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O'NEUL MANUPACTDRING COMPANY.
ROME, GEORGIA.
The present we deem a proper season in which to address ourselves to the building interests of
this section. After arduous exertions and a vast combination of resources, we have succeeded in
founding an establishment abundantly able to cater for the large interests of the building trade and
fully able to cope with any competition. We manufacture
StisiDoors, Blinds, Stairs, Newels,
BRACKETS, BALUSTERS, MOULDINGS, ETC.
Yellow Pine Lumber, Flooring and Inside Finish.
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Our saw mills being most eligibly situated with reference to transportation enable us to place
Lumber in our yard and factory at the very minimum of cost. Our manufacturing facilities are
unexcelled, and that fact is proven by our rapidly increasing production. We attribute our success
to the highest grade of workmanship and the most perfect machinery.
WE GUARANTEE PRICES AGAINST COMPETITION!
O’NEILL MANUFACTURING COMR’Y.
Office and Factory foot of First Avenue, Rome, Ga.
BOHEMIA OF FASHION
One of the Most Interesting Parts of the
Horse Show and a Rare
EXHIBIT BY THE MILLIONAIRES OF
New York—Where the Smart Set Dines and
Gossips In Public—Scene, the
Waldorf Garden.
Society left the horse show recently
held in New York at 5 p. m. every day.
In the ten minutes on either side of chat
hour there was a great gathering of
wraps and calling of carriages, and one
by one the boxes were emptied. At 6 :30
p. m. the horse show spectacles began
again, but not at the Madison Square
Garden. To see this part of the show,
the most interesting part of all, you
must go to one of three fashionable din
ing places.
This seems almost incredible. The
most, in fact almost all, of the people
who make the smart set in New York
society are rich.' Several hundred of
them are enormouslv rich, worth from
$5,000,000 to over $100,000,000. They
have magnificent houses. They have
scores of servants. They have dining
rooms upon which tens and even hun
dreds of thousands of dollars have been
lavished. They have imported and ex
travagantly paid cooks. Yet they do not
dine at home.
At the Waldorf hotel any evening
during the horse show week you might
have seen W. K. Vanderbilt, John Ja
cob Astor, Oliver Iselin, George Gould
and a score of others of great wealth,
seated in the public restaurant, eating
and drinking as though their gorgeous
homes were not within a few blocks,
open and ready for guests. There they
sat, a part of a noisy, elbowing crowd,
enjoying themselves as if peace and
quiet and privacy were not supposed to
be the main requisites of a good dinner.
The favorite dining place at the Wal
dorf is not the big dining room, where
the management has made an especial
effort to gratify the desire for splendor
and quiet. In the main dining room
there is a carpet upon the floor, the
lights are softened, and the most softly
shaded lights are upon each table, and
the tables are removed each from the
other a sufficient distance so that con
versation cannot be heard from one to
the other. But the smart set does not
dine in these surroundings.
They prefer the winter garden. It is
a pretty room. But it was intended as a
place for afternoon tea or for late supper
or for a quiet drink when a man wished
to have a woman with him and also
wished to smoke. There are palms and
ferns and various blossoming plants, and
in a corridor overlooking the room an
orchestra plays. There is no carpet on
the floor, and every footfall and every
movement of the legs of a chair makes
a loud noise. When a waiter drops any-
thing, the ci <i.:.n touvues up the
nerves.
Men and women feel freer there. The
men smoke, and both men and women
lounge in a respectable way. It is very
fashionable bohemia. And here the
smart people came. So eager were they
that there were not nearly tables enough.
So you might see W. K. Vanderbilt and
Gould and Astor sitting solitary, each
at a separate table, holding that table
until the people they have invited to
dine shall come. If they did not sit
thus, the table would be given to the
first comer. And the rule is not lifted
for millions or titles or any other con
sideration which will work any wonder
in other parts of the world.
At 7 p. m. the little room was full.
The tables are so close together that the
elbows of those at one table, came dan
gerously near plunging into Ifie ribs of
those at the next table. The service is
of course as careful and as perfect as in
any other part of that beautiful hotel.
But the reasons this little room is popu
lar above other rooms and other restau
rants is the privilege to smoke and the
accompanying air and feeling of being
bohemian and also being surrounded by
fashion and eminent respectability in
the sense in which that phrase is used
by society.
Now, in any society but that of New
York such a state of affairs would be
impossible. In any capital city of
Europe the high society seeks privacy
above all things. To be looked at, to be
seen of the outsiders is to be miserable
and bored. Other societies have built
their palaces to live in, to be at home
in, to be at ease in. New York’s palaces
seem to have been built to get away from.
Why do men With tens of millions
with longings to be thought aristocratic
and ultra refined thus subject themselves
to the miseries of a long and dreary wait
to hold a table in the semibohemian
eating place of a hotel? Why do women
who carefully copy the manners of roy
al persons and spend countless dollars
in the pursuit of exclusive ideas dine in
publicity and in tobacco smoke evening
after evening and enjoy it enormously?
Then there were a few people either
from out of town or from less fashiona
ble sets in town. These people were
enormously interested in the bearers of
well known names. But they were not
more absorbed than were these well
known people in each other. Os course
they knew each other well. But the
women were discussing each other’s
gowns, each other’s personal appear
ance, and the men were listening or
taking part in the gossip.
From table to table it was gossip,
gossip, gossip, never things, always peo
ple as subjects of conversation. And as
the dinners progressed the talk grew
louder and louder. In a lull one voice,
male or female, could be heard almost
in a shout. And the clatter of dishes,
the scraping of chairs added to the tu
mult. It was bohemia indeed.
About the doors stood an ever chang
ing crowd of curious people. They were
of the same general class as the people
at the tables—persons who have worked
so well with, their brains or have had
TRADE EDITION—ROME TRIBUNE. DECEMBER. 18»5.
parents who worked so well that they
have leisure to dress and to practice the
luxurious ways of living. They were at
the doors to see the celebrated persons.
Their curiosity was well bred, and so ne
single person lingered long.
Aside from the interest which the
presence of so many much talked about
people gave the scene had another and
more abiding interest. Everybody was
so very well dressed. The men were sc
well groomed and so polite and grace
ful and, as a rule, so athletic looking.
The women had more than their share
of beauty. Freedom from money cares,
attentive servants, luxurious surround
ings have such an .amazing effect in the
way of softening and beautifying the
features. And they were tastefully
dressed, as a rule—arm# round and bare
to the elbows, brilliant colors in gowns
and bonnets, attractive jewelry. And
the brilliant lights were softened some
what by the masses of green.
There were powerful odors of flowers,
delicate odors of perfumes, suggestions
of the bouquet of wine, a flavoring of
superb cooking—by no means objection
able when the cooking is of the right
sort. And above all there was the fas
cination of freedom. The millionaire
came because he could not get that same
freedom where Ise is host in his own
mansion with his own solemn servants
behind the chairs. And his guests in
this winter garden were happy because
they felt this absence from constraint,
this sense that everything was being
done without trouble and inconvenience
to any one they cared anything about,
that so many magic dollars were pro
ducing without apparent effort fish and
game and fruit and coffee from all parts
of the world.
Such is the picture seen at the W al
dorf those nights. In this little room as
sembled all that so many people think
it worth seeing at the horse show.—
New York World.
INTERESTING RUMOR.
Hon. George Cnnon May Become British
Embassador at Washington.
For some days we have had in Wash
ington the interesting rumor that Hon.
George Curzon, who married Mary
Leiter, was to come to this city as Brit
ish embassador, Sir Julian Pauncefote
to be promoted to the embassy at Paris.
According to the story Mrs. Curzon is
HON. GHJRGE CURZON AND WIFE,
exceedingly anxious to return to Amer
ica and to shine In Washington society
as the wife of the most important mem
ber of the diplomatic corps.
Inquiry made in the quarter likely to
be best informed on this subject devel
ops a great improbability of there being
any truth in the rumor. That Mr. Cur
zon is very ambitious no one denies.
His friends say his fondest aspiration is
to be premier of England, and that he
is very likely to succeed in bis purpose.
In this case a Chicago girl will reach,
the very heights of social life in Lon
don. Mrs. Curzon is already popular in
London, and about her there clings not
only the fascination of great wealth and
beauty, but the glamour of enormous
possibilities of political promotion.—
Washington Cor. Chicago Times-Herald.
A USEFUL INVENTION.
Telephone Circuit Alon#; the Wires In Case
of Trolley Accidents.
A telephone circuit is to be construct
ed along all the lines of the trolley car
system in Hartford and its suburbs, so
that the conductors may communicate
with the power houses and the car dis
patcher in case of accident or delay. A
telephone wire will be strung on the
trolley poles, and at every eighth pole
there will be a switch for making con
nections. Each car will carry a trans
mitter. It is expected that the device
will prove of great utility and conven
ience and will do much to prevent acci
dents and delays on the single track
lines that run long distances into the
suburbs.
The device is the invention of W. C.
Fielding of Hartford. It ought at least
to prove of great service in relieving the
minds of the passengers and the strain
on the conductor when the power is sud
denly shut off and the car halted and
every one wants to know just what the
trouble is.
There is no more exasperating situa
tion of utter helplessness than to be
halted in a trolley car a mile or two out
side the city line and not be able togain
the slightest idea of why the power has
been shut off or when it is likely to be
turned on again. Not a few suburban
ites have been brought near to insanity
of a violent type by just such a situation
of trying uncertainty.—New York Sun.
Plan to Win Foreign Trade.
E. A. Keeling, signing himself *‘Tem
porary Secretary, Sherman bank, New
York city,” has written Governor
Greenhalge of Massachusetts a letter
concerning an enterprise intended to es
tablish better social and trade relations
between merchants in this country and
foreign merchants. He stipulates that
money is not solicited, but broad and
wise suggestions as to the best method
of making the undertaking a success are
desired.
It is intended, the letter says, to in
troduce products into foreign countries
in a more extensive and profitable man
ner than ever attempted. No particular
line of goods is to be preferred, but all
are to be handled jointly, and the ex
pense thereby lessened.—New York
Herald. _
Burney Transfer Company. Tele
phone 126, Armstrong hotel.
One of the Most Desirable
-«F ARM Ss 5 -
IN NORTH GEORGIA.
Has about 225 acivs, (125 acres cleared and 100 acres
woodland). Situated at Harper’s Station, four miles
northeast of Rome, Ga.. immediately on the line of the
Great Southern Railway. It is within 10 minutes ride of
the city of Rome. Trains stop there daily. Has excellent
side track facilities. It cannot be excelled for health.
The farm is well watered —has three splendid springs, Is
well arranged for stock raising.
Is a Splendid Manufacturing Site.
For sale for division among heirs. Titles perfect.
Apply or write to
FOSTER HARPER, Executor,
Rome, Ga,
or ROB T. T. HARPER,
Glastonia, N. C.
New Store. New Goods. New Prices-
G. G. BURKHALTER
Is now ready fcr the winter trade with a
varied line of goods, embracing
Dry Goods, -Dress Goods, Hats, Notions, Boots, Shoes, Clotting
AND AN ASSORTMENT OF
GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS
id a hundred other things not surpassed in this section. My stock is
lAiirely new and has been purchased with the utmost care and with
pccial view wants of my patrons and I invite all to give me a call.
None can Undersell me—l will not let them do it.
I will prove it if you will but come and see me. It will prove to your
profit to make your purchases of me.
I will pay highest market price for country produce.
G-. G-.
No. 10 Broad Street, Rome, Ga. 1 0-w3l-2m