The age-herald., 1897-09-05
MINOR
 STILL IN NEW YORK.

Saw William F. Hatrlty. member of I the national committee from Pennsyl-
 yania, about the time he received the knockout blow at Reading. Never went
 up against Harrity much Saw some
 thing of him dn 1892, when he was char
 man of the national committee. liar | rity's got the big head. He's had 1t for | years. Got 1t about the time that Cleve-
 land made him postmaster of Philadel-
 phia in 1885. HaTrity, he's been trying to run Pennsylvania politics. Never
 was popular. He tries to make people
 believe he don't care if he did get thrown off the committee by the Reading con Yention Fact is, Harrity feels it very
 much. He knows he's been skinned in
 his own state. He always thought he
 was bigger man than the party in | Pennsylvania. His plan has been to rule or ruin. He's never had much follow ing in Pennsylvania. He was placed on the national committee at the request
 of Cleveland. Harrity always claimed the credit of the great victory in 1892.
 Truth is he had little to do with it. Vic tory was in the cards no matter how
 badly they had been dealt. Cleveland was bound to win. Just his luck.
 
 Saw Nose Handy. He of the ginger bread whiskers, lately made Paris conn., missioner, the day before he sailed. Handy's fine man. Smooth citizen is
 Nose. Have had lots of fun with him.
 He Is my friend. Think he has been overrated very much as a newspaper
 writer. He's been lucky. Made a great reputation booming the Chicago fair in H-l. |. s-l. -f commissioner to the Paris exposition, to which President Mckinley appointed | him about two weeks ago. Don't think | Nose can speak French very fluently. | Doesn't make any difference to him. | He'll get on in Paris just the same. Eats
 his way into the hearts of the people. Not only good after dinner speaker, but he's g. good dinner eater. I'll bet Handy will have a fine United States | exhibit at the Paris exposition. He's | got energy, and lots of sense. Nose is on friendly terms with himself. Don't | blame him for that.
 Hear my old friend Ballard Smith, | who was for a number of years manag- | ing edi.or of the World" and lately | correspondent of that paper at London, l lhdI5 Oe6n gwen tie llbllhy Qllhh Dy JOC l Pulitzer Ballard, you know, he came | from Kentucky, and of course, having | the name Smith, he naturally came from | one of its oldest families if not from the | best. Ballard, he tried to put Joe Pulit-
 ger irito New York society. No go.
 Couldn't do it. People would not have at. | Joe spenls hundreds of thousan nds of dol
 lars trying to buy his way in. Couldn't l.r. l..
 throw at lhe birds. but society wouldnt have Joe. That's why Joe quD. living in New York. Been living in Europe near | ly all the time since. Think Pulitzer was
 unkind to Ballard. Ballard didn't get
 much riews for the u-ordon office. Spent too much time tn the clubs Journal 1 correspondent sedJs more news in day
 than Ballard in a week. Ballard made | play to ge. up next to royalty. Did get | introduced 10 the Prince of Wales. Prince
 snubbed him. Guess Ba1lards nose was | too red. Ballard always lksd his toddy. | He was the biggest man in the World | office al. cne time. Used to come in about | Il o'clock at night from an uptown dim
 her carrying many sails se. to the wind. | Nearly tiook the roof off the brass dome. l Cussed everybody. Cussed the wrong 1 Iudll Ouc ulSLI, W1iO uldppSlCu u D- U
 night editor. Ballard was laid up for month. IL was then that Pulitzer sant him 10 London. Ballard married fich
 woman. She's got plenty of money. He donrt have to work now. Expect he's
 glad Pulitzer fired hin.
 | Good manly Birmingham people in New
 York now Heard that P. H. Earle was I,o d,;,4 T never met him. Doesn't make any diff l ference to me. From what I've heard of
 Earle in Birmingham I guess he's
 pretty good sort of fellow. Of course I
 haven't been in Birmingham long enough | to hear many bad things about psople. It will come later. Heard MT. Earle | didn't like the drinking water fn New
 York Can't understand this. I expect l its better than that he has at home. | Funny about some people. Whsn they | get away from home always kicking about everything. Have heard MT. | Earle was a rich man in Birmingham
 Not worth millions. but he's rich.
 Knows how to lend money. Can charge l interest both ways going and coming. l Sort of playing both ends against the | middle Very few men can afford to pay | a nlSn rate or lIbuei1&St, put II d IIldil WHO
 borrows monay wants to pay high rate of interest. say let him do it. It's none | of my business. I don't borrow rnoney. | I earn mine. Bankers have got the bulge, anyhow. People have to borrow
 money. That's where the banker gets | his rake off.
 | Heard that Bob Jemison, vice-pres- | dent of the street railway company in | Birmingham was over at Philadelphia a few days ago. When I heard this I
 just had to laugh Couldn't hep think | ing about those blue cars in Birmingham
 that go out to the cemetery. Ever mo-
 tice how the cars on his line teeter up
 and down? Cars don't do that way in any other city, I expect he has them that
 wsy because he wants to give you two
 rides for one fare. That is, he carries
 you where you want to go to, if you go | nj