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

was President OF the Dock Board during William
L. strongs term Mayor has
OCHILTREE'S had a wide experience In public
JOKE ON life for young man. lie was
OBRIEN disburslng clerk OF the House OF
Representatives during the List
Congress. and later filed the important once OF
Commissioner Of Navigation In the treasury De
psrtment at Washington. General OBrien since
his retirement from public life has engaged III
business in this city and IL president Of the CUBAN
and Pan American Express Company His duties
frequently take him abroad. and in speaking OF S a
recent trip he had made to the o,h id ~ fortv
General who Is still the sunny siue Vi io'S'
said: '' ' ~ rou,u,s ,or
ing but the joke. It must be confessed was Tna
SuaIn Int at TrouvlIle but as entered the gress,
dining room Of the hotel sonorous voice s sasy
O. me frO Oh 'ns eD OtneT os S
one paused to ascertain what was going on, anu no
me. Colonel Thomas p ochiiree. the owner Of
the voice. continuing to bawl m. name az az make
my way him, in order to end his oytery c:oa a
though would gladly have retreated II l co tbs
question. put on the best face could and AZ II
very bright red one, assure you ana m1 bis
table the Colonel greeted me warmly. not to say
and them dnt 90 e heroes N our civil
War AS was barely In breeks whsn nn ins tbe
eSSS d R%a Between we
al which the Colonel by implication alleged ! nad
how but tha, was only the beginning and not the
end as had hoped. for at every piace anu and
always with people in tow TO whom one was az
Invariably INTRODUCED as General Br,eh, Snd dash
and are leave ieaye me to saurm out well could At
the end Of FIVE days could stand II no ionse, nne
gave m the fight. | wanted to stay. but J, va
no use for the Colonel had. literally succeeded IN
driving me from Trouville"
The Hon. Sir Hollis Tozer Agent General OF
Queensland In London. and representative OF
Queensland AT the international
rprp1rNF,s Commercial Congress In Philadei-
BRITISH phia, was AZ the rn'' - -
.nMIpER Hotel last night He is TO sail on
the Oceanic for England next week.
He is large man. about forty years od' anu 'oo"
a leading part in the philadelphia congress Work and
I've been careful reader Of the noTk aMo
phadeoa s snH s. Hsht at TINS the Fifth
nue. Hotel in the presence Of number Oh hn The
and Americans ane a,rdr fe course Of any
American paper its discussion Of the ba
war war rn, frgbten YOU one day with lot Of mis-
leading reports only 10 retract the e carry
CONVICTION 10 the reader buy It every morning h,
going send to 5he m99 tSe letter. Of Mr.
P PnHey OF think his name is from Washngton to-
gether with The Tribunes mild but effective com-
Robert B Fort. who is State Senator from .ne
yxth District of Illinois, Is staying at the auoii
Astoria Mr.. Fort. VINO was cap
THINKS tain OF Troop L. in the LIST Illinois
r.NNrp Cavalry during the Spanish-Am
suOrrD lean War. when seen yesterday
RETIRE saij
business in all lines is booming
with US and Illinois is getting her iair s'"'. "
the prosperity that the country Is just no" ENVY
ing We certainly have nothing to complain Vi III
that line. ,,...,oo
in illinois Already Walter Reeves OF Streator
who is member of Congress from the Kin DStr ,b
a,natIon FOR Governor next year He has opened
headauarters and while his action may see eai i ~
There is a feeling among our people as RUE una.
the party has done very well by Governor a,fe
a abe close Counties in Illinois BY that that
should Tanner be renominated 1t would p1 tbo se
nonnties which are closely contested by the Re
publican and paTtsS t fHa as might
cause the loss of Republican Congressman or 'w e
nomination Of Governor Tanner that 1t seems to me
the graceful thing for him 10 do would De 10 WIFI
Mr. Fort Is son of the late Greenberry Lafay-
cite Fort. who entered the United states army on
he ARM Of the Tennessee on both field and STAFF
duty in all its campaigns and was cnieI quu,l
to The Sea and until Johnston's final surrender He
finally mustered out Of the service sberdan as
colonel and brevet brigadier general General Fors
was n member OF Congress from llnhols iroHi 1910
to 1873
Andrew Macdonald Of Helena. Mont, said at the
Hotel Imperial yesterday: THE Colonel James f.
Wardner with whom your paper
STORIES OF had an Interview this morning is
COLONEL the same Colonel Wardner for
WARDNER whom the town of Wardner In
the Cpur d. ene region Of Idaho.
is named. He is widely known throughout the
West. and the stories told about him are innumer-
able
Some years ago the Colonel walked into the
office OF Superintendent Abbott OF the Canadian
Pacific and asked for free transportation from tina.
point to On fe eat Who was
erntendent Abbott telegraphed to Mr.. Shaugh-
messy: Shall furnish James Wardner transporta-
a friend OF yours? The vce-presldent promptly
answered Don't. Let Jim walk. The period
was lost in the transmission, and Don let Jim
at once furnished Wardner with pass TO Mon
treaI 49, c.,o.., - ,ou
neyed to South Africa in the hope of lettering his
when he was a power many OF the men who later
public were making their beginning In the Idaho
mining camps. The Colonel felt that they could
in Johannesburg His coming did not bring
mixed Joy his friends and finally John Hays
Hammond. Victor NJ; Clement R. E. l. Brown and
and pay the Colonei's expenses back to America,
but the question was could they get him TO 60
Finally they told him that they wanted him to 20
back to America and there transact some business
for them. and that his instructions would be sent
to him at New-York: The Colonel fell in with the
which reached him in the form Of a letter read
You're back in America Now. hang you, stay
there
FPFNCH CONVENT Oy Sauoa