St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-15
GOSSIP OF THE DAY.

Minnesota CT New
MIR. Window York, is secretary of
the United States
About? treasury. He is, or
was, also president of
the Winona and Southwestern Improve
ment company, of the Tehuantepec Ship
Railway company, and prime mover
in the Arcade railway and other prom
Using schemes. 1t is, therefore, hard to
say which of Mr.. WINDOWS varied en-
ployments or interests brings him to
New York, says the New York Star.
The fact that Mr.. Window has hon
ored New York with his presence need
not lead to the conclusions that the COLI
Germs of the United States treasury or
the conditions and requirements OF that
sensitive piece of mechanism, the money
market, form the object of his solicitude.
Mr.. Window has for several months been
in intimate communication with the
other components Of the present "busi-
ness administration" No one can tell
how much knowledge he has gained
from the astute Wanamaker, for in
stance. What would be more natural
than to hasten the application OF some
of the great Cheap Johns simple yet
efficacious expedients to the private en-
priSeS with which he is, or was, asSo-
ciated? Who knows but that the brilliant
successes which, during his Wall street
career failed to crown his efforts, might
in this way be achieved?
Under former administrations of the
treasury a general financial outlook
such as now exists would be sufficient
to engroSs the attention of the secre
tary. The autumnal crop movement
has commenced in earnest. The West
last week drew about 81, COO. 900 of money
from New York. The bank surplus is
reduced to something over S6,0O0,000.
With their enormous crops the West
and South will require ten times that
amount. Mr.. WINDOWS jaunty assur-
ance that no financial stringency can
enSue rests on very shaky foundation.
The prospect in the financial world is
such that Mr.. Window will probably
soon hear howl that will induce him
to give earnest attention to the pressing
needs of business interests.
Montana's E. Murray Johns
ton. mining engineer
Great and metallurgist, of
Miles City, Mont, is
Wealth. an enthusiast over the
prospects OF the far
Northwest. He has been in the city,
says New York paper, some weeks
looking after business interests, and to
his friends makes some strong state
ments about the undevelOped wealth of
the incoming state.
"The American people don't even
begin to appreciate the wonderful
wealth of Montana" he said to me the
other night. sits mountains are COW
cred with the finest of timber. Its val
legs, fed by the Yellowstone and its
branches, are among the most fertile
spots in the Union. But with all
these, it's greatest wealth lies beneath
the soil.
"Upward of twenty deposits of tin,
which rival in richness the Swansea
mines of Great Britain, have been
opened Lead in the form Of galena;
zinc in the form of white and red zinc
lite: anthony. iron, copper, gold, silver
and platinum all exist in Montana in
rich deposits. We found our platinum
when Edison. the electrician, offered
his prize for the most perfect platinum
deposit in America. That offer brought
out the discovery of our platinum mines,
and also the discovery of osmium and
iridium, used for pointing gold pens
and other purposes requiring peculiar
hardness. Besides all these, we have
coal in every stage, from peat and bog
oak to Ignite and black lead, including
the finest sorts of both anthracite and
bituminous. -
sYou must remember" he continued
''that Montana is not small state, but
is really larger than all New England,
and is rapidly filling up with as enerr-
getic and industrious a class of people
OF in Amoriao tn-Hau and a
very few years predict that it will be
one of the wealthiest states on the con-
tinent."
Miss CaId- The guardian of the
Miss Caldwell who is
wells about to buy Prince
4~a Murat and his title
Prince and with her millions is
New Yorker and
Her Millions. bank pre- t,
Charles M. Fry by
name, handsome, white haired old
gentleman and Southerner by birth.
He had charge of the Caldwell girls and
their money until two years ago, when
the youngest-who is to be the princess
came of age. He went over to WASH
ington to attend the dinner given in
honor of the event, at which were arch
bishops, senators, cabinet members ana
all the most distinguished and brilliant
guests the capital could afford. He
turned over her affairs to her with
good many hundred thousand added to
her fortune by his clever management
during her minority, but she was I'M
willing to- relinquish his care and guard
ianship and begged him still to manage
her estate for her. So their relations
have NOT much altered except that
the final decision in all matters is
now hers instead of his. His friends
tell me he is not overioyed at
this princely alliance, and, while he is
naturally most guarded and discreet In
what he says. it is not difficult to gather
that this is hardly the match he would
have chosen for her, being as deeply at
tached to her as if she were his own
daughter. There is cousin of Murat's
living here also, who gets his connection
through the Frasers, Prince Muratss
father having married one of them. He
has known the present prince all his
life, and is no great admirer of him, and
freely saws he thinks it a shame for a
fresh young girl to marry this old case
hardened Partisan, whose life has been
that of most men about town, and VINO
is spendthrift, and who never gave
any good excuse for his existence by
any feat of arms, of craftsmanship or
learning to make him worthy OF hlgh
position. Old South Carolinians tell
me that the Frasers, who considered
themselves very grand people indeed,
never looked upon the Murat match as
any honor, they having been people of
birth, wealth and distinction 200 years
before the blackslnith's son was ever
heard of.
Western Mer- The laugh to-day is
very broad against
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