New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-03-03
THE PASSING THRONG.

IF you ever go up and down the Lackawann.
Valley. in Pennsylvania" said William j Bowen
commercial traveller for one Of thu
NAMED FOR big wholesale grocery houses O,
WEALTHY this city, at the Hotel Manhattan
MEN. you'll run across lot Of villages
with names that don't mean any,
thing in particular until you have asked about
them. and then you'll find the villages named
Scr Mea Itself m namsd tor @ c nj %
which has had representatives there ever since II
Just above Scranton is Dickson. named for Thomas
Dickson. the locomotive builder Going on up. you
named is large village. and is named for the
FAMILY that PRESIDENT Oypnant or t ME Deiaware
Vile was founded by the Pecks, who are the prin-
Of Scranton. Archibald was named for old Judge
Archibald, of Scranton. who died many years ago.
when he drfted into the coal fields ff1y years age
owns the Hotel Jermyn in Scranton. 6esiies ex-
tensve coal and steel properties. John Jermyn oy
know of who saw Queen Victoria crowned oyer
nifty years afterward During the interval he had
become one Of the most prominent coal men IN Ihs
villages have named were once so small as 70 os
of little consequence, no doubt but now some OK
papers banks and libraries, and they give the FAM
lies after whom they were named historic s'snin-
canoe in the State"
1T Is pity that religious scruples should be al
lowed to Interfere with business" said Broadway
LENT they still do a little. The theatre
GROWING was only two-thirds full Wednes-
SHORTER. day night. However. it might be
worse. Look II now. Every
seat full You wouldn't know il was Lent az all.
would you? The fact Is there are only two days
in Lent now anyway-Ash Wednesday and Good
Friday. There used TO be forty, and now there
won't make any difference 10 the theatres at all
What this country needs is a great fleet OF
tramp steamers" said Maze Josiah T. Daggett
OF the Mallory Line steamer
WOULD Nueces (Which sails for Galveston
HAVE MORE today yesterday We let FOR
TRAMP eigners DO almost all or our carry
STEAMERS ing for u.s. and lose lot OF
money by it. Everywhere YOU go
YOU see the British flag. II Is the British tramp
that carries our products to Europe. and 70 all
the countries OF the world, and. as for tramp
steamer flying the American flag. why. you don't
see II as often as the Flying Dutchman- Right
down here IN Galveston. when they have harvested
the cotton crop and are sending IT away. you VIII
see the harbcr full of British tramp steamers
waiting take that cotton abroad IL Is SAD
fact that America used TO he away Up al the top
as a scattering country, and the American ntg was
in every mort the world. whereas now the
American flag Is the last thing you want 20 look
Tor In n foreign port. I think | voice the unant-
anv shipping subsidy bill which VIII DO me moSt
good in the right place will be good tning- al,
the other countries grant shipping supsldles, ana
that Is why their ships are an over IHe WoILu-
The United States grants no subsidies ana conSe-
quentIy the foreigners cut under US ana our sap
ping business goes 10 the wall OF course, tne
number Of American ships for he IS generaI!y OUT
OF a Job. but the fact remains ana can easily pc
needs more for its good than a large increase
In the number OF its ships