The evening times., 1900-03-07
In THE HOTEL CORRIDORS.

Stuyvesant Fish. President of the Illinois
Central Railroad. is at the Shoreham from
New York. attending to some business
affecting his corporation.
]. Clayton Erb, the Philadelphia ward
politician, who has been waging a strong
fight for NJ. S. Quay, is at the Normandie
from the Quaker City. He reports the out
look as very promising and believes that
his man will be seated by good majority
of the Senate votes
Commander r. H. Pinckney, of the South
Carolina Naval Militia, is at the National
from Charleston. He is in Washington
looking after some legislation needed for
his command.
Speaker Henderson was jubiant this
morning a the Normandie, having re-
ceived several kilograms from his Con-
gressional district in Iowa. endorsing him
and assuring him denomination and re-
election for at least another term. He
was congratulated by many of his friends.
for few hours this morning en- route from
New York to Galveston. Texas, where lie
will inspect improvements of the Southern
Pacific docks and terminals. He will give
his personal direction as 10 what Will be
undertaken in connection with his plan 10
concentrate the traffic of the overland and
Texas lines From Galveston he goes to
San Francisco to attend the meeting of the
Southern Pacific Company.
The news of the preparations for the
centennial celebration OF the removal of
the seat Of Government to Washington
mas created great interest throughout the
country" said E. A. Bishop. OF Savannah,
Ga. at the Raleigh today. THE matter
has already been discussed carefully in my
town, and we propose to send three com
panies to participate in the demonstration,
the Oglethorpe Light Infantry, the Savan-
nah Cadets, and the Republican Blues. We
expect the military parade to be the great
est affair held in recent years, and the
South will do her share TO add to the dis
play
There is absolutely no foundation for
the rumors of impending civil war in lower
Canada. because of the recent hostile dem
onstrations when the British flag was torn
II l.
the Ebbitt today.
Why, this will blow over. as have
thousand ether demonstrations, and Que
bee will still be a good portion OF the Do
minion. The French Canadians are with
cut doubt the most eXcitable people in
the world, and fly OFF the handle at the
slightest pToYoCatioD. Then. again. the
rival colleges. McGill University, a thor
oughly English institution, with its 5000
students. and Laval University. a Ere eh
college. with $500 students. are always
claShiEg. Why | have seen those fellows
do battle on a hundred different occasions,
and there is nothing serious in the recent
demonstration At the outbrelk OF your
war with Spain the Princeton boys in a
lark. burned Weyler in etiigy and tTampled
On the flag of Spain. This was meaningless,
yet il was spread broadcast and made a
serious matter There will be no civil
war in Canada. and the recent rumpus has
been forgotten. As an instance OF the na-
tuTe of the French Canadian population.
/ can remember when in 1884, the great
smallpox epidemic ragged in Montreal the
natives grew excited and worked them
selves up into great rage because for
sCOth, those stricken with the disease were
taken to hospitals. IL was a series OF
pitched battles to get patients into ambu-
lanees and resulted in the militia being
called out with galling guns. The French
Canadians did then what they did the
other day-tore down. British flags, spat
on them. and trampled them under f1Ct
Two weeks later the same people were
cheering the Union Jack as though they
loved it. threads and halyafds. Canada
is all right, and her most willing ani best
fighting volunteers are the French Cana
dians, the famed SiXty-ffth Battalion be-
ing shining eNample -
J. II. Bingham, Collector of Customs at
Birmingham, Ala. and William Vaughn
district attorney for that district. are at
the Metropolitan for a conference with Sec
retary Dick and Senator Hanna Both are
Republicans and rivals for the chairman
ship OF the State Committed