New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-02-05
FROM MANY POINTS OF VIEW.
OPINIONS AND SUGGESTIONS COMING
THROUGH VARIOUS CHANNELS.


out in three years the 100000 paid by the Calumet
and Hccla, making $50 1000 900 since It was opened
the 5000 900 paid by the Ontario, making nearly
100000 Is all that Is paid stockholders, and
so on down long list. There were, however, less
than thirty mines last year which paid 900
in dividends to their stockholders But there
hundreds that paid handsome returns investments
about which hcard' This tho
burden of remarks made by +. ca Price, old min
ing expert and prospector. Mr. Price ia Just
from Utah. but no has been I'm the mines OF California.
Utah, Washington Territory. Colorado and Altoona
Biting like bee from to the other. He has mad,
a dozen Strikes" and nearly often made a auic OF
his fortune. He has been in Ncw-York for several
days arranging to start for the United states of CO.
lombla to Inspect gold mnc there. lie continued tho
conversation Which l. quCtDd above by saying: There
500 mines I'm operation In this country at the low
est estimate witch paying. They small In
vestmcnts, worked for all they worth-no stock
operation, but genuine BUSH which yields good
re- urBs. But these companies rarely heard atGut.
told there are only thirty -five TO fotyfve com
panles which have stocks tho market where they
have quoted value. That tells the story Of what
proportion OF mining Is done speculative basis
Mining Is getting down to basis with turing
a steady and permanent bu mess"
The science Of electri' ity which Is becoming more
and useful every year has net yet accomplished
the solution of the battling problem of what elecrl-
city Is. Genera o Maiden OF Boston, formerly
assistant general manager of the Bell Telephone Com
pany, observes The electrical world Is still looking
for man who tell what is electricity. The
chemist tell you what Is lard and what is butter
lie analyzo their component parts and make his
results clear to yom but this subtle force OF electricity
is still battling us all. Experiments in electricity go
for a year, with each days DEDUCTIONS proving
tho work and deductions OF the previous day. and on
the very day the entire work and deductions of the
who ma he andk ckpd nv
thing cannot control and do not understand The
general laws OF electricity arc becoming fairly well
known, but what 1t is remains mystery theory an
undemonstrablc problem"
1t is not always easy to convince business that
a surplus is bad thing. They seem rather to think
that 1t what every business ought to have, and
reasoning by analogy that IL is good thing for every
government. John B. Reynolds, substantial citizen
Of Rutland Vt, remarked the other day 81 sne
nothing In the cry about surplus that Is at all sem
sble When a business man finds hat lie has a sur
plus he feels happy and prosperous and proceeds to
use his surplus fol udiciouS investment. If he has
mortga he pays them off. The Government is
In the same position As long 1t has bonds out
standing 1t has place for all It's surplus
Ex-senator Plat praises the management of the ele
waited roads. He says "Tbe fact that so few people
have been killed the Elevated Dads since they went
into operation is marvellous. The wonder is that hun
mill ons That there been few accidents caus-
ing DEATH speaks well for their system of handling
passengers IL also speaks well for the discipline and
restraint pracsed by the people who travel on the
roads The trouble with tho elevated roads IL that
they cannot handle all the traffic. We need more roads
to take the people up and DOWN the city,"
At recent benefit concert In Stenway Hail.
a young lady made her debut as singer, whose FAMILY
IS a prominent one. Her name Is Mary Cary smith,
Her father Judge Smith, prominent public man
OF Ohio. He member of tn last COnstltutohai
Convention OF that State, and dropped dead while max
ing speech that body. Her uncle, j. p Cary was
a well known banker, and the poets, Alice ana fh@O
Cary, were relatives.
The secretary OF the South Ptsbnrg Improvement
Company which has built up one Of the thriving towns
Of the Tennessee coal and iron region, IS Major c. G.
Connor He is a big lrishman with heart as big as
| his body, a large head and ford face years ago
he was a reporter on The NewYork Herald In tho
DAYS when the elder Bennett relied on the Intelligence
and activity OF Ishmen for nearly all his reporting
work Major Conner comes occasionally to New York
where his last visit for the purpose OF collecting
handsome legacy that had fallen to his wife, The
estate was in Brooklyn and amounted TO some 10000
\ The Major has been fairly prosperous In the New
South and now takes place one of the solid men
OF that region.
| Chauncey NJ Dcpew finds his prominent mention as
a possible Presidential candidate attended with dsad-
vantages In the shape of strikers" and ward polite
ians, who bcsIege him for favors His ubiquitous and
courteous private secretary, II. C. Duval, who is a
| lieutenant I'm the 9TH Regiment and something OF an
athlete has formed himself into hollow square for
! the protection of Mr. Depew and keeps out most OF
the fellows who want to borrow dollar on the strength
! OF White House visions But the letter writer can't
/ be put aside IN that manner and Mr. Depew receives
! by every mail applications. recommendations ana
| natterlng compliments One of these writer's was
evidently student Of Macbeth" for his letter was
| addressed to "Channcey NJ. Depew. President OF the
New-York Central Railroad by the of the Wander
bits and President OF the United States that shall DO
| by the grace OF the people" A correspondent who
wanted Mr.. Depews picture for political club room
signed himself Yours for P..' which was taken 10
mean for President The pressure upon Mr.. Depew
| from business, social and political sources mas Dc
dss the present Presidents orice al the Grand central
Depot for quiet secret den" In remote part ot me
bnldng where he hopes to be secluded for part OF
each day.
The purchase by Andrew Carnegie. the Ptsbnrg
millionaire iron master Of ten or twelve newspapers
In various parts OF England was a matter OF much
comment In this country and abroad when It became
known The purchases made four five years
ago II was said that Mr.. Carnegie Intended =" to go
in for Parliament but II that was HIS intenton the
movement proved failure. more plausible ex-
PLANTATION was the that he was ambitious In a
literary way, and that through these publications ne
became widely known as writer Mr. Carnegie SAID
year or so ago. that the papers paid him handsome
annual profit. 1t therefore, surprise TO learn
from one Of his intimate friends yesterday thai ne
has sold all his newspapers. Mr. Carnegie saws that
they were source OF infinite trouble and worry to
him for which the profit he derived was In no way
camnensatory Mr. Carnegie has recently como ont
az an advocate Of extremes In the tariff revision.
Joseph G. Butler, IT.. talking about MT Carneges
tendency 10 free trade. said yesterday: What the
Carnegles want il cheap labor. Mr. Carnegie has been
Studying the results OF cheap Labor abroad ana being
on t6e ton round as a manufacturer here. he wants
cheap labor here without stopping to consider what
would happen to men of less capital or 10 iaoofeis
| themselves
In a leading uptown church, where lecture was
given to a class Of young people who were about 10
become members, there were seven lads ana one
man 10 fortythree Of the other sex, only three or
four OF whom full grown women, the REMAINDER
| benp girls The male population OF New-York Is
oo"e LARGELY her church going or re-