Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-01-05
B|SMARCKERS ABROAD.
The Tribune Man Tells Of Bis
markers Whom He Met in
Various Places.
Dam Williams Now Employed With
Magill In Real Estate Bust
ness at Chicago.

Dam Williams Now Employed With
Magill In Real Estate Bust
ness at Chicago.
Others Equally Well Known At the
Nations oapital-what They
Are Doing.
From the Nations Capital.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. pa few
years ago one of Chicago's leading real
estate men died. His name was Fl. O
Stone, and the firm was II. o. Stone &
Co. The firm is still one of the leading
ones and is continued under the old
name by Harry Stone, q son of the senior
member Of the old firm, and Tom Magill
formerly Of North Dakota and well
known in Bismarck. There. we're reasons
why Tom should be a friend to Dan
Williams and-they are friends. Dan ie
now in the employ of the firm and in
charge of a department. Gle is doing
we'll and is satisfied with Chicago as a
winter resort. / don't know whether !
mentioned the fact in my last letter that
on the Pennsylvania train out. of Chi
cago the other day I met T. K. Long,
formerly of Ho]lembaek & Long, Bis
marck; and this reminds me of the fact
that n cannot travel a day in any d.
rection or spend a day in any commu-
nifty on earth, SO far as my experience
goes, but that he will meet some old
time Bismarcker. Long was on his way
to his old home in Millerstown, Pa. He
tells me that J. G. Luck, that active real
estate man and politician from New
Salem, who used to make life a burden
for the Morton county boys when they
attempted to run conventions without
his being in the 'ring," is now in Aurora,
Ill, and is doing we'll. He is in the real
estate business and has an addition to
the city, made famous by the election
last spring of ex-Assistant Attorney Gen
eral Murphy of Dakota, and for a long
time q resident of Bismarck, and partner
of John Garland.
On Smithfeld street in Pittsburg, op-
posite the city hall, almost in the very
heart of the city, stands an old fashioned
building, not at all pretentious but very
unique and solid in appearance, on which
appears the firm name of ct. MELONS
Sons, Bankers" It is one of the, oldest
and solidest institutions in the city. Here
I found r. B. Mellon, formerly banker
and leading operator in Bismarck back
in the boom days of the early sos. He
is now devoting the most of his time to
the bank, but he is also interested with
his brothers in coal mining, iron mills,
and other manufacturing industries on
the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers.
The old man is I'VE 80 years old, has
already divided his vast fortune of some
thing over q million among his sons who
are adding to his accumulations rapidly.
Dick, as he was familiarly called in Bis.
marck, asked about all old time Bis
marck friends, and as proof that he keeps
posted regarding Bismarck affairs he
was reading q copy of the Bismarck
TRIBUNE when / called.
By way of parenthesis I want to men
ton the fact at this time that the
~favorite route to Pittsburg and New
York is, and ought to be the Pennsyl-
vania railroad. It's double track, stone.
ballasted the entire length, of the line,
it's excellent train service, fast time and
general good qualities will be attested
by all who have entrusted themselves to
it's care. The route through the state of
Pennsylvania and the great manufacture
ing districts is a revelation to those who
have never seer or realized the magni-
tude and Importance of the industries Of
the keystone state.
All the way from Bismarck to Phila-
delphia there is more or less snow on
tho ground, but leaving Philadelphia it
disappears, and in Washington to-day
the weather is like September and Ooto-
Der. Even q light overcoat is disagree
able and seldom worn. I am told that it
is just a little better tnan usual at this
time Of the year, and superstitious
people are decidedly opposed to a screen
Christmas" because Of the old couplet
s'green Christmas, green graves"
One of the first gentlemen I met here
was Abe Boynton, who will be remem-
bered as n Of the railroad commission
ers when Quinn wal secretary. He had
just been appointed and confirmed as
register of the Watertown land office,
and was feeling exceedingly jubilant. I
also met Boyd Barrett, who had also Sc
cured a land Office plum, and his merry
laugh echoes all over Washington.
Judge Bennett, who is chief Of the
division Of accounts OF postmasters for
presidential p~ostofices in the Sixth au-
ditor's Office Of the treasury department.,
is here, always brim full of exuberance,
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