The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-03-19
HARRIS0N'S ADVISERS TALK.
EIKINs on CLEvELAND's sfEEoH, AND
OTHER THINGS, AND SOME
ONE ELSE ON ELKINs.

The Late Secretary OF War Discusses the
Fatur, or Rsnrosas, sneers at the In.
assursi, ana Expisi.s New he Kept the
President Out OF Debt skins; Says IN
Inn,ite Deal OF Nothfrs." Says a. Un.
named Friend, " More Thar Any Men but
Calico Charley John w. Foster OF t.
diane and sorss OF His Chsrsc<eristses
WASHINGTON. March la-Passing up the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad shortly after In
suguration I came upon ex-Socrstary Eikins.
"Ah." said he. you get to your mountain
homo In an hour or two. but I shall not get to
minc until late at night Well. 1 never folt so
comfortable In my life Here ! can read q
newspaper all through. have Just been
reading the Pennsylvania Railroad report 1
have not had time to read anything ike an
other citizen since I entered the Cabinet. and
though I have been O hard worker oil my life. l
call that Cabinet Job hard. They commenced
at mo at 8 o'clock before I left my house. and
kept at me until I went to bed"
Il suppose you arc going to work again p
without . days delay. We have three bands
Of surveyors out to md us the easiest route
from Cumberland to HaRsrstown. As soon IS
they report. which will be Immediately. we sre
going to work extending our West Virginia
Railroad to Hagerstown. 1t will cost
l believe that Hagerstown will be . place OF
$4,000 people In . very few years. When We
get In there and connect with the Cumberland
Valley Railroad 1t will be more OF . railroad
centre than harrisburg"
II thought you connected already With Two
railroads at CumberlandT
well. we did. but you SEQ tho Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad has more stun than 1t can
haul for itself. and We have hundreds OF cars
blocked up In its yard unable to get out at
Cumberland. The Pennsylvania Railroad has
to haul our coal to Huntingdon. on the Juniata.
across the mountains. and We have all that
mileage to nay to get around back to Harris
burg and to tho seaboard. Now We have the
largest and the nearest deposit OF steam-mak.
ing coalto the seaboard. and tho Cumb eriand
Valley Railroad. which has very little coal to
haul. comes Just in our line. by building q
hundred miles We connect with 1t. and have a
grade as smooth a. a floor to Harrisburg and
all that manufacturing district OF the East"
What is the name OF your coal 6eld"
1T Is the same as tho Cumberland GOAL field
in Maryland. which is simply the toe Of tho
great shoe OF coal which passes over to the
Upper Potomac and West Virginia. I suppose
you would call It tho Potomac coal field. We
can now get out 3. o y tons OF coal a day. and
our engineers compute that We have BOO. 0OO.-
600 tons Of coal upon the veins already located.
Coal 10 to be the greatest factor In the future.
Coal and tho metals will control the future
destiny Of this country"
What are we going to do whom we have
finished our railroads for another lease Of
credit and expansion
There is sure to be something else. Who
could have supposed that coal oil would come
to what It has? The next thing, perhaps. will
be the revival OF our for which we
are all ready. our shipyards numerous. our
shipwrights plentiful. our experience first rate.
and we have a navy to look after our marine.
Since the Republicans came into power they
have habilitnted everything in this country.
the sea walls. the harbors. made ports OF entry
In the interior. kept up the currency. and done
1t all by indirect taxation. like Germany"
What do you think Of tho Pennsylvania
Railroad report. which you've been reading ?"
THAT Is q marvellous document said to
President Roberts. when he came to see me
some time ago. Sir. are you aware that you.
from your corporation.h have more revenue than
the oldest empire In the world. that OF China2'
Look at 1t! They have $4,000. 900 OF gross
earnings and over $40. 900. 900 Of not earnings.
Their net earnings are moro than the gross
earnings Of the New York Central Railroad"
1.-The public think the New York Central to
be the bigger concern"
1.-THE Pennsylvania Railroad leads every one
OF our systems. Why. the city OF Pittsburgh
passes moro freight than tho city OF New
York. The New York Central has o good busi-
ness In sending merchandise West. has a good
many manufactures In its prosperous cities.
and runs q good deal Of live stock. but 1t Is not
a coal railroad. That is why It IL making such
o terrific fight against Mcleod to keep the
coal traffic Of New England. That was why
Vanderbilt built into the coke region OF Penn.
s~ylvanta years ago and undertook TO parallel
the Pennsylvania system. In order to get some
of it's business. The Pennsylvania Railroad car
ried 24.OOU. 900 tons Of coke and coal last year.
day %nif in me he G year. and t1ai Il you Sa' put 5ut twenty tons y
coal to the car. they carried oyor 1000 car
iSfSs s,e Esi dsy Of ss ssae s sHS sSsi; T lsst Pear ssnr
and built Itself 20 iocomotiyeA:
H has a confident way OF expressing him
self on CeneraIities; KIT there IL no conference
trusts, Mr.: Lamont. in nis Cabinet. is Pres!.
dent and {, Secretary" Of eighteen 2. different rail,
who might not have trust printed on his hat.
| told President, Harrison. against Fosters
toid linn nG th az ' tho sn' ts sHoas G ln s%% y York ai0t who
have the distinctiye Cleveland banks, one Of
said said l.. sG Isss tho RepuS Ttas I Tarty = 90 )" out ttV 81
owe s1h hayipS dons nSthinS 1 Rah sIsinSuish
business Il dull there. and they want to jump
Attic later than the above the writer met
to- The above conversation: this eolleagHe said:
as much as Elkins and Charley Jostsr3 Both
OF ,thom. one would think, exhausted them:
selves by the Conversational instinct alone. 1t
was gable, gable. gable. Even our worthy
Understand me. that he talked sense; but
Harrison was so DESTROYS to show him that no
knew more about that case than the man that
case Mt all"
I said to the retiring Cabinet man: SHOULD
not Harrison. have .exerted. his veto power
more decidedly. and choked on Mckinley In
his double trapeze protection act
v, wS0h res: Mckinley was silowed to run svaT
The women In ths eoHntIy down q ycS. ana
not making any linens here. . are not able
gain counters, and the women danced with
rage Then We got after All the msn IN the
tip his house or got attn cup TO 70 TO work
with felt that somehow he WAS being aimed at,
Now It - well ppderstood that q " could
would not employ over 80, OOO poopla.. am n