New-York tribune., 1899-06-19
THE PASSING THRONG.

Baron Emile de Erlanger, OF LONDON, VINO ar
rived in this city recently. and is staying at the
| Waldorf-Astoria. told a reporter yesterday after
| noon that the Porto Rico Railway
| THE PORTO Company in which he is Of
| RICO the largest stockholders Is not at
| RAILROAD all worried about It's future In the
island. There seems TO be an i'm
! preston In this country" said the Baron that
| the Porto Rico Railway Company is only a project
| This is not More than one hundred and fifty
| miles of the western section Of the road Is COM
pleted and trains are running over on s,sa resuap
section remains unbuilt, and also the entire east.
Tn ESe psopa Of T Porto fOmRoe eo the
fact that railroad is absolutely necessary to the
ish iOvernment and the old autonomous govern
ment appreciated 1t. too. as Is shown by the fact
that they guaranteed us liberal interest on the
Asked if he was that the United states Gov
ernment would live up TO the terms OF the con-
tract tract made by the Spanish rulers. the Baron re-
Certainly. because we have absolute con.
tract which cannot legally be upset. although II
exactly similar to that of the Western Union Com
pany, and the Government not slow to recog-
I'm the interests OF the United States and It's
wifi afs ao H Ss sSDSa S Sf
the rights OF the company and the contract w which
suming the liabilities OF that contract
The Baron says that one OF the PRINCIPAL objects
before, and is much pleased with New-York.
State Senator C. c. Cordill OF Louisiana. arrived
in the city yesterday attend the meeting of the
Mississippi River Commission. which will be held
to-day in the Army and Navy
NOT AN Building. When yesterday at
ISSUE IN the Fifth Avenue Hotel he said
LOUISIANA. There is not much politics In
Louisiana at present. Everybody
is contented with the conditions as they now exist
and there aren't any fights on hand The suffrage
question will be a dead issue In our state ior at
pa "A
is one OF the three States which have attempted 70
Wan SnG sen 5EHk up The
tlonal Convention. OF which ] was a member met
profit by the experience Of the other states. To
show that we did. and to show the confidence that
Orleans i S last week voted ioooOc for water supply
and pHrPoses & h is S bns hIi n New 70
Orleans and proves that the people realize and are
eT and ae py 'Rf viii pS. be- in the
propertyowning citizens for twenty-five or thiry
"Louisanians are not expansionists but they
rnsSed p' double our Quota OF soldiers we want
to see the trouble in the Philippines put down as
soon as possible ,, =, ~.
he thought Of the stand taken by the
anti-ex pan sionsts in Massachusetts senator Cor-
W TT wOuIan look wen for esTssel * ,st Ho2, Of the
South TO crtcise the present rebels IN the North
Lieutenant Colonel Amos stickney. Of the En-
gineer Corps is at the Hotel Imperial Colonel
Stickney Is a member of the Mississippi River Com
mission and president Of the Mis-
KEEPING THE souri, River Commission. Conse-
MISSISSIPPI quent,y he has acquired much in
WITHIN IT'S teresting Information about these
BANKS. two rivers.
1T costs about $50 a lineal foot"
said the Colonel last evening ito keep the Missis-
slppi River within Its banks between Cairo and the
Gulf OF course. don't mean to say that we nave
covered the ground We have scarcely made pc
ginning; but the work which we nave done mas
cost the Government in the neighborhood or $50
lineal foot. ... ou,
our method of making the banks secure e. and ana
keeping the river from travelling all over the valley
is 10 nut down a continuous abutment OF willow
mattresses covered with stones 10 protect the bot
tom OF the river and 70 cover the bank from me
great depth OF the Mississippi River in places which
makes the operation so so I Gost o. is
banks is only about 81 lineal foot Here too there
undone because Congress will not make sufficiently
large appropriations to carry 1t out we are now
proYes thoroushy satisfactory so FAR which is
much less expensive than the ntn 9tner fne'nod ne
spent Land along the Missouri River where we
have put in work has doubled in value because OF
Spring fishing in Canada Is rare sport, ac-
cording 10 John Terrl. a Boston business man,
who has Just returned from three weeks vaca-
ton spent In the vicinity Of 81.
SPRING John Mr. Terrill one OF
FISHING party of seven. He was at the Ho-
IN CANADA. tel Imperial last evening and
talked entertainingly 10 a reporter
about his experiences
I'm not much of a fisherman" he said, but
anybody can catch fish up there. We spent five
days on ST. Johns Lake. and caught lot OF good,
seven pound lake trout. That adventure. We
had two boats and was in the act baa Sr
the trout hooked on. l wasn't expecting him. and
he erked the pole 9S Of Sd hsfS n" s
and the pole out of he-lake there was all sorts OF
boat and hold Of the pole It took me iCF'S mn
of stage fright that lost three landing nets be;
fore we finally captured him: When we , had ured
Everywhere we went we found more nsh than we
could Spring the time 3 to camp sb IN me coun
try Is infested have not yet walked up ana man ,h
can live in peace The weather Is perneG', ama
"I believe that Mexico has Il more brilnant iuture
before her than any other country In the world
said F. w Wampler at the Hotel lmpetial last
evening Mr. Wampler is an Amer
FAITH IN ican and has been engaged In the
MF,XICOS prism glass and general lightins
FUTURE. business In the City of Mexico for
over three years.
''The Government of the country" he continued,
as perfect Any new manufacturing enterprise
can get concessions from the Government e1empt-
ing from taxation FOR en o yeer bs mpored free
of duty In fact the Government Is ready and
willing to give such enterprises any reasonaoe en-
couragernent The Mexicans are more frendy 10
Americans than to the people Of any other & coun-
Try During the spanish-American War their syn
nathies were entirely with the Americans. 80
friendly were they to the American cause that II
found necessary TO close up tne putque shops
would get drunk and go out hunting Spaniards.
Mexico will be the frontier for the United states
for the next twenty years
THE WEATHER REPORT