The Washington times., 1894-04-01
CORRIDOR AND CURB.

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president Of the Lehigh Valley road, he will
have another immense vocation, not too
large, however, for business man OF bis at
tainmsnts. have been told that the Lehigh
Valley actually has moro property than the
Pennsylvania. It Owls not merely its hum
dreds OF miles Of railroad, but 1t has almost
ulimttable coal fields, steamship lines, the I'M
mense plant at Steelton, and it has almost no
end OF business and political influence. Post
| master General Bissell has been for years its
attorney at Buffalo, which is an important
center for the road, and Hon. Garrett Hobart,
| OF Paterson, one Of the two or three most
prominent Republicans Of New Jersey, Is
counsel Tor the road in that state. It would
surely seem to be an enterprise worthy Of the
attention OF Hon. Tom johnson, Of Cleveland.
| Perry Heath, the general manager Of the
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, is back in
town again, hurrying about Strengthening his
newspaper affairs out and preparing to take
charge in Cincinnati on April Q. His Indian
apolis news work will be done by Mr. Louis
Garthe, now Baltimore American man at this
| capital, and one Of the famous syndicate of
| correspondents, Garthe, Heath. Wynne and
Rowland, who send out lurid inside dis
patches intended to solve any tariff or finan-
cial situation that may arise on any given
afternoon, and incidentally to tear the sus-
penders of the back Of the Democratic party.
Inotice Hon. Albert Daggett at the Arling-
ton now looking stout and contented with his
Hornblower (and Peckham) side whiskers
elevated at prosperous angle, smile
wreathing his very knowing countenance,
and his conversation dripping with the ex-
periences and witticisms OF generation OF
inside political life. Mr.. Daggett is lately re-
membered as the manufacturer Of the best
postal cards furnished by the Post Office De-
partment in recent years. The new con-
tractor furnishes poor ones. This is not the
record which common fame has given to the
case, but it is true. The Daggett postal cards
were good; the present ones are poor.
Hon. Albert Daggett knows more inside
political history probably than could be
crowded into six duodecimo volumes. He
was private secretary to Seward in the State
Department in war times. He knows all
about Albany, was present there, in fact, when
Conkling and Plat were not indicated and
when Hon. Levi p Morton was not vindicated,
but when the undesirable Hiscock slipped In.
Mr.. Daggett has been sheriff Of Kings county
and he has run paper in Brooklyn-these
two diversions not at the same time, however.
1t would have been convenient thing pos
sibly, as Mr.. Daggett, in his capacity as sher-
i'll, would have formed an attachment for Mr..
DaSgett's property as a newspaper proprietor
which would not have been irksome to that
journal. Mr.. Daggett possesses to this day the
only scheme which may always be depended
upon to carry Kings county for the Repub
licans. Benjamin F. Tracey isn't in it at all
with Mr.. Daggett.
To have heard the silver men talk during
the last few days was to have believed that
free-coinage bill. and certainly the seignior-
age bill, might easily be passed over the
Presidents veto, but, as in all such cases.
they are gradually cooling off. Their deter
mined ardor to pass a free-coinage bill, how
ever. has not been dampened. Good men
predict that they will do it. and some insist
that such measure could be enacted in spite
of Mr.. Cleveland's well-known antipathy to
all such things.
Hon. Marcus Daily. OF Butte Mon, is in town.
By the way, he is one of the richest, gamiest,
and most sapient of all the silver leaders of
the bounding West. For the very reason that
the prospect of silver legislation may be poor
so long as Mr.. Cleveland fattens out the
cushion of the chair of the chief executive,
Mr.. DAILY believes in organizing, ag1tating,
educating; and if he has any money at all,
depend upon it he is just the kind of man
to keep it up. He is Democrat, but he is
also silver man, devoted to the interests Of
Montana.
Frank Hurd is in town, the gentleman who
thrown down and dragged out of Congress
because he was free trader. Now, what
change! A large majority of Democrats are
not simply free traders, but they protest
openly that they are and they win and keep
winning along that line. Frank Hurd was
the pioneer. He led the way. Moreover,
Mr.. Hurd thinks Of subscribing for The
TINES. daily and Sunday. and having it
mailed daily and Sunday to his home in To-
ledo.
''The case of Mr.. Breckinridge," said the
colonel, sententiously, last night, reminds
me of the soldier who was blown to pieces by
an explosion of dynamite. A sympathetic
comrade telegraphed the sad news to the
soldiers widow. She replied by wire that
the remains should be sent on to her. There
was nothing for the comrade to do but reply
that there weren't any,"
Have you been to the Breckinridge trial,
colonel?'' a bystander inquired.
mo, sir, have not" he said, land I
don't want you to ask me any more imperti-
nent questions, SIR
notice that DR.. James Il. Mcbride, of Mil
waukee. is at Wormleys. He is one of the
leading experts in diseases of the mind in this
country and testified, If you remember, in
the Guiteau trial He has just been tele-
graphed 10 hurry TO Chicago to testify in the
Prendergast case, but DIR. Mcbride has his
family with him and doesn't propose to leave
them. He has an immense sanitarium near
Milwaukee, and besides taking the lead easily
in his profession pockets deal of money
every year.
And by the way, according to an enterpris-
ing morning contemporary. J. II. Mcbride, of
Milwaukee, was a hotel arrival at the Ebbitt
as we'll as at Wormley's, and the question
naturally arises at which hotel did he really
arrive, or did he arrive at both? Did he go
to the Ebbitt and then conclude that he pre-
ferred Wormley's, or did he go to Wormley's,
conclude that he preferred the Ebbitt, and
then go back to Wormleys, or was it all
simply the usual exhibition OF enterprise on
the part of our rustling Texas friend. Eddie
Smith, who knows everybody in town and
finds them. wherever they are? All things
considered, 1 suspect the enterprise of Eddie
Smith.
C. NJ. Horton, of Boston, is at the Riggs.
His right hand was kept busy all day yester-
day shaking hands with his numerous Wash
ington friends. Mr.. Horton was master of
transportation under Gen. Benjamin F. But
Ter, and later was in the revenue service for
number of years. His field was in the South
among the worst "moonshiners' of the world.
There are hundreds of men who have worn