The Washington times., 1894-04-02
CORRIDOR AND CURB.


The recent purchase Of the Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette by Perry Heath is
generally believed to mean q large-sized ac-
QUESTION to the Harrison strength In Ohio,
West Virginia, Indiana, and Kentucky. These
and the states farther to the South are the field
ofthe Commercial Gazette, and It 1s very i'm
portant quarter Of the country for the
Harrison work. There is no question thai
the ex-President is candidate and. moreover,
1t is known that he expects to be nominated.
Just now his friends are taking Robert Lin.
coin, in order to interfere with Reed and
Mckinley, but underneath 1t all IA decided
confident movement in favor OF Harrison.
It was rumored that the 'New York million
aire" who has participated in the deal by
which Mr.. Heath buys the Commercial Ga
zette was none other than John R. Mclean.
This is known not to be so, however. Some
of the Halstead stock in the Commercial Ga
zette has been hypothecated to Mr.. Mclean
in the past, but that is all. Mr.. Mclean has
unquestionably taken a deep interest in the
welfare OF the Commercial Gazette, however.
Some time ago he advised the Halstead man.
agement to make the paper very sensational,
proof that that would be the best policy. The
Halstead management did this. with the worst
possible sort of success, evidently not realiz-
ing that one paper OF the uitra-sensational
kind is usually all that single town, no mat
ter how wide open it may be, can really stand.
This action on the part of Mr.. Mclean has
been considered extremely smooth. There is
no doubt that he is the Won Moltke Of North
American journalism.
1t is rumored that MIR. Mclean would like
to have daily paper in Washington, being
willing, indeed. to spend his income from the
Inquirer, il necessary. supporting respecta-
BILE journal in this town. This would give
Mr.. Mclean additional! power at the Capitol;
would give him, in fact, about all the power
that the most fastidious could desire. He
would certainly have the means to found and
operate such journal.
The owner Of the Inquirer and the domi-
mating spirit in the gas company and the
cable road is preparing to build couple OF
shops on his property at the corner Of II
street and Vermont avenue. 1t had been ex-
pected by passers who noticed the excava-
tions that an immense hotel or apartment
house would be erected, but it seems not; and
some disappointment is expressed among real
estate men and builders thar the old house at
the corner is not to be torn down, and that
the property il to be utilized, even If only
temporarily, for these Insignificant buildings.
1t is thought that Public Printer Palmer will
20 into business with Gen. james s. Clarkson
somewhere in the far West. These gentlemen
have been lifelong friends, and Mr.. Palmer's
appointment was due chiefly to Gen. Clark
sons intercession. Years ago, when Mr..
Ciarkson was postmaster at Des Moines, Mr..
Palmer represented that district In Congress.
After his retirement he went to Chicago and
owned and managed the 1nter-Ocean for a
while, and he was afterward postmaster OF
that town. He has made and lost fortunes,
but has preserved through it all buoyancy
and amiabiiity of disposition which is the
admiration Of those who knew him well.
And speaking about Clarkson and Murat
Halstead, they were both on the old Cincin-
natl Gazette together in the war times. Hal
stead as a correspondent in the field and
Clarkson printer boy who hadn't gone up
in the box. At the same time Whitelaw Reid
was also writing letters to the Gazette from
Washington and the front over the nom de
plume OF Agate" Even thus early they had
begun to call Clarkson Ret" Soon after
that he went with his father and brother to
Iowa to buy the Register of Des Moines.
The news from Hamilton, Ohio, that
Major E. G. Rathbone has been nominated
for Congress Congressman Houk's district
is no surprise to his friends here, who have
long known that Major Rathbone entertained
this ambition. He is familiar with political
methods, they say, and ought to run well.
His wife has large amount of property. She
is a cousin. think, of the wife OF ex-Gover-
nor Campbell. and her lavish entertainments
while Mr. Rathbone was Fourth Assistant
Postmaster General are well remembered in
Washington. The Rathbones would dis
tinctly add to the social life ofthe Ohio colony
here Major Rlthbone is a devoted friend OF
ex-President Harrison and is one Of the most
prominent and confidential of those who are
at present working for Mr.. Harrison's renom-
ination.