New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-06-18
BITS OF TALK ON TY4ELY TOPICS.

'Chaunccy Kilmer. lie Is a WEALTHY paper manu-
fscturer who lives East Ftfty>eventh-st and has
a country place near Saratoga In which vicinity his
extensive mills located. lie the owner Of the
American Hotel at Saratoga, and his extensive real
estate ia that resor: of the fashionable and afflicted
He is an investor In railroads and r,mnent by reason
of largo holdings at stockholdors' meetings Of the
Ncw-Yoik Central and the St. Paul AID Duluth roads.
Mr. Kmer is stout and rugged with broad face full
of good nature and full gray beard, but smooth
upper lip In his younger days no was bred
10 mechanics, and holds tho theory thst no boy
ever injured by hard work. He sometimes tells with
pridc how he built paper mill near Saratoga, at a
cost Of $4,000, which competitors aftGward dupli-
Gated and found IT cost them $4,000 The difference
in his favor because he superintendent his
construction and performed most of the skilled labor
himself. Mr.. Kilmer is firm believer IL protec.
tive tariff, ANY schoolboy In this land" he said
the Other day sought to be able TO understand this
question easily as the most learned of statesmen.
for dollar day, who are now getting three dollars
day can M ke paper just az cheaply as IT can be
made in Europe II can have labor at the same price
That is the tariff in nutshel'
Mr. Kllmcr sold to John Morri,sey tho ground on
which that noted character erected tse wenown club
house at Saratoga. In talking about Morrissey, he
said Il was frequently asked why did not meet
Morrssey, but had no wish to do so. One day nc
sent up his card to me- When went down no asked
II would sell part of the lot owned which is now
the Indian encampmcnt When replied afirmatlvely
he asked me walk down there with him. which did.
when he had Indicated what he wanted told him my
price lie ASKED II 1t not little Nigh, and re-
Piled that expected high price IL soh He took a
thonsanddollar bill out Of his pocket, and in handing
TO me asked me who my lawyer was, 50 that deeds
might be drawn. This the beginning OF my
knowledge of Morrssey. Within my knowledge no
business was ever farer strag hter than he in
any transaction. l afterward considerable of
him, and formed such an opinion of his character
that Qho he &C lin
no man on the floor with him was his superior in in
was sensitive Of his reputation as gambler and many
times over has said 10 me that II he could wipe out all
never touch a card again q began this way, It's my
s ssg@''0n nov" ana can't 20 anything eSo he would
Some of Chsuncey NJ. Depew's friends have been
saying TO him that be talks frankly and tells too
many stories. In answer to one of these CON-
plants, nc said recently 81 can remember a
sation with Abraham Lincoln, who was the original
siOryelle Of this century and country, in which he
said TO me:
ss5 they say taS do too Do much and tel too too
dignity OF the Presidential office and that it dctracts
ieoplc~ihe common psople-iikc plain talk ana they
understand What mean when tell them story, and
don't neleyc shall quit it, just because IL isn't con-
sldercd disnifed' =
Murat Halstesd, of The Cincinnati Commercial Ga
scte,' was asked the other day what novelty he dis
covered in LIS European travels last year, which I'M
pressed him most iorcIby 1t was the Jugs in Ire;
lsnd,' said he, which win never stand end and
must therefore be empticd or corked.'
Samuel Fssonden, Of Connecticut relates a story of
General GraTt which illustrates the democracy Of his
nature and ais strong aud lasting memory 1t has
been said tina he never forgot a face. Mr..
Fcssenden, WIN is a leading Republican and
of the most successful lawyers OF his state, a pr-
vate soldier in 1896 lie before Petersburg
with his compaons IN arms, when he got brief fur
tnun aabfu &c
ex-senator William Pitt Fessenden, of Maine, who
Secretary of the treasury, starting with party
Tor the headquarters Of the army board the steamer
Northerner Tho yOung private was asked 10 go with
them and accepted the invitation. At headquarters
big dinner was given TO the army officers on board
the NortheIner Simeon Draper, who then Col
lector of New-York provided the feast. Tie young
soldier was ntrodueedby his W lie to General Grant
and the Others, and thin sent off With the mldship-
men, men When Ipeseniiy Lero came TO him message
join the party al dinner Going the dlning room,
he was placed 10 seat mkt TO General Grant, where,
as he says, ne ate enouG for giant, and listened
with all his ears. 1t waselght years later that MIR
and considerably Changed fa Was IN %a
gon on PIRATE BUSINESS c As he walked down
Grant h f SsDS GU, for wa viz little switch
on and said s his hat En- su
had no expectation Of recognition beyond a return
Sr see courtesy put 70 his the General
said; "Why, how are you, Mr.. Fosenden7i
Not few persons have lately loord over the cleo
ton tables Of 1884 how strongpresdent Cleve-
land Is in the North. He did not REEVE a majority
Of the votes cast in any Northern Safe In those
Northern States which gave him their electoral vote
BIO had only plurality.
The chunky figure of ex-senator Geors r. snencor
Of Alabama, has been about the coidors OF the
Fifth Avenue Hotel recently, but he has zone ont 10
Chicago with the politicians TO help animate a
Presidential candidate He has extensive arouaint-
md yCid inf
them. HIS inclination the present the Is for
General Ager although he for Mr. Bltne until
the Paris letter written. Mr.. Spence va a
Nebraska man When he sat in the Senate rbraska
represented In that body by Senators Thter and
Upton The three had been associated tgether
In the army. Thayer was colonel, Upton clpain
and Spencer sutler Of the LIST Nebraska Re gimef
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