| Show WARD MAIyMSTEIVS TRAITS For two things he deserved credithe did not live beyond his means and he never protended to be richer than he was The comfortable house he occupied in thirtythird street was furnished In the oldfashioned style with crimson satin curtains and solid mahogany after the manner of a couple of decades ago and In Newport he occupied a small housewhich was in reality the cottage that the palatial residences of the City bytheSea are uniformly called The last series of subscription picnics he organIzed or-ganIzed topk place in Newport several seasons ago when it was beginning to Ibo be felt that these entertainments had had their clay The subscribers who also contributed various articles of food commenced to grumble at these particular partic-ular delicacies never reaching their own plate and one testy old gentleman a chartered bore now numbered with his fathers went about Investigating what was being served at other tables in the hope of finding his own broiled birds Yet these picnics were agreeable incidents inci-dents in tho routine of Newport life and the rustic platform festooned with ears of corn and garlands of wild flowers where the people danced quadrilles and f eofJe ii dBIJ l efnan waltzes was as pretty spectacle hi its way as on of the most elegant ballrooms ball-rooms Whether at this fete champetre or at an evening dance Ward McAllister always al-ways impressed the people with the vitality of his interest and the genuine nature of his enjoyment that he had the vocation for society was indisputable and yet he was farther from being a smallminded man than many people would Imagine His prestige and Influence Influ-ence began to decline when it was seen that his reportage was chronic and the small sectiotof society that withdrew into Itself frowned upon his tendency to perpetuate its movements and manners in print At the same time Ward McAl Hater retained his social position the loss or even impairment of which would have been his deathblow Society lost him before be-fore he lost society New York Correspondence Corres-pondence of the Boston Herald |
