New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-01-30
CHAT HEARD ON 4 saturday STROLL.
POLITICS AND BUSINESS DISCUSSED IN VARIOUS
QUARTERS.

POLITICS AND BUSINESS DISCUSSED IN VARIOUS
QUARTERS.
strolng in New-YOrk on Saturday evening was
only to be accomplished at the risk of ungling ears
and fingers and freezing marrow, unless ono was pen
tfully protected with lambs wool and fur. The
blizzard that swept over Ncw-York and New England
Thursday and Friday had not yet spent their force
and sharp of cold air ranging betwe'n the
high houses, the TRIBUNE stroller at every street
corner In fact the cold and chilly atmosphere was
the most important thing he did meet Climbing
up tie Forty secondst elevated station the Sixth
road the Stroller ran into group of elevated
| road employees who discussing the unpleasant
experiences of the storm If you really want to
know what blizzard is" said one Just stand on the
| platform on a night like last night while We are
! rounding the curve at One hundred -andtenthst.
never experienced anything like ii. know
had rather take my chances at the North Pole"
Crossing Twenty third ST., wrapped In enormous
great coat. Major b. S. Henning, who Is president
Of the Florida Railway and Navigation Company. Tho
Major has a sturdy figure strongly marked face full
Of character and bristling white mustache, which
gives him n decided military air. He lives in New
York for a part of the year, has Orange County
farm and a fine place in Florida. with the develop
of which he has been intimately connected
for several years. He directs the affairs of his rail-
road from offices in the Mills Building.
Another bUstlng New Yorker who was here IS
Isaac T. Soddard, who for number of years
leading insurance expert Of the Hartford compan es
but became engaged later in mining pursuits. lie Is
now president OF a gold mining company which Is
operating in Arizona, where extensive discoveries of
aUrferOus pyrilcs have been made, out Of which
explorers expect to make largo fortunes.
A slender young with intellectual face, high
forehead and aggressive and business air,
who was Broadway, is A. +. Davis. who Is
connected with the publishing department of Frank
Lese's publishing house. He is Western product
having been a successful publisher in Chicago before
he came NewYork In 1854, with Bishop Obery,
now United States Civil Service Commissioner, he
published an edition of tho lives of Cleveland and
Hendricks 1t received special author zatOn from
the Democratic National Committee which was in
tereeted in the profits accrung fran the sale OF the
book. I am told that ON $50, 900 to S.iO 900 went
into their campaign treasury from this source.
Western man who is met in the Jrrldors Of the
Hoffman House, where the Stroller has retreaied for
warmth, Is H. C. Walker. His home Is in CaIifor-
MA but his business interests In Colorado, and
he has Just come from there. The old saying Go
away from home TO learn the news" Is exempt
fed by what he tells me. Says he: al met
John Arkens, of THE Rocky Mountain News in
Denver. John, you know, IS bitterly opposed to
Pr, sldent Cleveland lie has just got back from the
East. He told that he had seen Governor Hills
friends and that no knew positively that the
nor would refuse to for Governor tn fall Arkens
says that Cleveland cannot carry NewYOrk without
Hin for Governor, but thai Hill carry It for Prcs
dent and that by refusing 10 be Candidate for Gov
ernOr, Hill will force Cleveland ont OF The way and
force the party TO nominate himself In Cleveland's
place. In other words he proposes To force the fight
on Cleveland.'