BROADRIM'S NEW YORK LETTER,

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXX, Issue 11636, 7 November 1887, Page 2

BROADRIM'S NEW YORK LETTER,

— ~ — .'. ♦"" ' V." [BPE€3A'If TO OHBONIOLEij . r Booked in.a cradle of gold anSpoti-land wrapedin the costliest and softeitof laoe,! young Jay Kingdom, the lateat soionof (he house of Gould, is erea' ing about as^muok of a sensatioa as would reasonably Be expected from a gentleman of maturar years. As I intimated at the time of George Gould's merrioge, there sesmed' to* be* a decided inclination on the pirfcofour old blue blood hy show the cold' shoulder to 'tie ~ new candidate for social' honoiirs—ClooVge Gould's wife. ; On what legitimate Grounds it would be difficult to unde__tand,~-_icepC that she had been an actress; and tbirfcan be nojustground for social OBtratoisi-ij as the same set whioh turned ite baok oh' Mrs George Gould, weloomes with open arms Mra Jamea Brown Potter. No social Vain attaches to the name of Edith Kingdom. Left an orphan at an early age, ehe braTely , entered on the battle of life, and oingle ! handed fought her way up to alppsition of I wbioh any woman might justly be proud. Sho has a beautiful home and a good husband. Not only a rioh, but a thoroughly good husband j such a one as any affeos tionato and intellectual woman could love and . honour . And moreover she haß a bouncing boy, the very immage of his father if he wasn't so much like bis mother — though the doctor and nurse de jlaro that there is a wonderful resemblance to hit grandfather, especially in tiie nose and chin; and this gratifying fact is worth to Jay, junior, at least, a couple of millions of dollars. Now, everybody knows that Jay Gould. is net a society man. lv all New York it" would be difficult to find another, especially on Wall or Broad-street, who is so entirely I domestic in his habits and tastes. As the story goes, for the sake of h's family he wa. willing to get social recognition among the creme de la creme, aud to that en* invoked the aid of Cyrus Field, who v t been hia partner iv many deals, and w : i sat on the inside and on one of the t>n seats of our social sanhedrim. There ia nothing mawkish about Gyrus; but like maay abler and better men, it is said that in his own houae he only occupies tho position ©f Lieutenant-Governor. So whon the proposition wa_ made to to th 0 female Fields to take the female Goulds tinder the shadow of their aristocratic wings, there was something of a flutter ; but in consideration of possible financial entanglements and complications they Anally consented to do it. At the suggestion of tbe Fields Mrs Gould and her family wert received everywhere, if not cordially, a t leant civilly j and the wives of the men w1... blackballed Jay Gould in the Union <Tl..£ and New York Y*cht Club __$£ m™ Gould to their afternoon teas, £&%*£ Gaorge was graciously permitted to danca with their daughters in landers or German But when George Gould, looking f or ' wife, turned his back upon all their act and found his affinity on the stage, they turned 1 Oh my, this sort of thing will nevar do r We can't stand it." The^Jfields dlew th,. me at George Gould's wif>, and thereafter here was blood upon the moon- Ifc .g Ba ,i hat the outcome of tbis family le id oi,j mi lated two weeks ago, when J_, y Gou'd aited TJnq e Cyrus for a couple of mulrW a the Manhattan deal, and. bought alafe worthy c&uea to grist. *••

\ The point of tdl this is, that the people > who refuse social recognition to George \ Gould's wife have within the past week ' ihown the most distinguished attention to a : titled blackguard from England, whose > notorious life has been a disgrace to his class and a foul blot on the history of some , of the most honoured famiUes of England. A man whom Britain's honoured Queen would not admit to her presence, and who been kioked out of the moat respectable - jof the .London Clubs— this is the man tbat st ['society in New York honours, and the same ' 'society denies to Mrs George Gould social j recognition. There are three generations of ! Goulds now in sight, and if the last two are Iblesied with as good a memory as the ! founder of the house, King Jay, somo of these fashionable ladies and gentlemen may ~ yet have to repent their slight in saokloth and aihee, and wish that a millstone had , been tied about their neok. : " For time at last makes all things even,. j And if you do but watoh the hour r ( There never yet was human power , ; That could evade, if unforgiven, , The patient search and vigil long, L" -■ Of him who treasures up a wrong." •The sale of the express and telegraph r,? lines of* the Baltimore and Ohio Bailroad j.' has taken the town by surprise. It was tho vijbnl^aubßtantial' rival bf the.Western Union, but the octopus haß swallowed it at last. •f There is little doubt tbat the fight has cost X:fche Western Union many million of dollars. "\ The Baltimore and Ohio's clo_e alliance . Iwith the Maokay cable made it a constant menace. to the Western Union, and its ; destruction or purchase was neceßsary if tho .'. Western Union wbs to continue as a dividend- , spaying concern. /Robert Garrett, while not _ nas commanding a figure aa his father wat>, ,oWas nevertheless a very important factor in /our railroad interests. ' With the sale of -; the Baltimore and Ohio he pasaes out of Sight — willing, it is said, to Beck that peace in private life which his' infirmities have - rendered absolutely necesaary. The' old and 1 conservative house of Drexel and Morgan lijtane to to the front, proposing an isaue of r ten millions of stock and bonds, which will i -pjice this-great property in excellent work<f_k£order. ./fWhile on railroad matters I must not for-,.'f-Sf'to- mention that Henry Villard bobbed x tuV again serenely in the street" with a anug '' fiie millions at his back and looking as well ' a-4-as hearty as he did on the day that he \ drove the' golden apike on the great Northern pVioiSi) Railroad, flanked by the Duke of this * a\l i__e,Earl t of that, and the Lord knows ,W^o.f tt is only the ether day that he sailed . : . avky: a^ wretched naked bankrupt. : The munificent house which he erected oh Fifth „>;»ve\ue was hardly darkened by his shadow. /.-Whtelaw Reid, tha editor of tbe Tribune, •teethes his long legs beneath that royal ■a mahofany^and in his elegant sanctum an the. * '■-}■ »e_onc *flb6r fulnunates" the Ihundderbolts jntancM for the destruction of Cleveland ; - and thebemOcrate. Tt is currently believed upon tii 'jstreefc that Henry 'Villard has got back soma of his loose change ancl that at no distant'drar he will be found 'on deck at the' , head^of tha Northern Pacific. The result of ~ all this hasbeen a sudden rise in stocks, and - /'the market has bsen booming with a glory - hallelujah and a tiger. ;A,;sltisnojr definitely settled that we are to H > ; .have a new Labour paper which is to be the organ'sp? Henry-George and the Anti-Ppverty / Society , r rlt is not often ev«n in the history ■ Of corporations that the prime factor is so i suddenly bounced as was Henry George from L '- the Standard. The name of "Standard" was hardly recognized-— everybody spoke of it as |lenry George's paper. He was ; very goodas ia figurehead, but when it came to the tates,, as bur New England cousins remaTkj'he didn't amount to'a hill of beans. The Anarchists shook the red flag in hia face and itf did not have a mollifying effect on, hiß tongue, and matters were not improved when they showed him the door. Funny complications in the Labour pre.a ! " John Swiutou's paper loses its editor and . the Standard's editor loses his paper. They - both arrive*; at the" same result, only from different enda, of the stiok. . . . Atla's^. Jeauette M. Thurber, throws up r the sponge, Sad the American Opera, born L ftmid ringing of bills, snd the beating of ■goDgs^ is confessedly a thing of tbe past. It hasbeen a costly experiment, sajs tbie enterprising lady, involving a heavy outlay . oi money. Jess so, Mrs Tharber; there < isn't a ecene«sh!jf ter or oalUboy in New York -but coiild have" yolfl y&u all tbw before j-oU Btarted .in. As. a-wktilt of tHjs . desperate venture; a small Irrivy- of. c_.c(ru_ singers, ..ballet dancers, and humble st.'ga assistantp, r< are left destitute in our oity, with the winter. • ooming. on and no money. Theodore Thomas and all the principles gobbled op the cash and realised thousands, while the humbler ,v members of. the company ee.ured hordly f * sufficient to pay, their bogftfcL It is said th at • . Mrs Thurber has leviea bn the scenery, properties and ccJetmnes as her share of the J plunder, -having; an eye to future possij but it ii -tolerably certain that if ever America . Op^-a should raise its feolle » head in our midßttbgain, Mrß Thurber will •not .be conneoted -with the management. Can Mrs Barnes- Brown : Potter sctP is almost as iht^r'estihg a question as : can the '"• Thißtle.sail ?Jwili our American Venus overthrow the English Galatea ? Barrj Miner, who was the manager of a couple of second "rate theatres, on tbe Bowery, suddenly jumps to the frpnt as premier, classe and "' 'Suffies • hia. fealhors alongside of Hem-yj . .Abbey) . A year ago he would have knocked v you'doWn if yoii called him anything, but Harry, but since he has engaged Mrs James Browf Potter, it is now Mr Henry Miner, or. Hekry MinerJ Jfieq, Some attribute the ' changi to the difference qf time between "Londoh end New' York, others to the epi-' iootio, now to.'.iatally prevailing among horse?. One of :his assistant managers says ' ~ it may be an incipient attack > of cerebro __ spinalmeningitis or big head, but whatever it is, tiere it stands upon the bills, large , and sijall, Mr Henry Miner,' sole mauager .for Mr Jameß Brown Potter. /__-_-_-_-_----------_---_---.