Evening star., 1899-03-10
IN HOTEL CORRIDORS

The proposed Nicaragua canal will,
"hen completed, be great boon to the
great glass industries in the Pittsburg dis
tfiet' This observation was made by Mr..
Thomas Tom!inson of Bellaire Ohio. at
The national.
1T will probably be news to most people
when make the statement that it is
cheaper for the great glass companies OF
my section to load their delicate wares
aboard cars, ship them to eastern ports,
and convey them thence by steamer
around the cape to San Francisco, than it
is TO ship them directly across the contin-
ent.
My firm manufactures drug and perfum-
cry ware almost exclusively and all of
the trade that we Go with the Pacific slope
is supplied by shipment around the cape.
Now, when the canal is built we will be
saved anywhere from a third to a half on
transportation rates.
Many people wonder why the glass
business seems TO thrive only in particular
localities but the explanation of this is
simple enough, and is contained in the eX-
istence of that almost indispensable acces-
Sory-natural gas. This abounds in the So
called Pittsburg district and, as a conse-
quence. glass factories have sprung up
everywhere from Pittsburg down to Wheel
ing, w. Va. and even beyond. The sand
that We use in manufacturing fine glass is
'uo iioii pitS OUT EefG IN hancock, Md,
ana Is ground and washed until it is as
"hlle and fine as granulated sugar. This
sahd makes as fine glass ware as can be
found in the world
You people are siiivering over this little
spell of winter. as if it were something
@"ftn making sensation Of" said Chas.
ii. Dalton of Chicago, at the Normandie
NOW, the truth Of the matter is. it is good
Tor you, and If you had few more months
OF good Chicago weather like this it would
blow and freeze all of the, miserable ma
laria out of your systems AMI make you
healt hier people
hen first went to Chicago from down
IN kentucky. where the climate is some
what similar to that of Washington, / felt
confident that l would freeze to death
after the frst two weeks of the fierce win
ter weather that we had out there But
the climate has agreed with me wonder
fully, and many outsiders like it after they
have lived there while
Do You know, L believe that the fierce
S'Iappy weather We have out in the windy
city is responsible in great part for the
greatness to which Chicago has attained
In fact, Il man is absolutely obliged to hus-
tie during the winter time to keep from
freezing to death. 1t is the rareSt thing in
the world that you a lazy or languid-
looking man hanging around Chicago
streets. We either kill that tired feeling
ont OF them or bury the victim of it in
Chicago.
The town itself is booming NOWADAYS
The city is more susceptible to hard times
than any in the country as it depends for
It's existence upon the prosperity of the
great mississippi valley. and when farming
Is not paying Chicago suffers Now that
the agricultural interests are on the high
road to prosperity of substantial sort
Chicago is commencing to go ahead with
her old-time rush. l predict that before
the next quarter century has rolled around
chicago Will have wrested the title of me-
tropolis of America from her rival of long
standing, New York city"
so far as 1 know 1 was the only officer
of the navy who held a commission in the
volunteer service of the army during the
Spanish-American war;" was the remark
of Major Henry LA Motto of Williams
town, Mass, at the Ebbitt.
I am an assistant surgeon in the navy
ana was on a years leave of absence In
Germany, studying in my particular line
When 1t became evident that hostilitjes
might break out at any moment between
Spain and the United States / volunteered
Tor service, and Lieutenant ]. j. Knapp of
the navy and myself We're the two officers
VINO brought the Topeka from England to
the United States.
We were the only two Americans aboard
The cruiser had just been purchased by our
government, and she was manned by a
crowd of English sailors These men
n.utimed after they had gotten about three
Gays out to sea. They had read the Ameri-
can papers which we had brought aboard
we had considerable difficulty with them,
as they We're sure they would be captured
by Spaniards before they reached America
rinaily We arrived at New York harbor
ana round that war had actually been
declared while we We're ct sea
:, Al that time the assistant secretary of
the navy. Mr. Roosevelt, was forming his
regiment, and AS | had no especial duty at
the time he offered me the commission of
surgeon OF the Rough Riders 1 accepted
and joined the regiment at, Austin, Tex
In company with my regiment / went to
Cuba and the care of the wounded and
dying men devolved on nle during the first
two days OF the fighting near Santiago
ihe work was fearful and l could talk for
hours on the heroism displayed by the men
VINO came under my eye. We're not the sub
1eot very painful one even to a surgeon.
The men of-the hospital corps worked night
and day, and have the satisfaction of be-