New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-08-05
CHANCES HERE AND THERE.
CHAT, GOSSIP AND "REMINISCENCES OF THE
FLEFTING HOURS.

FLEETING HOURS.
]. W. Schuckers who was the private secretary a""
| blographcr OF Salmon p. Chase, has nnd Oh ahoo-
| dotes and "reminiscences from which to draw. "heh
last In NewYork no related this story ABOUT inc us
tingulshcd ancestor Of the Republican candidate Tor
President: During the campaign Of 1910 General
william Henry Harrison visited several towns IN
| Ohio among others Wooster. The Whigs OF wooster
! and its vicinity, with their wives and children mace
/ grand preparations to welcome and to entertain him.
A long procession Of footmcn, hosemen and wagons,
decorated with Buckeye branches, and some OF tho
wagons mounted with small Bucboye trocs, gay with
| aags and streamers, bands OF music and cannon anu
a logo abn and mounted on wheels, were
formed to meet and welcome him on his way from
Masslon twenty twenty two miles distant There
were two roads between Masslllon and wooster; ana
Il happened that the General and two or three friends
took road and the procession took the other The
consequence OF this that the General and the pro-
ccssion did not meet In this state OF affairs, some
| Of tho Democratic women Of the town improvfsed
committee OF reception, received the General at tho
gates and escorted him to the house OF General Rear
gin Beall leading Wing Of Wooster, who had been
| companion in with General Harrison In his
| Northwest campaign The circumstances greatly
| amused General Harrison and he insisted that tho
Democratic wives and daughters who had received
! him should have place on the platform from which
he was to address his friends in the afternoon; and
some Of them occupied reserved seats accordingly.
Tho General feeble In health and spoke only
few sentences 10 said that bis rlond Colonel John
Sloan would say for him what he would like to say
for himself II he strong enough.
Mr.. Schuckcrs, speaking further of tho history OF
1910, said General Harrison, after no was elected,
General Beall to become his Secretary Of War,
which General Bcall declined to do because Of old age
General Harrison appointed Thomas Ewing his Score
tary OF tho Treasury. subsequently, although at
the time unknown to each other, Thomas Ewing, IT,,
now General Thomas Ewing, Of York, married
Miss Ellen Cox, a granddaughter Of General BcalL
1t thus happens that II General Bcal had accepted
IIarrlsons Offer the children Of General Ewing
would have had grandfather and a great
father in the Harrison Cabinet General Beal was
appointed ensign in the army by President Wash
ngton In 1893 subsequently he was made Quarter
master and in 1912 Brigadicr- General OF tho Ohio
Volunteers. lie also in Congress for term or
two He a fine, handsome old man, who had
rendered valuable public service in his time. If
am not mistaken, General Besll president Of the
convention that nominated General Harrison at Har-
rlsburg In December, 1892
Mr. schuckers also contributed this recent bit
OF history, following his conversation about the
Ewings: BY the way said he " did you ever know
that President Andrew Johnson asked General Thomas
Ewing to become HIS Secretary Of War during his
struggle with Stanton Well, he did; and General
Ewing declined chiefly out OF Difference to the wishes
of his father whose opinion OF President Johnson
not very high"
Travellers who appreciate luxury and have enjoyed
the comforts Of Pullman scarcely realize
that is only few years since the inventor OF these
travelling apartments ordinary cabinet maker.
l. NJ. Weston, the wcll-known banker Of Grand
Rapids, Michigan, remarked yesterday: "Our little
city has become noted all over the country as the
leading furniture manufacturing point in the West
Tho first start there in that business made by
J. NJ. and a. b. Pullman. 1t Is within my recollection
when both Of these men wore blue jean overals and
showing the 1arkplane in little shop at Grand
Rapids where they had light of men working for
them. They were Industrious and hard working.
The palace the invention OF A. B. Pullman,
but It was through the development of George NJ.
Pullmans business and financial capacity that the
success Of the Invention was demonstrated. Neither
of them blessed with any degree of this worlds
wealth when they began to develop tho palace
system"
Daniel Doucherty. who recently came from
Philadelphia to establish himself in the practice OF
law here and has at once leaped political proml
a Tammany orator, the other day
standing in front Of down town restaurant counter
and taking his lunch his feet after the busy style
Of the average Ncw-Yorkcr. Mr.. Doughcrty has a
son who IS reported to be making fine progress a
student Rome, and who on the recent occasion OF
Mr.. Blaincs meeting with the King OF Italy acted
Interpreter between those two distinguished per-
Ono Of the busy men of Wall Street. who IS reputcd
TO be of the brokers for the vanderbs is Frank
H. Hoins, whose judgment to tho drift Of busl-
ness affairs asked yesterday, when he said
There IS fair upward tendency all the way around
which think win continue steadily In spite OF its
being the Presidential year We usually have con-
siderable duncss through tho Presidential campaign
which is forcshadowcd before the present date The
fact that things have taken an upward turn at this
period of the year, during the approach of the Pre-
sdcntial canvass, is favorable omen'
Francis Mclaughlin, the wcll-known California
spcculator, whose sturdy figure and big diamonds
mako him conspicuous, has been In New-York for
several days. lie has been the water to size
up London pocketbooks with reference to mining
enterprises. 1t Mr. Mclaughlin, by the way,
who sold to DR.. Pierce. OF Buffalo, the famous Big
Bend mine, which has since been placed the market
at capitalization Of millions. He sold 1t for s75 900
When he reported the transaction to his partner, the
latter refused to believe him at first declaring that
as a joke Frank had added extra cipher to tho
figures. Talking about London, Mr. Mclaughlin
said: at IS over three months since any mining
venture has been placed In London The English
arc away of mining ventures at the present time
one reason for this s because they have been badly
sold on a largo number OF ventures, but the principal
reason is that they nearly dead broke for ready
money. There is more floating money in this country
than in any Nation In Europe
Among the men whose have been often
printed in connection with the affairs OF the Cincln-
nati Hamilton and Dayton railroad, and the expos
re OF the peculiar transactions OF Ives and Stayner,
IS william NJ Ramsey, OF Cincinnati Judge RAM
scy was formerly the law partner Of Judge Stanley
Mathews, and a principal attorney for the rail
road as we'll as an interested stakeholder. In con-
vcrsation he said among other things I've become
absolutely tired and disguised at the mere mention Of
n II the public had
come to regard him a sort Of martyr and the rail-
road as a malicious animated juggcrnaut which was
trying to roll him out fiat the ground You would
think hear OF the expressions in the press.
that the directors OF the railroad all sinners and
Ives a perfect saint. There Is morbid idea abroad