The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-11-11
TAMMANY WILL STAND BY HIM.
That Organization Never Known 10 forSase
Defeated Candidate.
WIZARD EDlSONS COMING JOURNEY.
Report Says He Is 10 Go 10 ST. Petersburg and
That Ssranis Of Cars Domain Are prspar-
ing 10 Give Him a Warm Welcome.

NEW YORK Nov. ll.-[Special. Those
persons who may be inclined 10 speculate
regarding the future Of the Hon. Angus
tus Van Wyok, late Democratic candidate
for the governorship OF the state of New
York, will DE interested in knowing that
so far as money goes his future was never
SO bright as at this moment. Tammany
may occasionally be defeated, but it never
fails To care for its own. In this instance
tho defeat, though disheartening, is by no
means complete and all the resources OF
Tammany will surely be- put at the dis
posal of the standard bearer who -'as sac
riflced. And the Tammapy victory with
regard tn the judiciary will make his re-
ward an exceedingly easy thing TO com
pass With all the judges members of or
I indorsed by Tammany the keeping of Van
| Wyck busy with profitable references and
other like soft snaps will bo no task at ALL
and there is many competent lawyer in
| New York who would be glad TO be as
| sured of the income that will be surely
| Van Wyck's for the next few years.
| The answer Co the question What will
| Van Wyck do?' then, is simple. He viii
practice his profession and take the goods
the gods provide.
what will Croker doS" is a question
not SO easy 20 answer. Maybe he Will go
to Europe, as he got ready To last year be-
fore election. This year he has so far said
nothing of such intention. On the CON
trary, he has said he should continue to bc
Tammany's leader, and it is entirely pos
sible that he may stay right here and get
ready for next year.
Edison's Coming Trip.
Almost simultaneously with the an
nouncement that Tesla has discovered all
sorts OF important and indescribable
things about the electric transmission of
| power without wires comes dispatch
from ST. Petersburg saying that Edison
means soon TO visit tho capital of the car,
and that the savants of Russia are getting
| ready To give the Americana reception
quite as much social as scientific signii-
cancc.
Ii would not be right to say that Mr..
Edison is never accorded social courtesies
i'm his own lnnd, but it is true that he Is
entirely without the golden pale of society
here and that he has never been accorded
any such distinction at home rs will be
forced upon him during his entire stay
abroad IL we are tD judge from the cabled
advices and his uniformly pleasant foreign
experiences I'm tho past. Here he has many
warm friends aud charming acquaint-
ances, but the Four Hundred class knows
him not. 90
In fact, although there are many posi-
BILE roads to the gates of the charmed cir
Gle, the path Of science Is not one Of them,
any more than Is the literary or the artis-
tic career.
Happily for this peace OF mind, Mr.. Edi-
son, like most scientists, "litery fellers"
and artists, doesn't care n rap for society,
and has never made any attempt what
ever TO get i'm. He hasn't the time for 1t.
Besides, it would boro him tremendously
TO bother with the conventionalitios of
smart society, and there is no doubt mt oil,
for he has said SO, that the semipublic,
semisocial functions always arranged In
his honor abroad could be dispensed with
by him without the slightest regret.
In regard 70 society Mr.. Edison and Mr..
Tesla are much alike, but there the resem-
blanoe ends. Tesla is essentially European
in personality, though very unassuming
and devoted to the land of his adoption.
Edison Is intensely american. frsiu APP
pears To be self conscious To degree Edi
son seems TO be entirely lacking in self
consciousness There Is n theatrical air
y
apparently reflected from its leading spirit,
but 10 is not so at Edison's West Orange
IN. j. place. It may be that many things
are their kept from the visitors sight, but
there is no semblance of mystery, as there
is at Tcsla's, and the inquiring caller is
sure of having his questions answered
with fullness and dircotness IL only he can
ask them intelligibly.
There arc many wonderful things 10 be
scon at the Edison laboratory, but nothing
within it's walls begins 90 be AZ interesting
rs It's master IL 5 an even chance, of course
that he might be absent, for lac Is away n
good deal III present, you must either
know him 10y sight or bc able TO recognize
the man from his printed portraits I'm or
der to be- sure of spotting him when you
first set eyes OH his face. That Is because
he is fond OF working about his shops In
exactly tho sort OF garb, cap and oyeralls
included. that would bc worn by any other
workingnlan, aud his face H. far moro
likely to bc covered with n big smudge
than is the face OF any of his employees.
Edison ut work.
Once when tho writer visited Edison Is
laboratory tho Wizard was busily engaged
fashioning some part of a now electrical
! contrivancc with his own hands. The
/ bench at which he was prosecuting this
employment was located In big bare shop
/ like apartment containing nothing In any
manner suggestive Of intricate scientific
demonstration Besides the bench and
visc there were n few very ordinary look
ing, very common tools, some coils Of wire
and two or three wooden chairs
After "a bit tlc Wizard stopped his work
rut tiuwri TN c7ru uf rho chairs ard EutTutt
ted to "A series Of questions with simple
courtesy that seemed to say that he en-.
ioyed nothing In this world 50 much ~
being interviewed. When the last ques
ton was answered, however, he drew a
tigh of relief and went back Co his work
instanter, explaining as he did 50 that II