New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-01-20
BUSINESS MEN FROM OUT or TOWN

those o whom this medicine has been a DOOn
Nec Iork, jan IL, 1883. C. NJ c.
BUSINESS MEN FROM OUT OF TOWN.
Colonel William g. King, of Minneapolis. who has been
nj the Hoffman House. is known to Western men. poll
tcians and railroad spectators as Bill King He has
smooth white face, almost waxen in COLOR ana Is not
far from sixty years OF age He was In Congress somo
years ago and has around Washington until he Is
familiar igure there. He is of the wealthy men OF
the Northwest and has the popular reputation OF having
once gotten the best Jay Gould in railroad deal in
vovIng several millions OF dollars lie got the disputed
property into situation advantageous to himself ani
then went off to Canada TO avoid legal service from Mt
Gould. As he showed disposition to end his life III
Canada a compromise elected after couple OF
years
The Fifth Avenue Hotel is to have Senator AMI Mrs.
Warner Miller regular guests this winter
Their sons are all away at school. Tie sen-
ator's paper business has been bringing him to New
York every week, and he concluded it was better to re-
main here and close the family house at Herkimer,
which has been done There is no little talk In favoEo
nominating Senator Miller for Governor this fall AMI he
does not appoar Indifferent this preference or his
party friends.
bright young New York state newspaper man who
was here the other day his way to Floriha Is f. IT,
Barry He Is the proprietor of local paper at kehea
Springs which in the summer season blossoms INTO II
a similar society paper there for the winter season.
lanes J. West. tho business manager of The Oh icago
Times" has at the Fifth Avenue Hotel He is nota'
BILE for his resemblance in facial expression to stephen
A. Douglas the Little Giant" of Illinois Mr. We st is
successful book publisher and with c. A. Sno~don
owned The Chicago Evening Mail before they bought
The Times" He says that the report that other
persons have an option To buy Ihe Times Is nor true,
and that r will remain permanently III tno pLesnt
~ Of Ti,I
Tor the purchase OF the paper Mr. Vests mission East
is TO buy % y S ANA S nTo wes Hopoac
Ohio and his attorney, f. $ weg!ey, OF chieago The
fact is OHIO boy has leaked out ana Is noted
by OMoans accounting for his success
A day or two ago a somewhat spare young man with
broad face of the Welsh type large eyes whose liste
was heightened by his extreme paleness blonde hair
and nnustache was guest at the Hoffman House lie
was W. A. Magee of Pittsbu1g younger brother oil 9e
welHnown Republican politician mrs r massc: ,6
was here on business trip with the MANAGER; me
Mageos are fairly well OFT. l asked Plttsbnrser
recently how Ciuis Magce made his fortune and
received reply in one word, Politics II ne tG amy
made it III that way he Is an eXccpuoh' lot ''' N'
lose money in that whirlpool
General Bluford Wilson was IN the Hoffman House
on Monday. Tho General halls from Illinois !" one
sense his public career has been duplicated by another
Illinois politician OF opposite politics, Cen
eral Andrew Jackson Sparks. The lat
ter thought that he was bigger than AIS
I
! General Wilson's error was Of something the same
type. He Solicitor General OF the Treasury ana
thought that his immediate chief, Secretary Bflst0W,
was bigger man than General Grant, whc was PIcsI-
dent. lie shouted himself hoarse for !rslow a lew
General WILSON, as the singers would explain It,
got hit In the neck" There wasn't any fnss about
it, for General Grant never made any fuss about any
thing but the General quietly and easily dropped
am told that he IS prosperous attorney at home
state Senator Frank 3. Arnold, Of Unada, was in
New-York on Friday and Saturday. Talking about
the result OF the suit against Quarantine Commits
sioner Plat no said Mr.. Pat's position reminds mo
of tho quotation from Iilton made by Daniel webster
at Buffalo along in tho 'Forties.' He was on his
yg,v home from a campaign tour and learned there
that tho Wings had been defeated lie made an ad
dress which he began with this sentence from tho bind
'"'N What though the field be lost
All is not lOst-the uncOnquerable wiil
And courage never to submit or yield
Mr. Platt's position is fifty characterized In that
quotation"
Westerner who has been In New-York re-
Gently is John Paul Jones, large, fne-looking
man. with a th-shaven face and light complexion
whose yellow hair is beginning to turn gray. Years
ago no with d. r. Locke petroleum " Nasby)
engaged in tho successful publication of Tho Toledo
Blade, He bought out Mr.. Locke's interest, met
some reveses and recovered from them In politics, by
beins elected Auditor of Lucas County. The talk
abont The New South" tempted him into Georgia,
and hts home IS now at Atlanta Ho owned The
cipal owner of a daily Taper at Columbus, Ca Tho
Southland does not pan ont' fairly as Il promised
him for 7 am told that he s In the North 10 look
around with a view Of returning here.
Western promoters and capitalists are necessarily
80 dependent upon the financial centres OF the East Tor
money to carry their operations that they wa'cn
closely here for the signs of the times Thomas Low"
rev. of ST. Paul Minn has become known as one OF
the heaviest railroad operators Of the Northwest llo
began his career by getting control of tho streete
systems Of St. Paul and Minneapolis He was as
cussng financial situation here re- v~ai and
Sot,er tone I'm financial circles think the improve,
ment will be steady and marked untlI mex, s db and
Least when we shall be pretty well out Oh u'p a.,
rssdy far the presidential year. which always mas It's
disadvantages"
THE HCrUAL LIFE NEEDED MORE ROOM
=, ,bs Mp,ual Life Insurance Company said yes
an % the extension to the compAny's build
inc in Nassaust that tho new wing was ueasneu mo,o
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