Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-12-29
TRIBUNE MAN ABROAD
Observations from What Was, Until
Democratic Times, the Smoky
City of Pittsburg.
Sad Picture of Hard Times Brought
On by Uncertainty of Demo-
cratic Legislation.
A Little Gossip Regarding Old Time
Bismarckers Now Scattered
Over the World.
A little Gossip.

case. Arriving in Chicago Sunday, I
saw n rainbow aud have chased it this
far without finding the end. I wrote DR..
Porter in Rome, to-day, that l might be
obliged to cross the Atlantic before get
ting hold Of it.
This city, in republican times, was
known as the "smoky city," but demo-
cratic times have brought idle furnaces
and clear skies. Not to exceed Is per
cent. of the manufacturing capacity of
this great manufacturing region ls now
used. Yesterday l,OOO.men gathered in
front of the city hall, opposite Mellon
Bros bank, waiting for charity-waiting
to be put to work grading in the pub
lie parks at 81 a day. Seven hundred
are thus engaged and thousands more
are seeking work. Men who two years
ago struck in Carnegie's steel works
when earning from $40 to 500 a day, are
now glad to get work at 81 and less.
Coal miners-hundreds of them-are re-
ceiving 80 and 80 cents a day, and glad
to get it. However, living expenses are
cheaper than ever before, so.the suffer-
ing is not so bad as in some former
waves of business depression. Business
of all kinds is at a standstill, and the
who has a job that promises a living till
spring, is indeed fortunate. However,
there is a hopeful feeling, and it is con-
fdently expected that next summer
business will revive again.
In st. Paul the other day, I met Mr..
Deitoch, who will be remembered as q
surveyor and draughtsman with the
Northern Pacific away back in 70 and
80, when the road pushed on from Bis
marck to the coust. He was a jolly
Dutchman then, and he is the same to-
day. He now lives in Livingston, and is
prominent in politics. He is chairman
of the republican committee of his dis
trict and holds the Office of county
clerk.
1 also became acquainted with Mayor
Smith of Port Angeles, Wash. who was
on his way home from Washington,
where he obtained important legisla-
ton for his city. Port Angeles is the
most northwesternly harbor in Wash
ington, being forty miles toward the
Pacific from Port Townsend. 1t is a
government township, laid out under the
act of 1863. The lots have been apprais-
ed at a uniform price of SO. and on the
first day Of next.month will be sold at
auction Mr.. Smith says the town is
we'll located, and is surrounded by the
best agricultural lands as we'll as timber,
and mineral lands in the state. I asked
him about cur old townpeople, Mr.. and
Mrs. Stewart, and their charming
daughter, Daisy, who are now in Port
Angeles. Miss Daisy married G. P.
Brown, a bank cashier. The bank went
under last summer, but MI. Brown is
not busted by any means. Mrs. Stewart
takes an active part in all church and
social events, and, Mr.. Smith declares,
is, or desires to be, at least, "as young
as she used to be-"
In Minneapolis I met Pugh, who was
a member Of the famous legislature OF
1885, the year of the great capital fight.
He will be remembered also as one of
the Fargo land officials back in the 7O's.
He's a jolly old Scotchman, and was a
true friend of Bismarck. He is now liv.
ing with his IONS at some point in
Minnesota, and says he wants to live to
be a hundred years old. This world
suits him. and he wants to stay With it.
l didn't have time to visit all the Bis
marck colony in Minneapolis. I learn,
however, that all-Raymond, Flannery,
Whalen, Douglas-apd the rest are
prospecting. Raymond, as vice-presi.
dent of the Northwestern National. the
largest bank in the state. now receives a
salary Of $4,000 year.
The sportsman says lit is funny how
much game a man will see when he ia
out without a gun" When I am awav
from home l fall in with all kinds Of
people-except confidence men-snd I
find it difficult sometime to even "shake"
these gentlemanly and Interesting people.
One thing is certain. One never goes
far without running against an old Bis.
marcker, or some one who'has, or has
had a Bismarck friend or relative. After
passing the time Of day-or night rather
at the Nicollet, Friday last, II rather
heavy, good looking man, with dark
beard n dlcurlyd hair, ventured the re-
mark that he had an uncle who used to
live in Bismarck. Who do o ppo
that uncle was? Poor old l.. ID. Bailey.
who was accidentally drowned in '82 or
"a, on the bottoms south of Bismarck.
Mr.. Bailey is q travelling man, and our
talk about old times was, indeed, inter.
esting to me, and / imagine satisfactory
to him.
met a large number o other per.
sons OF whom TRIBUNE readers would
doubtless like to hear, but il I parted
with all the gossip ]. have in my head
now, would have nothing left Tor next
t'me' M. Il. j.