New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-15

cease supporting him as candidate Tor
the Democratic Presidential nomination.
This cold -blooded ingretitude 10 man
who had done so much to make Mr..
Wilson's candidacy possible greatly IN
censed Colonel Watterson. and led him
70 describe Mr.. Wilson later as sec
ond Eugene Aram.
II is pleasanter 10 turn 10 the mem
cries Of the golden days Of the Man
haitian as social organization. IL u,
great deal more interesting to those VINO
remember New York as II was when
stubs were in their heyday TO know
that Sam Ward was a frequenter OF
the original clubhouse at Fifth Ave
nue. and Fifteenth Street, than TO be
told that Horatio Seymour made II MS
political headquarters. Wherever Ward
was the arts Of the kitchen and the
table Aourished. lie spread the CLUB g
fame further than did any OF its states
men or near-statesmen members. Mr..
Riggs tells US that he gathered about
( him a bon vivant coterie Of which Jo-
seph Jefferson. John Brougham, Will
lam J. Florence, William Henry Hurl-
but, Oakley Hall and Dion Boucicault
were conspicuous members.
In those days New York took eating
and drinking seriously. A restaurant
was a restaurant not an attachment
10 n cabaret or to a tango establish
ment. Delmonico's uptown place was
, at Fifth Avenue and Fourteenth street
Just a block down on the other sGe
from the Manhattan Clubs corner IL
was the pride Of the Manhattanites tnat
their chef was as great a notable OF
the dav as was Delmonico's chef, and
that their wine cellar could not suffer
by COMPARISON with that of the famous
restaursteur.
The Manhattan cocktail is known TO
thousands OF communities which have
never heard OF the Manhattan Club.
Colonel Wstterson says that II was a
club invention He also puts 70 the CLUB
credit the "Sam Ward" made OF yellow
chartreuse, cracked ice anc lemon
peel: the Star cocktail, of nation wide
repute. and ten other famous throat
lubricants. Moreover, ne claims en-
Enthusiastically that the club mas drinks
for every day in the year, Sundays IN
cluded; for all seasons. and national,
state and city festivals" We are glad
TO note. however, that he leaves un-
disturbed Colonel "JOc' Rlckey's rights
in the gin rickey, and an ancient Phil-
adelphia organizations proprietary pre-
tensions in the matter of Fish House
punch.
Who cares very much about such
things IN these degenerate days? In
the golden age Of the Manhattan's stay
in the Bernhard mansion, az Firth
Avenue and Fourteenth Street. New
York was far moro self-centred and
socially inclined community. The Man.
haitian, Union and Lotos clubs were all
in Fifth Avenue. between Fourteenth
and Twenty-third Streets. and the
Union League and the New York we're
in Madison Square. Life then WAS easier,
gayer. fuller Of natural enjoyment than
IL is to-day. There are many survivors
Of that pleasant period 10 whom din
ner on the open back porch Of the Man
haitian Club OF an early summer even
ing meant something worth treasuring
as "A rcd-letter experience. They will
find food Of memories loosened by
Colonel Watterson's tribute 10 that
gracious past.
Gotham of the seventies. the
eighties and the nineties will live
in legend ns itself; none like il;
just beloved. plain Little Old
New York" To the men of those
DAYS who yet survive il must al
ways be a radiant memory. Every
body knew everybody. II "he" or
"sne" were IN town the seeker had
only TO wait long enough about
Dclmonicos or the Fifth Avenue
Hotel, or upon any OF the
many street corners. The clubs
were not too numerous. nor the
theatres. the restaurants and the
chop houses. Tho Union League
and the Manhattan led club life
then. as they lead il now-the Cen
\
artistic. tho University and the
Metropolitan in embryo certain
community. both Of interest and
feeling. permeating all member
ships, which the expanding condi-
tons of world centre are fast
dissipsting The pretty provn-
cialism Of MURRAY Hill is going
going gone. The ghosts