New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-04-16
SEEN AND HEARD BY A STROLLER
BITS OF TALK WITH MEN MET IN THE BROAD.
WAY CROWDS

BITS OF TALK WITH MEN MET IN THE BROAD.
WAY CROWDS.
swinging down Broadway on Saturday with the
crowd The Tribune Stroller came full TIT upon the
manly figure and handsome face OF Major william
Hancock Clarke. The Major is a clerk in the accom-
tant's Office OF the Public Works Department He was
Confederate Officer and relative of General Han
cock. When Democratic Administration came into
power II found him ensconced In snug position In
the Appraisers Department Of the Custom House
lie was the only man in that service who had openly
supported Cleveland against Blaine. He was for
Cleveland frst and last. HIS Civil Service examf
tions were all OF high order. Yet he was about
the first man fred out under Cleveland II can be
imagined that he thinks hard whatever he says about
the Administration The Major, by the way, was the
first officer paroled by General Grant after the sur
render at Appomattox. He showed me his parole
paper as we walked along Saturday, 1t is signed
BY MajorCenera George II Sharpe, Provost Marshal
for that district, and is countersigned as follows in
the handwriting OF the dead chief ain Pass Major W.
H. Clarke TO his home at st. Louis, Mo-, U. 8. Grant"
II was the Major who called the exConfederate sol
ders of Ncw-York together to do honor to General
Grants memory at the time Of his death.
Leaving him behind, the Stroller ran on to another
former Cleveland man. whose teeth sit tight together
whenever he hears the Presidents name mentioned 1t
Is william Wyse, better known as Billy Wyse. He
is smooth-faced man with a rapid tongue and genial
advertising department of Harper Brothers. For
four or five successive summers he went to Buffalo,
before Cleveland Governor, where he spent much
of his time with Mr.. Cleveland and Wilson BisseD.
am told that wyse used do the betting at the horse
races for Cleveland and Bissell who sat tho front
seats and played gentlemen whilo Billy was sweating
in front of the booksellers They relied implicitly on
his judgment and he always brought them in winners
at the end of the season. Wyse has a nephew who
has been postmaster at Bellows Falls, Vt. His only
request of the Administration TO have this nephew
left In Office The nephew turned out along with
other Republicans In Vermont where only one Official
OF that faith can now be found in Federal Office
migrate" is a mild term compared to some Of the
thoughts about Cleveland TO which Wyse occasionally
gives expression.
1t is strange how the anti Cleveland fellows all
out to-day. Here is Jordan l. Mott, who led the
great business mems procession for Cleveland in 1884
and rode up Broadway coach drawn by four white
horses The fact that he offered the position of
subTroasurer here did not brand him as Cleveland
man. He has been heard to denounce the President
IN the most unmeasuled terms and those who are on
the inside say that the proGe" OF this Office was made
in the hope of getting hin Shut his mouth
Senator d. NJ sabin, Of Minnesota, is in the throng.
He solid and chunky, filing out his double breasted
Prince Albert until the buttons seem to be burst
Ing lie has a swarthy face and big black mustache.
over In washington ne OIlNcS ono VI tnc HhoS'
Of horses at the Capital He tells the Stroller that
Blaine will be the Republican nominee for President,
sure1 and then passes on, leaving 1t possible to
get glimpse Of his companion, who Is taller and more
angular but not conspicuous. 1t is TOM Low
rev. the Minneapolis millionaire, who has made money
with marvellous rapdity out of railroads Lowrey
has o face of somewhat boyish type 1t impresses
you as fun Of youthful good nature. Yet be is nog
at all boyish in his business capacity or tastes he
ranks high for business ability and he has over
hundred of the best paintings In America, including
examples O; Bouguereau, Meyer Won Bremen, Hans
Makart, Ti1yon, coIot and Berstadt
General Frank Marshall griszled and wrinklei but
full OF the energy and fire that characterized him
when Governor Of Kansas, is met near the Gilsey
House. He calls Denver his home now and Is en-,
gagged In mining pursuits The west is all right"
SAYS the General as the talk falls on finance. But
Newly ork is wrong. Her fnancters have not
yet seen the Handwriting on the wall Unless they
read the signs they Will suffer for It, The West
is taking all their capital yet New-York does not
understand the West at all The result Is that New
York no longer controls the country, and her hold is
being gradually loosened They have grown too con-
servative here for the vigorous young blood Of tho
West and unless they wake up, Chicago 81. Louis,
Kansas City and san Francisco Will SOON exercise
greater influence the country than Gotham"