New-York tribune., 1900-10-23
THE PASSING THRONG.

'As the music hall jest has it, said John Law
ton, of Syracuse at the Hotel Victoria. yesterday
the political banners the |
STRANGERS streets show which way the wind |
OBSERVATIONS blows and foreshadow Nc |
ON BANNERS. Kiney's election The McKin- |
ley banners numbers legion. |
There are too many TO count. You find no such /
trouble. however with those that fly for Bryan. |
1t does not worry you TO keep track Of them. I |
tried to count them Broadway the other day. |
but gave UP the Mckinley end OF 1t before 1 had
reached Union Square. I only needed hand. |
however, to enumerate those Broadway for
Bryan, between the Battery and Seventeenth-st.
Unless missed some there are only four In this
overwhelmingly Democratic Popultstic- -Bryanistc
city as Richard Croker loudly claims but four
Bryan banners the principal business street
1 suppose Croker deems the city so safely Demo
ward and visible manifestation to show which one
OF Ine GanaGqtes Is lls 5aVore; lnere Is a SurH Tvs
Mckinley banners hang from house TO house; that
with the Bryan banners. Three out of the four
supported by poles erected from the sidewalk
building on the other. I would very much like 10
the Bryan banners because Croker and Company
could find no owners of buildings willing to allow
their properly to be used TO swing Bryan banneoS
from and whether or no it thus became case % td OF
Plates name off Broadway.
Yesterday at National headquarters man was
showing to Joseph H. Manley a series of water
color sketches purporting to %
a BEACH scenes in Maine. Mr.. Manley sur
SCENE OFF veyed them with considerable in
BANGOR" terest until a beach scene was on
the tapis. Where was that paint
ed?' Names National Committeeman asked. on
mart of the COAST" insisted Mr Manley. The
his face lii up why. off Bangor he explained
triumphantly There was an immediate ceeSaboh bf
Of information
alIt- lrrnv Il.
Rhoads, Wheeling, W. Va at the Hoffman
House yesterday. but the sixteen
| THE DEvEL- foot vein of coal that has proved
| OPMENT OF 50 valuable to my state Is the
| WEST same coal that exists along the
| VIRGINIA Monongahela River in Pennsyl-
| vania and starts at point about
opposite the city Of Pittsourg. There the coal Is
only about five feet in thickness. or even less but
the vein keeps widening until 1t reaches the ruil
sixteen feet in West Virginia. While understand
that the coal loses little in its steaming property
the deposit increases. it is not SUFFICIENT to make
very great difference. My father when young
| lived the Monongahela some sixty miles south
| of Pittsburg and he told me that while coal was
all through that country the inha btants did
| gard It OF any value. They used to dig 1t out
to warm their houses in winter. but they did not
| think 1t possessed any commercial Importance II
the down river coal that was worth the money
Curously enough this theory was maintained until M
river began to- exhaust and the great Pittsburg
| manufacturers were forced to look further afield
Germs % had this this up river coal tested and so sts-
factory the result that they quietly sailed in
| and bought up about 1000 acres at farm land
! prices. Then others becbame aware OF the coaI 5
and in a couple of years land that had gone a-beg-
ging at $50 readily brought 800 TO s125 an acre
| In the mean time a steady development had
! been going on n West Virginia. Ex-senator Henry
C. Davis. Of my State, was one OF
| SENATOR the first men to realize the gigantic
! DAVISS possibilities the future held for
| FORESIGHT. West Virginia, and being drst in
| the field secured enormous holdings
Of coal and timber lands comparatively small
pense. Later his son-in-law Senator Elkins. Rich
| ara Kerens. of St Louis. and a number OF other
! prominent men became associated with him. The
| West Virginia Central and Pfttsburg Railroad was
| built, the Davis Coal and Coke Company started
and Senator Davis reaping the just reward for his
foresight became an enormously wealthy and pros
peCtively Weather In the '7Os, when he be
gan buying these lands cost almost nOthtng-tudeed
| were worth almost nothing, there then existed
| no means 10 get either the coal or lumber to the
| markets. To-day lands that cost twenty-1 years
ago but small worth more hundredS thaI
| they dollars when first purchased. Where &
wilderness existed thriving towns and villages now
| exist and from what but barren mountain
| sides not valuable agrtCulturally when Gar.
field became President coal is being shipped around
| Cape Horn. Europe is short OF coal and Mes
Virginia will make up its deficit for West Virginia
| Is the nearest coal state to tidewater, and this
| nrcyinitv IS sure to give her the call on the com
| ing European trade. All in all, II Is a most Won
derfu change to have been produced In two dec
AIDES but then II Is epitome OF the poSsibii-
ties this wonderful country OF ours continually ar
fords.'