New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-04-01
CHANCES AT MEN AND THINGS
BITS OF PERSONAL DESCRIPTION AND
OPINION

OF suocaron, and explained Ms mcanlng by sayingl
" One Of my clerks TWO hours IN coming TO
Of he days Of furious blizzard in this city
De three hours and a half ~ tod me, IN going
back over the same distance. something Ike two miles.
he felt no pcouvcnicncc beyond the exhaustion con-
scquent on the fight with the wind. He slipped into
doorwsys 10 catch bis breath and wien THE wind blew
sharply his face turred around with his back
to IT, Death tn blizzard too often from at
tempting to breast tbs storm The wind takes away
ones breath. sufocaton follows. doubles
up and drops down and Is dead lie docs not even
know what allied him If be had turned his back TO
the blast for moment he might have faced It again
and nave gone on for another struggle unframed
Ono OF tho young men of tho New South who has
spent some time In New-York, Is c. b. Duncan, of
Nashville II is the oldest of W. NJ. Duncan.
OF the leading men Of Teunessees capital
Charley" Duncan IS energetic young fellow who,
although little past his majority. has already begun
push his way the world lie Is cashier OF a
bank at Nashville Ills first banking experience,
however, in the mountains OF East Tennessee. as
cas- hicr Of the only bank at South Ptsburg. This Is
Of the iron towns that are springing up all
Tennessee and Alabama II was projected By tho
Tennessee Coal and Iron Company, which owns the
large furnaces there and most of the land In talking
about his experiences, Mr. Duncan said: The natives
Of tho section had never so much heard OF bank
They didn't know what bank was for until 1t bad
been explained to them that 1t was place to keep
their money, and then / fancy some CT the rougher
one thought It was a good place to make haul from
by putting a bullet through tho cashier and running
| away with the MONEY. For long time could get
no one to watch The bank night aud had to sleep
| in It every night with a couple Of loaded reviewers
ready for execution and my hair in wire spring con-
| dtion Finally persuaded old half-breed lndlan
| to watch for He was a man who did not know
! what fear was and would soon shoot as take
drink The money that they used to bring into the
| bank wa a curiosity. There were grcenbaehs OF tho
| very FIST issues which had been hidden away In odd
| places until the stuff fairly stank Sometimes IL
smelled so foul that had to open window before
could count II and then 1t was as much as cOuu 90
| to stand tt
One of Mr. Duncans odd experiences was with
man who wanted to b1y eggs. There had been Tor
time a grocery store in the same building with the
| bank One day countryman came In who had been
drinking until he had scarcely any sense left in HIM
He lank mountaineer, with top boots ana spurs
and the butt end of revolver peerinS out over MS
! hip. a. want some yeggs,' he said. We dont
keep eggs SIR was the Young cashiers reply. Yes,
you do got ysggs yeah befoh. and want yesgs
now The Cashier again explained that h. was not
man. who reiterated hi, demand strenuously than
before, enforcing IL With oaths ana moVeeh % 5
Duncan meanwhile had been slowly moving 10 sPoi
| for action He suddenly levelod the pistol hlll at
the mountancei's head and cOoy sad II YOU TOUCH
keen Eggs and II Won don't clear out ri shoot you
| sure" This was kind of argument that had some
effect. The drunken man sober In an instant ana
! looking down the mouth Of the revolver he replied
needy: An right boss No offence meant,
reckon. l thought you kept yeggS. GC3d day"
The growing scarcity Of Croton water is nowhere
| so apparent as in houses OF the Murray Hill region
| The pressure which formerly sufficient to throw
water into top floor OF three and four story houses
| is now only sufficient to distribute 1t for limited
period at night and morning in the second story and
in Instances the water refuses to flow above The
basement The househoders forced to construct
reservoirs into which the water flows at night, when
less water being for manufactures and elevators
and from which a supply is drawn In the day time
| All the large fats and apartment houses OF modern
construction supplied with such reservoirs into
which water is forced by pumps the premises. An
Official who is connected with the Public Works Depart
mcnt remarked that he was convinced by observation
and inspection that quite much water Is wasted in
| NewYork as IS legtmately used. said he: do not
know OF household where there s not steady waste
Of water In direction other especially during
water turned on 70 run at all hours so that the pipes
will not freeze II this one item Of water waste could
be stopped we would have no scarcity of water. In
the old country they have such system Of ins pecton
| and checks that water Is not wasted at all Here
rob defraud cheat the Government the author
tiles is all right as long as i Is not found out He
when he robs himself it is not felony" '-
A prominent young journalist of the West IS A. C.
Sands 1r., managing editor Of /" The Cincinnati En-
quieru He has been recently In New-York on a wed
ding trip his bride being Miss Olive Avery of Gin
cinnati's fair and talented girls. They married
during the week Of the great NewYOrk blizzard II had
been their intention to here to spend their honey
moon with Mrs. ssnds's relatives On the morning set
| for their wedding, his railroad arrangements having
all been made for the trip sands informed by
the Pennsylvania Railroad representative IN nc nnad
that communication with New-York was cut of Here
was dilemma requiring the exercise Of expedlenis
such az a newspaper man always command. In
an hours time he had changed all his arrangements,
| and hon fka rrfn haTU
couple started for Chicago where they remained until
the storm abated before coming East.
Boston ought to take great interest in the Bull
garian question:" the remark made yesterday by
Charles S. Bingham, young Engllshman who within
short time traveller In Turkey, where he repre-
scented a syndicate Of English capitalists who
making investments. In response 10 inquiry, he
continued Bulgaria lives on beans. It IS the one
great article Of food You have beans in the morning,
beans at noon and beans a. night. You have baked
| beans, beans an bean soup. The baked beans
set before you In dish from which every member
OF the household Is privileged eat after the father
has begun the meal. He takes piece OF bread his
extended fore and middle fingers, dps the bean
dish, Scoops up what no like and H. Thereafter
the other fingers privileged to dip in They eat
bean soup of single dish and frequently have but
a single spoon with which 10 cat IL is passed around
from one to another. ! discovered curious tendency
In reii gOn while ! IN Bug aria, the explanation Of
which did occur to me untl met here a returned
ssOnaTy. The RUSSIAN Government, which > very
powerful In Bulg4Tas hostile 10 the onares Of ne
Methodist Episcopal Church from this country
while II encourages the missions OF the Congregational
lists. The local result thai he latter are OspcrOus
while the former at not Ny miss Onary frienI said
10 me the OF this difference OF treatment
was that the Methodist missionaries are so null Of
Amercansm that they preach freedom right along with
the Cos pei much to the disgust Of the Russian Govern
| ment.7
Some Of the Early banquets Of the New-York Press
Club drew together many well known men,judginc from
old hotel register IN the possess OF r. T. WALL Of
the Hoffman House. Nj. all clerk al the old
1T. Nicholas Hotel, broadway, in 1851, when the
Press Club met there for is banquet. The house
has since been dsmantled and changed Into stores
Mr.. Wall took the hotel register and with pen and ink
among the guests 20 th-ir signaiures lie
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