St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-18
MEN WHO TALK.
Erastus ERAsTUs WIAIAN,
the New York Capital
Wiman. lSt-My proposed visit
IN CLEVELAND n xuhoro

EraStus ERASTUS WIMAN,
the New York Capital
Wiman. lst-My proposed visit
to Cleveland, O.,where
Twas to discourse on the subjectof COM
mercial union between the United States
and Canada, evidently created COM
motion in commercial circles, ii L can
nudge from the tenor of kilograms re-
ceived during the past forty-eight hours.
This trip was suggested to me by mem
bers of the chamber of commerce, and l
had made arrangements to speak in that
city some time this week. Judge of my
surprise upon reaching st. Paul to find
atelegram awaiting me, stating that the
doctrines which Ipreached were at varl-
ance with the views entertained by rep
resentativeS of iron and lumber indus
tries and that could not have the hall
of the leading commercial body, as had
been promised. This was rather queer
proceeding, it struck me, and especially
as | had been solicited to deliver my
speech on this question and had not
sought such an opportunity. But am
going to talk in Cleveland, as / prom
ised, and under the auspices of the
Lincoln club, political organization
who invited me to do so. My answer to
them was that should certainly comply
with their request; all / wanted was
big hall and the assurance of a large
crowd. 1t has been openly charged
that the height of my ambition is to
some day become governor general OF
Canada, but the only basis for this lies
in the fact that have never surrendered
my allegiance to the Dominion govern
ment. For the past twenty-five years
that / have been located at New York, l
have been the Canadian consul, although
my principal business has been to look
after necessitous Canadians who had
dealings with their uncles after coming
to New York to see the elephant, and
wanted funds to get back home. One
season that | recall very wildly, took
ten overcoatS out of pawn for
their owners, and sent them on their
way rejoicing. 1t would almost make
the elder GARRETT turn over in his
grave to witness the devastating effects
of the management of his son ROBERT
of the affairs of the Baltimore 81 Ohio
Railroad company in the space OF few
years. Here is road which was repre-
scented, when the syndicate was discuss
ing the scheme for giving it an outlet
by way of the Arthurkill to New York,
to have surplus of upwards of $4S,000,-
600, and now it is almost bankrupt. |
would like to see this property got
under the control of the Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe and thus give a
clear line from San Francisco to New
York; and this mayyet be accomplished
if certain negotiations now pending are
carried out.
CHARLES S. ROGERS.
Charles 8. One of the things
that puzzled me dur
Rogers. ing my recent trip
through the South
was what On earth the people found to
subsist upon. From Chattanooga to
railroad, day after day, we passed
through the most barren country mag
Unable, the only relief to the monotony
of the scene being hundreds of cabins,
the tenants of which are negroes and
the poor whites, or ''crackerS," as the
latter are termed; and it was sandy
country, too-in Georgia miles upon
miles of red sand, and when we
reached Florida, the only differ
ence in the soil was IN the color of
the sand, which was dazzling white.
1t looked somewhat homogeneous to see
a vast flower bed in front of some Splen-
did hotel or private residence, appar-
emily growing out of this sand, but the
explanation was that the soil had been
brought from distance to nouriSh the
growing plants. And yet, in this APP
parently sterile country, cotton grows
splendidly, although not of such fine
quality as in South Carolina; but the
people can not eat cotton, and the coun-
try did not seem capable Of raising any
pected in Florida from efforts now
under way looking to drainage of the
vast swamps and morasses which
abound in the land of PONCE DE LEON
and their conversion into arabic
land. But even these efforts at anchor
ating the condition of the natives are
not without peril, for there is nothing
chat cracker detestS more than sur
yeyOr at work with his assistants and
Instruments, and they are liable to be-
iambnshed and shot at any moment.
One surveyor in the employ of HAMIL-
TON DIssToN, of Philadelphia, who for
the past three or four years has been
actively engaged in the work of re-
claiming marshy and unproductive
lands, until he now owns millions of
acres, showed me the scars on his left
arm where he had been wounded by
cracker. After looking at the country
very carefully, it seemed Incompetent
sible to me why people should care to
brave the dangers and deprivations of
such desolate-looking portion of the
United States, unless perhaps it might
be that land there conld be procured for
little or nothing. In all my experience
and travels, and even where any attempt
was made at cultivation, there was
nothing that could be compared with the
vast fields of the Northwest, that need
only be tickled with the hoe to yield a
harvest.
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Col. p. r. Pr BARR, st. Paul
Cable Railway-Peo-
Barr. pie have not taken
very kindly to the
covered passenger cars now used with
the grinS OH our line. and ladies are par