Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-02-15
IN HOTEL CORRIDOR S


to the natives New Jersey got her share
of it, said Congressman Dunn Of New Jer-
sey at the Riggs House this morning. Il
was trying cases in Hudson county for
four days last week and 1 wore my over
coat the whole time. The judge sat on the
tails of a big storm coat for a woolsack
and every juryman was bundled up like an
arctic traveller. There was no burning
eloquence in any of the arguments pre-
scented, for it would have frozen before it
got to the jurys ears, even If 1t had been
hot as Sahara simoon.
mo one has any idea of the immense
number of advertising schemes that are
being evolved from many sources all over
the country unless he is connected with
the publicity department of some big firm
that believes in printers ink" said James
B. Hill of New York at La Normandie last
night. TT happens that my duties with our
house are confined to informing the public
of what we have for it's everyday neces-
sites. and 1 do not exasgerate when 1 say
1 receive a bushel of letters every week con-
tanning glowing prospectuses of something
that Is destined to bring us untold business
if we are wise enough to patronze it. Nat
urally don't read one-teLth of them The
intelligent advertiser wants circulation for
his announcements. and the only way he
can get it is by buying space in established
dailieS or widely read periodicals. Many
firms of my acquaintance formerly spent
money upon every new thing that came
along, and this custom inspired the enor-
nous increase of advertising mediums that
/ speak of. Now there is a decided change,
and reputable establishments are fighting
shy of all suggestions that are not backed up
by something permanent and reliable. Not
long ago we received an offer to place our
half-column advertisement in publ1catlon
ksvc t. of hi ch
guaranteed that 100000 would he circulated
during the coming season. what do you
think was the price? Why. $40. Now, that
Is only a specimen of the propositions being
continually made Advertising Schemers
have simply run wild, and 1T is n good thing
for established journals of reputation. be-
cause the time taken to examine thelr nu-
merous suggestions is so great tnat all DIE
advertisers are adopting the rule to notice
none of them and to confine their favors
to publications of known value"
when II comes to standing intense Geld
and working steadily in temperature
considerably below zero the Eskimo is not
i'm it with the logger of the northwest
woods" said F. Fl. Whiteside of Saginaw
at the National yesterday. "An through
the recent bitter weather the pine and hem
lock and birch of the great forests out my
vav have been falling before the axes Of
the hardy loggers. and then being hauled
over the snow to the nearest stream or
logging railroad to be carried to the mills
when the spring thaw comes. They are a
happy lively set of fellows. too, and they
enjoy their nights out there in the frisid
wilderness as much as the same spirits
would enjoy them in more favored locali-
ties. They have their songs ana music ana
sometimes a groteSque play is produced at
a camp, which will be attended by men
from all the other camps in the neighbor-
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anywhere within fifteen or twenty miles.
Eastern people have heard great deal
about the frghtful immortality of western
lumber camps. but of late years this fea-
ture of the life has been almost entirely
eradicated. But gambling is passion with
most of their. and there are some regular
gamblers who go into the woods when
winter approaches and work as loSSerS
simply for the purpose of winning the
money of their less sliliful mates. When
such a professional is discovered, however.
you can resi- assured that he Is pretty
summarily dealt with
Probably the believers In the heredi-
tary transmission of traits from parents to
children will find conclusive argument in
their favor in recent tragedy in st. Lou
is" said Edward Turner of that city at the
Metropolitan this morning. Five years
ago the city was shocked by the news that
.Jchn Jackson, one of the leading citizens
and a man who had stood in the front of
commercial life for thirty years, had COM
mitted suicide. He was found dead in the
ST Louis Elevator Company office with
small rope around his neck. 1t was seen
that he had tied the rope to the ceiling
and had gotten on chair, arranged the
moose and stepped off. His feet had touch
ed the floor, because the rope was too long,
and he had evidently slid down deliberately
and forced the moose to choke him. Last
week his SON, George Rowse jackson,
-ad htrtyy md
dead with a half-inch rope around his
neck. His position was exactly that in
which his father had been found. He was
standing fiat on the floor and his body in
clined forward showing he had Strangled
himself to death, like his father before
him. The mental and physical troubles of
father and son had been the same for some
time preceding their respective deeds"
1.-THE mill owners and other large en-
ployers of labor in New England are
watching with considerable interest the
movement now in progress looking towards
the consolidation of all labor orsaniza-
lions into a single body" said Robert E.
Levy of Providence at the Shoreham last
night. Several paragraphs have been
published lately showing that the idea is
under consideration, and limiting at the
character of the proposed association. AS
far as [ have been able to see from these
items it appears that the intention is to
similar to the Salvation Army, with a
chief commander and captains and lieu
tenants over various groups scattered all
over the country. 1t is also intended to
admit women the same as the Salvation
Army. One paper recently contained the
grimly hume -ouS announcement that Gov
Altgeld would be the head-center of the
new association as soon as his term of
office expired, and become the chief of
everything in the way of American organ
lied labor Well, what l started out to say
was that capital in my neighborhood is
alert to every move made by the pro-
motors of the scheme The large operators
perceive a very serious crisis ahead if such
a com animation is formed, and they are
pretty well decided to form one among
themselves. if it appears necessary. If
they do there will be a departure from an
observance of the laws of competition in
trade, and the strong and weak manufac-
tuners of every description will get to-
eether under the common flag of self
preservation. In word, the indications
now are that if the knights. the Fedora
ton of Labor. and all the other numer-
Gus labor bodies combine under one SyS-
tenn, capital will do the same thing"