New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-06-10
NOTES OF MEN AND AFFAIRS.
BITS OF EXPERIENCE AND DESCRIPTION.

was In every way competent, but the results OF his
talks with the heads OF various wholesale houses
resulted in bringing TO my an almost wan'-
nous complaint that owing to the doubts and un-
cerainties attendant upon the tariff agitation ana
discussion, Wholesale trade has been materially Grip
pied and checked. AS retailers are in large de-
gree dependent upon the wholesalers for credit 1t
is likely that there viii be considerable depression In
retail trade well In the search for employment
characteristic of the engagement Of clerks by whole
sale houses in New-York came up. Almost without
exception statesmen and other employees men who
have from situations taken when they were boys
from 80 to IS week In the lowest round Of duties
One Of the oldest wholesale merchants In New-fork
a man who has been forty years in business in one
place, said ave not a man in my store who hasn't
been with for ten years, although there
may be two or three boys who have started in within
that period. Most Of the with me began here
as boys at So week. and as they became competent
for better places have been steadily advanced. In
that way every man in the establishment comes to
feel himself part Of its
While chatting in the Fifth Avenue Hotel the other
day John p. SaDbon, who was for many years Col
lector Of Port Huron, Michigan, by the appointment
Of General Grant mentioned the fact that he born
in Maine, near Augusta His father physician
with classical education who from time to time
sisted number OF young students 10 prepare them
selves for college, and had among his pupils Lot NJ
Morrill,, who became distinguished Senator OF
Maine / saw here the other day said MI. san
born, the venerable ex-senator Bradbury, Of Maine.
who belongs to a generation Of men almost extinct
He told that he is of three living OF his
class in Bowdoin College, believe It the class Of
1924, of which the poet Longfellow also a mem
Der. Senator Bradbury, ex-senator Hannibal Ham
lin, Of Maine, and Ex-Governor Alpheus Fitch, Of
Michigan. are the three surviving members Of the
class. All of them must DO nearing the nlneties."
DR.. S. II. Talcott, who IS in charge Of the State
Insane Asylum at Middletown, says that persons
frequently confined who are perfectly harmless and
In ordinary circumstances capable Of transacting all
their business affairs Said he: CAS- an instance
we let two of our inmates TO New-YOrk city
together a business mission days ago which
they transacted faithfully and they came back with
out any trouble whatever"
Congressman C. A. Boutee, of Maine. was a sea
captain before he became the Editor Of The Bangor
Wing and Courier from the sanctum of which he
entered political life. He can spread his sea legs
and balance himself in rapidly whirlng railway
car when other would be knocking their shins
and elbows the seats. 1t in this athletic pose
that he placed himself in paror the way
from Bangor to Augusta day In 1884 shortly
after the Republican National Convention had selected
Mr.. Blaine the party standard bearer. Mr.. Blaine
himself sat in a seat facing the Jolly seaman who
been reading editorials In the leading Republican
paper at Augusta AS editor Of the Bangor Republican
organ whether from of rivalry or from some
other reason he dSsented strongly from these Augusta
editorials. Presently Mr. Blaine asked quietly
"Why, Bouclle these editorials so terribly bad -
The Captain expressed an opinion emphatcaly
depreciatory, when Mr.. Blaine calmly added:
Well, very sorry to hear you say so, for 1
wrote them myself"
et,dd hot and fohI
for Captain Boutelle, and he went to a window on
the opposite side of the get breath Of fresh
ar, until Mr. Blaine laughlngly invited him
back and Sit down TO discuss the articles in question
from the point Of view from which they written.
do you know what manner Of sharks advertise
under the department Of Money 10 loan and
Financial in some New-York papers - asked a
prominent bus ness Thursday. "Nol Well,
l do. One Of my employees, whose wife had been
sick and who needed loan, fell into the hands OF
Of these men who loans money on personal property
furniture and so on. He going to squeeze the
poor fellow out Of everything he had, when stepped
in and stopped it, The majority Of these blood
suckers without soul or heart or conscience They
refuse TO loan 800 to any person, no matter how
great the security offered. They let you have 500
for sixty days your signing note for $40 PAYABLE
at the end of that period. They evade the usury
law by legally loan.ng you S14O and charging you
$40 discount Just think what a skin that IS with
millions lying idle in Wall street which would gladly
invested at per cent even 3 per cent per annum.
With this note my man gave chatie mort gage on
household furniture worth ~ 900 TO 81 200 When
his note came due he couldn't quite pay up. The
shark who held it refused to It, but offered to
take new note for 5000 at thirty days in place OF
IT, Ny man foolshly consented. In fact he was
given chance to do .anythn g else. The money
loaner was in the house and threatening to forecloso
on the furniture. Just before the thirty days were
up, was told Of the transaction. When Mr. shark
found he had somebody to bump up against that
could fight h m he became abIect and servlc as a
cornered confidence man None Of these fellows wants
to fight because that exposure loss Of reputa
t1on, and damage TO their business. l settled that
claim for 1925. And the money grabbcr glad to
get that II poor people who get hard up fall into such
hands as these 1 don't wonder they the rich,
knowing no other type than these ugly usurers'
Battery b, Irish Brigade, which commanded
at Gettysburg by Colonel E NJ. Knox, Will dedicate
a fine monument Of Quincy granite that memora-
BILE field on the ed of July. 1t is TO be erected
the spot where the colonel fell during that terrible
engagement, after being shot through the hips The
battery has few surviving members but they all
going over TO the old battle-ground to take part in
the unveillng. Colonel Knox IS a favorte with the
veterans Of Gettysburg and has war record Of which
he IS Justly proud. lie laid up for over year
aIutf ne was wounded at Getty sburg bur after his
recovery re-enlisted and remained in active service
until the close Of the war
Colonel Alexander S. Bacon, who IS graduate Of
West Point and resigned his position in the Army to
enter upon the practice OF law served term two
in the Assembly and is a tall, athletic of per-
haps thirty seven years of age with fluent speech
and generous good nature. lie was describing the
other day OF his old experiences at West Point,
when he said among other things The thing TO
at West Point Is the cavalry exhibition Somebody
Is almost to be hurt there, and yet It tradi-
tion among the cadets that one was ever killed.
You can't kill cadet, in fact. / remember I'm my
time classmate named Hall I've called him Peter
Hall because nc was good story teller, and we
always named good story teller Peter was thrown
from horse which had run away, against tree. He