Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-10-25

that gallant soldier md man of affairs.
 Unlike Mir. Bristow, General Thomas Is
 quite as active in politics as in business,
 for he was till a few days ago the treasurer
 of the Republican state committee and
 Is high in the councils of his party. The
 Chase National bank, of which General
 Thomas is one of the directors, Is one of the most interesting in New York. 1t was
 the first one organized in this city under the national banking laws, and its organ izer was John Thompson, known during his life to every banker in the country as the publisher of Thompson's Bank Note
 Reporter. When the bank was founded,
 the office of president was offered to Henry
 c. Pearson, for some years postmaster of
 New York.
 Mir. Pearson did not sec his way clear
 to take the post, and so Henry w. Cannon, one of the several Republican ex-comptrol- lers of the treasury who have located here,
 was chosen instead. The parlor of the bank over which Mir. Cannon now pre-
 sides is a gathering place for many of tho most noted men in the city, men who are both capitalists and politicians, and tho knowing one who desires to get tho latest
 inside information upon either finance or politics will gain the entre to the informal gatherings in this room-if he can. Among | the men to be seen there nearly every day | is Calvin s. Brice, senator from Ohio Those who are Republicans among the habitues of the bank have delighted to ad- dress MT. Brice with much gentle raillery during the past few weeks, but MT. Brice
 has taken it all good naturedly and an-
 swered back with quite as much of wit as
 that shown by those who have assailed him. General Thomas and MT. Brice, al- though not of the same political faith, are close business associates. They were to- gether in the construction and exploiting of the Nickel Plate railroad and also in the organization of the East Tennessee system, and they are together still in near ly every enterprise either engages in.
 Horace White.
 Not far from the Chase National bank,
 at the corner of Fulton street and Bread way, is the tall red brick building of The Evening Post. In a room upon one of its upper floors is the office of a rather short, | thicksct man, with grizzled hair and beard and q resolute eye. This Is Horace White,
 who at the time General Thomas was
 making his reputation upon the field was a member of the little group of war corre- spondents, many of whom have since at tained distinction in fields other than journalistic. Whitelaw Reid, the owner of The Tribune and candidate for vice president on the Republican ticket in 1892,
 was one of them. Henry Willard, who
 made so much money in Pacific railroads,
 and who has been up and down in life
 many times, was another. After the death of William Cullen Bryant differences arose among those to whom The Post property | fell. It was therefore decided to divide | the estate, one party taking the building and the other the newspaper. This latter | party eventually sold, Mir. VillaSd fur | nishins the money for the purchase. Hor- ace White, E. L. Godkin and Carl Schurz | were then placed in charge of the paper, | each member of the triumyirate manage ment being equal in authority with each | of his fellows. Later MT. Schurz with drew. Now the management is vested in | Mir. White and Mir. Godkin, the latter be- 1 ing generally spoken of as the editor'' | because he directs the politics of the pa | per. MT. White shapes the journals finan- cial policy and writes its moro important | financial articles, and very able ones they are, too-if you chance to agree with him. CHARLES APPLEBEE.