New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-12-06
THE PASSING THRONG

Ex-Congressman Henry C. Payne Of Mrw,,...
a member Of the Republican National Commute.
Is going on to Washington ,o-a.,
NATIONAL TO see the brethren" In the Uou,.
CONVENTION and Senate about his proposed ..
REPRE- organization OF the basis Of reura
sENTATION. scntation Of Congress districts 4,
the National Convention. Now I.
the time TO have II done" said Mr.. Payne yester.
day at the Waldorf "If the matter IL allowed N
run until 1904 without correction the argument will
then be used that II s blow al the friends OF the
Administration in the interest Of some particular
candidate as II Is well known that the Adminstra-
ton always controls the Southern States dele
gates, whom the reorganization would hit the
hardest. The new plan would Jake many
delegates from Southern States and largely in
crease the delegations from States Ike New-York
Ohio Indiana and New-Jersey. NETWORKS rep
resentation. for instance. would be increased by
fourteen. The proposed reorganization Is strictly
along the lines OF justice and Is based the
actual Republican vote polled at the last Presden-
tial election. The reform can be effected this win
PER al and
ests Of his supporters are no1 therefore In any
meet on December u, when the matter Will DO
pressed on the attention Of the leaders"
william McEchrou OF Glens Falls. nearly all his
l.fe upper Hudson lumheiman' was at Kepuo-
lican State Committee headquar-
CEMENT tiers a day or two ago. He is
INSTEAD OF tall thin. wiry man, quiet and I'M
LUMBER obstruslvc but wtha potential
man in the upper part Of the
State. When asked about the Morgan Lumber
Company OF which he is a part, ne inadvertently
remarked that the big mill owned by that
pany at Giens Falls where hundreds OF millions
OF feet OF hemlock spruce and pine have been cut
during the last forty years. is 10 be shut down.
"The lumbermen have kept at II I'LL the supply
near the tributaries Of the upper Hudson Is ex-
hausted" said he. Log driving has furnished
a venturesome occupation for the hardy lumber
men OF the eastern A lirondacks and the closing
OF the big mills at Glens Falls would mean loss
OF great deal Of business under ordinary cir
the place OF the industry. We used up ne timber,
and now we've tackled the rock We've got
CONE" Right below the Morgan Lumber Com
panys mill at the Falls IN the yase Is lame,
took refuge when hard pressed by the saYages'
'Old John Deer. the rattlesnake tanner, OF Sui
Ivan County, is dead" said Emmett Armstrong
country merchant calling on b. b.
A FAMOUS Odell. the Republican State chair
SNAKE man. at the Fifth Avenue Hotel
TAMER "O!d Johns great grandfather got
the secret of curing rattlesnake
bites from a sub-chief Of 81. Tammany Tor whom
Tammany Hall is named on the Delaware River
hundred years or more ago. Old Johh never ianeo
TO cure He used species OF violet leat-the spike
leaved variety. This he made into poultice.
which he bound above and below the bite ana from
the leaves a brewed drink. over and over again
countrymen up our way have been brought IRON
noints eight or ten miles away 10 old John S taOln
Suffering from rattlesnake bite He always kept
the violet leaves handy and 9yed to I'M
for for fSew-York and Philadelphia museums, and
fried oil from those XII Killed Tine 81 Is ann an
dIiTted IT. is used by eye doctors. Old John would
let ratter bite him If well paid for Y Then he'd
go and cure himself. He lived and cleo al Long
Eddy"