New-York tribune., 1886-02-13
CHAT HBOU1 THE CITY.

In the accounts OF "'Arry ms disclosures OF the
alleged police ackmal levied MIN there has been
OF mutual friend OF iil aud superintendent
Murray who gave the latter the inf rmatlIn on which
he cOmpeil-d Hill TO to Police Headquarters and
tell his da.magug story heard Stcrday that TINS
mysterious friend VAS young politician named Bacon
1t is Sid that he Hilrs place one day when
Murphy ca in The captain looked askant nj the
smooth Of the politician md asked Hill who he was.
HIll re: urned Indefinite answer wherruDon Muir
phy sald : " There you are aktln. Harry You haven't
got any # ihr right KIN "t Irrnd, any more ihht
fellows good" Bacon hal been tod by Hl OF the
demands made on him. aLd haI advised hn hot 10 aS
any more luis remark "f Murphy III 'de him mad To
a white neat. and went 10 r1nlenden Murray and
told him that Murphy using the superintendent
name to extort money from Hill Then came the ek-
plOs on.
g. F. Platt is IN the lumber business and has Just
returned from Canada. tells De that the Cana
dian dealers are relying confidently the removal Of
the 81 duty imposed on lumber sent 10 this market
They have kept LOBBY at Washington Tor several
weeks. | hear from another source that James Nc
Lafr, the wruthy ScOtcHntu who about the largest
lumber producer the Ottawa district. has zone on to
Washington within a aay or two To press the matter
before Congress.
Ex-Governor Cheney. OF New Hampshire. chatting
with about the cotton manufacturing In New
Lngland. SAID that the largest single mandatory
OF cotton goods In this country Is at Mancheser-the
Am skeag mills They manufacture average of 800
bales OF cotton per day. producing denims glnghans,
prints and thread.
There is more or less gossip IN ooltlcal circles over
the Senate Committee which Is investigating the
Broadway Surface Railroad matter II Is said that the
ex-SenaOrs return to activity politics OresbadO wed
In his Willingness TO undertake ths task anI that his
laOns win ex-senator Platt have becpIne friendly
Senator Low, who u AT the head OF the commit
Tee, known warm friend or Mr. Plat, and IA be-
heveI TO have sought has counsel IN the secctOh OF
attorneys.
Among tne men this winter at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel Is X. B Lang ion the Minneapolis millionaire.
He is tall square, shouliered handsome man OF FER
haps hfty, with foil gray bearl. covering "a large
square face, which the upper lip is clean shaved AMI
the large aud prominent He began lie. told.
as a lab0rer at q dollar a day lie is self educated
beyond what liltr assistance the common schools
him In youth. He is heavy contractor and has been
iutrtsted with important pieces OF work nh the
Northern Pacinc and Otner Pacific lines lie Il tue
capitalist OF Newell X Co. the big Wholesale grocery
house at Minneapolis. wlOs- business reaches two ant
half millions annually, and taa DDe type of the
who have 10 the front IN the Northwest country
have several times had pointed out to me vi TO Own
a natural son Of KIM Vctor Emmanuel Of italy, tall
and arstocratic looking with burned face,
large gray mustacue and al OF iron gray hair HIS
Is Colonel Pratt, aud dra pension from the
Italian Government tor services In the aud wounds
received. some years In tue employ OF the
New-IOrk city government in the Mayors department,
having been given ths place by request OF italian
residents here.