The times., 1899-12-25
IN THE HOTEL CORRIDORS.

Gov elect J. W. Smith. Of Maryland. is
at the Regent and will remain in the city
for few days Mr.. Smith is here attend
ing to department business and closing up
his affairs as member Of the House OF
Representatives He viii be inaugurated
during the first week Of the new year and
has little time in which to make final ar
rangements. The Governor elect has made
many friends in this city during his stay
here, and number OF his colleagues in the
House will tender him a farewell dinner
before January ].
William E. Ryan, Of New York. is at the
Raleigh looking after some preIiminaries in
regard to the coming meeting Of the Dem
ocratic National Committee, which will be
held here on February %.
New York is going 10 capture the Dem
ocrauc National Convention in a walk
said Mr.. Ryan last night We've got the
cash and Wen get the meeting. There will
be no differences among the Gotham Demo
Gratis and we expect 20 nominate a winning
ticket
The New York delegation will enter the
next Democratic convention TO vote as a
unit for w, j. Bryan as the nominee for
President. He is the Empire States candi-
date first, last, and all the time. and forty
three out Of fOTty-five members Of the state
committee have so declared themselves.
II have an idea in regard to the PEN
siOning of those employed in the Govern
ment departments in this city that
would like to see brought out in detail.
said Representative Victor H. Metcalf Of
California. at the Arlington last night
There are hundreds Of these clerks who
grow old in the service every decade and
only resign or are supplanted when too
aged or decrepit to be Of any value. Now.
l should think that it would be a good
idea to have, say 81 per month taken out
OF the salary of each employe and placed
in a general pension fund which could be
handled by the Treasury Department.
ceTtJin amount OF interest could be paid
by this department and within a few years
a good sum could be gotten together
Then. when an employe had served a GER
tain number of years or had become dis
abled through accident or old age, he or
she would be entitled to a respectable sum,
either as operated under an insurance or
pension system
As things are today many old employees
who have served faithfully, go out without
anything. and in many cases either suffer
or become dependent upon their families
This is not an original suggestion. but I
would like to see something done along
these lines
James r, Macklin. a railroad man from
Chicago, is at the shoreham, and viii re-
main in the city for a few days
Il had a brief experience in the news
paper business myself some years ago.
said he last night Il worked with Bill
Nye when he was editing the Boomerang
IN LarOmie, Wyo. and gCt enough Of Jour
nalism to encourage me to get into some
thing else. III tell you a story about Nye
just to show that he was not always
humorist. The Boomerang was a weekly
and was issued on Saturday One week
there was a great famine of toilers in the
art preseTyative in Laramie and the Boom
erang' was in a tight fix for CompOsitors
until tramp printer drifted into the Office
on Friday night He was OF course given
all the work he wanted, and didn't seem
10 relish the rush. About this time Nye
and Deacon HayfCrd, the editor OF the
rival paper, the Sentinel were having an
editorial TOW and exchanged many rOasts.
Nye was much excited on. this night in
question, because OF the delay, and started
in on his editorial roast like a savage He
threw ink al over the copy paper in front
Of him, and now and then would jOu down
a few hieroglyhics aimed against the Sen
tirel. Well, the copy Went out and the
tramp printer got a take OF it. He went
TO work like a man, but didn't seem to
make amy hsadway with the ink spots and
scratches. For fun hour he stood like
a martyr while the foreman yelled pull
out, as the forms We're waiting 10 be locked
up. Slowly and desperately the new man
went to work and set up a half dozen lines
of something. The foreman told him TO
read il in ths stick, as there was no time
for proof. He read it, dumped II into
the form, borrowed a dollar on his string
and left the Office.
When Nye got the paper next morning
he found this paragraph printed in the
middle OF his boiling editorial:
- The man that wrote this is an ass.
Nothing outside of HindOO OF a Cador-
ence could read this copy The writer
can't read it himself Tonight 1 will Jump
a train out Of town and will probably fall
off and be killed. Ny blood be on MS
head
"Nye was so mad that he would have
killed the tramp printer had the latter not
left town, and he was forced to acknow- I
ledge that the joke was on him"
Lawrence Irving is registered from Lon 7
don at the Regent. Mr.. Irving is the son
Of Henry Irving. the tragedian. and is con
nected with his fathers company.
Hon. Charles R. Leonard. OF Butte, Mon. I.
is at the Arlington for brief stay. Mr.
Leonard is a member of the Montana State
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an extensive Eastern trip. He reports
everything as being prosperous and was I
much impressed with the New England /.
States.
a prominent Western stock-raiser. who I
has been in town several days, watch .
ng the eecenriciues of the Con
gressionaI session, remarked at the Ma
-ional last night to a Times reporter that
he prices for horses and mules will
reach the highest figure ever known in
This country within the next TWO years.
When asked what would bring about high
prices, the stock-raiser replied: Why IL
is simply because the price of stock has
been so cheap that the farmers have quit
raising them. For the past two or
three years fine horses and mules have
been selling for $40 or $50 per head. when
Il has cost in the neighborhOod of S100 to
raise them. This has simply caused ev-
erybody 10 quit the business, and as a
result both mules and horses are very
much advanced in prices this year over last
year. But even at the advanced price. I
ind sales much easier. Stock-raiseTs have
all commenced breeding again now. but
YOU see Il will be four or five years before
this years colts can be placed ON the
market, and in the meantime you viii see
fine mules sell at $3.50 per head. This