Evening star., 1900-11-20
IN HOTEL CORRIDORS.

McCumber of that state to the representa-
tive of The Star b
I'VE have about forty counties in the
state and every one of them rolled up
publican majority. The people Of my state
are very conservative and the victory of
! the republican party was due to the fact
that they could not swallow the radical
principles advocated by Mr.. Bryan. We
have prospered under the administration of
Pre- sident Mckinley and we are willing to
continue in the path which made prosperity
possible .
Speaking of the defeat of Senator Petit
grew and the flop of South Dakota to the
republican column, Senator McCumber said:
| The defeat of Senator Pettigrew was
setted fact from the time the campaign
opened and nobody, who had any knowledge
| OF the situation in South DakotasAwas at
all surprised al the final result. His case
Is exactly similar to that of Mr. Bryan's.
| He was too radical for the people OF the
great northwest. South Dakota went for
| the fusion ticket four years ago by very
small margin, and it required the greatest
care to keep the many factions OF the party
together After the Kansas convention
| when 1t became apparent that the demo-
Gratis were very lukewarm In their support
| or silver. disintergation set In, and the
ties which bound the fushionists together
were severed. This insured Pettigrew's de-
| feat"
| Mr.. w. w. Bryan, formerly of San Fran
cisco, but for the past ten years resident
of Mexico, chatted pleasantly about the
commercial conditions of the southern re-
| public, in the lobby Of the Ebbitt
my interests are all in the southern part
of the country said he, ''in that portion
of Mexico which was formerly a part OF
| the vice royalty Of Guatemala under the
| Spanish rule. We are developing at very
| rapid rate, owing to the immense amount
| of capital which is flowing into the country.
A very fair idea of the way investments
are being made there was recently fur
| nished when a South African syndicate
| bought up all the street railways of the
| City of Mexico. The price paid was Sll,-
100000 in Mexican money, and all the syn
| dicate really received in exchange for the
money was a lot of half-dead mules lot
of old, worn-out rails and the franchise.
| The last was the valuable part of the pur-
| chase, however, under the old mule sys-
tenn the roads were said to pay the oper-
ating expenses for the entire day with the
| fares taken in by o'clock in the morning,
| the receipts for the balance of the time,
until 1 at night, being dividends.
| 'As soon as the syndicate completed the
| purchase they Immediately set about trans
forming the system into a modern trolley
| line. with the latest styles of equipment
in the way of cars etc.
| Under the old system there were first,
second and third-cass cars run. The syn
dicate attempted to run only tirst-class cars
| in the beginning, but they soon found that
| unless tney provided separate cars LOT tHe
| poorer classes they would lose large per-
| centage of their business. They now run
| first and second-class carriages.
Mexico looks to America for the capital
! to develop her resources, and. indeed, the
| majority of the enterprises now under way
| are in the hands of Americans. President
| Diaz is wonderful man and would be one
| of the leading men of any country, but IN
| Mexico ne is little short of a god All OF
! the steam railways of the country have
| adopted the same style of cars In
| use on the roads in this country.
Oregon" said Mr. D. N Bradford OF
| Portland, was the first state to foreshadow
the result of the election just passed. II
you want the reason for it go out to the
| coast and see the business We are doing.
| The most unpopular thing a man can say
| out there is Tear down the flag in the
| Philippines anywhere else. Our mer-
chants are busy handling increasing trade
| with China. Japan and the Philippines, and
the only reason they have for kick against
| the administration is that instead or giving
| up a part of Alaska we ought to have
grabbed the whole blamed business" Mr..
| Bradford Is a guest at the Raleigh.
| "Our forests are slowly but surely melting
| away said Mr.. J. b. Curtis Of Saginaw,
Mich, at the Metropolitan. Between the
| forest fires and the sawmlls the state Will
shortly become practically a treeess plain.
| We have an immense number of stave
| mills in the state, and the wood required for
| this industry is elm. This wood softens
| readily when subjected to steam, and when
| first cut into slaves is very handsome in
| appearance. 1t also works very readily for
barrel hoops These slaves and hoops are
used largely for flour barrels on account of
| their lightness and strength.
| These mills employ large number OF
men. and, together with the sawmills, they
! have driven the famous Michigan wood
| q field, These before
| the sawmills became so numerous, attained
| such skill that they could square tree
| with the ordinary broad-face quite
well as the best sawmill could do the work.
| While they took considerably more time to
do the work, when finished the faces of the
| stick of timber were almost smooth
| though they had been planed."
| Mr. Curtis said the lake trade had in
| creased very much, and the practical utIl-
| ity of the great waterway being recog-
niZed by the shippers of the northwest.
Mr.. Frederick Engel of Dresden. Ger
many, who is on his way home from
/ three-year tour around the world is a
guest at the Arlington. "One of the things
! which greatly impressed me-" said Mr. En-
gel ''is the wonderful progress Japan has
made during the past ten years. One in
| dustry struck me being very fine ex-
| ample of the genius of the japanese. This
is the brewing Of beer. There is hardly any
|
| good reason that they are making better
| article themselves.
| Their breweries are modelled after those
of Germany, and foreigners find that the
native brew is preferable to that coming
| from Germany and America in bottles /
| crossed the Pacific in company with two of
| the largest brewers in Japan, who We're
| then on their way to Munich for the pEr-
pose of studying some of the new pro-
| cesSeS.'
| Mr.. Engel said he found great many
| Americans in business in the orient. Where
| ever great industrial enterprises We're being
| inaugurated the American capitalist and
| the American engineer We're sure to be in
terested Mr.. Engel was in China at the
time of the Boxer rising, but was fortunate
enough to escape without injury.
"One of the first things which strikes
stranger is the lack of station facilities for
the railways running into Washington"
said Mr.. R. L. McAuley of ST. Louis at
| Chamberlin's.
THE Union station In St. Louis is prob
ably one of the finest railway depots in