Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-06-01
IN HOTEL CORRIDORS.

II wish you could see and enjoy some of
| the delicious Strawberries that are raised
out In the Puget sound country" remarked
JA.Greer of Tacoma at the St.James the 9TH
er day, as street huckster came by driving
wagon loaded with boxes of the delicious
fruit. Il am almost afraid to describe our
berries. for fear 1 shall be put down as a
Munchausen, but / essure you that straw
berries the size of hens eggs and entirely
scarlet from their stems to their tips and as
hrm and as highly Favored as little wild
berry itself, do not excite surprising conn
ment out In my neighborhood. / have seen
quart of strawberries purchased at a mar
ket store In the regular run of custom and
at the regular price charged for the fruit
which contained exactly eleven Strawberries
and none OF then were blemished In the
slightest degree. When your eastern berry
reaches large size II is not a very pretty
object to look at. From the red at its base
II changes into various hues OF yelowish
green and is blotched here and there until II
looks for all the world like an old toper's
nose. Our large berries, however, are just
as Perfect as any smaller berry YOU ever
saw in the east. However. IT Is not alone
Strawberries which reach such an enormous
size out our way The climate there seems
to delight in making things horticultural
assume heroic proportions. The Bartlett
pear grows generally twice as large out
there as the same variety does here In the
east. and yields to a tree three or four times
as abundantly. Indeed. all vegetation is
more lusty and its yield proportionately
greater. Visitors to the Spokane EXPOSE
ton Will remember for instance, that a
farmer from the vicinity of Walla walla
exhibited ITO bushels of wheat which Rad
been raised on a single acre. and this ex-
hibit was fully authenticated. But there is
no use dwelling upon the fecundity Of ra-
ture In the far northwest. The person who
can AFFORD the journey can receive a Won
derfuily valuable education by making a
jaunt up through the Puget sound country
and the remarkable regions that lie ada
cent to it,
There Is great deal Of confident talk
being INDUCED in down south Just now
about the growth of the cotton manufactur-
ing industry" said r. H. Gregg of Memphis
at Willard's last night. 1T seems quite
reasonable that such a manufacture should
thrive In the immediate vicinity Of the pro-
ducing place of the raw material, but / do
not believe our people should take too opti-
mistic view of the prospects. To properly
manufacture cotton, skilled labor is essen
tial, and that class of labor must Of neces-
sity be intelligent. Men and women who
work In foregn factories and in those of
New England, and who are respected In
their communities and have a certain degree
OF social intercourse with their neighbors
cannot be kept in our section of the coun-
try as long as IL clings to the social Gus
toms and traditions of the past. The over
seer of northern cotton mill for instance
would not relish settling in a community
where he would be ostracised by the other
intelligent people because he performed
manual labor. or some description OF IL. for
living. This may seem an insignificant
fact to base an opinion On, but / firmly be-
heve that the social conditions down south
must be radically changed before the cotton
manufacturing industry reaches the state
of perfection that SO many of my fellow
southernes appear to believe imminent"
at saw an aNectin0 inciden, o., 49,,
in Denver recently" said Herbert Parker OF
San Francisco. at the Arlington yesterday.
Our party stopped st the Windsor, and
some business detained me after IL had
come east. SO my room was changed to a
larger apartment on a lower floor / was
engaged in writing one afternoon, when I
heard woman shrieking and crying In the
next room. Naturally, ran out IN the hall
and into the apartment where the trouble
was A handsome elderly woman, with a
noble countenance, was holding the form of
bell boy to her breast, and INDUCING in
the Mysteries that had startled me The
boy was crying. too, Mt to break his heart
MY entrance brought the lady to her senses.
ana then, in gush of gladness, she told
ne that she had just discovered her son in
the servant who had answered a summons
from her tried to beat a retreat, but the
poor woman was In that condition when
she was compelled to recite her story to
some one, and il would have been ungailant
In me to have refused to listen. 1t appeared
that the boy had accidentally wounded n
companion In Troy, New York. some tbree
or tour years ago. and, fearing that he
would be charged with malicious assault
had ned from the city. He had so success
fully evaded pursuit and covered his tracks
so well that the search which his family
and that of his wounded friend Institutes
was given up. and IL was believed the lad
had committed suicide. He had been afraid
10 write home, and had drifted west where
he managed to get a lob In the hotel Won
can imagine what a glorious reunion N
was when the first shock of the meeting
was over. IN not give the names, as the
lady is the widow of one who was a promi-
nent man In the vicinity of Troy"
A New York geologist now at the Aruny-
ton, yesterday told the following story
about Major Powell's successor In the geo.
logical survey: Yes. know walcott well.
HIS success is largely owing to his having
persistently followed one track. I some
times think that anybody could do any
thing py trying hard enough. Walcott had
hard time when he was a boy He never
had chance to go to college When he
was three or four years old his father died
ne WASH able TO go to any school till he
was nine or ten. and then he attended the
pubic schools and academy only a few
years. When he was thirteen he became in
terested In pretty stones. and made a ram
dom collection, and this he followed nm
systematically. after he met q visitor n
the locality. Col L. Jewett, the well-known
geologist and conchologist. He borrowed
books and specimens or him and began the
study or geology at fourteen. Then he
served as clerk IN hardware stores first In
Utica and then ia Indianapolis. After a
couple years Of this, impelled by his strong
geological bent, he quit clerking and went
home and run his mothers dairy farm for
fve years. lie worked hard, but managed
the farm successfully without q great ex-
pendfture OF time, and. between sending
milk to the cheese factory, more than hall
OF the daylight and evenings Of a year he
employed In the persistent study of geology
He made many geological excursions into
6erkimer and Oneida counties. Here he
found great opportunities for Investigation
There was an immense variety of geological
phenomena, embracing much between the
Archean of the Adirondacks to the middle
Paleozoic and many results OF glacial dis
turbance. His first scientific paper was
read before the Farmers Club OF Oneida
county in 1878. Meantime he had been
given a place on the New York state geo.
logical survey, and was promoted to the
United States geological survey by Clar-
ence King In 1870 Walcott has cordial and
conciliatory manners and great adaptability
and he Will make a hit as director"
1T see you had a talk with Andy Slater
about the way Rowe started the horses In
the Brooklyn Handicap. and the necessity
for some rules to be made by which a
starters powers shall be defined" said Phil
Biedler who is here attending the races, at
Wizards last night II agree with Slater