New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-06-21
CHAT ON TIMELY TOPICS.
WHAT PUBLIC MEN AND OTHERS ARE SAY
ING AND DOING.


Bayliss w. Hanna, who is to represent TINS
Government in the Argentine Republic, Is country
editor Of Terre Haue Ind In the days OF the
crazehe was one OF the ardent advocates OF setns nj
tho printing machines OF the country at worK W aA
money. He may have had idea that his own prih'ins
press could be utilized In that way. Since the ad'en'
HIS party to power he has done nothing QUO dresm u
foreign mission ard scheme to get It, His friends IN IN
diana tried to persuade him that tho at Terre
Hauts where he could overlook his boys In the man
agement Of his paper would be much better position
especially from the financial ron OF view than any tnhe
Mr.. Cleveland was lKcy to give him. But no. NO "an'e
res-in foreign mission He told his good stories "
Colonel Daniel Lamont and his best stories TO the fres
dent and he reached his desire. He said to me tho
other day at the Coleman House: II would tell you
good story cared but the conditions are not right
You can't tell really good story unless the other fellows
ore tighter than you are" scratched my head, ana
thought several things, but said nothing
General Pierce NJ B. Young. Of Georgia. who got his
appointment as Consul General at st. Petersburg the
same day that Hanna named for the Argentine
Republic mission, in NewYork only few days ago.
think he came here Minister Lothrcp, having
known that they to be in Russia together lie Is
Of the Southern who retain the dashng ar tnat
was associated in public thought with the chivary OF
1860. He is as straight arrow aud walks as II
treadng on air. His whole has been OF the hot
headed blazing that is admired but never pointed
out as an example to youth. He was within month OF
graduation ut West Point when the war broke OUT but
resigned and entered the cavalry branch OF the rebel
army. He was an officer OF distinction and won
Maor-Goneral's position by fighting There fs story
current OF charge he made down railroad cut 10 cap
ure strongly posted Federal battery 1t Is said to have
teen as gallant as Balakava. although the guns were
only In front As no swept along at the head OF thou
sand troopers, OF bis associates In command said:
This Ia war; is suicide; do you realize what you
doingl" Il DO. indeed" was the light response
I'll DO Major General In blank In half an hour and
carried the battery by storm In Congress- where be
served four torms he has had any amount OF trouble III
Russia and England should engage in war, 1t would not
surprising II Young threw up his oce to enter the
Russian service.
had some curiosity recently TO find out what proper
ton OF guests In NewYork hotels ia made up ofwomen
or tho transient guests IL Ia only trihe over
In OF 100 at each OF four OF the prncpal
hotels found eight, six, nineteen and eleven women
In making this enumeration took only the latest ar
rivals In some OF the hotels arc not Desired
In no hotel OF the first class o woman who comes
alone find accommodation without an Introduction or
some evidence OF her respectablity This Is the only
safeguard OF tho hotel against scandal At one Oh the
leading hotcs heard yesterday that two ladies' VINO
had the cafe and sat down to ordera NEAL were
asked to retire because they were unknown This too
in hotel which has the reputation OF being hotei ior
this reputation.
H. @ Parsons OF Natural Bridge. Va. has been here
for day or two IN relation to enterprises In which he Is
interested in the shenandoah Valley He Is one OF the
Northern men who have faith In the natural resources or
tho South and In future growth and he has invested
his money In that faith In talk with him about the
poltIes OF the South he sad SO far as Repubcapsm
q concerned, there is no present hope outside OF ne
great fertile and mineral tracts or land lying on and be-
III. n fl,xaN In ~ nraa
The people In this section, extending down through
Tennessee into Alsbama OF Dutch ancestry. They
ha, reared strong in the past AMI VIII do so again
n possbo that mountain ranges, where RepuDli-
cansm stancn may day be tho turning point 70
save Congress One OF the great troubles In the south
IA 10 get the poor whites act with the colored voters
Their interests are almost Identical yet the poor Will
have horror OF any association In any form with the
negro"
Mr. Parsons although interested in railroads and
urnaces his ownership OF the hotel resort al
Natural Bridge takes q deep inorcss in petcs and
literature. told by one OF his friends that BOOK
OF poems had recently been published ana through
the same source obtained a,cursory view OF the volume
It ia entitled The Roper from the first poem wDlch
illustrates the progress OF the country Inc author say
OF his motive: My attention called to the work the
WAS doing by remarks OF two great men made
| twenty-five years ago. William H. Seward said that
lowing 10 Mr. McCormlck's invention, the line OF
| civilization moved westward thirty miles each day
Reyerdy johnson stated that the invention was on
annual source to tho United states OK more
than fifty millions OF dollars II Is hard to overestimae
the forcos that this discovery has set free ana the op
portunty II has given for thought and new nvention
bere arc half million machines in use, each doing
tho work OF six to ten men" understand that Mrs.
Mccormick was so delighted with tho poem that she
| caused ts publication in lasting form.
John Huntington of Cleveland, who sailed FOR Europe
Yesterday with his family, Is al example OF what In
yentve genius do for poor man under the Fostering
care OF this Government He was an oil Ladder, In the
sarly days OF petroleum discovery Then he secured
work in refinery. The processes were slow tedious
and unsatsfactory spent his days In studying how
IN porfect better machinery his nights In Its practical
construction lie created processes that are still In use
The sts ndard oil Company was In 1t snfancy s omcers
saw the worth OF his inventions and offered him large
SHE OF money their exclusive control Ho refused the
money but shrewdly offered to sell Tor a small sum 10
cash and large interest In the company Itself He owns
two or three millions OF the standard stock today, ant
| has rs much more outside.
| WF Proctor OF the Singer Sewing Machine Company
aid Yesterday "There great deal Of talk about thu
hard times in this country people seem to think the
United States are suffering while other Nations thrive
Our business brings correspondence from the entire
world Tho complaint OF stringent times Is not local. Du
| eeneral the world Why. we had letter IRON
Australia to-day which, IL hau oeeh reaa 10 o wiz
my back turned, would have sworn was written aoou
affairs the Uhitod States There was tne same s'of'
ohN,t decentralization and underconsumption and cur
,aun,ent and depression. Austria got herself into mt
condition recently 1t proposed to raise the tarif
~ ain iron manufactures TO high hgure amounting
On o 70 nrohblton Everybody interested rushed as
many Of their goods possible Into the country In orae
arnmcnt turned tail and didn't put on the extra tag
40 tho country flooded with the articles on when
tax was proposed, and everybody Is anxious 70 SCI 81
| almost any price"
Mr. Proctor tells mo that twenty-one years ago ne
tooI ont an insurance policy of $4,000. The last
premium has teen paid and he is now able to hgure up
r..,,,s At maid an annual premium OF some SieI"