Show Dollars Rule New York Society 1 New York Oct 1 12 Tho Tho citizens of other states who by Industry or 01 wi o Investments have wealthy and nul whose families entertain high so 1 auit clot aspiration pr art supposed TO look I with longing eyes upon the sallies of IC tho NOW New York whether o on Fifth avenue In this hits city or In Newport About the beginning of the tho opera season son sea ton son or about tItus the time the opens a number of persons of good SQ standing In other parts of this the country do come to N o w York hut but moat of them come to hoar the tho heat best that can be he heard Jn In music or to s see ee tine line horses and anal now fashions in dresS A few millionaire from and some other western eIls have havo pur- pur anti and opened houses on Fifth avenue for the of lavish h social anti antl occasionally ones one nears that HIP tue name of toni from the city has been added to New NewYork's Yorks York's IrtO liui HO so far as tho ho people of fashion and wealth anti and family ancestry an an- In other cities are the doIngs of the Nevi Naw York smart set as the whether lhee doings occur In New Xe York city in itin or In Newport in summer are arc re regarded re- re with smiles rather than The Nev ew Yorker yorker that that K is Jf If tho tue man hero here be taken laken as ts he representative type or affects n IL belief that thai the social world of 01 the tilO entire country has Its eyes focused upon up upon up- up on the tho occurrences within this sot set Thin belief finds In the tho title of tho ho local company which holds an annually an- an an exhibition of horses In nn con Sultans Square Garden the NatiOnal Horse fbi Show association Not American Society There are horse shows In fifty places during the sea season on hut but that hi Now New York Is the thi only one that sets acts Itself up tip as a national event anti and many NV Now w Yorkers manifestly believe that local should b defined n ns the of the States Slates or the American Ameri can The Tho net Is that lie tho society represented by Ii the he smart set I D I less of the poll poil of America titan than It is an imitation of 1 in lt While Jn in countries of ol r monarchical government jo society c o I Ip clings to jiP skirts of royalty p and anul Its titled appendages In this citi a- a the society of the tale latr Ward er haB it iU foundation stone set in in i Us Its leaders leaders' are nrc picked from ron 1 tHe poses possessors ors of Kret fortunes anthe an am 4 the pare established an J e main by those those- of gratt financial I I Local ocal arl is Ls an i of dollars anti and mr thieF I s who sho cannot spend for enter enter- t nt nt i in great man mansions lon there is l little ittle room Trying to break Into the 4 00 I Is the tho phrase usually applied to tat t who have accumulated wealth e elsewhere re and anal moved to New York to s spend a part palt of It In lavish entertainment entertain entertain- menu ment usually to gratify the tho I of some social climber for fot ry Th- Th late Ward McAllister Inventor of tIme the phrase the Pour Foum Hundred elucidated elu cist- the tho designation with the tha ex explanation t that there ere ere In New York city iLy about heads of ot f possessing pos pOS- the necessary wealth and lei lets lets- up ure to devote themselves to social af af- af fairs The remainder of the tito city's population was MS beyond the pale the building up of great fortunes in w York city cost of lavish en- en has been licen raised still higher high high- er or and tile the from roan this set act of till except the very wealthy has kept pace thus the of multi Momi hint of the moneyed fournia- fournia foundation tion of the he usually described in n recent trial In court hero In which It was brought out thai those who wished flattering biographies of or their families or themselves as lacing being members of ti is smart set were ivere willing will ing m pay as much as ir for a riffle page of laudation The Tue family that possessed a genealogical tree tive wh trunk grew out hUt of Plymouth hoo high social standing o reco ni ed the h head ad of It may have been a ci Revolutionary hero hero hero- unless u It had been able to 0 maintain a position in the race for dollars wa was rigorously excluded from rein the he record of tIme the metes of iho people of society Cheap Of Or course there is in this populous founded the Uio city a society not upon of sit great wealth a 3 society which Comprises in hUt iLs membership the plain respectable to do people peo peo- pe that thaL one seldom roads rentis about In he his newspapers newspapers-a a society the teat lest of admission to at which Is not net the tho ability to i spend money tastefully the bread line at Flo Fieh grows In enst i nut newly ne made millionaires do in not rush to New York to knock kneel at its door unit and Its membership is smaller than lien ml might ht bo ho expected n TI the city of nf the population pop The ver very character of its L. L LS destructive of the growth In New Neu York of the social factor those not of the l class imil cheap amusements have been a Contributory cause of the decline of odal communication among those thore P l toll |