Show YORK SOCIETY QUARRELS they range hotly through the noble four hundred THE HUMPTY DINNER it Is the latest idea ide from pails the now new york girl ILe revolts volts at tho the chaperone A reorganization of tammany on now new lines Is probable morton and his servants john jacob actors experiments in electricity copyright by bacheller Sa cheller r seller johnson johnron it Is the social vortex that now attracts attention in III new york th the c situation this season is so unique the that t the whole of society is practically divided against itself it Is all the le ie sult suit of the old quarrel between those w who ho are termed in scorn the knickerbocker element clement and tho the new people at the head of the former element Is mrs airs astor this lady Is so designated because she Is the eldest of oc the line and has successfully accomplished her right tobe so styled instead 0 of f mrs john jacob astor aslor it would appear that the new people have gone in tor for extravagant forms ot of entertainment and for or those bizarre amusements which do in a gay capital bu but t which are pronounced out of place in a gen anine aristocracy such as new york now alms to possess for example the latest idea from paris Is the humpty dinner intended as a substitute tor for the turkish dinners which were the vogue last season the waiters at these dinners are clad in traditional clownish costume and the feast consists of eggs in all sorts of clil culinary inary development ome lettes salads and fco bo forth the younger set have been g giving III I 1 these affairs with great enthusiasm tor for weeks past but mrs mra astor has declared her intention of dropping from her list any one who Is implicated in them she thinks such affairs make society ridiculous whereas the new people point out that the prince nce of wales himself has given humpty dinners and that they are no more undignified than masquerade balls be this as it may all society Is divided on strictly humpty lines and mrs astor leads leada the antis the matter Is important as accentuating I 1 the hostility between the G gould id and ator havemeyer element clement and the A aster g van Rensel laer par party ty it Is not uri unlikely likely that we shall have some very III bitter ater personalities injected into the doin doings g S of the entire social season as a result of 0 this thil Imbroglio nearly all the first camill families e 5 ar are e involved in some quarrel or other not in the memory of of the the oldest society people has so much disharmony existed among those who in view of their wealth and position should set all the world do an example of propriety and good feeling THE H CHAPERON H N TROUBLE BLE an interesting instance of the social war in new york at present Is the trouble that has arisen over the matter of chaperon cB there are in new york a number of women of good s social lo 10 position but of very limited resource sources who manage to eke out a subsistence c si by in the houses of t the he wealthy it arf the character i of discreet friend ot of the family they nil fill out vacant places at table and ale aie very useful when theater parties and tile the like are in need of an elderly cicerone it Is to mrs lira willie wlllie K vanderbilt that the growth of this system Is due she has caused to be billeted as it were some very aristocratic but poor auth I 1 ern women in the houses uses of the new york plutocrats on some such basis as that outlined above but latterly there has hag been quite a free use of the chaperon by members of the fair sex whose position Is rather that of I 1 the he adventuress than anything else and the result Is that this duenna like personage Is not the guarantee of propriety she once was therefore rome pome young ladles ladies have been doing without her entirely and in one case sirs mrs vanderbilt has refused to receive a well known debutante whose father Is prominent in new york and philadelphia An financial ancial circles because she he regularly dispenses with a chaperon the consequence la Is that mrs alm vanderbilt has added to the unpopularity which she now enjoys and a general protest has gone forth against duennas duennes of all kinds it Is 13 about settled that the new york girl will haie bae no clia chaperon peron at all it remains to be seen whether mrs birs vanderbilt lias has force enough left to save the chaperon there Is a new tammany to be born the entire organization Is on the verge of an internal revolution likely to be tar far reaching in its effects and no less leas a person than grover cleveland Is said to have an interest in III the developments of the regime to come henry S purroy Is the instrument ot of the changes there is every reason to believe elhat that this man will get the glories ot of john kelly and richard croker ills ambition I 1 Is to make tammany hall the pu purifier of new york city lie he thinks that as the tigers old role of debaucher of municipal politics Is about played out it must appear lit in the new and startling character of active reform purroy will certainly be the next national character of tammany creation ile he Is of 0 spanish bli extraction although there Is irish blood in his veins the story of h his past Is as extravagant is is as a tale by dumas and unlike other Tarr many charac characters lie he has achieved wealth without displaying it then too lie he Is about the only tiger warrior who lias has been able to make a serious impression upon grover G rover cleveland many democrats democrat think tammany y Is in bad odor with the party an impression which mr purroy will be instrumental in III removing A wonderful future is probably before him and in the days of 0 his power many will recall the stories of that fair latin ancestress of his who Is tabled fabled to lave have carried her household goods through new yolk streets upon her head as aa R richard ichard crokers Cr okera mother once did mortons Mor tons servants levi P morton morion has hag had bad interesting experiences with servants long iong be before fore john james howard became a pollyl oab issue As a man of means I 1 mr I 1 r worton morton naturally surrounds himself with competent to render personal services of various kinds having more than one house it follows that ithe file eminent republican Is compelled to leave a whole property in charge of a few ot of ills retainers it happened recently that ellerslie eller Ellers lle was so 80 left tor for a considerable petion last sum bum imer during sir mr mortons Mo Mor rions tons absence abs nc in europe be fole the castle had apen fully taken pos possession posse eslon of and while the servants still deemed themselves the ro masters asters of the house it appeared that some rome ot of th m had weed agreed to disagree the disagreement was ot or a tie de elderly acrimonious nature and took a literary ll 11 ehnry turn when one lackey grabbed book after book from the library and pelted belted an objectionable footman through the ara cloua lolis with tile the literature of the ages mr morton morion appeared during the thickest of the bombardment and the mild mannered politician ican must lave have wn been slin shocked eked at tha UM to which his magnificent ent library was being put history does not minutely record what happened immediately afterward but as aa there has been known to c eslit 1 1 feeling mimnne mr air Mor mortona torea servants ft t la Is thought t h ought that one of them etiny ay have been at it the bottom of the john james howard episode A discharged alik harocd lackey it certainly ewaa who sold out so 90 to speak hla his dormer employer to the secretary ol of the united states treasury Trea aury astor as s an electrician all new neny york society Is agog over the social diversions devised ray iby john jacoh jacob astor that wonderful young man when ho he has hag once put the last ot of hla hie mourning behind him la is likely to be the ali beau Brun brummel lynel of 0 the metropolis but he evirl assume the part after a far fashion lilon ot of his own he la Is very resourceful in ideas to entertain guests with but they all have a somewhat scientific element clement in them mr air astor puts electricity to very novel uses ife HP improvises provi promises ses electrical Pa pastimes gUmes of which his wife la is very fond in hla his laboratory labor alory stOry la a a 0 battery with a complicated series ot of by means 0 of which light Is transmitted to the very chani dhan L on the table A wonderful experiment was shown by mrs mra astor lately when hen she held aloft an are light which she brightened and subdued at will as if 1 it was a gas jet were the discovery of mr ali maiors perfected it 11 would undoubtedly earn a rood good deal of money for him the young youna iman 1111 self constantly declares declare s that he Is 13 merely an expel experimenter iminter and has ha not done a tithe of the rhe wonderful things attributed to him his b book 00 it A journey in the worlds Is now in great demand in england where it has passed through edition after edition in france francc the book lins hns been very een cen brally discussed and la IS pronounced tar far mire remarkable than jules vernes efforts in that line freddie Gell hardts retirement that onetime one time star of festive gath erines aringe mr air frederick ha has formally announced his big retire retirement menE from the gay world known as society this news Is quite a shock to many animated cir circles c les in the metropolis and Is the social soc I 1 at news of the moment mr air gebhardt has determined to I 1 lead a d a e quiet and retired life and si 19 understood to have connected himself with with some banking interests lie he is in short a man of business those who predicted that mr air gebhardt would never do as a 0 husband are really astounded at the great change chati has come over the man air fr gobhardt gebhardt Is pronounced the fondest of men where his wife Is i concerned and it seems to be his purpose to settle down and never be lively again the clubs of the metropolis cannot set get used to their dear old freddie as a family man but mr gebhardt himself Is determined ter Jer mined that they shall in time when he last appeared in the union club the onetime one time leader of howling swells dec declared ared that no man Is worthy of the name or of american who does not take advantage of all any Y opportunity to marry and bring up a large family a remark which causes cause this popular gentleman to be generally alluded to as the man of family DAVID |