Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-28

iaHl, or as he Is more com mm0nlv called, Bill
| Nye. I have my fun with Puck, and I be-
come acquainted with my soul with pleas
ure over the pages of Emerson. 1 don't
| mean to sayI read one the same as the
| other. I have sometimes read page oi
Emerson or Browning over several times
before get at its meaning. and sometimes
l never get at It. Butthe fault in this case
is, l am convinced, with Joe Jefferson
himself, and not with either Emerson or
Browning"
PICTURE OF CAL BRICE.
Mr.. Calvin Brice, the New York million
alre, who will take Henry B. Payne's place
as the next Senator from Ohio, has been in
the city this week. He is clean-cut, red
whiskered, blue-eyed young man with a
hard smile and q Western manner. ! re-
member him when he began his money
making career about ten years ago by push
Ing The Ohio Central Railroad down through
the rich coal fields of that State. He was
then often seen seen about Columbus with
MS pants in his boots, slouch hat on his
head and with by no means the best of
clothes covering his angular frame.
Last nightat the Arlington be wore silk
nat, broadcloth coat, and every sign of his
clothing denoted prosperity. Ten years ago
he was worth nothing. Now be is supposed
TO be worth millions. Ten years ago he was
In debt to Governor Foster, and it was Fos-
ter who lent him the money and gave him
the boost which enabled him to climb the
tree offortune. Now that he has plucked
the fruit, however, he seems to have little
use for Foster, and am told that it was his
money and his efforts that caused Fosters
deleat as candidate for Congress this year.
II this be true the future Senator has shown
himself to be the
INCARNATION OF INGRATITUDE.
Ex-Congressman Jameson, of Lima, once
told me that Brice, when he was worth prac-
tically nothing, owed Foster S115, 900 and 1t
was only through additional money which
Foster put into enterprises in which he gave
Br1ce share that enabled him to pay this
debt. He did pay it finally and came out
with S135, 900 ahead. 1t was this money
that enabled him to organize his Nickel
Plate scheme, which enabled him to make
somewhere near So, 600, 900 to So, ,00O, 900 and
establish himself as big fnancier. Brice
was asked by Mckinley. during his visit,
how matters were in New York. He re-
piled:
"a dollar in New York is now as big as
the moon. 1t keeps growing bigger every
day and money is so tight that we have no.
thing for Christmas"
tion. &" said Mckinley, and thereat the two
statesmen laughed and Brice laughed the
louder.
HANDY AND THE CoNsULsHIP.
Colonel Moses P. Handy has refused the
Consul Generalship to Cairo, and he is
happy In his newspaper duties in connection
with the Worlds Fair. He tells me he got
the two appointments on the same day and
preferred the Worlds Fair position because
1t enabled him to remain at home. Handy
would have made a good Consul General
and he would have been arefreshing change
to some of the men who have occupied the
Cairo consulate in times past. Schuyler
was good man, and Cardwell, who pre-
ced him, was above the average of the coun-
try editor, the position which he left to take
the place under President Cleveland.
Wolf was accused of leaning toward
Arab Pasha, and as for e. H. Butler, his
mission was one long career of disgrace to
America. He was drunk during the greater
part of the time that he held the posi-
ton, and when he got out of funds, he
would go to the Khedive and ask for loan
or present on the grounds that the United
States Government did not give him enough
salary-to live upon. America ought to have
very good man at Cairo. Our churches
lnohaSC tuC MtsclOudEy UuSlue6S Ol bue cOuu-
try, and about 2. 600 Americans visit Egypt
every winter to see the country and to enjoy
the delightful climate. There is no doubt
but that the proper man might be able to
make an opening there for American trade,
and the bulk of our goods which now 90 to
Egypt are sent to London or Holland, and
there forwarded on to the country under
newlabels as Dutch or English goods.
BEDLoE FOR Annoy,
DR.. Edward Bedloe, our new Consul to
Annoy in China. writes me that he is much
better, and that he will leave London in ten
days for his post. Bedloe is an accomplished
linguist. He has occupied a position at
several of the consular ports in Europe, and
he will be very popular in the far East. He
proposes to learn the Chinese language, to
make study of Chinese literature, and to
open the country as far as possible to our
American manufacturers.
Bedloe is member OF the Glover Club. of
Philadelphia, and this club is fast becom-
ing a diplomatic institution. General E.
Burd Grubb, the new Minister to Spain, is
one of its members; Charles Emory Smith,
who represents the United States at the court
of the Gar, is another, and Colonel Tom
Doneldson, the census taker of the redskins,
is a third. Major Handy is also member
of the Glover Club, and understand that
Bill Nye will be elected one of its members
at the next meeting.
FRANK 6. CARPENTER.