Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1887 — Nervous New Yorkers. [ARTICLE]

Nervous New Yorkers.

The Vanderbilt boys, with the exception of the poetic George, are early risers, rapid walkers, and nervous in their movements. Chauncey M. Depew rushes into his office like a hurricane early in the morning, and is constantly on the move until he goes home in the evening. Go into any of the resorts where prominent New Yorkers take their luncheons, and you will at once be impressed with the fact of their nervous temperament. The brothers of Robert Bonner take their midday meal daily at the Astor House. The moment they drop into their seats a well-trained waiter rushes out to the carving-table and orders their luncheon, with the supplementary remark: “It is for the Messrs. Bonner; hurry up.” Robert Bonner himself is a man of slow movement compared with other New York editors. Stick a pin in him and he would probably turn about with the calmness peculiar to the old school of New Yorkers and ask what you meant. Try the same experiment with James Gordon Bennett and he would wheel about and offer to give you battle on the spot. Resort to the same artifice with Joseph Pulitzer and he would probably spring up with rage, turn upon you, and probably knock you down in a jiffy. He is the most nervous of all New York journalists, and walks rapidly, with his broad shoulders thrown well back.