The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-10-16
NEW YORK SOCIETY LATE
IN RETURNING TO TOWN
Sir Howard Vincent's Visit to This Country and
the Puzzle 1t Has Furnished Him.

New York, Oct. ia striking fea-
ture of this years social season, they
say is the unwonted lateness of the
opening of many private city houses.
Never, for years, the story goes, has
the fashionable world been so slow in
returning to town. Never also, in
years, have those with money, but who
are not lin" remained away so late.
Another feature that is sure to at
tract attention later is the marked
increase in the number of fashionable
families who are giving up their city
Jamestown houses" they are call
ing them, like the English-altogethe
After while only a few of the very
smart folk indeed will have town
houses at all. Instead their real
homes will be in the country, where
they will remain all through each
autumn part of every spring, and per-
haps a part of every summer. There
they will maintain their big staffs of
servants and there they will give ser
wants balls and in other ways initiate
the swells of "deah old England,
dontcher know"
When they come to town to live,
as they will every winter, in the hight
Of the season, they will put up at the
gorgeous apartment hotels, not the
new st. Regis or the Waldorf or the
Hotel Aston, or any other of the more
public hostelries.
These latter places, say the really
smart folk of the metropolis, now-a-
days, are quite too commOn-too vul
gar-for the truly exclusive to dwell
IN for even brief space. They will
do for the newly rich, who for vari-
GUS reasons can find no spectacular
way to pour out their wealth. save
into the hotelkeepers' tills, but it
is no longer smart to spend it that
way.
There are other reasons than the de-
sire to initiate the English which are
moving the smart set to live perma-
nently in New York city no more
One is that a permanent residence
here, in the legal sense, means much
bigger taxes. Another is furnished by
the preposterous prices the SWEETEST
transient hotels are now charging for
food and drink. The swell American
is ready TO blow himself" reasonably.
hut 81 a plate for soup and S. for
portion of roast turkey is too much
for him, even if some of the sudden"
millionaires don't mind it.
Few more interesting foreigners
have visited New York this year than
Sir Howard Vincent. member of the
British Parliament, who has just sailed
back to his island home after having
spent several months on this side of
the water, studying America and It's
Institutions.
Sir Howard is in the prime of life,
vigorous, clear-eyed and with the sort
nj complexion that betokens perfect
digestion. He is hearty and whole
souled i'm his manners and "a good
mixer" He has visited the United
states several times within the past
few years. and is exceptionally well
posted concerning this country, which
he admires so much along some lines
that he is constantly advising his
Countrymen to initiate our ways of do
Ing things.
Yet, like many another foreign wish
tor, Sir Howard is nightly puzzled
both by the country and its people.
just before sailing homeward this last
ume he asked a young compatriOt,
who has lived here several years, how
no regarded the United States. Il
don't know" replied the youngster,
frankly. Some days think this the
Hnest country / ever heard Of. At
other times my heart is bottled-up
vial Of wrath at both country and peo-
pie"
% know how you feel" said SIR
Howard. IT never get wrathy about it,
but while I had views on America
directly after my first visit here, ]
haven't any now. You can judge OF
little by precedent or comparison
here. Nowadays when ] am asked
about American prospects. the Amerl-
can point Of view or anything of the
sort l am obliged to explain chat 1
DON'T understand Amerca; I never
have really known anything about the