St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-12-26
NEW YORK GOSSIP.
The Holiday shopping Crowds of
Enormous Dimensions.
Chat About the Payne Family-- Ohio
Politics.
Special Correspondence of the Globe.

Speclal correspondence OF the Globe.
NEY YORK, Dec. 24.--How closet,
come the occurrences of Christmas to the
man who is past the halcyon days of youth!
But how far apart are the holidays to child
hood. By the time this letter gets into
print everybody will have examined his
stockings. New York stockings will
surely be full. The streets of this city
have presented an almost carnival appear
ance for week past. Day and night the
lnterminable procession moves. Although
the weather has been at times almost fierce,
the crowds on the streets by nights have
been as great as these by day. Lovely
ladies and children swarm through Union
square to the bazaars on Fourteenth street,
making glad the places which are. usually,
nocturnally known only to the daughters of
sin. The approach of the holidays gives q
city life and loneliness, and New York just
now is lively and lovely according to its
size.
COL Oliver ii. Payne, notice of whose
anchorage in Gotham was recently given.
has turned up suddenly in London, and
has been interviewed by an American cor
respondent. He declares that he is no
longer connected with the Standard Oil
company, but is retired gentleman. with
feeling that he has been active enough to
entitle him to a rest. Happy Oliver, who
can retire with fifteen millions or more at
the age of so. And there is something to
be admired about that. 1t looks better
than to be wearing himself out grasping
for more. Col. Payneis now making his
first regular visit to Europe. He was in
Paris few years ago, going to his sister.
when her child died in that city.
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John d. Rockefeller, the president of
the Standard Oil company. has not retired
from the business. but is rich enough to
relieve himself of anything but geIlerali-
zation. Col. w. P. Thompson is probably
now the practical executive head of the
Standard OIL company. Whatever may be
Said OF the giant monopoly over which he
presideS, he is himself most estimable
gentleman. He was south of Mason &
DiXOn's line during the war, and graduated
into the Standard from Oil opera
tons in West Virginia. A few
years ago he was forced to fly to
the South on account of impaired health.
Much to the surprise as we'll as gratifca-
ton of his friends he returned to Cleveland
restored, and now enjoys life to the fullest
extent possible with gentleman of exem-
plary habits. He is most systematic in
taking care of his health. He is devoted
student of the weather. and regulates his
apparel with reference to the rays Of the
summer sun or the blasts of Boreas with an
eXactnesS that is almost mathematical. He
is so grateful for health that he is willing to
take good deal of trouble to keep it.
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Speaking of the Paynes and their asso-
ciates is always reminder of the election
of Henry B. Payne to tile senate and es-
pecially now that the editor of the Cincn
natl Commercial Gazette is tearing up the
ground with demand for investigation.
The Commercial Gazette bullied Congress-
man John Little into pushing the
fight on Payne in the United States
senate last winter, and now since
Little has been defeated for reelection,
HaIstead is frothy with rage. He is not
likely to accomplish anything. The con-
duct of the investigating committee APP
pointed by the Ohio house of representa-
tiyes last winter, is likely to ''dish" any
effort to have Payne investigated now. The
committee did not call the material wit
nesses in the case, although they were all
in the state. and easily accessible. The
committeeman were either well assured
that the charges of bribery and corruption
were frivolous, or else they were suscepti-
BILE to the influences which so frequently