Evening star., 1899-04-07
n HOTEL CORRIDORS

New York has almost absolute control
of the cotton market" This remark was
made by a. H. Walker of Atlanta at the
Raleigh While the crop is just sprouting,
the large dealers of that city are able to
estimate almost exactly what the output
will be. Each great firm has agents
throughout the on-growing belt, whose
business it is to keep their employers ex-
actly informed on the condition of the crop.
Thus they are enabled to deal successfully
in futures and to force any rank outsider
who makes a plunge In cotton futures to
the wall.
1T is due to this system that the cotton
raisers are not able to help themselves and
limit the output of their product with
view OF forcing up prices. Almost every
planter is obliged to borrow money to en-
able him to plant his crops. This he has
to borrow from the big houses that deal in
cotton and in agricultural supplies. The
houses have contracted for the delivery in
the future of a specified amount of cotton
at certain price. Accordingly, they will
lend money only on cotton, and to get the
money to keep things going the planter con-
tracts to deliver a certain amount of cot
ton This he does at price that little more
than pays for the cost of production, and
the next year he is obliged to resort to the
same methods. Thus he is but a link in an
endless chain that runs for the benefit of
the Wall street speculator who forces
prices UP when he has the crop well in
hand.
Il have made the Hotel Windsor my
home for many years when In New York"
said Mr.. ]. Warren Nash of that city at
the Arlington. Many of the guests who
stopped there were my personal friends ard
acquaintances and 1 cannot express the
sorrow with which 1 heard of the terrible
scenes that were enacted there during the
recent fearful holocaust.
Il do not yet understand the frigntful
rapidity with which the flames spread. 1t
Is true the structure was an Old one, but
as II occupied an entire block ] should
thlnk that sufficient time would have been
consumed in the spreading of the fire for
nearly every one to escape. Moreover, the
halls We're spacious and the building itself
was very commodious one, with plenty of
exits and broad starcases. / sustained the
loss of about $4,000 worth of property
such as paintings and brio -brac, much of
which l valued highly. This was stored in
my rooms In the hotel However, I con-
slider myself extremely fortunate in getting
OF as cheaply as l did,
Il am Bryan democrat and unrecon-
structed, as far the Chicago platform
goes. Moreover, L believe the principles of
that platform will be reaffirmed in 1900:
that Mr.. Bryan will again be the nominee
and that he will be Overwhelmingly elected
to the presidency" These views were ex-
pressed by Mr.. Stephen Rawlins of Texas.
a guest of the Metropolitan
"Of one thing 1 feel sure" he continued,
and that is that the stock raisers and
farmers of Texas will see that the deIega-
ton from the lone star state goes soiidly
for the Nebraskan. You easterners are 60
ing to wake up one of these days to a reaH-
zation of the fact that this country is not
dominated any longer by small, thickly-
settled strip of land lying east of the Allie
games, along the Atlantic seaboard and
around the Island of Manhattan.
out in the west and down in the south
the democrats, and the republicans too If
am not mistaken. are getting very tired
OF shaping their party platforms with
view of catching the electoral vote of New
York state, and it is my personal opi1;ion
that Texas is going to have a whole lot
more TO say in the next democratic national
convention than is the the empire state of
the east"
Mr.. j. Fl. Henderson of Baltimore. who
was registered at the Ebbitt House. had
this to say to a Star reporter:
THE paint business is affected as quickly
and as materially by hard times as the dia-
mond business. You see, people will not
take the view that paint is a necessity as
preservative. When crops are bad the
farmer commences to save by leaving his
barn unpainted. When there is nothing to
be hauled the railroads do not consider il
necessary to have their cars looking fresh
and new. When business is dull the store
Keeper sees no necessity for Frightening
up his sign, and when the tenant is behind
in his rent the landlord doesn't bother about
beautifying the house.
so We gentlemen of the grip who repre-
sented paint factories had a pretty hard
time to scratch along while business was
dull and depressed. But if new paint is any
sign of good times one has lust to look
around him this season and compare the
outward aspect of the world with that of
two or three years ago. The whole coun-
try is freshening up, and believe that more
paint will be sold during 1899 than during
the two preceding years. One indication Of
returning prosperity to the Agricultural
classes Is the vastly increased business that
is being done In my line in the southern
states"
People out in my state are taking a
great deal of interest in the protest that is
being made by John T. McGraw against
the seating of Nathan B. Scott in the SEN
ate of the United States," said VIM. r..
Cornwall of West Virginia at the National.
we democrats are of the opinion that the
case against Scott is very strong one,
especially in view of the fact that a major
1ty of the members of the state legislature
have petitioned the United States Senate
requesting that Scott be not seated There
are no bribery charges in the case and per-
sonai bitterness is entirely lacking. More