New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-07-04
THE PASSING THRONG.

Harry T. Thornton a resident OF Mobile. Ala. and
an authorized clerk In the Quartermasters Depart.
ment at Gibara Santiago Province. Cuba. arrived IN
this city yesterday. lie left Cuba
DANGER Or on Juae q with thirty -day leays
YELLOW Of absence. At the Hotel Imperial
FEVER IN yesterday he told a reporter tina,
CUBA ne did not believe that the city OF
Santiago would escape the yellow.
fever epidemic this year
when started for the United States" he added.
There were ten cases OF yellow fever IN the 5,h
Infantry. sergeant in the Quartermasier's De-
parment there od b me ,ha' Bnce dsas 1s Tss
demic would he thought. be the result Santiago
that Il can be purified OF yellow fever in season.
In two three seasons The people are as
ton to teach them to keep, themselves decenty
clean. When say the people. on course. ! don't
filth has great deal TO do with harborng disease
OF all description In Puerto Principe Province here
deaths when came away ! believe t lhat IN this
"Gibara Is as healthful point as there IS on ID:
f 6gan Several + ns Troops Of the 10Th cavalry
(colored) stationed at these two places ana The
teer Regiment OF Immunes there the men
suffered considerably from dysenteTy but there has
= have become convinced that the negroes make
splendid soldiers. The manner in which they have
been rounding up the bandits Is worthy VI '"e "sn-
est commendation.'
Richard w. Smith, a Boston travelling man. who
was at the Hotel Imperial yesterday tod this
story OF a Chicago crook who is acquiring lveli-
hood in a rather peculiar way: Il
HOW A CHI was chatting with a friend IN the
CAcO REC lobby OF a fashionable hotel IN
GAR MAKES Chicago" said Mr.. Smith, when
MONEY noticed an old man coming out %
the writing room. He was shabbily
drossed hut clean and appeared 10 be perfectly
~
novance as he gazed at four letters which he held
IN b,s hand As he approached me saw that they
we're sealed and addressed but had no stamps on
Them Finally the old fellow stopped In front OF
my chair Holding out the letters In one hand and
a penny in the other he said;
~ hey YOUR pardon, but have you four stamps
that Won can spare me? When came away from
home thought I had dime but find that II was
a penny and am very anxious to get these 'e"e"
at happened that hsS Jqss moments hesi,s.
ZION, I handed four OF them to the ora man, ne
thanked graciously and walked away y,,end srS
20 renew the conversation win my Hi'hu' anu
found him shaking with Laughter ~ =, . ,o
while he said. That is probably the most noted
and most successful beggar In Chlcagoi re - VA
makes. from % 10 -
Novor Josiah Quincy, Of Boston. was at the
tIotoI Manhattan Yesterday Mr.. quincy said that
ha was here on private business, and that his Nsls
had no political significance Poll
N,vOp tics f. at standstill I'm Boston"
QUINCY AND he added. "All the elections are 80
Tor ,rrcs far off that there Is nothing TO sur
up excitement"
When asked what preparations Boston wa n"N
the, FOR entertaining Dewey Mr.. quincy replied -.
'"SWo arc NOT making any preparations ~ ~
We would like to find out first 4 ne Is y, linn
ing and If so. whenP There VIII NC p''' VI INV
,hen 10 arrange TO receive nIIi'
..,,uwauIee can do other things besides make
heer " said J. s George. resident OF that 'N' AZ
tha Hotel Manhattan yesterday. Mr. George MADE
a fortune in the railroad business.
>,o1, ONLY and retired from active liie some
uEER IN time ago. I'VE have the argest
MILWAUKEE, machine factory In the World no
continued 1T has built plants for
sovoral electric railroads in Spain and London ana
exnorts thousands of dollars worth OF mining ma.
chinery TO johannesburg every year; one-inl,n o'
tts PRODUCTS are exported 10 foreign coDhu,iv,'
EyrTy s this includes beer Dutchmen are being
horn every day, and they must be supplied
,,, t. M reason why American capitalists
should seek to invest their money in foreign mines
The uncertainties for such investments In TINS coun
try are as good as or better than IN
,,rNrNcIN any other country In tho world.
THE UNITED This is what f. ID. Lea',,'' GOV,
STATES sulting ehglhe'r :" ~ ,o'd .
Hecla
Tribune reporter at the Hotter Mah""''"'
dav Continuing. he said;
"It IS undoubtedly true that some very r'ch MN
ing fields are 10 be found in other countries DIV Wv
conditions FOR working them are not a. ia'o''''
as they :Ae in this country. In layt Tor instance
,hore ia plenty of copper and iron. but captains"
would be afraid to invest their money thete o',"''
the Government IL so unstable. They "odh TO
soorer get the necessary concessions and pesn
onerat,ons than along would come a revolution ana
tbev would be out in the cold. In Canada mere arc
some rich mineral deposits, ! grant you' out they
orc IN nearly every case Isolated from RAILROADS
and therefore. practically inaccessible. To mine
thare Won have 20 build and operate your own ran
road In the United States all you have to 30 - 20
s,ar, IN mine and the nearest railroad VIII foio"
after YOU The mines in America, taken as wholei
are richer than the mines OF any other country ana
there are many profitable fields here that nave
never been developed. We have a very superb.
way OF carving on business. II you Will take tns
trouble to look into the matter, you VIII nhd 10y
the ma iority OF the successful mines or the WORN
are operated by American engineers.