New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-10-14
Memories of New York Society
in an Earlier DAY.

New York has become "a cosmopolitan
city. little remaining of the MANNERS
customs and habits of thought apparent
i'm Mrs. Governors early "reminiscences.
Of mueh interest and value, therefore
arc these pictures OF period when The
great city we know was a comparatively
small town. The authors memories 80
hacb 10 the days when about St. Johns
Park WAS the most distinguished resi-
Genital ucighborhood; when Columbia
Co'icsy .aca seated between College
Vl., ana Park Place held her COM
mcuccmeuts I'm so. Johns Church: when
Union square was ON the outskirts Of
DE, CITY: when all married wOmen-if OF
40 more than twenty summers-wore
cars with strings tied under their ch'nS'
and when the personal mention o.
woman i'm q newspaper was an unhearo
of liberty John Hazard. who COM
manded a privateersman during the
Revolution and was captured by Adj
miral Rodney, was Mrs. Gouverneurs
maternal grandfather. He came very
near missing that distinction for as he
lay in irons on Rodney's ship he heard
one British officer cheerfully advise an
other TO hang the damned rebel" After
peace was made Captain Hazard bought
from Citizen Genet, the French Min
lister. q farm on Long Island. where he
was the master Of many slaves and
where our author was born. Her pa
ternal grandfather. Malcolm Campbell
who landed ip New York wearing a kilt
-was the SOD Of Jscobite who fought
NJ Culloden and an NJ. 4. of ST. An
6rews. He edited the first American
editions Of Ciceros orations and OF
Cesars Commentaries and he was
the founder OF a classical school opposite
Trinity Church. His son James, Mrs.
Gouverneur's father, became an eminent
lawyer and a figure of consequence in
the society Of New York in the first half
Of the last century. This, IN brief, is the
background of the agreeable gossip of
this volume.
one Of the picturesque episodes of
Marian Campbells early glrlhood was
thu snub which she saw Mrs. De Witt
Clinton administer to President Van
Buren, in a hotel at the then fashionable
Saratoga. The President forgot, if he
knew. that the lady cherished an an
DYING resentment toward any Of her hus-
bands political antagonists, and he
smilinCly advanced with extended hand,
whereupon Mrs. Clinton promptly turned
her back. compelling the unhappy POr.u-
guese Charge d'Affaires, upon whose arm
she leaned. to do the same 1T was the
expression" says Mrs. Gouverneur. "Of
a resentment which she had harbored
FOR years. and which she was only abid-
ing her time TO display" Mrs. Clinton
was long an autocrat in New York So
cicty. one of her eXcellencies was an
uncommon ability i'm housekeeping, an
accomplishment. we are reminded. in
which every woman at that time took
particular pride. She had "a highly
notculous horror of dirt. She carried
h.r autipatny TO such an extent, says
thc uuthor that "she tolerated but few
fires iu her University Place establish
mont I'm Now York. as she seriously Oh
.c.;cd 90 tie uncicanuess caused by he
III rst and ashes, No matter how cold
y I.r hosso nor how frigid the eay. she
,,.,, s.o,,o5 In suffer but. on tho con-
t-ary. complained that her home was
o,,rheatcJ. Her guests frequently COM
r,auted I.rop the mining and eager air
which Sha5espeare's Horatio speaks Of,
but II made uo apparent impression upon
tb.,. bo.tese" Il is worth while 70
quote Tbaclera,.'e ousint answer 10 Mrs
C;.pver,,e,,r,e o,ier,- whether he had met
Mrs De Witt Clinton. Yes" said the
novelist land she is "A CAV old girl
The stately New York matrons of Mrs
clinton,s da,. were NOT accustomed TO
have their rifles questioned or djsobeved.
The author remembers that when she
was visiting her venerable relative. Mrs.
Maria Hazard Roe. at Newburg, the
sixtv-year-oId son OF her hostess pro-
posed 10 make hunting expedition.
Mother" said the elderly Nimrod
have vour permission 10 20 20 the
Adiropdacks2" And the old lady. after
some reelection. answered. well. Haz-
ard T think Won might 20"
In those LATER DAYS Of luxurious homes
IL is amusing 10 read of the astonish-
mont NJ Cothamites when. about a half
co,t,rv ago Mrs Charles Maverick
r,,..,,.,. t,,,,,t q, bro,,retor, bouse on the
......,.,..,-, ,o,,.r ,f t,if,b s,..,,,o and
r-.., s.,oot ,,.t,i.t ..ct,,aIi,, cost S1ooooo
A,,,azino. "r re,ronbarp savs Mrs