The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-11

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 mo- where else ill the country. Such ex- travagance seems to be Ina cd and centralized in parade of Fifth Avenue
 the palm gardens even on a rainy day; the boxes at the theaters and races, the garden partly for charity and the oc- caslonal fashionable wedding. Country clubs and country houses conducted on a scale of up-to-date luxury are full of this prodigality of monster automobiles, expensive dress, four-in-hand coaches and all the delicacies of the season.
 The men of the hour ln New or9 are less Chauncey Mitchell Depew and Bourle Cochran than Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt and James Henry Smith. whose weekly, daily, hourly income is adroitly computed It isn't brains that "cuts ice" in the matter of cutting coupons, even when their possassors are very comfortably off. What ordi- nary, everyday millionaire can compare with Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie, Alfred of the Vandefblts and James Henry os the Smith? How much more has this millionaire got than the other millionaires, is the cry of ready-much- money-cash-bas Manhatten The preachers from their pulpits are be- wailing and denouncing the vrlgarity of riches; yet never was it so much the thins to be vulgar The New York up- per world reelSs with such vulgarity. All the millionairas of California, Ne vada and Montana, if not of Colorado, are erecting palaces to compete with and outshine those of the yanderbilts, Astors and James Henry Smith, now installed in what was. once the W. c. Whitney house. Alone4the champion millionaire of Colrado, N lomes r. VI --s t,~oec-- 4e e'' f- a-'.issc-4c,o, where he is almost, although not quite, alone among the very rich or this earth, rapioiy recraited by tfresLarz Ander- sons and others. 5 0a
 There are tco nahvofiillionaires in up-to-date New York for any one Mil. lionaire to occupy the. center of the stage Not to be millionaire is. in deed, the exception aIneng the more
 distinguished, and almost equivalent to a reprcach. Tie smart set in par tichlar cannot understand genteel pow erty, and disputes its sentility. Having narrowed it's own immediate circle to about 40 f it has concluded to let down the bars gently, even in favor of the doubly divorced, when they chance to Ibe ultraopulent, and admit those who can entertain if not be entertaining. Nothing is greater than such liberality, which sees nothing save the glittering star of a great fortune and condones much to those who can pay the piper. This impression of materialism strikes observers as forcibly as do the noises and confusion of the great town; and yet. like it or dislike it, such is New York to-day New York would not be the metropolis were it not for its solid men and mushroom millionsires, it's aggregation of wealth, it's extortion and almost criminal luxury, to contrast it's charity, philanthropy and moderation, very much overshadowed in the crash of fortunes and the whirl of bank ac- counts, but still existing if only to throw into greater contrast the frivolity of those who make the money fly.
 Grandpap Vanderbilt, in black broad- cloth and straw hat, picking his teeth as he merged from highnoon dinner tat Saratoga Hotel, never contem- plated the up-to-date type of grandson, Cornelius excepted, but at the same time the New York of 1904 needs just such beginning of the century editions of Croesus to complete the pieture.- New York Letter to Boston Herald.