New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-06-11
THE PASSING THRONG.


tomey-General OF Kentucky who Is staying at the
Wadorf-Astoria. is a famous story teller. and when
he asked last evening TO give
! POLITICS his views on the political situation
IN in his State he replied. as usual,
| KENTUCKY. with a story
You see' said he. I'VE Ken
tuckians are in about the same situation as the
hanger-on in Sherman's army, when the Union
troops were making their campaign through Geor-
| gia. They were near Atlanta. and had met with a
sturdy resistance from the Confederate army. One
day the ground would be held by one army and
the next day the opposing force would be in pos
session The hanger-on had been out foragng
expedition, and returned to the outskirts OF the
Union camp with many pigs chickens and ducks
slung across the back OF his mule He ate heartily
and slept soundly, and when he awoke In the
morning the army gone. Saddng his mule he
galloped along the road until he reached a point
where II diverged In three directions patrarchal-
looking farmer sitting on a fence with his
white-whlskered chin in his hands and his Jaws
working vigorously on qud Of tobacco.
Hello, stranger said the hanger-on When
way did the army go?
Which armyT-from the patriarch.
Why, our army
Which is your army?'
Well. now. look here old man. I'm a stranger
in these parts Suppose you say first
And In Kentucky. Everybody wants
the other fellow to say first l think, however.
that can say with assurance that the State will
go Democratic at the next election Any one Of
the three Democrats candidates for Goyernor-P
stone-woud All the Office admirably think the
party will be successful at the next National cleo
getting the whole world S Il %e csn do f. and
think that the destiny OF the Anglo-saxon race,
occupy the entire Western field"
when asked to give his opinion Of the Ford bill
and to tell OF the operation OF the Franchise Tax
law In Kentucky Mr.. Hendrck was I lined to be
reticent. He said:
THE cornora tiors shoul1 nay franchise
But the amount OF that tax and the method by
able, and the experience and the wisdom OF the
people and Of the corporations must work 1t out"
The Rev. T. Rose Price. OF wooton. Liverpool,
honorary chaplain to the Mercy Mission to Sea-
men, which has branches in nearly every large
seaport the globe has come tc
MERCY this country for a years vacation
MISSION TO and study. To use his own words:
SEAMEN Il have talked myself dry. and my
reserve reservoir OF Information
and Illustration is seriously in need OF repenlshlng
While am here intend to make visits to the
branches Of the Mercy Mission in New-York and
san san Pr;nsisce LncidensaIIy VIII spend I'd good
zealand | have heard much Of the fishing In
canada band ana am anxious to try IT, -. seorsr.
Mission. He says that the work has been won
derfuily successful and that the sailors are deeply
launch, with which 1t usually manages to beat
sells and thus save Jack from the clutches Of the
sharks" II is becoming the fashion. he added.
% men ana women rig give ssS
spared no efforts TO furnish legitimate amusement
THE sailor is a jolly good fellow" continued Mr..
Price and Is as easily led in the right way as In
the wrong"
Staying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel with the Rev.
Mr.. Price Is r. a. Grove Anderson, Of Anne's
Grove. Castletown Roche. County Cork, Ireland
Mr., Anderson is an enthusiastic
naha
IN IRELAND. clergyman to America in order 10
share his sport. He says that they
will 60 first to Vancouver to fish for salmon
Fishing this season in the Blackwater River, In
Is oThs to g ss which as 5e 6a
the mouth OF this river, making II impossible FOR
I'm :. season ser ireland Is from February to Sep
TENDER 30. Trout salmon and pike ASKING has
caught a 2ila-pound salmon in the Blackwater
near Castletown Roche 1t took me a little o S,.r
dozen and nine trout within hour"
Kentuckys alleged boast OF the excellence OF her
wine women and horses Is no boast at all accord
ing 10 Edmund T. Halsey Of Louisville. but a plain
matter OF fact with logical rea-
WHAT BLUE son to prove It. Mr.. Halsey is the
GRASS SOIL senior member of the firm OF Hal
CAN DO. sey & Hasey, dealers In stocks
and bonds In Louisville. He is In
New-York business and Is staying at the Wal
orf-Astoria
The soil Of Kentucky" Mr. Halsey explained;
has peculiar composition OF phosphates ana ana
slicas which makes 1t absolutely UNIQUE In this
country 1t sends its strength up through the legs
OF horses and makes them the fastest horses In
the world. 1t produces the wonderful whiskey
and healthy and 1t makes our women BEAUTIFUL l
tell bluegrass girl the minute see her; The
soil she lives on has great deal to DO win heT
beauty. 1t is strengthening and wholesome and
science has proved it,"
F stieltjes, Of Amsterdam. Is at the Hotel Man
haitian. Mr.. stieltJes is a member OF the American
Society Of Mechanical Engineers which, he says.
Is honor not often conferred
GROUNDING upon European engineers He was
OF THE passenger on the Inflated Paris,
PARIS. and tells interesting story or
the excitement which followed the
grounding Of the vessel. He was asleep in his
stateroom at the time, and was only awakened
when OF the past shouting. "AH
hands on deck" Mr. Stietjes rushed out, scantly
attIred. and found many other passengers who
were as much I'm need OF clothes as he was. The
officers, he says behaved admirably and by their
GOODNESS succeeded in quleting the fears OF the
white-robed crowd which hocked about them Hay-
ing learned that there a good substantial
rock between the ship and the bottom, Mr.. SteItJes
He gives it as his opinion that the reason the
Paris grounded that her officers had not been
thrown Off their calculations. As engineer, he
thinks that II is impossible to release the vessel
and that she will lie there the rocks until the
waves dash her to pieces.
Mr. Stieltjes s an importer Of American ma.
chinery He says that English importatlons of
machinery have fallen of considerably In the last
five years and that American importations have
Increased in a corresponding ratio. In a few years
Amsrics yin he thinks send more machinery 10
Holland than all the European countries combined.
The reason Of this ne SAYS Is Ihat Amer i6ads Is
while European manufacturers continue TO stick
10 the same old styled