Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-12-08
BASEETT In BOSTON.
Mexieo's Literateur ReJoices Over
the Election and Eats Baked
Beans--his Journey and
What he Says OF II.
Correspondence of the Ledger

iohS Time reSieeIillnB tnat promise o
Il letter, but here goes. l went cas-
on the morning of the 18th on tht
boom of the election, stepped higt
and only touched the pinnacles
The west and Democracy are in il
and we are the people. How good
naturedly on the exterior the Re
publieans take it! "Glad you have il
ALL" thy say, and lie like Rogue
Riderhood, for they hoped with
bated breath "that the Senate was
safe" eff Cleveland's is a better
administration than Harrison's Pm
a Democrat from this on,"I have
heard dozen Republicans say
The irony of the situation crops out
everywhere. 'All about the tin
plate strike!" sarcastically sang q
st. Louis news boy. "Thirty-seveu
hundred men out of employment
All because of the election of Grover
Cleveland, shame!" and away
down in West Virginia 1 heard a
Jew call out, ''Vare ish dat only Re-
publican" In our sleeper there
was only one--Elkins' postmaster
at Columbia, Mo.-and was actual
ly sorry for him. He said Steve
was to come aboard further on, but
| did not stay up to see him. I
suppose he was just getting in from
the brush where he had Identifying
to deliver West Virginia according
to contract.
My route was over the o. & NJ.
from st. Louis, a charming road
bed and rapid runner. Some of us
in the smoking room, just for ex-
pertinent, filled a glass of water to
within half an inch of the brim and
at forty miles per hour not a drop
spilled over. What a charming
thing it is that our cities went
west almost in a straight line
so that by taking, say, the o. & M.
and B. & O. systems, we have St.
Louis, Cincinnati. Washington, Bal
timore, Philadelphia and New York
all on string as it were. There is
no other way to come east to see SO
much. At Cincinnati l ran up to
Maysvilfe, KY, and spent a pleas
ant Sunday with friend who clerks
in a wholesale whiskey store, a
deacon in the Presbyterian church
and the prince of good-fellows.
What other place but Kentucky
could furnish such an anomaly? At
Baltimore | ran down Chesapeake
Bay to Chestertown, Md, and spent
another Sunday with my old Sunday
School pupil, Mrs. Eta Ross Hub
bard, and her excellent husband,
had a delightful ride among the
oyster tongers and dredgers. There
was just enough swell on my return
trip to make me resolve like the
Irishman. Pat was a candidate for
immersion. 1t was the old "run-
ming water days. that our friend
Champ Clark talks of so charming
ly. They cut the ice in an emer-
gency, and, as the preacher let the
candidate whose turn preceded
Pats slip under to his doom, he ex-
claimed, ''There's one poor soul
gone to Heaven, bring on another"
"Begorrah,'' says Pat, "I'll ruther
go be land!" So 1 did not take a
Fall River steamer to this labaryn-
THAN city, but "be land"
My, but how NewYork does over
whelm you with its ugliness! Phil
adelphia has beautiful buildings
and all the cities make some pre-
tentions to esthetics, but New York
is simply business. OF course there
are few exceptions. I'm speaking
of it as an impression. The news
paper buildings are fine, in their
gaunt slenderness, but the haber-
dasher, the office man and the little
shop seem to have "taken the
town" Even Fifth Avenue houses,
of which we have heard so much,
are simply great piles sticking
out flush with the pavement like a
business block, without any sur
roundings. They want beauty even
in external symmetry or the lack
of it. For the most part their cost
lies in the carving of the stone
lin place. their internal dec
Grafton and their mass. In New
York everybody is in a hurry
except. the drayman ahead of the
street car. They still jingle
their old horse Car bells on Broad
way but are putting down cable
ways in many places. After all,
with their elevated" l believe
that rapid transit is larger entity
in Cleveland or Pittsburg with the
surface electric motor than anything
New York has.
I heard Talmage Sunday. He
was qnite Talmagesque of course.
He strikes you as struggling to make
an impression from the Talmage
standpoint, which is a broad one, as
that of our opera house stage. Nc
man in a box for him. He must
have room to pose, and leap, and
strut little. did not want to say