New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-01-22
HOW PEOPLE LOOK AND TALK
BITS OF CHAT PICKED UP IN THE HOTELS
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| BITS OF CHAT PICKED UP IN THE HOTELS
AND Ell StW HERE.
General Fen Lc Fcvre, the big xCongressman OF
| Ohio is getting TO be a well-kno~n man around New
| York He had the greatest known luck In retaining
his place in Congress. He was elected four dnerent
times and owing TO constant rcdsrlctng In his state
II was always for different district, so that IT was
never possible that he reelected, and he
always had elements with which to deal Some
years ago he travelled in Europe and fell in love with
| tho old town Of Nurcmburg Since he has been In
| New-York h,lf his leisure time has been spent In
hunting up German restaurants where he order
dishes he says, " Like l had in Nuremberg"
The new clerk Of the state Senate, John s. Kenyon,
| OF Syracuse, in NewYork for few hours recent
! ly He is a clean cut Of medium height and
solid appearance; who has frank way Of speaking
which Is said to be in Keeping with his character He
would be mist aiken for Sunday school superintendent
before any would think of his being politician.
| Yet his ability as d 'clan is ndisputabl dwight
Lawrence, who has been rcappointed State Senate Ii
] bradan under Mr. Kenyon says he is the squarest
man" he knew In politics In chatting about the
! Republican situation, MIR. Kenyon said. My judg
ment the Presidential election now coming on,
IS that II Republicans do their duty they will win IT,
There is nothing in the way OF The advan-
tagc OF grment Is all with US, and while the Demo
have the Offices and power that IS mixed evil
| The nineteen men that were disappointed when the
twentieth man got the place they all wanted
host"
Fx-Conrro. man and OK Mayor r. V. Pierce. OF
| Buffalo has been in New-York for three days
| The Doctors name prominent for a number OF
years Of the great advertisers Of the country
His political adjunct Of his advertising
OF the sanltarlum and rafcnt medicine business which
he founded 1t is said that has gold mne on the
Pacific Coast which will make him very rich. The
! cfo nf lfc mil uSpd q pa
vertisng. and a largo number of country newspapers
Interested In 1t with him. as well as some pub
fishers of city papers 1t IS the same mine In which
william WISE formerly for twenty years advertising
agent of the Harper Brothers; has an interest. W. J.
Arkell. of " The judge took excursion of news
paper men TO the coast year ago to examine It,
Among the solid citizens of the northern part of
New-York is A. L. Inman. of Plattsburg, manager Of
the Chateauguay Iron Works. He is chunky man Of
lively disposition, who has been Democrat for a life
time. but IS confronting the tariff Issue and won
derng he longer stay in party whose exponent
In the White House proposes free trade Mr.. Imam
Of the iron workers the country. but he
knows that there will be little iron made in this conn
try II the Presidents policy is adopted Mr. Inman
has been here for a day two engaged In lawsuit
An observation he made about the processes of law
here is general keeping with the expressions Of
other cOuntrymen who brought into the courts IN
this city. said he: "There Is more time wasted at
Court is called at II O'Clock. but rarely does 1t
get down to work before IL 30 An hour hour
and a half later there Is a for lunch Of half
hour. At O'Clock sharp Just as you are getting down
to business there Is adjournment till next day.
Why, up country would hs ashamed of such habits.
The sits at or o'clock and till g."
story is told of Assembyman George Weeds
earliest appearance public speaker. 1t was when
he only eight years old. lie was in a school of
some fifty boys. Two of their number named Robson
ad and had hppn
The JillsOn boy not old offender while Robson
more hardened. The principal decided on the APP
peal of Jillsons parents take him back Mean
while JillsOn had been III with fever. and instead OF
making a statement Of his actual reasons for taking
him back eacher made little speech tho school
In which he said he thought that JlllsOns fever had
been coming when he had ran away. and that he
was not quito accountable for what he had done.
Juvenile penetration through this subterfnge at
and the lads in school decided to ask for Rolsons
rcnst atement also They put Weed forward as eS
man. and this was the way he went al 1t: say.
Teacher. don't Won think that Jllson had much
fever that II affected Robson too"
People living at the seaboard have little conceptsn
of the development OF the Far West Even with a
map before resident of the Atlantic Coast, he finds
it difficult to comprehend the running of a railroad
from Denver Col. to the Gulf Of Mexico, and he will
wonder what the road can find to transport c. f.
Meek formerly OF Iowa, but general manager Of
the Denver, Fort Worth ard Texas Rail- oad has been
at the Hoffman House for week This Is the road
which General Dodge projected and built In talking
about IT. Mr. Meek said: ave tap the coal fields al
Trinidad and the lumber trade OF Texas by way of |
largo business, but there Is increasing general
traffic also. the country settles up The road IS |
500 miles shorter to tide wafer than any other road In
Colorado Wo bring Texas lumber UP TO New Mexico !
Western Kansas and Colorado, and cattle from the q.
Texas plains. We take coal in both directions. lou !
don know anything about it tn you the country
II Is rapidly settling up and becoming Just Ike the
Middle Staes.'
A Western man who has gone into the Alabama coal |
a.,
e O. Godfrey, Of St. r.ouis, who has in New
York for a week. a guest at tho Fifth Avenue Hotel
Mr. Cooley was In the coal business in 81. Louis be |
fore he became interested in the New South. His |
description of the almost nexhaustblo coal and iron
deposits Of Alabama only repetition of the expert
enco hat hundreds of others have related There |
are features about the States agriculture which are
rarely touched upon, but which deem highly impor-
tant" said he yesterday. "With the mild climate and |
warm soil that she possesses tbcro are exceptional al
vantagcs TO: supplying Northern markets with early |
fruits and vegetables. The farm products OF this !
region supplied Confederate armies long after other
parts of the South had failed Along the mineral
range fruits Of all kinds be cultivated with great
success OF the IMMORAL resources more and more Is
becoming known every day. Thus up at Fort Payne.
in De Kalb County, whore cooking coal exists ana
where 300 coke being built they have found
Trenton and East Liverpool, where 1t mannfact-
ured into that took the first prize at the New
Of terra-cotia has recently been set up in this
section The growth OF the state has It's best evidence
in tic TACT that the taxable value Of property In
creased last year by S40,0OOOOO"
The town Of Fort Payne, which Mr. Godfrey men
Toned the county seat and also the seat OF oper-
atoms of a company which has started on extensive
land improvements Governor r. A. Alscr, OF Mich |
lgan Colonel F. Scott the Kansas City real estate
man. Colonel 5. II. German the son OF the former
United States Minister to the Hague, Senator Stock
bridge and some other prominent men, are Interested
It 1t with Michigan Missouri and Alabama capitalists.
Some idea OF the way things being run In The Ne"
South may be had from what Mr. Godfrey says OF this
new syndicate. They have bought all tho vacant
town lots at Fort Payne and $4,000 acres OF iahu |
surrounding il, extending 10 great qnadriatcral on
ali Sides The tract Of fftysix square