New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-05-20
FROM MANY POINTS OF VIEW.
MEN AND THINGS IN THE CURRENT OF CITY
LIFE

came over 10 grow up with the country. Ho has
fair complexion and blond mustache, and Is one OF
the editors OF Nunsoy's Golden ArGosy.' Mr..
TIthcrington was graduated from oxford. where he
was ono Of the nineteen first classmcn Of his year.
having been a student at Magdalcn College. Mayor
Hewitt made his acquaintance in England and per
suaded him 10 como over here as a tutor In DIS
family. but teaching was loss to his liking than
literary work and he left Mayor Hewitt to accept INC
position he holds.
Many complimentary things arc said every hand
about the manner in which Speaker Fremont Cole
organized the committees Of the Assembly and
directed the general work Of the session at Albany
When Mr.. Cole went into the Speakers chair Il was
feared that his youth might lead to some mistakes.
The result has been so different from this prediction
that the Republicans congratulatng themselves
and HIM Senator Arnold, of Unadllia. who repre-
scnfs the district in which Senator Warner Miller IS
a voter talking about Mr. Coles administration yes
terday. said
The keynote Of Speaker Coles success was his
rerfect integrity. I have known him since long
before went into the Assembly and he IS as honest
as the day sslong In making up the committees
I'm pushing the work Of the Assembly, In arranging
an early Adjournment and in the exercise Of evcTy
power instructed TO the Speaker he careful about
the spirit OF perfect fairness and perfect honesty
don't think that he had good material in the As
scmbly as there has been I'm previous years and the
excellence of the work done is therefore all the more
credltable TO him. a man with lighter view of the
responsibility Of the position might have Involved
himself and the party in serious complications"
Senator p r. Plumb and cx-Cong gresham Smith.
OF Kansas made interesting study in the corridor
Of the Fifth Avenue Hotel recently. Both largo
and active men. wellknown Ncw-I orkcr observing
them was led TO eiacuate "Wcstcrncrs bet. and
corn fed Tribune reporter had chat with
Mr. Smith about the senator. The ex-Congressman
IS a Democrat. but he said "scnator Plumb Is
popular in Kansas, and growing more popular every
day He is a rustler an active pushing brainy man
OF affairs. He has any amount OF good. hard business
sense, and has accumulated considerable property
half a million at least Everybody likes him because
he is so loyal TO Kansas. He a lawyer and
editor and pracilsed bar which has had some able
men in IT, Matt Carpenter said Of samuel stnson.
who was the leading lawyer al the Kansas bar n ne
sixties that his superior did not exist In the Uned
States. stinson came from Maine and went back
there TO die
President f. A. Stout. Of the Nicaragua Canal
COMPANY says: "1he syndicate which has under
taken TO construct this canal started into the enter
prise on the strength Of estimates made by Lieutenant
\. G. Menocal in 1883. most encouraging feature
Of our progress Is the fact that both Lieutenant
Menocal and Mr. Pcarv report that the work can
be done very much below their estimates. When VIC
have their complete ana perfected estimates We shau
write the engineers Of the world to Inspect examine
and criticisc them"
One OF the managers Of bureau which las been
established TO clip notices for public men from all the
papers Induced Chauncey NJ Depcw 10 become
subscriber to his concern weeks ago. The price
Of the series IS IS Ter hundred clippings and the
genial railroad president believed that s25 or $50
would bring him all the notices OF himself which
might appear in print His establishment may be
imagined on finding that the bills run from $50 TO
widely advertised man In America at the present
time.
Ex-Congrcssman L. S. Stevens, Of Attlca, who was
a delegate 10 the recent Democratic state Convention
two. He made money IN his active days a rail
iosd man, and has now settled down as farmer to
the enjoyment OF life He has Of the largest and
best improved farms in Western New York, and a mag
ncent herd Of Hol5eln cattle, Of which he has been
a heavy importer and breeder. Chatting about farm
ing, Mr. stevens said: 1t requires vast amount
Of patience and hard labor to clean up farm keep
all the fence cut out the grass in the roads
moved, the weeds killed and the general appearance
inviting But, after all, it Is worth the effort be-
cause 1t encourages everyone about you TO tho
effort. and presently the entire county is improved
1t is the same in the matter Of stock Why, /
member when I was young the astonishment with
which heard the announcement that Mr.. WadswOrth,
I'D in the Genesce Valley had paid 81 900 for an i'm
ported bull The stock thls introduced improved
The cattle In the Genesce region thousands upon
thousands OF dollars in value within the ensuing
decade"
Ex-Governor Rufus B. Bullock OF Georgia is per-
sistent in and ont Of season In advocating
a Republican policy the dropping of what he calls the
negrOphobla question: In a recent chat here he
said g The Republican party makes a great mistake
when It falls to recognize the strength Of prejudice.
born, bred and ngraned the prejudice against the
negro is ineralned with the white people Of the South
You can 90 to the business in Atlanta, whose
business IS or will be affected by the Mills tariff BILL
and he viii admit to you that he thinks the Republican
party IS right on protection. But when he hears
speeches Ike those made by Sherman and ingalls, and
Foraker he recos and pulls himself together and says
that the Republican party wants put the negro on
equal footing in his parlor and house with lis family
and friends. There he stubborny casts his veto as
he believes, against what he calls the niger pary'
even while acknowledging that his personal business
interest lies with that parry. t. the Republican Ma
uona convention VIZ mako one nank and sweep all
other issues ASIDE except the tarlH n cen carry
Southern states. but long the bloody shirt con
tnucs TO wave, so long the south VIII remain sods
State Senator c. P. vedder, Of Chautaulua County.
asked the other day who would be the Republican
nominee for President without a moments hesiiat.or,'
he replied James C. Blaine, and he ought to be
the nominee because ninetcnths OF the marty wants
him, and any other nomination against their wishes
would be disastrous Either majority rule IS the right
thing in party and government. or there is no use
for Republican form Of government
Ex-Mayor William II. wlchham chatting yesterday
about the disturbance in the Board OF Fducaflon oyer
the position Of the Superintendent Of instruction said
among other things think that this attack upon
Superintendent Jasper IS in respects the most
dastardy in the history OF school affairs I'm New-York
Il IS reprehcnsbc in the highest degree because of the
reflection il carries with It on the teachers NJ Nev
York for years a member of tho Roard of
Education and / know that the $500 women who are
engaged in teaching in this city among the nobIest
and purest and best in the wOrld7
"GUTING" / RISING STUMP-oRA7oR.
USING THE ELEVATED ROAD TO MAKE FUN OUT