New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-07-28
THE PASSING THRONG.

General Roy Stone. Director Of Road Inquiry II
the Department OF Agriculture at Washington.
was at the Abemare Hotel yes
AN ERA OF terday General Stone said tia,
BETTER more activity Is being displayed IN
ROADS IN road Improvement than has been
THE SOUTH shown for years. not only IN the
construction OF new roads. but In
the general agitation for their construction.
IAN the road machine manufacturers" he said.
ARE driven with orders, and the ONCE Of Road
Inquiry Is overrun with applications for advice
road legislation and assistance in road eonsiruc-
slated for this autumn-mostly In the Northwest
under the auspices Of the Interstate Road Improve.
rnent Association OBJECT lesson roads are TO he
built at a number Of agricultural colleges in the
West and south For this PURPOSE m ,Ss !:
Road inquiry The use OF convict labor on road
mprovement is sRreSdng a 1aPa near anrgSsn the
n C.. seventy miles OF good stone roads have been
built in this manner. nope 10 interest me great
concerns esr, az bshwsys The misfortInes Of the
party now making the automoone ttip acro s me
,Sts Class Of vehicles The League Of American
Whemen has been v potent Trust should be eoa ADJ.
do even more in this direction
Erie County Republicans anticipate an easy VIC
tory at the fall elections, says John X hazel
leader in Republican politics in
n,r puraIo Mr. Hazel IL at the Hotel
pIrpfTcANS the situation. he said: We lost
coNFIDENT. Erie County last year, much to
our surprise. although there may
have been a reason for IT, ms year gu 'i'eS
have come to our assistance ana everything points
TO Republican victory All those VINO VINO W SH n Sos
es,iza that the Republican predictionss OF prosper
inv have proved true. There are no M s,, ne5
turb arfIes OF of the the Mckinley Admin!straior
Three Justices Of the supren ,bsrc viii he some
fn Without exception, the candicaes Ior me
Nominations admirable d mem nr;oebeces would be
Of succS Warren B. Hooker Daniel kensnc ana
Trnman G White in the led lo aya ns
ton The pan Gthf IT, Mlan Louis W Marcus and
Charles L. Feldman."
p.o,sssor r. J. skertchly Of Australia VINO Is
rrose an authority on the subject OF Tin Ia at
the Murray Hill Hotel lie told
-,,, MINES Tribune reporter last evening thaI
IN 1870, - % the best of his knowledge, his
FOR was tne o'i', ,rns ,rorassor had
|->i 'NN' This TO say about that branch OF
metalurgy in which he Is m TSs than the United
s,ates and only profess to undsrstsn1 Som pai
Of vast territory syykea a. BY t hao Colonial Govern
nent al brisbane examine the tin he'os un
thai locality s Tnyi Ses Of had been
since the beginning of the Cnrsoam ,ha nroyrsss
has always been an essentldi iaO''' III ~ f0
Vi ,.TaEa America. for instance. There were but
,r,o indpenoIs civilizations In AmeTlcd--sl
and Per,i-and these are the only Two spo.s n ~ VIZ
Tau, World that contain tin. lin, ho"eHti, ~
tbese esrIv times was only the hardening ndle'la'
Tor the tools and weapons CT bronze WnlCh suPess
soded the crude hut universal use OF stone, wood,
bone and she'll alike for the domestic arts ana the
indictments Of warfare. Since then TN mas not
merely held its own. but u has Deooihe OIse III -.
The necessaries of life, and though IN common
Variance IL is dubbed common metal IL II,
nevertheiess \ rare metal, for there are, practi-
calIy speaking only four centres which produce
tinHCornwaL Peru, the Straits Settlements ana
Australasia II we compare the areas OF the gold
fields TO the areas Of the tin fields, they are ABOUT
az l40 is to l. North America, the largest user OF
tin in the world. has not single mine "o''h
speaking about. ,,. a.,
trict in lode tin distinct from stream TIM IN the
world. and, stream tin must and does give OUT
lode tin is the sole source Of reliance for future
production Of the abnormally common rare metal.
I severed my connection with the Brisbane Cow
North Queensland. and, with my partner. Have
lock Smith. am now on my way to Europe to place
them upon the market. unless some American
syndicate cares to snap them up. large tin con-
Germ in the United States did make us PROPOSE
ton but we did not consider its terms sufficiently
liberal"
Professor Skertchy has been deeply interested in
American slang.
ut has been many years since was here be-
fore" he said "and / utterly dumfounded al
the number of words you have coined in my alb
sence. / have been travelling through the West.
concerning number Of expressions. With careful
thought and long pauses I talk 10 ordi-
nary Americans pretty well but yet haven't
attempted the baseball language"