The Press., 1892-06-30

New York Correspondence Hartford Times: It has never been clearly under stood by the democrats of the country at large why the men who brought Mir. Cleveland forward in New York politics did not retain control of the organization in this state after MT. Cleveland became president in 1884. Two deaths had much to do with this unfortunate result Had Daniel Manning lived he would have re- mained at the head of the organization in New York. Paralysis having laid hold of this great politician, his natural suc- cessor was E. K. Apgar, and he, too, died about the same time. If Apgar had lived, New York democrats would never have seen their state organization in the phy. Did it ever occur to you how much MT. Cleveland and the party suffered from the death of prominent. New York CTS between the years 1884 and 1888? Let me mention the names of a number of gentlemen without the active aid of any one of whom Mir. Cleveland could not have won in 1884: Daniel Manning, Henry Ward Beecher, William H. Vanderbilt, Roscoe Conkling, Herbert O. Thompson, E. K. Apgar. There are six names; and venture to say that if any one of them had not been actively enlisted in MT. Cleveland's behalf, MT. Blaine would have been the successor of Chester A. Arthur. Perhaps the death of Conkling was smaller loss than that of any of the others, for he might not have felt the same anxiety for MT. Cleveland's success against Harrison that he felt for the downfall of Blaine. Nil. Whitney had almost as much to do with making MT. Cleveland the candidate for governor in 1882 as MT. Manning had, but he was not, and did not wish to be, the managing head of the state committee. When Manning passed away MT. Whitney was busy with building up the new navy; and Colonel Lamont, who had been so ef- ficient at Albany, was busy with the de- tails of executive business in the White House. Then it was that the organiza tion drifted away into the hands of the Murphys and Sheehans, and began to center in the personality and purposes of David B. Hill.
 The preparations for the worlds fair in Chicago next year won the praise of some newspaper men who attended the democratic convention last week. "R. s. H." of the Providence Journal, says i: "It'has been great advantage to the visitors to be able to take, as side-show to their convention an inspection of the worlds fair grounds. No one can see the buildings, even in their present condition, without being overcome with admiration for the work which has already been &C., complished. Nothing like it has ever yet been seen in Europe, and nothing that ever happens will so impress those Eu- | ropeans who cross the Atlantic next year to visit the exposition. It is so far ahead of what would have been possible, under I the jealousy and uneasiness of New York | are easily understood. Every inhabftant of the Atlantic coast should begin to save up money at once, so as to have enough ready as soon as the fair opens to come here for month. It will be more lib- ral education than a year in any university, and will make better Americans of all who can appreciate the majestic resources of nation capable of showing such an l exhibit of wealth and industry. The con- vention is over, and the politician has had his little day, which is soon forgot ten. The assemblage which will gather 1 next year at Jackson Park, and remain in l session five months, will never be forgotten l while any one who takes part in it has the use of his memry."
 You remember Billy Wilson, who used l to be on the Peoria Transcript? Well, he's out west now-that's in California and before he went out of the newspaper business, couple of young journalisists on paper with which he was connected went down to San Diego to write up the new hotel. "Del Coronado is big tav- ern, handsome as it is big, but when the collaborators wrote back that it "covered an acre of ground and that 1 TOO acres of carpeting were required for it's halls and rooms" Billy held the letter back few days until he investigated. "I went out on the ranch, he said, land measured off an acre of ground. Then looked up and tried to imagine hotel 1, TOO stories high. But that was too much of a strain on the imagination, oven for California. But l the boys stuck to their statement so I measured off seventeen acres of ground, and tried to see how a hotel 100 stories high would look. Then I tried hotel covering 100 acres of ground, and only seventeen stories high. But still couldn't comprehend it; the boys insisted, how ever, that arithmetic had nothing to do with estimates of that character. We run the letter in, it sounded we'll, the eastern papers copied it, and it looks big, but still can't help thinking I must go down and see that hotel in order to satisfy myself"
 A horrible accident happened on the Pennsylvania railroad, at Harrisburg, Pa., Saturday, June 25th, by which ten persons were killed, and others injured. An express train from New York was running in two parts. The first part stopped in the yard, and before the sec- ond part could be Jagged it piled into the standing train, smashing the cars and do- ing the damage.
 Max Clarget, a Frenchman, IS years