Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-05-12
HOTEL CORRIDORS

1T would be wise oracle indeed who
could tell when the wonders of wood pulp
would cease" said F. A. Perry Of Bangor,
Me-. at the Arlington yesterday. "Of course
1t Ia we'll known that the paper upon which
| almost all the newspapers Of America are
printed is manufactured from wood pulp,
and II Ia also said that car wheels made
from 1t will shortly take the place of the
steel and papier mache articles now in use.
UP IN Gardiner, Me-, mandatory has
been started to make shoppers out Of wood
| pulp, with the intention of displacing the
use OF corks for a similar purpose. AS the
new style Of stopper can be made at four
nrths less cost than cork, the new industry
VIII Doubtless be very profitable. as no less
than $l200O.00O a year are now expended in
this country for cork shoppers alone"
1.-THE expiring struggles of the Louisiana
Lottery Company" said Andrew Lawrence
OF Fort Worth at the Riggs House last
night, remind me of an incident that oc-
Cured here several years ago. when the
monster was in the full fury of its appetite
and demanding such heavy tribute from the
department clerks in this city. You know.
1t was customary for the clerks in the vari-
GUS departments who came in daily contact
with each other to form clubs every month
ior the purpose of buying lottery tickets A
certain amount of money would be sub
scrlbed and q bunch Of tickets be purchased.
ana In case any of them secured prizes the
receipts were pooled and divided pro rata
among the members of the club There
were many clerks, however, who preferred
10 go 1t alone. and one of these, whom we
may call links was employed in the Navy
department Every month, with the regu-
iarity or CLOCK work, he would invest ten
dollars In lottery tickets and store them
away in drawer Of his desk which he
usually kept locked with Jealous care 1t
used 70 be the custom that on the day when
the lottery was drawn In New Orleans the
capital prizes. or rather the numbers draw
ing the large amounts. were telegraphed
mere and the list taken around for the en-
lghtenment Of ticket holders
TT happened that in the same room with
!inks was an inveterate wag, and one day
Just before the lottery was to be drawn. he
discovered that the drawer containing Jinks'
tickets was open. He Immediately looked
at the tickets and copied their numbers
The following week the drawing took place
ana. as usual, the list of the capital prizes
was telegraphed to this city. The joker got
d copy OF IL as soon as 1t reached town, and
placing the number of one of Jinks' tickets
opposite the capital prize he saun cred back
10 the department and casually remarked
that he had gotten the big prizes drawn at
the lottery while he was at the telegraph Of
nce He read them out, and when he an
nounced that ticket numbered so-and- so had
drawn the capital prize of three hundred
thousand dollars, there was a wild Shrek
from links who had the ticket bearing that
number laid away securely In his drawer.
me old Fellow opened the drawer, took out
the ticket. and waved 1t around In the air,
licked over his chair and proceeded to curse
the government. He harangued his fellow
clerks on the subject Of the terrible life he
had led by being compelled to labor as q
government servant. He SAID he would re-
sign forthwith. and that the only depart
ment he would ever put his foot in again
would be the Treasury Department, which
he would visit at regular intervals to get
the interest on the bonds he was going to
buy. Then he jammed his hat on his head
and sailed out of the department to the OK
press office in order to send his supposed
valuable ticket off for collection. When he
discovered that he had been noaxed and
that his ticket, like all the rest he had
ever bought, was worthless, he had fit of
Mysteries and was sick I'm bed for a month.
AS his explosion IN the department never
reached the ears of his superior Off GER. he
Is a clerk there yet, and l saw aim on the
street this morning"
while many radical changes to the con-
stitution of New York state have been pro-
posed for adoption to the constitutional
convention now in session at Albany" said
e. p. Hays of Troy at the Ebbitt this morn
Ing. II believe that the body will be con-
servative. and that very few of the sug-
gested amendments will be favorably acted
upon The most radical OF the propositions
il one which seeks to have the word male
eliminated from the constitution. That IN
defatigable old lady. Miss Susan B. An
thony and her lieutenants, who are
scarcely less courageous than herself, have
been waging a warm campaign for the past
two or three months in favor of securing
from the convention this emphatic recogni-
ton of the rights of women. There have
been meetings held in every town and vii
lage In the state, and believe 1 do not
exaggerate when ! say that every adult in
the state of New York has been asked TO
sign a petition requesting the convention
to adopt the amendment. II Is possible that
Il may pass the amendment, but, as Its
findings must be submitted TO the people
for approval at the November election, l
hardly think that the constitution will be
changed in accordance with the women's
wishes. because the people at large have
| been very slow to adopt amendments to the
| state constitution in the past, and public
sentiment on the subject has scarcely
| changed at all in the past twenty years"
A party Of gentlemen were discussing in
the smoking room of the Shorehas, last
night a popularity which seems to mark
fnancers. Philip Upton of Cleveland said
that the most successful finarcier was, first
and foremost, d correct reader of men, and
that some Of their prophecies regarding in
dividuals whom they might meet were moth
ing less than remarkable
He pointed to the late Jesse Seligman Of
New York as an example
'Seligman,' said he met Gen, Grant
early In his career, when the latter was
stationed at Sacketts Harbor, N Y, i'm
mediately after his graduation from West
Point. Seligman kept a little store at
Watertown, and Grant became a regular
customer and a warm friendship sprang up
between them. They afterward met in San
Francisco. where their friendship was re-
newed. At this time Seligman was struck
with the broad character of the views held
by Grant and wrote to his brother that II
Grant could only cast aside his modestv he
would accomplish great things one of these
days. Seligman was an operator in Wall
street when Grant licked the confederates
at Fort Donelson and Fort Henry When
he heard the news he turned to some of his
friends and said, L know Grant; knew him
! when he was a young officer. If he is not
killed or disabled In battle he will suppress
the rebellion in the west within a year or I
am very much mistaken in the man
THE result of Mr. Seligman's prophecy"
concluded Mr.. Upton. you all know
believe that the power to read the character
| OF men and appreciate quickly their motives
and their methods is the chief characteristic
| OF every successful financier in the world"
"A remarkable romance has been develop
ed by a law suit which was tried a couple
| of weeks ago in Memphis" said R. F. Nc
Dermott Of the Bluff City at the Ebbitt
| House last night. 1.-The issue was the valid
| ity of a will made by Matthew Coke. a
| member Of a distinguished Mississippi fam
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