Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-09-25
GOSSIP FROMG
Crowds Pouring in to Witness the
Dewey Celebration.
RUM0RS ABOUT THOMAS B. REED
Reported to Be Counsel for New
Steel Trust.
LA. w. AND CYCLING MATTERS

| special Correspondence of TIE Evening Star
NEW YORK, September n. 1899
| New York has on its holiday clothes, and
| coming thousands are hourly adding to the
| overcrowded hotels.
Tho real rush win begin tomorrow. Tho
| streets are crowded now, and the common
center of the crowd is at 9th avenue and
| nth street, where the great white arch
| and the white columned colonnade is fast
| being finished. The jam of onlookers and
| vehicles practically stops traffic. With the
| approach of the festivities the fakirs are
| abroad You can get Dewey fans. hats,
| flags. pictures, handkerchiefs. buttons,
| scarfpns, balloons, shields, inkstands. and
| what not; you can have pictures of the
| Olympia and her crew. 81 history of the
| battle of Manila, or a flve-cent one. BY tho
| miGdle of the week there will be 1900 ped
| Glers on the streets, according to Ann
street wholesale dealer in notions and GIN
| cracks. Stands spring up like mushrooms.
All along the route carpenters are busy.
| Every club along the line of march, nearly
| every hotel. many stores and some private
houses, will build stands out on the porch
| line.
The person who is unfortunate enough to
own a steam yacht or who has house
or near the line of march of the Dewey
land parade has to exercise great deal Of
tact just now. A large place is reserved
for him in the affections of his out-of-town
relatives and friends.
Anxiety to See 1t All.
| 1t is evident from the many plans already
made that persons whose desires are not
| Handicapped by any want of means to sat.
| isfy them are arranging to witness The
land and water parades, regardless of the
expenses involved.
There is to be concentration of notable
persons at 9Th avenue and Bath street. The
boxes that are to be erected along the 9TH
avenue front Of the Waldorf-Astoria We're
eagerly secured at 500 each. Boxes on a
neighboring stand sold for $40 each.
The members of clubs located in 9TH ave-
nue. below o3th street are congratulatinS
themselves upon the good fortune they eN.
pect to have in Witnessing the demonstra-
ton Of the parade on Saturday. All the
windows in the clubs facing the avenue ara
to be used, and furniture is to be moved
back out of the way. As all the club build
ings have their entrance on the side streets,
the members will experience little difficulty
in getting to their clubs. The Metrupoli-
tan Club. being fully a block away from
the line of march, will be of little TO
the members.
Rumors About II. II. Reed.
Unless rumor has gone far astray-and
that would be no marvel in Wall street.
|
for ex-Speaker Thos. B. Reed. The firm OF
which he is now a member has been prom
il ent in the formation of several large COM
binatons, the Republic Iron and Steel Com
pany being one of the most recent to profit
by its counsel; and it is said the advice
and experience of Mr.. Reed will be needed
in that special line in the future, perhaps
with view to legislation on the subject
OF vast Observation-Disclosures trusts. IL
there would
doubt that Thomas B. Reed Is the man
needed to frame bill to bring about the
harmonious operation of any scheme that
these combinations may deem necessary
for their future welfare. The same persist
ent rumor couples his name with the legal
direction of a vast combination of all the
non and steel interests of this country.
This combination has not been formed yet,
| except in its parts. and is said to be wait
ing only for more favorable conditions be-
fore it forms into whole. Then the Car
negie Steel Company, capital s2oo.Go.00;
Federal Steel Company, capital S2UO,No,OOD;
American Steel and Wire Company, Ma
tional Steel Company, Republic Iron and
Steel Company, American Steel Hoop Com
rany, the Pressed Steel Car Company and
other similar concerns will be in one i'm
menSe combination controlling the iron and
steel trade of tho world. And further ru-
mors have it that Thomas B. Reed will be
the chief legal adviser of the coming COM
blnaton with a salary no less than that
received by the President of the United
States.
What Sheehan's Victory Means.
Whether John c. Sheehan, the hero Of
the Tammany primaries, will be able TO
prevent the election Of Richard Croker as
one of the four delegates-at-large to the
democratic national convention from this
state seems to be one of the questions
growing logically out of Sheehans victory
and other conditions which exist in the
dana ia artV do Toll
well within.
Many rumors heard as to what the
program of Sheehan and his friends-for
the amount of money expended in his pri-
marieS contest demonstrated that he has
influential friends in poiitics-wi.l be. 1t is
believed that a concerted movement will
be begun soon to send contesting delega-
ton from this state to the democratic ma
tonal convention against Croker and his
puppets. Croker himself has been making
every effort to make up with BRYAN
since the Van Wyck C'Brother Cus'D boom
collapsed. Convinced, therefore, that there
Will be no such opposition to Bryan on the
part OF the New York democrats there
was in the national convention Of 1896,
some of Bryan's friends even in other
states are berating Croker and demanding
his retirement from all prominence i'll the
national campaign Croker cannot expect
much aid IN his own interest outside of
Tammany Hall. and if his enemies within
the organization in all parts of the state
can get together Croker may not be nam
ed one of the big four
New Officers for the l.. A. w.
The various divisions of the League of
American Wheelmen will elect new officers
during the months of October and Novem-
Der, and work will at once be outlined for
the advance of cycling interests in all Sec
tons. The semi-annual meetings of the big
divisions, when the new officers will be in.
stalled, will be held early in December At
the latter meetings, 1t is expected. matters
will be discussed that will come up before
the national assembly Of the league. Com
sidering the effect that the division of con,
troll in racing has had upon the l.. A w.
this year, this subject Is likely to be made
an important issue at all the local division
meetings Few members of the league now
desire that the national assembly should
decide to maintain its racing department.
The loss of membership in the L. A w.
is ascribed to the racing troubles. and the
need of more satisfactory government is