry Smith. now in
stalled in what was once the W. I.
Whitney house. Alone the champion
millionaire of Colorado. Thomas +.
Walsh, prefers to reign in Washing
ton. where he is almost. though not
quite. alone among the very rich OF
this earth. rapidly recruited by the
I.arz Andersons and others.
e There are too many millionaires IN
uo-to-date New York for any one mil
lionaire to occupy the center OF the
stage. Not to be a millionaire IS.
indeed, the exception among the more
distinguished and almost equivalent
TO a reproach. The smart set IN par
1;cuiar cannot understand genteel
poverty, and disputes it's gent'llty.
Having narrowed its own immediate
circle to ':about 40" it was concluded
TO let down the bare gently. even III
favor of the doubly divorced. when
they chance to be ultraopulent. and
admit those who can entertain II
not be entertaining. Nothing is great
:er than such liberality which sees
nothing save the glittering star OF
great fortune and condoneS much to
those who can pay the piper.
This impression of material'sm
strikes observers as forcibly as do the
noises and confusion OF the great
TOWN. and vet. like it or dislike IT.