Show ADVANCE SKIRMISH T rue Coming Political Canvass in New York BEER MAY BE A LEADING ISSUE j Tne Stocking Show Young Hearsts Yacht B Clarkes Enterprise Soda Water and Whisky A Tattooer at Work NEW Yom Aug 1L Special correspondence corres-pondence of THE HERALD The campaign in New York this fall is a skirmish for position po-sition The presidential campaign In Ib92 trill doubtless be settled in this state and neither party will leave an effort untried to elect a governor In a sense the struggle strug-gle is one of considerably more than local importance for upon the result and upon the degree of wisdom or unwisdom the successful I suc-cessful party may show at Albany much I will certainly depend R P Flower remains as I predicted long ago the leading Democrat Poor Jones who has posed as a weak rival of Governor Hill isnt ana hasnt been thought of Hill himself is said by some to desire a re nomination yieliing the senatorship to some one whom ho can trust but that is only mater for speculation Whatever Governor Hills will may prove to be it will be carried out There was a time at the beginning of the legislative session a year or so ago when it seemed as if the I Democratic party had taken the bit in its teeth the senators in particular rejecting his advice in selecting a caucus nominee for president pro tern But the sessions ivarlaro had not far proceeded when the rebels were glad to seek and follow again the advice of the shrewd man in the executive r ex-ecutive mansion At present he is supreme in his partys councils Brooklyn furnishes a possible candidate for either party Mayor Chapin with the prestige of a magnificent and unbroken record of successes behind him keen cool ambitious master of the wisdom of silence wants the nomination Of his success there seems very little possibility but politics is an uncertain game B A more interesting personality is that of Frederick A Schroeder of the same city I prominently mentioned on the Republican side Schroeder is a bluff and kindly old gentleman with a white mustache and goatee and a frank and cordial bearing He has been mayor of Brooklyn and has r represented the city at Albany Probably k no one could poll a larger vote for his party than he in the city where he is best known I It will be funny if Schroeder is nominated t In the disastrous campaign when Warner Miller fell outside the breastworks Mr Schroeder openly criticised the Republican high license platform He believes in beer For that very reason many regard him as the strongest candidate possible while others remembering him as one of the disgruntled dis-gruntled in 1SSS strsngly assert that he would not do at all But Mr Platt has said that Schroeder vould be a strong candidate This may 4 and may not mean something For my part I expect to congratulate the I beaten party if it is not too badly beaten Success this year will make those upon whom it smiles overconfident in 1892 Besides Be-sides the initiative of action will be thrust upon them the responsibility of mistakes the certainty of displeasing many while I t the beaten ones will hustle all the better r next year for the beating SODA WATER AND WHISHT l In every big newspaper building in New York where any spare room is available for rental on tho ground floor is a soda water f fountain At each of these two or three or four white jacketed young men are kept remarkably re-markably busy drawing sweetened wind t all day and half the night In each case the fountain has an insignificant drug store annex and its the soda water that pays tho bulk of the thousands and thousands of dollars dol-lars rent The newspaper buildings are not exceptional The whole down town and almost exclusively masculine district is full of soda shops A liquor saloon was started not long ago in one of tho newspaper buildings and its projector couldnt make it pay Isnt there something suggestive about these facts I The truth is the hard drinking drink-ing habits of a generation ago are being considerably modified for the better There 1 may be no more total abstainers possibly not so many in proportion and statutory prohibition hasnt yet throttled the demon rum to any great extent but drinking to excess is certainly on the decrease You cant argue that isnt from the still ghastly number of saloons on nearly every block i Its a sight disheartening enough at best but a good deal more beer than whisky is sold in them No saloons are now without a full assortment of bottled mineral waters for those who arent taking anything stronger today thank you Perhaps the wisdom of swallowing so much icecold liquid may be doubted but at least it doss not make a man drunK U I Here in New York where the Jiquor dealers are at present in open revolt against the continued exactions of Tammany hall and their organ the Wine and Spirits Ga t ccttc breathes out fire and slaughtering r the number of saloons is by no means increasing in-creasing as rapidly as the population Yet high license and other measures to restrict the number never looked more remote There are plenty of flies in the ointment yet but a worse state of affairs might easily eas-ily be imaginedor remembered AX OLD FASHIONED MAN There is in Now York a business man I who does not send out letters typewritten by the clinking machine worked by the I young woman with bangs Every letter i ho sends is neatly written out with pen by l his private secretary and when it comes in t its unusual delicacy of script with the business busi-ness mans heavy signature scrawled boldly across the bottom of the sheet the I man who receives it feels as if he had been personally and delicately complimented I sat in this mans office recently idly watching the pale young secretary write letter after letter until a big heap lay before be-fore him When the last one was finished he threw his notes into the waste basket with a sigh of relief put away the fine gold pen he had been using took up a heavy steel stub and alter a few preliminary flourishes began forging his employers bold and somewhat peculiar signature with come rapidity and considerable skill A t about the sixth repitition of the name hi picked up the sheet and held it out to me There he said I was a little rocky at first on these signatures but I flatter myself thats a pretty fair one Oh yes I commit authorized forgery like this every day The boss is always off somowhore or other and when hes here hes too busy to sign his letters But the country dealers wouldnt like to letters get signed with a i stamp They like to see the pen signature shows that aDn a stub pen anyway 1 shows that a mans attending to his business busi-ness You bet Im glad to get through with this mess I will never again put trust in an impressive impres-sive signature But what about the ethical ethi-cal bearings of such a practice I A QUEER TRADE Pushing my way into a rather forbidding little shop on the Bowery past one or two screens which shut off view from the street I saw a very curious group In the middle was a whose man naked arms were covered with tattooed birds beasts flags women and other things He was th sample By his side persuasive the artist stood exhibiting a fat book of designs to half a dozen young fellows who looked like dock laborers or teamsters certainly not tailors The book was a very attractive one apparently The men eyed its hun dred or more crudely drawn and colored pictures with evident admiration One of them was chaffering with the artist That air onell cost you vi said the man of needles pointing to a picture of a fat woman decollete at both ends 7 as the saying is I kin git dat done beautiful for two case said the young chap Huh Ye kin kin yeJ Do you know how much the tools cost No I dont but I kin get it done for Dats all right youse tell me where r i r IflJ 11 = dats alL Look at do colorin I And do tools cost just five dollars and fifty cents Youse make me tired I And the arlist turned away in disgust Ho knew his audience The young man rolled up his sleeves and the young man set to work with his red and blue and black ink picking in an ae elaborate pattern Soon big drops of perspiration pers-piration were standing on the victims forehead fore-head but he wouldnt flinch in the presence pres-ence of the little group who watched him Doesnt it hurt one of them inquired Hurt Naah said the victim but the artist said briAfly You bet TOBACCO MUST GO Whenever I hear a nice looking young woman avowing herself a smoker of cigarettes cigar-ettes or possibly cigars I remember how I once happened to pass throug a farm kitchen away in the back woods late at night after the family had gone to bed ando t and-o be startled by the pungent odor of tobacco to-bacco and by a figure at the stove that rustled and retreated at my approach It was the wife and mother of the household an old woman with neat dress and tidy gray hair who had stolen thero for the secret solace of a pipe It would be hard to say whether she or I was the most embarrassed em-barrassed at my discovery of the habit she wished to remain hidden In that section of the country a considerable consider-able number of elderly women smoked their clay or corncob pipes but not a single youg woman or girl It was a practice prac-tice long ago considered unladylike Now it seems as if the practice were in danger of revival by young women and girls I not in the backwoods but in New York I and even in Boston where I have come to know of a public school teacher who smokes big black cigars That makes two of my personal acquaintance both nice yound women and one rather priggish even who have got to cigars while several are still in the cigarette stage A cigar dealer names a certain brand the beau sexe to catch womens patronage It is queer that this should happen just at the time when so many young men are giving up the habit because it is inconsistent with athletic feats On the whole in spite of the perverse young women tho outlook is very favorable for an abandonment of the tobacco habit Too optimistic Not a bit of it Who takes snuff now l Fifty years ago nearly every one did Dont you keep your grandmothers snuffbox as sacred relic Fifty years ago three men chewed tobacco whore one does now Why cannot smoking smok-ing too be banished if athleticism and jcsinoucism vita moral and sanitary I agencies of one sort and other join hands against it Tobacco hasnt for a hundred years had so weak a hold as now Anyhow if men think it right to smoke and chew tobacco why shouldnt women I hope they wont but is there any valid distinction 1 THE GREAT STOCKING SHOW All the men who go to the races nowadays now-adays I havent been and speak from hearsayare enthusiastic About the horses No no more than usual but about the womens stockings which are a whole show by themselves It is getting to be as much tho thing now for women to wear stunning costumes at the track as it is at the Ascot or the Grand Prix Only there is this difference Tho I respectable element of feminity hasnt I quite adopted racing yet as in England or France The soiled sisters do not quite have things their own way but nearly so Hence tho dressing is loud particularly the stockings One wouldnt suppose in this season of long dresses that stockings would be visible visi-ble but my informant assures me that when one leg is carelessly crossed man fashion above the other a considerable length is revealed between the dainty low slipper and the skirts discreet hem The slipper itself is often emoroidered Tho stockings are in any shade that fancy may suggest embroidered with the most gorgeous gor-geous flowers A common design may bo so it has been described to me I havent been there to see and wouldnt so take an gentlemanly advantage of a ladys inadvertence inad-vertence as to look if I werea vine running run-ning up the ankle branching out where there is more room and bearing gorgeous flowers roses red and lilies yellow and other things Seems to me that stockings are the last place to lavish ornamentations but so Im told THOMAS B CLAUSES VENTURE Why in the world should anyone find or affect to find anything undignified or out of the way in Thomas B Clarkes reported determination to enter into business as a picturo dealert Have we snobs in the country Isthere any moral difference between be-tween buying pictures for a sale as Seney hss twice done and dealing in them directly I Mr Clarke has been hitherto only a buyer for his own galleries He has spent thousands of dollars for good pictures good American pictures He has done more with his comparatively modest fortune for-tune to encourage native art than Senoy Vanderbilt Hilton and all the rest of them who want nothing that does not cost thousands for the French name in the corner cor-ner Clarke has bought pictures not names if he continues the practice as a dealer and so encourages American talent artists will bo profoundly grateful and no one will have cause to grumble except the dealers weo make big commissions on foreign for-eign pictures More power to the elbow of him whowill give the American painters the material encouragement en-couragement which alone they need The best of them paint as well as the Frenchmen French-men Benjamin Constant found that to be true in Inness case and there are others as good as Inness THE INCREASE OF YACHTING have been forcibly reminded this summer sum-mer of the growth of tee holiday spirit in busy New York by the enormous increase in the number of yachts They fairly swarm about the harbor and rivers on pleasant days Little and big every one of them represents a deal of fresh air to the owners and an impetus to domestic ship building industry The increase is most rapid in steam and naptha launches and yachts The wonderful speed which has been developed by young Hearsts Herres hoff boat has set everybody marveling Thirty miles an hour is a speed that makes one giddy to watch If a poor newspaper cuss like Hearst cant have a floating palace pal-ace like Jay Goulds Atlanta W K Van derbilts Alva or Bennetts Namouna he can beat them in speed More than that he could go round and round the City of Paris or the Majestic going at full speed It is pretty safe to look for a still further growth of tho yachting habit which can be I gratified at an initial expense of from 300 up and which beats horso racing for the exhilaration of speed THE MOTOR OF THE FUTURE It would seem that few people in Now Nour York have much faith in electricity furnishing the surface motive power of the future upon crowded streets at least Broadway and Third avenue are both in n terrible state of alltornupness owing to the laying of the cable tubes and traffic always difficult has become almost impossible impos-sible Tho man who invents a cheap and practical prac-tical storage battery system of electrical motive power will be a benefactor to his kind WAS 1ST LOS MIT COOGAX I Coogan the Bowery furniture dealer who added piquancy to one mayoralty campaign cam-paign by running on the labor ticket pay ing enormously for the privilege of defeat has dropped completely out of sight po litically He has lot half his big stora to another business which prompts the inquiry in-quiry whether the kind of advertising he got paid after all Politics and business dont mix well OWEN LAXGDON |