The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-09
HERESP INGREE BACKSAFE
OH, YES, BEEN 10 VENEzUEIA, JUsr
SLIPPED AWAY FOR REST.

Great Flnee, venezueia-Potatoea So . Bushel
-Gsid Grows T~hero-rhey Love Americana
Played uim out or Town with .'The star
spnnEled Bannero in n DesuItory WAY.
Travelling under his own name this time
Gov. Hazen s. Pingrce of Michigan, otherwise
Potato Pingree. alias q. J.. GAYLORD. stopped In
this city yesterday on his return from venez-
uela to Detroit. As G. L. Gaylord, the patron
saint OF the potato went through here en- route
for Venezuela on Sept. Is. Nobody knew him
and nobody interviewed him, although he was
here twenty-four hours. This filled him with
mingled surprise that such a thing could hap
pen and glee At his own cloverness in making it
happen. Now he has resumed his personality,
and Is ready for work after his rest. He looked
briEht.eyed and healthy when n reporter saw
him at the Murray Hill Hotel yesterday. And
he said:
we'll, I'm back. Had q good timoi Of
course l had q good time. That's what / went
for. Whom / go for u thing | usually get it IL
it's lying anywhere around. Got in this morn.
ing on the Red ID liner Venezuela. Feel fine.
Fine. Oh. great! Venczuela's a great place.
Anybody tells you 1t isn't you tell him he's "a
don't you believe him. Delightful people down
there. Honest as the day is long. Slept with
my door open all the timo / was there and never
had a thing stolen. Heard before l went there
"oNN - NV - uoih hhoNu SuubOb uoWh
Hold onl Don't put that down. Got it down al
rosdyi Well, all right. Lot it stay. But don't
pu! any moro Of EN- down. Yes. that's what I
hoard before went: but IL there's any Of that
kind down there / didn't meet 'om.
Tell you one thing, though. The people lack
enterprise. It's a magnificent country, but UNI
developed. Ought to develop 1t. No; i didn't
go down to develop 1t. and I'd like to find out
who started that story. There was nothing
commercial in my visit. 1t was for rest and
oStnans Vacation slssi ma ! aSSSoIi ' wel f0 II h yoa ' Ssd you'd you'd
want a rest. Why did l go to Venezuela for
expect a man to go-Klondike or Hobokeni
Anybody ever tell you Venezuela wasn't good
place to spend a vacation Because IL they did
they're li-liable to be pretty far wrong. There
wasn't any business in my trip at al, and II 1 was
in the signed statement business IA give you
and other mineral riches. and the soil and eff.
mate are good. Yet coal is SIS a ton: -four is
needn't underscore those potatoes. don't caro-
anything more about potatoes than l do about
g S.hsr 6v ysSsfH i mako. Gss T ms w I fsf "a ,sm eas ss,,i a ssh for
load or SO down with me. Presid ont; elect
Andrade Is going to start agricultural schools
Andrade. oh, fine! That's his picture.
had a long talk with him about the condi:
II he don't think now that Michigan is the
greatest State In the Union and only a short
people down there in Venezuela. When ! left
La Guayra they escorted me out Of town In y
diers. The brass band played The Stsr.Spangled
Banner all through the march. They laid off in
relays for breath. Sometimes while the horns
were resting there'd be only the bass drum and
a tfe or two holding ~, the tune; and then
they'd take Axe a vsc cd 4, n, and d. let n, the or csScs, do the 70
Wagner. but never liked It better. Some day
I'd like to go back there. It's q great place for
I'm my absence 1 haven't altogether lost
track OF what's been going. on here. There's
seems to be tho thing now. according to the no.
tions Of the enlightened nations. Look at Eng
land. how annexation has made her. Spain 10
isn's no, @ue @fis s}t q aH It. Local sf1 poiit Sao pretty HSg l i1sES
a'rS good ( ae'' M aytS'F for tg" New n S'" Yesk w0u I naSS
George personally. and know him to b, an
what's thati spenbindersI Oh, orators, you
mean Looking around for orators. are they .
can get all the politics l want right at homo.
Politicians waiting at every corner. They drove
Intended to take a 6, o'clock train, but got q
telegram from my brother, and may stay over.
me- cp d home you TSs5y k asSSt ws Sss,' I w %.s r fl ri SESr
was hi Is" i to a friend Of mine. said /. I'm I'm
ss Sn's . ays sny y9 T t about Ti IT, We. e xSt the ihsst Use sTf
said Dan.1 he t ,6eT cant. get away ,, without 81 ., the
FSIes si1. ri fn9 JUS, set you = box s q cigars I eAn n1 81
out of the country on the quiet ri have to
60 you, he says, and now no qres me the cigars;
our politicians would follow your example.
Well. Just get, that right about M going to
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pleasure. Good-by."