New-York tribune., 1886-01-17
AMONG CHANGING GROUPS.
COMMENTS IN PLACES OF RESORT ON
WIDE RANGE OF SUBJECTS.

He Is a man OF medium size and smooth iace' "noso
brown oyercOst aud black silk hat form contrast
mark hun out in any crowd. He has been ADVERTISING
agent Harper Brothers publications for many years
In two three late political campaigns he mas osen
known as the heaviest betting man on the Democratic
side In New York Fabulous stories are told OF how
much he won through following MrCey Glands fortunes
He bet on him for for the Presidential nom
inaon, and fOf President He also DacKed hiii afso
last fall In the four transactions some of his frehds
say he made $l50000 He has sangnlne IDEAS apou
his venture and he told yesterday that the oy
papers President Cev Gland reads are Ihe Aoahy Argus
and The Post All the other papers that go to the hlee
House, he says, are read by the scrap book man OF
Colonel Lamont. heard report last night that "an
l.. Scott, OF Erie, Is ambitious to control the Dehoerae
gan National Capital and has made oyertuies 10
Hutchins and wyse to sell the paper to him
General J s. Easement, OF Painesvie. ONO, mas como
New that he 10 like old resident mere
In his familiarity with persons and localities was talk
ing with him the morning after John Raymond
dropped the stage ut Easton with an attack OF caf
disease, when he said haven't seen Raymond since
he brought out Wolferts RoOst,' and thereby hangs
tale. into Krkpatricks one afternoon to get my
watch liked. Raymond was there he hau al
diamond in his hand which ho was examining
Then he looked at some watches. He Dantered me "
match coins with him for watch. didn't take hold OF
his proI ositon readily and he began to rub 1t In on Tue
rsked as little rs possible He rather got my dander up
and agreed to match HIN for watch as he proposed
lie won and selected 5000 watch for which drew ;ny
check Two three nights after chat lie sent me box
and went to SEQ him in wolferts Roost' Ii was new
then Between the he around to the box and
wanted to match $50 gold pieces with me- to see he saa
IL ue couldn't make the price OF the box of me-"
The consolidating tendency of the times in all lines OF
business topic under discussion in group OF
Will uhn w
one OF the gentlemen sad There is a report that
foreign capitalists have negotiated for the purchase of all
the iron beds III the Berkshire Valley Of western
Massachusetts,, sith view OF controlling the LanesDoro
iron production, forming combination with Salisbury
iron In Connecticut lower down the same valley
and controlling most OF the high grade iron from
which wheels made this country. only heard
OF it within o day or twO but took the pains to see
what the possibilities are for such pool There are now
some 10000 miles OF railroad in the United states
The rolling stock these roads las under 1t between
and twelve millions OF wheels OF which 80 per cent
made from ron the best quality OF when comes
from berkshire Valley. Tine iron Of this section h"s
had reputation for half century Of extraordinary
strcn and chilling qualities. the two requisites for car
wheel IRON General Rolman In testing for his famous
guns, found that II had tonsile strength OF $4,000
pounds the square inch II these ore beds are 10 go
into the hands Of foreigners and unCer one man
ngement IL will create another Of the big monopoles for
which THIS country Is becoming noted"
A Connecticut man OF whom asked Information re-
gardns the region OF which this statement WAS made
told me that series Oi ore beds found at Inter
walls along general uorhward line from Sharon aud Ola
Salisbury IN Connecticut, into the western part OF Mas
saohusetts 1t forms Iron rego- OF great historic
Interest having furnished for many generations. II
was first successfully worked In 734, colonial times.
and has long been for the production Of car wheel
iron OF tue highest grade Among the largest iron men
Interested IN the valley Is ex-senator WILLIAM H.
Baruum OF Connecticut whose manufacturing Is centred
at Old Salisbury. lie has National reputation as
Democrat In contrast TO his Democracy tho principal
iron man at the upper end OF the valley, although mainly
known AS solid business man, John l. Colby has been
active I'm two Presidential campaigns IN ths organization
OF manufacturers TO SUI port General Garfield and Mr.
Blaine because OF their protective tariff positions MI
Cby has been much of late and 1t is thought
La. beeu Instrumental in forming tine plan mentioned
/ wa. chatting the other day with william Noble. the
English Temperance agtatnr who was here during tue
temperance movement of 1877. tho moral suason
alia ION aud went back organize the blue rib6On
societies in Great Bttan o has beet IN this county
for six moaths, and is about to to Australia for the
summer lie told that tomre work IL much bet
ter organized England than here In one organization
,or instance. United Kingdom Band OF Hope. there
are 100000 children, representing 1000 affiliated
societes The blue ribbon is stil worn a badge Of
persons who 1t constantly are samuel Morley and
W. l. Palmer InemLors OF Parliament. Canon Wlber-
force the Duchess OF Sutherland tue Rev. Charles II.
sputgeon. and the Rev. Newman Hall. The work IN
England is entirely directed the Individual and not at
the STATE" Mr. Noble said to ue We believe Ia edu-
eating the nation through the individual You cannot
secure laws or enforce them without having the scnti-
mcut the people properly directed In Massachusetts,
In one OF tie towns was in recently they had adopted
ucal optou and were organizing law and order society
To enforce tho new law. II public opinion had oeen
uropcIy educated the passage Of the law thcy would
no more have been obliged 10 form such society than
they would to organize to enforce tine law against burg
larry. II useless u pass the law without pAOlIe
sentiment to approve IT,"
said to Mr. Noble that his talk udica,cd opposition to
the political temperance movement, aud he replied:
When was at the CAautauqua Assembly last summer
they pumped lot Of questions at me. One or them
what thought Of the third party movement. Ireplied
that already had thrco parties TO light tho world the
flesh aud tie devil and that thought that was enough
Seriously while recognize that there great many
noble mon aud women In the Prohibition party move
meut think they are making mistake for tue cause
[ sec a vast difference between the warm ana sympa
thetc temperance movement. 1t existed here III 1877
aud the present condition OF things The contrast Is
very marked. There Is go 10 the present move
ment II you attend meeting tho question OF temper
ance is dealt with Ia the abstract The speakers talk
about would do II We hal the power aud control
OF the Government They have no words Of sympathy
TO drop I'm tho Of the drukcr To encourage ho 10
begin ~ life. In s77 tho talk was all for the lnd
vldda, aud In succOring the poor fellows addicted 10
drink the contest grow large ana great If Was living
In America | should bc - Republican. and would not
under any circumstances encourage party tenn eranee
movement. regard II as essentially dangerous 10 tue
ca Sc itself Why. OhiO tley told that alter all
their agitation they TO day worse of In the matter OF
saloons and drinking thaa they were twenty years ago
laws are worse now than thoy were then ani such
laws rs the statute books enforced with lax
ness and become dead letters. IL would not be
so the temperance movement was stiIl In the line OF
moral sua5iOn"
Meeting ex-Posmaster- General James incidentally
yesterday he called my attention to story that Is gong
the rounds OF the press with reference to the Vanderbilt
securities. II is to the effect that after the will II Mr.
Vanderbilt had been prObaed and the estate settled
box was found IN the Lincoln sato Deposit Vaults
containing round hundred million OF securities beyond
what had accounted for Mr. James minated that
the fart OF genius started the story