New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-08-23

WHAT THEY ARE THINKING AND SAYING
ABOUT PUBLIC MATTERS.

western millionaire started life "a druggists hoy Nv
Newburg in this State and served three years appren-
tceship to the OF drugs and potons. heard the
other day that his youthful and inqusitive mind
prompted hin constantly to around tho pharmacy
nitng covers from jars aud pulling shoppers ont OF
bottles while he sampled their contents by the sense OF
SMELL lilo Is tall. LoDy young with large face.
prominent check bones and large brown mustache
His father president Of the Iron Mountain Railroad
which was the beginning OF the greatness of modern st.
Louis aud the first dawn OF the OF thrift In
Missouri He told mo that In the inception OF that
enterprise there came time when his father needed 10
the extremity OF imperative necessity 100000. He
red every bank In st. Louis and all the banks combinea
aud failed to got It, lie to NewYork and had no
difficulty In raising the amount by which the success OF
the enterprise assured.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad Is one OF the most pro-
gressve In the country. IT'S mechanics constantly
trying new improvements in oil departments. They
have an electric headlight OF tho locomotives
west OF Easton L. week they making scientific
tests OF aItomatio brakes froight trains was told
That they had brake at work which stopped train OF
seventeen cara, running forty miles an hour. IN fifty
e'ght seconds III distance OF 647 feet down grade
OF twenty feet the mile The GIT feet
IN length asked Mr.. Donpolly, the division superin-
tendent wat such tests porIsnd, and no said: The
penod is coming when hours time difference in dely
erng freight at its destination VIII control the business
Rates are to be the all routes 10 competing
points Speed aud safety will bs the consideration with
shippers We have no trouble In running freight trains
last We could run thom ~ fast express trains I lis
trouble Is TO stop them With our hand brakcs and
ordinary train crows the down gre where this test
made couldn't haze stopped that train short Of
plpsburg, nearly ten miles away. suppose thorc had
been Pullman the track I'm that distancei All the
roads OF tho country will sooner later equip freight
trains completely passenger trains in the matter Of
brakes"
The Universy Club unfortunate IN It's decorations
for General Grants obseles The decorator to whom
they eavo an order put up cloth from which tho rain
washed the black dye IL yenstrated the interstiees aud
covered the front their club house Madison Square
TO such extent thai several hundred dollars of outlay
viii DO required to repoish the stone
Ex-Congrcssman Samuel b. Dick. OF Meadville talking
18th about the Administrations recalled incident
10 SHOW that tho rIscbc temper OF General sparks, the
Land Commissioner, IA not development In his
character Mr.. Dick served In tho same Congress With
Sparks. Tho latter chairman OF a committee. DICK
had never met HIM. but went day to his committee
room to yet information As be passed In The door
being aar, no let u open. TALL lank looked up
from table at which he was sitting and shouted barshy
and ieroey: -shut that door. sir" Mr. Dick not to
be o1tdone In poteness. rcsponded shut your own
door, blank you" Discovering. possibly by the
Language. That he had fellow member OF Congress to
deal WITH Sparks became prOruse in hs apologies
W. Il. Bole. OF Mcaiyle who Is a Democrat, toll Mr..
Dirk that lac got acquainted with Sparks In 1868 In
Illinois, sparks lived at Peoria and practised law there
10 had in the courts somewhere below Peoria, In
which ne found his client misleading him IA TO tho
facts There WAS widow tho other side. Sparks
got up Indignantly denounced his clleut, laid spread
eagle stfes on the duty Of eycry man to protect the
widow aud orphan. and walked out OF court Ills action
made hin Judge. II time before 1868 TINT Mr.
Boo the General public place raise hls cane and
s.A ~ Al Inn a
traitor.
Conpei with the report that he has changed his resi-
deuce from Cleveland to seNYork hear that Colonel
Oliver II. Payne Joined the County Democracy. lie
Is several times millionaire oud bachelor OF forty
seven or forts eight lilo boy soldier. aud Won an
eagle his shoulders under the brigade command OF
General Durbn Ward. lie treasurer OF che original
standard Oil Company OF Cleveland since become one Of
greatest corporations OF tho world. Hts fortune was
maio I'm petroleum aud his psstime Is politics. He
makes Il practical by concentrating his efforts on mem
bes OF his family. lie able years ago 70 secure
the election OF his brother Nate Payne. who died last
winter Mayor OF Cleveland the Democratic ticket
AT a time when the Forest city considered securely
Republican by from 1000 TO 10000 majority Later be
secured the election OF bis father, Henry H. Payne, TO
Congress from that Republican district. Mr. Payne
thereby became member OF the famous Electoral Com
mission OF 1870 and Mr. Tdens friendship. The
memorable costest ia the Ohl) Legislature year and
half ago, IN which Henry B Payne was made United
states SENATOR retiring George H. Pondoton, was more
OF Colonel Pay nos political handiwork With an almost
eIhaustess purse he has been successful Ia nearly al
his undertakings In this line. His failure was tho
attempt 10 make his father the Democratic nomr ee for
President In 1880 Some twenty Ohio delegates proved
obdurte and ne The Stat. could not DO made solid for
Payne, II Was mpracticablc 10 ask votes elsewhere.
Colonel Payne romantic affection for his sister,
Mrs william q. whitney and has showesed on her g-ts
| amounting 10 nearly million dollars, including The
handsome home OF the whtneys in Fifth-avc. built by
Mira Frederick W. stevens II was said that bis contri-
button OF $4,000 Mr. Cevelands campaign fund had
ia martial reward, whether Intended or not in Mr..
Whitneys elevation 10 the head Of the Navy Depart
ment Colonel Payne probably nten Is TO take hand IN
| New York politics.
| l. f. Minis, OF Savannah Ca, who Is In tho cotton
business remarked yesterday that no expected to
| have ~ shotgun reception his return home lie
went on 10 explain; Coming up from Savannah some
| timo ago, two young townsmeu Of mine were on the
steamer said the captain ono day. In Joke that he
must DO sure and give then their titles in his list OF
as.ensers and called them Lord Alfred Mills and Sir
| fnomas 7. 5cryoner. When We arrived In New York.
behold their names In me AsN horS frs as among tas
both club mon. and got no end oi Hnying ia Savannah
| on their return presume they VIII give mo warm
reception
Mr. Minis told mo that the great need Of the South Is
better teegraphic COMMIT nlcatlon and railroad trans
portation. About telegraphy he said: "The Western
Union was OF only line for long Time Its rates were
terribly hgh-a dollar for ten words TO New York Our
nrr Telegram rs every half hour In business hours "a
sew York and gets reply often. Then our business
requires hourly edyces from Bombay and London on
cotton and silver. The Southern Telegraph Company
promlsed us competition and we all took some Of IL
konds The rates took a tumble 10 fty cents, when the
line WA completed but the Western Union gobbe
il up and rates increased Now the Batimorp and
Ohio coming to Our southern Telegraph bonds are
worthless still think tho Investment paid u.s. Our firm
| had a $500 bond. It paid us per cent interest and
we were allowed twenty per cont discount on mes.
sages. interest and DISCOUNTS amounted TO about
800 The other 5000 quite made up by tho lower
ing OF the rate Tho experiment showed the baltimore
and Ohio people that thefe IA Held for them In the
| south and eventually we shall be gamers"
Tho head OF one OF the largest retail establishments IN
yorlf ma "A idea of OF tho