Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-11
Mr.. DEPEW'S WONDER
At the Feat Ascribed to Romeo EX-
cited by An Examination Of
THE BALCONY AT JULlET'S HOUSE.
Europeans Scared TO Death by the Mckinley
Tariff Bill.
A TALK ON FINE ART AND STRIKES

NEW YORK, September 10.-Chauncey
M. Depew arrived to-day on the steamer
Teutonic. Mr.. Loomis welcomed him, and
he made brief speech. Speaking on the
New York Central Railroad strike, he said
that his confidence in the officers he left to
manage the affairs of the road had not been
misplaced. He said that the Presidency of
the United States had not been in his mind
while abroad, thus replying to a newspaper
that had accused him of hobhobbing with
aristocrats and noblemen.
Mr.. Depew then told how he had met
Mr.. Gladstone and Sir Charles Russell.
described his journeying through Europe,
from England to Rome, and his Impressions
of the grave of Juliet. He saw the balcony
on which she stood and wondered if Romeo
had accomplished the feat ascribed to him.
If he did, Mr.. Depew said, and lived in this
country at the present day, he would carry
off all the athletic honors of Yale and
Harvard.
OvER-AwING IMPRESSIONS.
He saw the Passion Play at the Oberam-
mergua, and never was so deeply impressed
with anything before. The intense religious
feeling of the people who took part in 1t
almost oyer-awed him. and he never realized
the characters OF Pontius Plate and Judas
1scariot till he saw this play.
What also impressed Mr.. Depew was the
sudden fall of Bismarck. The people of
Germany have found they can get along
without him and consequently have forgot
ten him. He met Chicago man in Switzer-
land, who told him that he would not give
the old masters house room and the scenery
nj hn mt rrIt Val
lowstone Park or Pixies Peak. The Chi
cago man could talk nothing but English
and he always got that place at the table
d'hote where he came In for nothing but the
chickens legs. Some of these he was tax
ing with him to exhibit at the Worlds Fair
in 1893, and believed them to be veritable
centipedes.
SCARED AT THE M'KINLEY BILL.
The Europeans were scared to death about
the Mckinley bill, Mr.. Depew said. When
he spoke to waiter in French restaurant
about good prospects Tor next year. the
to knock us all out"
In Verona Mr.. Depew found that beauti-
full peaches were selling five for cents and
in London they could not be bought for 25
cents apiece. ''This," the speaker said, ''is
disgrace to the governmental railway
system, for the two places are only 900 miles
apart"
Mr.. Depew wound up his address by say
ing: 81 am glad to get home. 1 have
passed many anxious days and nights, which
have interfered with the pleasure of my
trip, but which did not once suggest to me
that it was necessary for me to return.
knew that the difficulties Which had arisen
in connection with the railroads were in the
hands of a gentleman who was tully COM
petent to take care of them. knew the
New York Central road possessed in every
department the best, most efficient. most
business-l1ke, nost enterprising, and most
loyal organization that is possessed by any
railroad corporation in the United States,
and needed not your appearance here and
friendly greeting this morning to assure me
that in heart, in spirit and in aspiration, as
of old, we are all one."