The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-01-17
IN THE HOTEL CORRIDORS.

Former Governor w. W. Hauser, Of
Montana, is at Tie Arlington. Judge Hau-
ser is here attending to some legal matters,
torial contest. He will remain in this city
for several weeks,
Former Representative Leonard Myers Of
Pennsylvania is at the Riggs or some per-
sonal business. He is locking up his Old
friends in Congress, and will remain in the
city several days.
R. E Emblidge, of Niagara Falls. is at
the Regent for a few days. Mr.. Emblidge
is the publisher OF the Niagara Falls
Gazette" and is interested in the bis
power company which has harnessed the
great cataract. He is accompanied by
Mrs. Emblidge, and is here on his wedding
tour.
There are wonderful possibilities in
store for Niagara Falls" he said today
and the task Of devoting the energy of
the great torrent to the production Of
power and light forms one OF the great
engineering triumphs Of the past century.
Everything is prospecting nicely, and the
town is building up in good shape. Some
day we may annex Buffalo"
W. S. 2. Shields. OF Philadelphia. Is at
the Arlington, for a few days. Mr.
Shields was the leader Of the Quaker City
delegation which secured the Republican
National Convention for that place.
Il don't believe the committee will ever
want TO go anywhere else 10 meet after
they have enjoyed Philadelphia's hospi-
tally he said today. We will give the
members a glorious time and send them
away convinced that ours is the only city
in the country. The big exposition build
ing has been fixed up and will be just the
place for such a gathering and the slogan
Will be Philadelphia all the time Those
OF the committee who have ever been en-
tertained by the Quaker City know just
what TO expect
H. F. Seymour, Of Manila, P. J.. is at
the Regent for a few weeks. Mr. Sey-
mour is the manager OF the American, 30
the pioneer newspaper printed IN English
in the Philippines.
The American is prOsperilg at pres
ent." be said today. but for "a long time
We had a tussle TO get along The paper
was organized by subscription. every Off
Ger giving something until a capital of So.
600 was raised. We had several narrow
escapes from being thrown out by Otis
and his press censorship bureau, but We
have always managed TO appear regularly.
Nearly all Of our competitors are natives.
and II We issued a clean sheet il was be
cause Of the tireless Efforts Of the proof
reader. still. We have plenty OF adyertis-
ing and -et good prices for IT, We get our
war news direct from the front and have
correspondents with each division. There
fore when a fight o. urred on Monday ar
ternoon we would have papers on the hr-
ing line on Tuesday, giving a full and
complete report o. the days doings. Ma
Mia has been transformed in the past six
months and is now q very nice place 70
live IN. IL Is not nearly such a wicked
place as it has been painted, and the peO-
pie are being Americauized. I VIII return
in few weeks and am going to add a
theatre TO our newspaper enterprise When
! come here again / will bring a band OF
native Filipinos with me; not a horde. but
band, with native musical instruments.
Did you ever notice how some cities
obtain a monopoly Of certain industries o.
said J. J. Weir. Of New York. at the Raj
eigh today. although there IS no reason
why these particular places should have
Il. since some OF them are not al all
adapted TO the manufacture Of the things
for which they are noted. Now. why
should Boston be the centre OF the copper
industry? There isn't grain Of copper
within 900 miles OF the Hub. Why ism {
New York the centre OF Insurance instead
OF Hartford? Why should Pittsburg pro-
duce nearly all Of our glass when there IS
better sand almost anywhere else2 ny
should Brockton and Lynn. Mass. turn cut
nearly all OF our shoes2 Why is PrOvi-
dence the great iewelry city, and why IS
nearly all the cotton grown in the South
manulac. Ired In New England? ! should
think there would be q change in some OF
these things. but the outlook for one is
not very promising
The faculty Of Chicago University has
adopted the phonetic system OF spelling.
and the reform has been extended TO the
publications issued by that institution, %
said Dr. E. A. Weatt. OF Chicago. at VIII
lard's last night Il have always opposed
this silly fad. and l am afraid il will not
last long. Why not adopt French-Csnadian
as a language and let that decide the mat