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HIE MAN OF FASHION.
SHOWING BOW BE “GOSB IT"
WHILE HE IS YOUNG.
How Four Sons of Multl-tn'llionaires
Vie With Each Other for Social Dis
tinction—Where the Vanderbilt,
Rockefeller, Gould and Armour Mill
ions Are Invested With the Best Re
turn In Pleasure.
( Copyright 1891.)
Mew York, Not. 10.—Most of us ore
sufficiently familiar with the disadvantages
of wealth. We know how the millionaire’s
form is bent with care and how the gold in
liis pocket makes the silver in his hair. "VVe
have been taught since childhood to pity
and forgive the rich for they are not really
Laving a good time. Our youth and health
and strength—blessings which in popular
mythology never attend the wealthy—far
jnore than counterbalance the delights of
pate defoie gras and champagne.
It may not be a bad idea, just for variety
to look at the other side of the picture; to
see where wealth brings happiness and care
is unknown. I will name you four men
who never knew what it was to need a dol
lar, and who are making a brave fight to
bear up under the burden of riches. Inci
dentally we shall seo how fashionable fads
get a tart, and shall take a look at one of
the most interesting contests in the country
—to the participants, at least.
Cornelius Vanderbilt's son, William 8.,
is ill years old aud a student a Yale. Mean
while the father struggles to give the boy
un education and make both ends meet on a
capital of about 9135,000,000. J. D. Rocke
feller, son of the Standard oil king, is a
c.asauiute of young Vanderbilt in '93. The
cider Rockefeller is said to be worth $150,-
000,000. These young men are excellent
friends, but neither proposes to let the other
get ahead of him in the matter of conspicu
ous expenditure. They are members of all
the swell clubs and societies. Their rooms
are filled with furniture such as .Solomon in
ail his glory never sat upon. They are the
richest fellows who were ever at Yale, and
it is only natural that each should be the
center of au admiring circle.
i'erhaps It is natural, too, that rivalry
should exist between them. If they didn’t
think of it themselves there would be plenty
if suggestions from interested adherents.
Vanderbilt soon hoaded one set and Rocke
feller another. Tue rich young men of the
east gathered around the former and those of
the nest around Rookofellar, whose family
comes from Ohio.
Young Vanderbilt’s chief interest lies in
| boating. One of his early devices for eater
taming his friends wus the purchase of a
fine steam launch. Young Rookefeller Is
rather a landsman. He did not attempt to
outdo hts rival on the water; but about the
time that Vanderbilt began to be popular
f< r his steam launch, Rockefeller aston
ished the college and the town with his
horses. He kept buying handsome steeds
until his equipage was the talk of New
Haven. Then he developed a fail for dogs,
anil purchased three or four St. Bernards
that were miracles of beauty, and looked
intelligent enough to pass the Yale entranoa
examinations without conditions.
Vanderbilt too Invested iu dogs and
horses, but the natural bent of his disposi
tion was in another direction, and Rocke
feller easily kept the lead.
Then Vanderbilt made a novel and woll
considered move; he joined a church choir.
All the children of Cornel us Vanderbilt
have fine voices, and have developed a love
of music. Alfred Vanderbilt is famous In
his set as a violinist. Ho played for little
Josef Hoffmann some yeai s ago when Mrs.
Cornelius Vanderbilt gave a musicals in
the prodigy’s honor. Young William H.
sang at the same time. The church chair
business was a point on Rookefelier, tor bis
voice is not attuned to melody. All the
fashionable stude its w ent to hear Vauder •
hilt sing in Ur. Newman Smyth’s historio
church on the Green in New Haven. Thus
ths young millionaire did something to w ard
smoothing the road by which u rich man
eaters the kingdom o! heaven.
Itockfeiler stock in Yale at this time
could have been sold short at a profit, but
he made a strong effort to bring it up again.
Ho established a standard in E ;glish suits
of clothes, and his stunning get-ups were
toe marvel of the whole college. Sunday
comes only once a week, but a man may
dress every day, so Rockefeller had a dis
tuict advuntage in tha race against the
popularity of church choirs. Vanderbilt Is
not much of a dresser, and for a time be
nearly lost his lead, on the question of
clothes. To recover the ground, he began
t 1 give a series of very swell musical enter
■ tainiuents in his room. He plays a banjo
■ sowell that if anything ever goes wrong
■ with the Vanderbilt millions, young Will
■ lam H. will be sure of a good living. He
■ also plays the piano admirably. The musi
■ cale became a groat success, and Orpheus
■ won the j aim from Narcissus.
■ All last year at Yale the battle of the
■ prospective inulti-millionaire3 went on.
■i he fathers of the young men took an in
■ , st Ul the battle, and purso strings huDg
■loosely. Meanwhile the boys, and their
■ meads too, were having a time that it
■a 1 ? 8 the lloart t 0 think about Perhaps
■ to boys will never see the like of it again,
B' Km the money oomes to them, as
Kf b!l *k if it will some day. It is becom
much more the thing to oonsider
Be i ~C (,ll3o' ida t ion of large fortunes
Kf ,. elr transactions in the direct line.
n } aaderbilt and Rockefeller millions
Bw. . , < J W * <low 11 in that way, or rumor
Bv ass fals <dy. Cornelius Vanderbilt is said
K. . avu ° nca estimated that, following the
K, , ar , a law3 °f increase the family fortune
BlVin r °llup to $500,001),000, by the time
lan ' H. is 40. If then, as is correctly
Bmt> , i 110 gets ttl9 greater part of a fort
, 1 ,ie . youth who is now astonishing
Hi ‘ . yrith his expenditures will be one of
V T - riches t men in the world.
Bii3 Knn SUll ' mer Cornelius Vanderbilt gave
HL. D a 'i afillt "hich cost $15,000. A great
K’ „V )U . ts cost mo <-e than that, and yet
boat f° r a boy. When
fat^er beard of this gift he
Hnn „ ‘“u COUIUr y. The outfit, horses
’ COiit 510,000. Young Rockefeller
K| l( ,l‘ . . a, JP r erue in Westchester county,
Baisn v htller ! 188 o s3,ooo,Ooosummer
■ h i oung V uuderbilt spent most of
■ai'i thjN ßreakers ” " Newport. It is
Kr . -' ew York’s Four Hundred looks
■ban f more fi 'om youug William H.
Hibolil™S an 7 °f the other descendants of
line't? 110 ! 1® thr °ugli the four sons.
■ The h a, e ( <l ? rlC^' GeorKean<i VV ‘ lliam U -
H'u>, ,l H , 11 ® Lac *t again in Yalo this year
~and an increased de
n. to °ut-do each other. Vander
M^‘l , riyalrv UP i°n . hl * an d and horses.
e *7 , y , WIII lar j through their college
|Bade rß “eyond it when they become
■t ■: whonTt Y ° rk S °, oiety - I, ‘" the fl P r ‘ u *
■c two s° ‘ taey graduate, old Yale may
r tho ci?' i such as were never given
■ Both th,^'‘ dow of her elms.
i° U u K men are o£ good stature,
■s has f„n ok ? r er y much like his father,
cvox ,"-t r athor pale face, with
BBiustacho h lalr - He ‘a cultivating a
it. Vr„ a f‘2 “ ot having much luck
H'ally verv iJ ’ laSttut address, but nat-
h!"| V6 ' Rockefeller is Jollier
d^;;,, ; 4 1 '- a ; l "Wy.*uo°th face,
JKirfmng
Two other rioh young men are giving
promise of great future usefulness to so
ciety. They are Edwin Gould and yonng
Phil Armour. The latter is out of Yale
about two year?. He is 25 years old, of
modium stature and a jovial cast of coun
tenance. Eddie Gould is about a year
younger. He Is quiet In his bearing, but it
is tb ught that he will make the first real
social success in the history of his family.
At present the predilection is rath ’r in the
direction of althletic sports and outdoor
life, but of late he has figured in several
prominent society events —as usher In one
or two small weddings for instance—and
there Is every reason to believe that he will
figure In the best set some day. He differs
from hit brother George, who inherits many
of his father’s traits. He goes about his
business in his father’s offioe in the Western
Union building with his coat off and an air
of conspicuous democracy about him. But
Eddie is more fastidious. He belongs to
two or three of the most fashionable clubs
and likes to consort with swell men about
town. A year ago when Eddie took
his little flyer in st icks (with the result of
making a cool SIOO,OOO iu a very
quick time), he invested in some mag
nificent horses and a sin ill dog cart. He
quarters his team at a fashionable livery
stable, and when he rides in the park, as be
does frequently, the marriageable girls look
at him in a way to make him blush. When
Eddie heard about young Rockefeller’s dogs
he imported some very handsome St. Ber
nards. Althi ugh it was said that Rockefel
ler Invested about SIO,OOO in dog flosh. some
of Eddie’s canine investments ranked pretty
well up in the scale. As yet he has not kept
pace with Rockefeller in the matter of
horses.
Young Armour has not made much of a
sensation in New York yet, but he is known
to the swell set as a man who never lets
anything go by because of its cost. He has
a magnifioeut suite of rooms in one of the
most luxurious hotels, and spends much of
his time here. Occasionally he runs down
to New Haven for a week with his old col
lege ebums, and when he does he makes
things hum in the City of Elms.
It is said that Eddie Gould’s wealth after
his father’s death will probably run up to
$75,000,000. I give the figures because they
are current gossip, though I think them
much too high. At any rate he will have
enough to out a dash in society, and the
chances are that he’ll do it, too.
Albert Edward Tyrrell.
WEALTH IN PRECIOUS STONES.
Value of the Jewels Owned and Worn
by American Women.
From the Philadelphia Press.
It Is doubtful if the women of any two
nations on the face of the earth own as
many jewels as do the women of the United
States. A large dealer in diamonds in
Maiden Lane assures me that the precious
stones worn this day by our women are not
worth le-s than $900,000,000, while authori
ties on chestnut street regard this an over
estimate.
Comparatively a few women own a large
number of the stones representing this
$900,000,000. Let me take a few of them at
random. The jewels, most of which arc
diamonds, owned by the Astor women,
would far exceed $3,000,000, and the late
Mrs. Jacob Astor wore on all publio occa
sions and many private ones a tiara which,
as has boon well said, few
crowned heads of Europe or
Indian princes could board. These stones
so flashed when the wearer moved that it
seemed as if her head was encircled in flame.
Mrs. William Waldorf Astor has a riviere
of diamonds in three graduate rows, each
row a fortiu-e in itself, and she also pos
sesses the Wyi id-renowned necklace of six
strings with the gold of the setting hid,
only the glittering stones being visible. She
Is constantly weeding out small and imper
fectly out stones from the galaxy and add
ing larger ones of perfect workmanship.
PERHAPS $3,000,000 WOULD NOT REPRESENT
the value of the Vanderbilt jewels. Mrs.
William K. Vanderbilt his a superb dia
mond crescent two inches in diameter, a
pearl necklace owned by the Empress
Eugenie and valued at $190,000, this rope of
gems being about forty inches long. She
wears this by rolling it round and round her
neck and then letting it fall in rows toward
her wai6t. Mrs. Frederick W. Vanderbilt
has one of tho most valuable diamond neck
laces in the world. Among other costly
gems owned by this family and worn in
brooches, necklaces, hair pins, bracelets, and
rings are rubies, . sapphires, emeralds,
topazes, garnets, eto.
®Xhe beautiful Mrs. Hicks-Lord owns not
less than $550,000 worth of precious stones,
and the fame of her gorgeous necklace,
worth $250,000, all of perfectly cut and
flawless diamonds, is known in every
Eurepoan court. Nor is Bhe sparing in her
display of this regal circlet. Moreover, she
owns four other necklaces and the most
valuable pair of solitaire earrings in the
United States. On certain oc'asions she
wears those superb stones arranged in dif
ferent wavs. Sometimes they flash at you
in the form of some flower or a beautiful
spray of leaves, being fastened to
the bodice. A large number of the women
who own extensive collections of costly jew
els lock their treasures up in bank or safe
deposit vaults, wearing duplicates in paste,
Rhinestones or other imitations. But Mrs.
Hicks-Lord wears the genuine. She detests
the Imitations and says “they may do all
right for French actresses.” I suppose she
bad Bernhardt in mind then. And what
woman who loves to inauiro about these
things has not heard of Mrs. Hicks-Lord’s
fan with its fifteen raised folds,
STUDDED WITH DIAMONDS,
so often worn In her hair? This fan has no
peer in this country and is excelled nowhere
in the world. The bouquet holder with its
mouth ablaze with beautiful gems has also
put her friends in rapture, as does also
her white point d’Alencon fan worn en
chatelaine from a chain of diamonds and
pear's.
The Marquise Lauza has a large number
of exquisite and costly jewels, among which
may be mentioned a diamond pendant of
thirty-two stones, a ring with two flawless
white diamonds, three carats each, several
beautiful garnets obtained by her father,
Dr. Hammond, during the Mexican war,
and last, but not least, the stone purchased
at Tiffany’s. This gem weighs five carats
and glows pink at night, changing to a
warm, scintillating yellow in day time.
SMrs. C. P. Huntington's pair of ruby
earrings are valued at $15,000, each stone
weighing fifteen carats are being of perfect
shade and workmanship. These are said to
be the finest rubies iu the United States.
Among the other ladies who own beautiful
and valuable jewels are Mrs. Lmdley
Chapin, who has a diamond necklace, which
she sometimes wears are a tiara worth
$10,000; Mrs. Joan Bloodgood, who has
a pair of solitaire rdinmond earrings
worth $5,000; Mrs. George Lewis,
who has a pair of splendid solitaire
diamond earrings and a handsome diamond
necklace, Mrs. Griswold Grey, who has a
large and valuable collection, notably of
emerald and diamonds, and Mrs. Lonllara
Spencer’B diamond arrow is the envy of all
who have seen It. Mrs. John Jacob Ast r,
nee Willing, has a fortune alone In dia
monds and sapphires, gifts from t. e Astors
and others when married.
Bilkiss-You are going to marry. eh? But
Isn't a year a long time to wait?
Filkins—O, you ilon t mind it, old fellow, after
you call to take her to the theater a few times.
Hew York Telegram.
SAVANNAH, GA., SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15. 1891.
TALKING OF NINETY-TWO
THE LATE ELECTION IS ANCIENT
HISTORY IN NEW YORK.
The ‘‘Hill or Cleveland" Debate En
tered Upon In Earnest—Stage Struck
Enthusiasts—A Rector’s Lessons—A
Long Walk—Looking Down on tbe
City.
New York, Nov. 14. —The battle between
Fassett and Flower in New York was one
of tbe liveliest ever fought in the state, but
the city of Mauhattan Island turned from
the battlefield—or from its corner of the
battlefield—with characteristic lightness.
Never In au election not concerned with
the presidency did tbe oity beoomo more
picturesquely feverish. Never in any elec
tion did the city more quickly regain its
normal temperature.
The last outward signs of the election to
disappear are the portraits of the successful
candidates. These yet continue to hang in
many shop windows, offering testimony of
the political righteousness of tbe proprietors.
But in forty-eight hours after the closing
of the polls. New York had begun to think
of the election as something very much in
the past, and in ten days she looks back
upon it as aricieat history.
Yet for various reasons many faces are
politically set toward '92.
“This eieotion,’’ said a congressman-elect
in the corridor of the Fifth Avenue hotel
last night, “forces tbe nomination of Blaine
in 1892.”
"And it also," said his listener, “forces
the nomination of Grover Cleveland."
It is not easy to get at a satisfactory ex
planation of these convictions, but they are
expressed with a curious reiteration. The
success of McKinley, the strongest consola
tion that came to the defeated New York
republicans, is pointed out as clinching the
certainty of Blaine’s nomination. The de
feat of Fassett naturally comes to be re
garded as something of a rebuff to Har
rison. On tbe other hand, Cleveland’s at
titude in tbe hour of Tammany’s
danger has brought him more promi
nently before the New York demoo
racy, while the incroa.im; probability of
Blaine’s nomination is continually used as
an argument why Cleveland should again
be the democratic leader. The mugwump
vote which was given to Cleveland is very
largely antagonistic to Hill, aud could not
be counted on by the demoorats if Hill
were nominated. How much of it Cleveland
might receive in another light with Blaine
is a problem which nobody is very free to
discuas. Manv democrats feel that they
could afford to ignore the doubtful mug
wump vote if the nomination of Hill were
an accomplished fact; but for whatever rea
son tbe nomination of Hill seems to be con
sidered less probable since the election than
before.
A significant manifestation on the repub
lican side is the increased opposition to the
leadership of Thomas C. i'latt. The demo
orats used the world’s fair cry—the cry
that Platt prevented New York from get
ting the world’s fair—with great effect.
But this was only a last straw with many
republicans, who have felt that Platt Is au
undesirable leader. Whether the repudia
tion of Platt hi but a resentful manifesta
tion or an evidence of permanent hostility
remains to be seen.
Meanwhile New York continues to com
placently assume that she is certainly to
name tbe democratic candidate.
STAGE STRUCK ENTHUSIASTS.
It is safe to say that there are more stage
struck people in New York this fall than at
any previous time in the history of tho
American stage.
The stage-struok element maybe takon to
include those who aro infected with the
operatic mania. It is all the same species of
madness. They all want to get behind the
footlights.
The schools of acting which have blos
somed within the past Few years are doing
a big business. Theso schools are of the
greatest possible divergence in kind. Their
prices guarantee the satisfaction of every
kind of purse, and the instruction is of a
sort in harmony with the prices. You may
bo trained to take a low comedy part iu
John L. Sullivan’s company or you may
be fitted for Mr. Frohman’s society dramas.
It need scarcely be said that even the
hospitable American stage has no room for
this ingenious and enthusiastic brood.
Soinebody has dared to suggest an answer
to the question: What becomes of all the
pins? Who will undertake to say what be
comes of all these graduated actors?
But if there is no room for all tho actors
and actresses, what shall we say of the even
larger company of singers who are yearning
to rival Patti? The sensitive mind is actu
ally depressed by the augmented number of
schools of opera and what not. Uuder the
proprietorship of some body whose name,
with beautiful commercial propriety, ends
in “ini,” these schools fascinate the more or
less youthful aspirants for operatic glory.
Singers of both sexes, who might make an
excellent reputation in a village churoh
choir, are led on by a fatal illusion pro
duced by cunning prospectuses until their
money is gone and the hopeless situation is
forced on their inexperienced minds.
One of the most distressing features of
New York life is the plight of young wo
men who, after making great sacrifices to
secure the means, come to New York in
pursuit of this phantom of operatic fame. A
by no means small number, coming with
nothing lower than a Scalchi position in
their fancy, drop to the Casino chorus, and
have reason to be thankful if there is a
vacancy in a chorus of a much inferior
kind.
A rector’s lessons.
Speaking of dramatic tuition recalls a
circumstance communicated to me by a
prominent dramatic teacher who shall be
nameless.
The dramatic teacher says that one day
he was visited by a man of about 35, who
looked suspiciously like a preacher. In
view of this suspicion the instructor was at
a loss to acconnt for the visit uutil the vis
itor spoke and announced, to begin with,
that he was an Episcopalian rector.
“I have come to you,” said the rector,
“not merely for lessons in olocution. I have
already received some instruction of that
kind at college. What I want is something
more in the way of dramatic instruction,
don’t you know. I realize that even in
reading the service, to say nothing of
preaching, a knowledge of the dramatic
art might be if incalculable advantage to
me. if lam to impress my hearers, every
art that aids me to that end is desirable. I
know that it is an artistic mistake to as
sume that mere feeling is in itself sufficient
to communicate feeling. If I wish to im
press I must use art. If I am to use art I
purpose going to the best professional tal
ent to acquire it That is why I come to
you."
“And so," said the dramatic teacher, “I
gave a series of dramatic and elocution les
sons to the rector. It seemed rather curious
when it came to the prayers. But I must
confess—though I say it who was the in
structor —that his rendering of the service
was immensely moro impressive after he
got through with the lessons than it had
been before be began, and that his theory
of the thing seems correct enough to me."
A LONG WALK.
Within a short time a oertaia little group
of houses on the outskirts of Tuxedo, that
paradise of New York’s Four Hundred, has
come to be called Oklahoma. Tbe uaiue
isn’t down on the map, but it is nevertheless
a name that is likely to stick to the plooe.
The other day a woman, who reoently
hired a fine house at the fashionable Tuxedo
settlement, had a call from a laundress.
“Where do yon liveP’ asked tbe Tuxedo
woman.
“At Oklahoma, ma’am."
“Oklahoma! Well, well! But how did
you get here!”
“Sure I walked, ma'am.”
“Walkedl” The Tuxedo woman looked
aghast. But the laundress seemed entirety
serious. "You don’t mean that you walked
all the wav from Oklahoma!"
“Certainly, ma’am. And why not
ma’am!"
For a moment the Tuxado woman sus
pected that the being before her was insane.
Then she said:
“Buttell mo, my dear girl, how long did
It take you?”
“About forty minutes, ma’am."
Clearly the girl was iusane, and a fooling
of pity was stealing Into the Tuxedo
woman’s heart when a vague doubt came
over her. “Perhaps,” she said, “perhaps
you don’t mean the Oklahoma where the
boomers are?"
“ Well,” the girl replied, “I never see
any boomers there. Sure. I think you could
seo the village yourself from the roof."
And tbe mystery was cleared up.
EXHIBITING SMALL FEET.
While the ohrysanthemum. show has been
raising such a furoro at the Madison Square
garden, the Bowery has been opening a
show of another kind.
The highly colored announcement over
one of the museums advertises a small foot
show. In detail the announcement reveals
thirteen young ladies in a row, each ex
hibiting, with some liberality of method,
the size of her right foot. The sign does
not give any of the young ladies the credit
for knowing that her left foot runs many
chanoes of belug the smallest, but investi
gation indicates that some of tho ladies
who aotually participate iu the contest are
oonversant with this trick.
After the emblazoned promise over the
door tho visible evidences of a contest are
rather disappointing, or might be to tfioie
who are not familiar with the ratio of de
duction necessary in the case of a Bowery
sign. At any general hour the visitor will
find one or two boldly attired girls installed
in that quarter of ttie museum assigned to
this rivalry. In the evening between 9 and
10 o’clock there are four or five and on Sat
urday night there will be six or eight.
It is not a very thrilling spectacle, but “it
goes” on the Bowery.
NEW YORK’S COSMOPOLITANISM.
The other day I rode up town on a Tblr
avenuo street oar. On my right two Frenoh
men wero engaged in anlmatod conversa
tion. On my loft two women were ener
getically talking together in German.
Straight across the car I detected the gut
teral rhythm of provincial Spanish. As I
rose to leave the car a Chinaman was
sqeezing his way in between an Irish con
ductor ar.d a negro wearing anew silk hat.
The episode expressed for me the interest
ingly cosmopolitan character of modern
Manhattan Island.
THE NEW BIRD’S-EYE VIEW.
One of tho new sight* opened to the
visitor who wishes to "do” the metropolis is
the tower of Madison Square garden. Ris
ing to thehight of over 400 foet, this grace
ful pile is not only one of the most, charm
ing pieces of architecture in New York, but
affords an unequaled view of the city.
Just under the little figure of St. Gaudons’
1,400-pound Diana, designed m New York
and cast in Ohio, is a narrow gallery on
which there is a circular track carrying a
powerful electric search light, mounted like
a field piece, and adjusted in an ingenious
manner so as to command many square
miles of the oity. The view by daylight is
magnificent. At night the lamp-studded
streets, the twinkling electric lights, the
gloaming span of the bridge lights and a
thousand and one half-veiled glimpses of
the city form a spectacle of a fascinating
kind. Thousands of electric globes illumi
nate the tower through which rises an ele
vutor having a course of 250 feet.
Since the opening of the tower last week
an immense numbur of people have availed
themselves of this opportunity to get anew
bird’s-eye view of the city.
NOW FOR PICTURES.
The city has begun to bristle with picture
shows.
At the Keppel gallery there is the annual
show of American wafer colors, and it is a
display of much animation and interest. At
the Wunderlich gallery there are engrav
ings of "fancy subjects” by Bartolozzi and
other engravings in stipple—a curious and
sometimes bizarre collection, very much In
the Venus and Adonis, psyche going to
bathe aud the return of Teiemaohus di
rection.
The academy fall exhibition is the artistic
talk of the hour, and the Water Color So
ciety and the Etching Club are preparing
for displays later on. There is little that is
thrilling In the special announcements for
sales or private shows, but the season is still
young. Matt Lamar.
SCENES OF ORISF AND JOY.
Recent Manifestations nt the New
York Barge Office.
tCopyriaht 1891.)
New York, Nov. 14.—1 came over in
the steerage and I know something about
how it feels myself.
If I was not exactly an emigrant, and if I
was able to bribe the cook and escape some
of thedietetio discomforts of steorage life,
I nevertheless found occasion to see that
the emigrant has rather a rough time of It
otj his way over, even on one of our highly
modernized ocean travelers. But the
matter I have in mind just now is not so
much the experience of the emigrant in
coining over as in landing here.
When 1 landed a number of years ago the
regulations were comparatively easy. It
was hard to stand on the deck after the big
iron ship came into dock, and watch tho
oabin passengers skip ashore while we were
compelled to wait for tho barge that was to
carry us a mile down the river to Cattle
Garden. We were taken off the ship on the
side opposite the pier, and duly dumped at
the garden everything going smoothly. Wo
filed in to an office between two rails—an
arrangement resembling the inclosure in
which they crowd cattle or those in which
they pluck ostriches—and I meekly an
swered all questions as to my age, place of
birth, trade, place of destination and so
forth. It was a simple matter.
To-day the emigrant cannot slip under
the shelter of our American wings with
quite so much facility. The passing of
various laws looking to a more stringent
inspection at American ports, has made the
operation of landing a more oomplex affair.
Yon must show that you are uot a pauper;
that you are not an emigrant under any
suspioious conditions, financial or other
wise; that you are not a laborer of any
kind, under contract to work for anybody
hare; and that you are in no danger for any
reason of becoming a burden upon any of
our agencies of public charity. There are
other considerations, but those I have
namod giveau excuse for considerable red
tape and much complexity iu an arena like
the barge ofiioo.
Within the past few months there have
been some pitiable cases in which young
women have figured. Sometimes tbe news
papers have spoken of these. Very often
the conditions have forbidden publicity. It
may be sufficient to say that the officials
have frequently found their duties anything
but pleasant. To send back to her native
land a distressed girl in tears is not an easy
thing for the most hardened official to be
called upon to do. Many destitute oases
are exceedingly perplexing. It becomes a
matter of the greatest difficulty to know
whether P) class certain cases as belonging
to the destitute order or not. Much is
naturally left to the discretion of those in
authority.
The aged, the blind, the crippled crowd
Into the line that )-asses under the inspect
or’s eye. Those whose condition of misery
might seem to render them as willing to
live in one part of tbe world as in another
eagerly face our western life, and resort to
any trick or devioe that may give them an
excuse to oreep under our new restrictions.
In instances of doubt and finding decision
emigrants are kept withiu the garden and
undor strict surveillance. Often they are
arrested and brought baoK upon the dis
covery of damagiug evidence.
One scene of last week was one of the
most pitiable in tbe history of Castle Gar
den. A girl iu distress was detained, where
upon her brother, under a denial of any
relationship, married her, and had left the
garden with his sister when tho minister
who performed the ceremony discovered tho
truth, and himself forced them to return
with him to the presence of the authorities.
There is very little of the picturesque in
the operation of the contract labor clause;
but occasionally there is a scene of some
animation growing out of this statute. De
tentions under this clause are occasionally
grotesque enough, for they are as likely to
include people of tho upper artizan class os
of the lower tailoring class.
Notwithstanding all that has been done
by the commissiouers, foreigners on their
own soil seem to remain beautifully ignorant
of what emigration to the land of promise
actually means. There is a popular im
pression among a large majority of the
lower elements thot clamber over the ship’s
side and scramble into the barge office that
this country is a magnificent benevolent
asylum, with a large and well regulated
orphan asylum and Infirmary attachment.
A little inoidentof last Monday Illustrated
the impression that many foreigners have
of American liberty. On that day, the day
before election, a Russian meohanlo being
observed to act with muoh impatience as
the afternoon drew to a close was asked why
he was in such a hurry.
“To-morrow is the day of the popular
election, is it not!" he asked the inter
preter.
"Yes," said the Interpreter.
"Well, I do not wish to be detained here
so that I cannot vote.”
The evolution of tho missionary system at
the barge office has been very interesting.
There are representatives of many creeds,
who give counsel, provide tracts and Bibles
in any tongue, and otherwise exert them
selves for the welfare of the new comers.
Each week hundreds of emigrants tail to
meet friends, forget and lose addresses, go
Into hysterics over news of deaths and oth
er wise tax the ingenuity of those whom tbe
government and charitable organizations
place in a position to give advice and aid.
It must be admitsed that many excellent
precautions have been taken against fraud
ulent or dangerous practices. The law
throws a protecting cloak around the friend
less emigrant. Sometimes the cloak does not
save him —or more particularly her—but in
general it is vory difficult for people with
evil design to get at the emigrants before
they are placed safely in the hands of friends
or elsewhere.
One of tho precautions taken by the
authorities consists in the licensing and
supervising of that clas3 of gentry kuown
as "boarding house runners.”
The boarding house runner is undoubt
edly a necessity. Everybody who comes to
this country wants to go somewhere, and
whether he Is decided or not, many want
to stay a fen days in New York. The oity
is provided with n ourious assortment of
boarding houses that lie near the barge
office, and that represent most of the
nationalities that are conspicuous among
the emigrants. Those boarding houses ouch
employ runners who are admitted under
license to the rotunda of tho garden and
these negotiate directly with tho boarders.
Italiau boarders aro gathered in and trotted
over to tho something Italian; and Foies to
tho Polish house; the Hungarians to another
retreat, and the Hwedea to a refuge espec
ially designated for their comfort.
The runner "running” with his clients
from the barge office to the boarding houss
is one of tho picturesque sights of Battery
park.
At the boarding houses there is consider
able of sociability, plouty of concertina and
flute music, with a dash of semi-barbaric
melody from some unnamable instruments
played by the Hungarians. The lonesome
emigrant here renews acquaintance with his
companion of the voyage, and makes new
friends speaking bis own language. Here
also he encounters an excellent opportunity
to squander all his available money. If he
Is an Italian he gets an opportunity to do
more. He will bo able to mortgage his in
come for six months or a year under a con
tract with one of the infamous padrones
who are becoming such a power iu New
York.
From time to time there have been on
slaughts on the boarding houses, and much
cause of complaint have been removed, but
they are primarily necessary, and most of
them ore to-day excellently oonduoted.
After all of tue disappointment* the con
fident emigrant meets the picture called up
by stories of a golden country, by a sight of
the bronze Liberty in the harbor and by tho
green tranquillity of Battery park, is not a
picture so bitterly illusive. The emigrant
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