Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1892 — An Astor’s Way. [ARTICLE]

An Astor’s Way.

William Waldorf Astor, who is or is not the head of the house, always wears his overcoat collar turned up about his ears in winter, even on days that are clear and bright His eyes are usually bent upon the ground. Occasionally he wanders into Delmonico’s with a preoccupied air, sits down at a table in a far corner, and eats an extremely modest lunch flanked by two bottles of ginger ale. He does not look up at all, though the eyes of half the people in the place are upon the man who owns $200,000,000 worth of property. Wjien he has finished his lunch he tips the waiter liberally, pulls on his overcoat, turns up the collar, tilts his hat very far down over his eyes, and wanders forth with the Astor air of preoccupation.—New York Truth.