Life — January 24, 1895 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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OME time, when the world is wiser and juster than it is now, newspapers will delay their culogies on deceased capitalists until such a time as the capitalists’ wills can be added to their record. A man’s will is an important par- ticular of his conduct, especially if he is a very rich man. A worthy New York banker whose just praises lately swelled the obituary columns of scores of newspapers, left a will » by which one of his sons “DDhile there io Life there's Hope.” VOL. XXV. JANUARY 24, 1895. No. 630. 1g West Turty-First Street, New York. Published every Thursday. $5.00 a year in advance. Postage to foreign countries in the Postal Union, $1.04 a year, extra. Single copies to cents. =< eaten Rejected contributions will be destroyed unless accompanied by a stamped ‘Was disinherited. A saga- and directed envelope. cious contemporary says that in so doing he disre- HANKS to the insomnia of a vigilant press, garded the great unwritten large numbers of Americans have lately been commandment which says to parents: “Honor thy sons 4 enabled to concern themselves once more with the ang thy daughters that thy days may be blessed in the land.” affairs of the Astor family, and to experience @ There is much sense in that commandment, and it cannot considerable degree of agitation over the apparent hy disregarded with impunity. failure of the New York Astors to show a proper ; 5 ‘ consciousness of the recent bereavement in the Res for the America’s cup help to family of their London cousins. Without enquiring mak make our summers lively, and LiFe into the precise degree of unconcern the New York is glad that one is booked for this year. The Astors have shown, or probing the report that it American Cup Committee have come was due to the unwillingness of the London Astors very well out of their dispute with the to communicate with them, it is possible to see Royal Yacht Squadron. To make a clearly enough that after generations of close unity race they made all the concessions the two branches of the Astor family have drifted they could, but did not concede a good way apart. It is a pity. It is neither what they ought not to have con- pleasant for the Astors nor edifying to the public. ceded. If Lord Dunraven wins There would seem to be no real necessity for it the cup he will have earned it, and either. . . . if he keeps it he will have to keep on earning it from year to year. HERE are enough things in the ” . . world to satisfy all the Astors— Tt remedy suggested by Dr. Birbeck Hill, visiting enough money, enough elbow room, Britisher, for the periodical American over-excitement enough building material, enough pre- about college football is * charge nothing and do not provide cedence, enough yachts, enough things seats. Then you will not be troubled by large crowds.” worth having and enough tomfoolery of — It is a simple plan and would probably be effectual. every sort. This being the case, the . * * Astors on their own account and as a matter of public duty, ought to get together and agree on some equitable basis of partition according to which a due and suitable enjoyment of the pomps and vanities of this highly interesting world may be secured to each branch of the family, without prejudice to the maintenance of such relations between the London and the New York Astors as befit the intercourse of Christian cousins. It would be easy to find arbitrators fit to settle all the Astors difficulties if the Astors would only consent, Bishop Potter, Mr. Joseph be brought to justice and Choate, and Mr. Heriry White, late of London, would make sentenced to share his name a commission upon the discretion of which both of the ©) with that sepulchre of peasants’ Astor branches could surely depend. hoards? T is proposed to name the Suez canal after De Lesseps. Very good! He was a great man and deserves such a_ distinction. The Panama canal, too, might bear somebody's name. Is there not some guilty Frenchman not yet run Coes down by other forms of retribution who might comicbooks=com