St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-03-10
CAUGHT IN THE CoRRIDoRs.
Interesting Talks With st. PauEs
Temporary Guests.

Donald Grant, of Faribault, talking
at the Merchants yesterday, said that
he and his associates had already TAX
en- measures to utilize the vast grant
OF territory which they had received
some months ago from Venezuela.
"A party of thirty men," added Mr..
Grant, under the charge of Dr. Rogers
of Faribault, left New York for Vene-
zuela March 5, to establish a perma-
nent headquarters for the company at
a point on the Orinoco river, about
seVenty-five miles from the sea. From
that point smaller expeditions will be
sent out. You see, we don't intend to
do much more this year than explore
our possessions down there. It's a won
derful land. There's rich gold mines,
splendid iron mines, the largest lake
of asphalt in the whole world, forests
of the rareSt woods and any amount
of first-class arabic soil.
We're not at all concerned about
the dispute with England. In fact, on
~ one-eighth of our concession is with
in the disputed territory and we've got
all we can do at present to develop the
other seVen-eighths."
Otis A. Poole, a merchant of Yoke
hama, Japan, passed through st. Paul
yesterday. At the Ryan hotel he told
a q o reporter that Japan is I'M
willing to relapse into the inglorious
paths of peace.
THE Japs," said Mr.. Poole, "are like
boy with a new sled, who is sorry he
can't take it in the house nights and
slide down the front stairway. They've
had such jolly fun whipping China
with their new navy and their plucky
little army, that they're just dying for
a row with anything that looks suf-
ficiently feeble. It's positive fact that
japanese friends of mine in Yokohama,
few months ago, scored their govern
ment savagely, IN my presence, because
the ministers did not notify Russia to
keep her hands off Corea. But, of
course, the ministers have a little too
much wit to tackle Russia. They would
be glad, though, if they could arrange
a safe little rumpus with Hawaii, or
some small country, just to show what
Bonepartes are bred in the shadow of
Fusi Yama.
Business over there was fairly good
when l LETT. We use silver in Japan,
altogether you know. and there Is a
comical repetition in the Japanese pa
pers of the currency arguments which
have desolated American society. A
considerable party has sprung up, adj
Vocating the adoption of a gold basis
by Japan, and vigorous abuse of Wall
street and Lombard street is mixed up
IN the public press with illusions to
quaint Japanese legends and ponder
Gus quotations from Confuscius. In
spite of the war, you know, the Chi
nese philosopher is still the Shakes
peare and the Bible of both countries.
''Oh, well, 1 suppose the change from
Japanese to European customs would
be more noticeable to an occasional Wis
itor- than to a man who lives in Japan
right along. It's said to be very rapid
even now At any rate, noticed, not
long ago, one evidence of the change
"A political leader wrote a red hot letter
to Yokohama newspaper about an
other politician who was accused of be-
coming foreign devil; a vile Euro
pean.' His honorable nobleman,' said
the letter, has got so little patriotism
left that he is actually ashamed to
battle on his veranda with the rest OF
his family"