The evening times., 1900-03-13
IN THE HOTEL CORRIDORS.


Representative Packer of Pennsylvania
returned to the city today from an eE-
tended vacation, and is quartered at the
N0Tmandie' 81. ..
Judge J. d; Yeomans OF Iowa. Inter-
State Commerce Commissioner. left
Chamberlin's this morning for San Fran
cisco on business. He will go via New
Orleans and VIII stop of in that city for
few days. r
J. C. Wright, Indian agent for the In
dian Territory, Is at the Normandie on
department business.
DR.. L. Z. Benson. NJ D.. one of the
Government physicians at Cape Nome is
at the Arlington from Alaska. He re-
ports the epidemic Of typhoid as having
passed and little sickness is expected dur
ing the coming summer. DR.. Benson viii
return to Cape Nome In April, when the
great rush Of goldseekers begins.
Patrick Farrelly of Morristown. New
Jersey, is registered az the Hotel Norman
die. MIR. Farrelly In addition 10 being a
prominent Democratic politician and a
member Of Common Council of Morristown
Is the president Of one OF the largest news
distributing companies I'm New York city
and is well-known throughout the state OF
New Jersey. He is here watching the Loud
Postal bill to see just how it will affect his
business interests Mr. Farrelly is a man
Of pleasing manners. wide business expert
ence. endowed with excellent judgment
and has a wide circle OF friends in New
York and New Jersey
fHlH
my. retired. is at the Arlington from New
York, accompanied by his valet.
J. s. Henley, a N4w York manufacturer,
who has just returned from a winter .aca-
ton In Florida, is quartered az the An,ag-
ton. Il am stopping over 20 get warm. -
said he last night as ! was nearly 'rozer
IN the land Of flowers As q fac. IL
seems TO me that the winters are getting
colder in Florida every year, and this
winter the temp lrature was anywhere
from fifteen to thirty degrees colder than
what you experienced IN this C. y. I have
been going over he hotel blotter. getting
the temperatures or each das and find
this 10 be true There will be no orange
crop this year. and Z don't believe the
growers VIII ever attempt 10 get lUother.
SIX years o. frost is enough To disgust
anybody"
There are many splendid opportunities
for American capital in Mexico. said John
b. H9rdy, the New York rice importer at
the Normandie yesterday Mr. Hardy is
an extensive traveller and recently com
pleted detailed trip through the little Re
public. NO other country offers so many
openings 10 the miner. manufscturer. capi
talisJ or planter and the growing pros
perify Of the nlace Is t,uIy Sa eyfdeUra
OF It's natural resources. the cheapness OF
labor. and the confidence in the stability
ot the Government Electric street rail-
roads and Fighting plants are being in
stalled in all OF the larger towns. and the
tendency toward other municipal improve
ments Is a source Of profit 20 the American
manufacturer Almost any investment in
land viii be found TO pay well. especially
IN coffee and rubber plantations below the
frost line in the southern portion aud in
sugar lands along The Pacific and Gulf
coasts. There are O number OF large Nor
mon settlements in the State Of chihuahua
which are fourishiuK prosperoC.ily on small
capital Many Americans are making for
tunes out OF the mines throughout the Re
public Already there are 600 silver mines
and over LOCO gold mines being operated.
and last year the value Of the.e metals cx-
ported was nearly $40 .OOe.UC0. IL no other
I country I'm the world are cotton mills nav
ing such dividends on the capitaI invested
as are those in Mexico. and new mauufac-
Hring plants OF every description are 20
-ns up all over the Republic. 10 has a great
future. and in developing itself it is beue-
I hunS the business men o. the United
states The importation OF machinery from
/ this country In the past year amounted 10
! over $4,000 eco"