The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-10-12

English gentleman, who some years
ago conceived the idea of making New
York city the great horse market Of the
country. Before his advent our horse
buyers had been in the habit of going
out to Kentucky, Tennessee and other
horse breeding sections, making their
purchases and bringing them home at
! their own expense.
! Mr.. Easton, whose headquarters here
are known as sTattersalls," now has
all the horse breeders in every part OF
the country bringing horses to him to
be sold at auction. He is also giving
some attention to the Importation of
foreign horses and is probably aiding
as much to encourage the love of good
horsefesh as any man in the country.
He is a charming gentleman socially
and, above all, a capital after-dinner
speaker. He acquitted himself with
great credit on the occasion referred to.
Just before sitting down to the table
with Mr.. Easton overheard pleasant
conversation between Mr.. John Hoey
and Phil DAILY, which conveyed an idea
of the amount of prejudice that a man
can sometimes conceive toward a dress
suit. Mr.. DAILY informed Mr.. Hoey that
he had never owned a dress suit in his
life He said: ''When went to Eng
land some years ago took number of
letters from August Belmont to promi-
nent representatives of the turf IN
England, among them Q number OF the
nobility. was invited to several din
ners, but declined because / was told
that it would not be proper to attend
without wearing dress suit l finally
received an invitation from a certain
lord whom was anxious to cultivate,
and made up my mind that I would go
to the dinner anyhow, dress suit or no
dress suit was the only person pres
ent who did not have on claw-hammer
coat, but they seemed to understand it,
and got along very well"
But you should have dress suit"
demonstrated Mr.. Hoey. "You have a
very handsome figure, and you don't
know how much it would add to your
appearance. It would make you feel
ten years younger of an evening. The
boys would not guy you more than
once about it, and after that the thing
would be easy with you. I"
Mr.. Hoey kept on in this strain for
some time, and rather think that when
he finished Mr.. Daily was under convic-
ton, I would not be surprised at any
time to hear that he had blossomed
forth in frst-class dress suit. We had
some jolly good speeches at this dinner.
Charlie Reed, the owner of the st.
Blaise, probably made his first appear
ance as dinner-table taller. Mr..
Easton conplimented him by saying
that he had the distinction of being the
only man in the world who ever. stood
up in an auction room and bid 800, 900
for a single horse. Mr.. Reed blushing-
1y received the compliment, and when
upon his feet answered that the only
glory that he had gotten out of that in
cident was that everybody in the coun-
try thought he was a stupendous ass for
paving so much for horse.
TEE ELECTRICAL GANGLIoNs OF THE
GLOBE.
Having an idle hour after midnight
last week accepted an invitation to
take a look through the operating
rooms of the Western Union Telegraph
Company, in the great building at the
corner of Broadway and Dey street. I
suppose it may be said that any man
who sits in an Office of the Western
Union Telegraph Company, at any point
on this continent, is in touch with all
the world. But to really realize that
YOU are face to face with the electrical
ganglions of the entire globe one has
but to take walk through this enor-
nous establishment. No less than 300
separate and distinct wires enter the
great operating room alone. On the
floor below are the marvellous instru-
ments which work the great stock
reporting ''tickers'' simultaneously and
with absolute accuracy, and also the
various duplex, quadruplex and multi
plex instruments used on long-service
work. The great operating room on
the eighth floor employs day and night
no less than 1000 operators.
They are all under the immediate
eye of the superintendent, and each
operator sits at his neat little desk with
his instrument in front of him. The
room is divided into switchboard sec
tions representing the northern, east
ern, southern and western divisions of
the republic. All these wires are under
the special superintendent ofmen held
responsible for their condition, and
they are all spread out before them
like the keys of piano. The construc-
ton of these enormous switchboards is
as perfect as that of a Jurgensen watch.
To the uninitiated these great spider
| webs are absolutely ncomprehensible,
but to the adept they seem as simple as
the four strings of violin. One thing
that struck me as amazing was the fact
that in all this vast hall, with every in
strument humping and pounding away,
each operator seemed to be Indifferent
to all instruments save his own. What
was Babel to me was no more to him
than the distant sounds in the streets.
His mind was concentrated on his
| own communication. In no establish
ment have ever seen the splendor of
system so well exemplified. There is, I
believe, nowhere in the world an OPP
erating-room SO thoroughly equipped
and so scientifically managed. should
| think that Mr. Gould would be very