Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1890-03-07
NEW YORK LETTER.
NEW YORK CITY,
March 3rd, 1890.
DEAR REGISTER
Who killed the Worlds Fair?
]. said Tom Platt.
With my little bat,
knocked il flat :

!, said Tom Platt.
with my little bat.
knocked il flat
Excuse this last regret. but how dis
appointed all New York was when
Chicago got the fair, you can scarcely
imagine. New York offers no excuse,
nor should it, but the fact remains
that she was robbed of it by mean,
political trick. 1t was Democrats VS..
Republicans, and the latter won.
Chicago got all of the votes it was
entitled to, but why should 1T get 10
votes from Pennsylvania, and in fact
nearly the entire Eastern Republican
vote? The South stuck almost solidly
for New York, Chicago getting only
70 of their votes. There is promised
a great reckoning at the polls here In
1899 and YOU can bet it will come. 1t
was well said that the Republican
party was under control Of the three
big Toms: Tom Reed, Tom Plat
and Tom foolery, and as the first two
are dead politically it leaves the G.
O. p. entirely controlled by the last
named. With probably one exception
this country has never been disSraced
bv so weak an administrations; but
look at the list of Democratic gov
erners that have lately been elected
it points towards a great change at
the next election.
The big Broadway merchant from
near Shepherdstown, Charles Broad
way Rouss, has moved into his I'M
mense ten-story building on Broad
way, between Prince and Spring
streets. 1t is an immense structure OF
solid brick and iron and extends
clear through the block. 1t is fronted
with immense show windows OF plate
glass extending from the ground to
the top of the first floor, and is beau
tifully lighted with electric lights.
He buys goods under the hammer,
and as he sells for cash you can get
great bargains at his place. Mr..
Rouss came here from the battlefield
of Appomattox penniless, and has
built himself up to his present posi-
tion by sheer pluck and honest bus
mess ability. 1t is said that he will
employ any one VINO applies at the
uniform salary of dollar day and
if found deserving will keep them.
! He is said to settle all accounts at
the end of each day and will ride up
| town on the rear platform Of an IL"
train to throw pennies to the poor
newsboys.
lit is really wonderful to look at New
York's great business men and see
| how few of them are native New
Workers. The longer one resides here
the more he is struck at tindils it so
| thoroughly cosmopolitan. Nearly
every race is represented n-re, and
the eastern nations nave regular
| towns to themselves, and visit to
them is one of the features of a visit
| to New York. ANY one who thinks
of New York as Northern. sectional
city is greatly mistaken, as it is too
full of business and too thoroughly
Democratic for anything of that
| sort.
~ tie spring il nearly here now.
basA ball will soon have its inning,
and New York can boast OF having
two clubs League and Brotherhood)
with grounds on the same block, be-
ing only divided by n fence. The
struggle to freeze each other out will
be bitter one.
Americas two giants of the cue,
Jake Schaefer, of Chicago, and
| George +. Slosson, of New York, met
at Chickering Hall Saturday night to
end the big billiard tournament.
Slosson won the Championship and
with it 900. The score was Slosson
500. Schaefer 3l8.
! r. H. J.