Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-20
GRAIN.
IN HOTEL CoRRIDoRS.

| IN HoTEI CoRRIDORS.
| Representative and Mrs Northway have
been entertaining their fellow-townsman.
| Rollin A. Norton of jefferson Ohio at
the Riggs. Mr.. Norton is prominent citi-
| zen of Ashtabula county. and enjoys more
| than local reputation as a raconteur
| The First National Bank of jefferson. of
| which he is vice president adjoins the old
\ law Office of the late Benjamin +. Wade
| Tor many years senator from Ohio. JEFF
1erson was also the home of the old anti
| slavery war horse. Joshua II. Giddings
| who for twenty years reureseiited the
| nineteenth Ohio district i'm Congress
| Both Giddings and Ben Wade are buried
| IN the village cemetery of Jefferson" Mr.
Norton told a Star reporter yesterday.
| Their memory is fondy cherished by the
| people OF our old district. too. Giddings'
| old law office is also standing II is a one
| story wooden building facing the street
| ana IN one corner of the front yard of
! his old home. He built il himself more
! than eighty years ago. As students MANY
| young men who afterward became distin-
| Suisheh IN the profession obtained the first
| ru4linents OF the law in this building with
| Gludinss as their preceptor. The interior
| Vi the once is Just as Giddings left it,
| even 10 the paper on the wall. All his law
| DOCKS are In the library and the furniture
! Is the same as used by him. His son j A
| Glddlngs. lives in the old homestead. and
| ne SPENDS many pleasant hours with
| Office. "'''e
| Wade's office is a one-story wooden
building, but was built many years later.
Wade Always took great interest i'm his
| sHiase nome, and when not engaged in his
| duties at Washington he could usually he
| seer working about his yard. Every sum-
ner until ms death he was visited by Sem
| ator Zach Chandler of Michigan They
| were bosom friends and were alike in =
| great many ways. All day long they would
| sit together on the wide veranda of The
sion ef 'aeern ana intersperse the discus
| SION OF aHairs of government by telling
/ stories, much to the edification of a IittIe
| coterle OF town folk who always gathered
| around. Sieieu
| I'VE have many reasons for raa,;,.- .,
| OF our town. 1t was in jefferson that Fyiu
| iafl Dean Howells set type when a bor and
Ire Ola paper is still run by his brother,
| Inc father of the Howells succeeded ca
\ dings as consul at Hamilton Canada "a.
| died few years ago."
me thousands who read W. d. Howells.
BOOKS 90 not know that the type for them
| Is set III Jefferson. However this is so
| Inc proofs are sent to him for revisal in
| New York and the pages are sent to tho
| nearest electrotyper. In this way Howeils
| owns his own plates
| The Tennessee centennial exposition was
great success despite tie disadvantages
| ana obstacles that Were contended against
said Colonel j. w. Baker of Nashville to a
| star reporter at the Normandie TODAY
| Inc government, in the first place, refused
" appropriate any morey, and then we
| finally got only $4,000. The same was
| true of the state of Tennessee The lerisla
'ure practically ignored the project until II
| lcund that the people of Nashville were in
earnest and proposed carrying II to compie-
iicn regardless of outside financial aid
II ~ nae not been for tie yellow fever
| scare IN the south, there would have been
| an attendance of at least more than 4 po
| wv ana there would have been enough
| money left in the treasury to purchase The
| grounds Tor permanent park for our CITY
| our peo@ie are considering the ACCESSIBILITY
| OF occurring the grounds ANYWAY and il is
! rot improbable that this will be accom-
| ptshed partly by private contributions II
| .hiS Is Gone the Parthenon and the history
| building, and possibly the auditorium viii
| be left standing. The grounds which com
| prise 40 acres are beautifully laid ont
| as every one can attest who has visited
| tEen lhey are near the Vanderbilt Uni
| Fersity grounds, which cover seventy acres
| ana possess all the attributes of a park IL
| speaks well for our people that out of the
! .9H,No " no attended the exposition there
| were only 400 arrests and these were for
| trivial offenses such as picking flowers and
| violations of rules There was not a single
| fight or row of any kind.
| Il am EIore than ever proud of Mach
1 Vile why, when the project of an ex-
position was first talked of our town was
| IN the dumps Nashville had suffered more
1 V. a
| time ali the banks were shut down ana
| IL was impossible to get more than slOd
at any single time. The yellow fever
| didn't come within 400 miles of Nash
| vile, but ii prevented hundreds of thou-
| sands of northerners from attending the
| exposition. Take Illinois and Chicago day
The governor published that he wouldn't
| come, and, if IL had not been for Score
| tary Gage, Senator Mason and Juig. Tut
hill, who took the matter up there would
naruiy nave been any representation from
that state. As it was, several thousand
came, and We gave them a good time
| Bryan and the governor of Nebraska
| also wired that they COULDN'T come because
| of the yellow fever on the Day set apart
| to them, and We had to ,,et a certifica.e
| from the state board of health and the
city authorities assuring them that Nash
vile was free of the disease before they
| would venture to come. You see what
We had to contend against. But the ex-
position was success. Just the same"
"Forty-one years is long time to stay
by one hotel, but 1 have been coming to
Washington regularly since 1856, with the
exception of the four years that ] served
in the army, and 1 have yet to sleep in
any other place." said Capt. T.. +. Ma
lin, veteran travelling man, at the Ma
tional today. Washington was not much
of place then. Pennsylvania avenue was
| unpaved. and at some times of the year
was almost impossible. One of my early
trips to Washington was just following
the poisoning of so many guests at the
National, and / well remember the ex-
element there was about it,"
Capt. Malin is recovering from a severe
shock to his nervous system, received liz
the wreck on the Ches apeake and Ohio
railroad at Chariot esyile, Va, last month,
in which seven people were killed AID a
number injured. He is salesman fp- a
large firm that manufactures agricultural
implements. and Maryland and the Viz
ginias are his principal territory.
Times are exceedingly good in our tasi-
ness. and collections were never better"
he said to a Star reporter during a dis
cussion of the business situation. "Foi
several years the farmers were compe'ied
to curtail in everything. Their stock a.
a necessity. got low. Now they are
plenishing. and they nave the money with
which to do 1t"