St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-03-01

merely Shine" ii pours out such floods
of heat, that the vegetation is turning
brown, the soil Is scorching and the
people, well, they are too limp" for
| smile too languid for guile, those you
meet inform you with tone, safe
against SCATTERING the precious words,
| that "its 'ot2'
What will my. friends in Iowa, Illi
noiS Minnesota, or "balmy" Dakota,
think, when I tell them that, since New
Years day thei sensitive little indi-
| Gator in the thermometer has been
| flirting about the ITO in the shade"
mark, almost continuously. From 90
to 104 has been common, with 1OS to
! la as not too rare q luxury"
| A few days ago a little party Of
! Americans left over-heated Sydney for
the National park, for rest, and to
cool off. But 1t was "hot," and each in
! turn took it upon him or herself to so
remind the party. In the sun we were
| broiling, in the shade we were steWing,
! in the breeze we were famed by
| flame like breath that seemed to SINCE
! everything it touched. 1t was hot"
| Ours was a gay party, and as the
purpose was to give those splendid
! Americans, Mr.. and Mrs S. l.. Glenn
ems and daughter, or the better known
Mark Twain" and family, an outing,
we paid little heed to the heat But
| try as we could, we could not entirely
| forgot that 1t was hot, and when look
! ing out of the train as 1t stood at
| country village, and trying to catch
| the glimpse of a rustling leaf, as a
prophesy of an "evening buster was
coming, mark Twain" said in his
most drawing and languid manner,
Say, colonel, If you have this kind OF
/ weather New Years, what do you eX-
pect on the Fourth of July.
TO the Australian, whose midw1nter
is the 4th of July, that had no par
| ticular point, but a farther suggestion
by our noted guest that 'meby' the
| partition between this and cur "des-
tination is so thin that it heats
through, was better understood.
But we of Sydney have little reason
to complain when we compare our lots
with those of the interior. At most
all times the rainfall in AustI ALA is
very unevenly distributed, but tor the
last few months there has ceeH little or
none in many parts Of the country.
Added to the drought, an almost con-
tinual heat, such as rarely experienced
even in Australia as Twain says, EN-
barrassing." In the interior, out in
the stock and pasture regions, the ther-
mometer has been ranging from 80 deg
to 11S deg, and even as high as III, in
some distant points in the interior. 1t
is claimed that the long drought of
1895 has heightened the wool clip from
u to 16 per cent and the lamb crop
from 100000 to 100000 head.
But discussion of the weather,
this Jan. IL, 1896, with lOS in this
shady nook in Sydney, may differ
very materially from the discussion of
a like subject on the opposite side of
this little world, so 1 will change the
topic sat down to chat about some
Americans in Sydney, and was only
diverted bys-an. effort to excuse my
self for an Incidence that seemed over
| mastering.
Tomorrow evening, I understand, a lot of
Australian, English, ]and American capitalists
are to entertain John Howell at the Hotel
| Australia. Mr.. Howell Is an American of the
! highest grade and truest type. He not only
has great business ability, but the energy of a
steam engine. Seven years ago Mr.. Howell
came to Australia bringing with him large ex-
perience and excellent reputation as practi-
cal metallurgist, Or more properly, as smelt-
er. He succeeded Mr.. Patton, another Amer
| lean, as general manager Of the Proprietary
mines at Broke Hill, this colony-the richest
silver mines on the globe. About year ago
| Mr.. Howell gave UP, that position, and has be-
come the leading spirit and actual manager
Of the Smelling Company OF Australia, j."
which has capital of some three million dol
| lars, which company is really part of the
| ''Illawarra Harbor and Land company" with
capital of SIS, 900, 000.- This concern Is located
on an open sea harbor and convenient to an
inexhaustible supply of coal of very superior
Equality. 1t is putting in the latest improved
machinery, and will rank among the most i'm
portant mining concerns in existence
H. S. Chapman, another wideawake Ameri-
I can, is the moving spirit of the main company.
/ This Chapman, too, is an interesting character,
! who has had almost a romantic business ex-
perience. 1t was he who started the first
newspaper in Japan, and cast the first type in
that country. While he is but little past mid
die age he has explored all the countries of the
| world in quest of profitable adventure. He is
a modest, unassuming man, but he knows
more about more different things than any
| other man l ever met. Mrs. Chapman was an
| Illinois girl and is one of the most amiable
and accomplished women in this splendid city.
| By the way, this Howell banquet at
| the AIStralia, reminds that one Of the
things in Sydney of which we Americans are
| PROUD, is this very s'Hotel Australia" OF
| course, it was not erected, and Is not owned
| by Americans, but it was built by a lot of
| Australian capitalists blessed with American
| energy, from plans gathered by the most
careful American study and experience, and
| it is run in every detail on the American plan
by an active, wide awake American "hotel
man" of large American experience, whose
popularity on our side Of the world was not
! great as it is in Australia, only because
Of the magnitude of our country and the
greater number Of hotels. Edwin Moore, of
the Hotel Los Angeles who married one Of
the loveliest girls in st. Louis, Mo-, Is the
genial master of this, the finest and most
popular hotel on the southern hemisphere.
In it's management, appointments, table,
rooms, furniture and service, 1t ranks we'll
with the leading hotels in America-and that
means a good deal-fer outside Of America
| there are comparatively few good hotels any
where.
fact, drinking place, or about what we
would term asaloo1, or whisky hell. OF
such ''hotels" am Informed there are near
1000 in Sydneyss But the Australia while
it is called hotel because it has bar,
would be called a hotel in America, in spite
Of the bar. However, the fluid" question
here is Of so much Importance that the bar
at this popular Y. 8 Aus tralia' Is worth from
EGO to f1OO, or $500 to $500 per day. The bar,
too, is American" but it Is appreciated by
Among the surprising things to Americans
who visit Australia isl the magnificent build
ings erected by some of our American insti-
tutiens. BY far the two most stately, ex-
pensive and durable structures on the whole
Southern hemisphere were erected by the
Equitable Life Assura nce Company of the
United States, Headquarters at New York,
one in Sydney md the other in Melbourne.
The Sydney building is ninety feet square,
built of trachitg pressed brick, marble and
steel
There are no more symmetrical buildings
anywhere and few more beautiful ones on the
globe. For external grace and proportion,
and interior finish, beauty and convenience,
1 know of nothing in Europe or America that
surpass it, and none that is more fit for
the purpose for which it was erected. The
Melbourne building is little more ponderous
and cost as much, or more, but 1T lacks, to
my mind, the magnificent proportions and
stately grandeur of the Sydney building. Ed
ward w. Scott of New York, the foreign
vice president of the company, purchased
the sites and secured the construction of
these monuments, to American enterprise,
and for thousand years they will stand as
evidence of his intelligence and business
ability.
Among business men Mr.. Scott is very
popular, but he Is as modest and retiring
as woman, outside of business affairs he
is little known. After three years Of intense