New-York tribune., 1900-01-25
THE PASSING THRONG.

I1IE ADO1NO 1IlhO4Nd.
Victor NJ. Clement, the South African engineer.
who was member Of the johannesburg Reform
Committee at the time OF the
AMERICAN Jameson raid and arrested.
WHEELBAR- together with the hfty-seven other
ROWS WERE members of the committee and
CHEAP. tried for his life. sailed yesterday
for England the White Star
steamship Oceanic. c. A. Williams, of johannes
burg, the representative Of the Standard OH Com
pany in South Africa, sailed the same vessel.
bound for the TransvaaI. The two are friends. and
Mr.. Clement the other day told the following story
about Mr. Williams:
when manager of the Simmer and Jack
mine" said Mr.. Clement, II went one day to Will
Jams and asked him why he did not bring out some
American wheelbarrows, all the Rand mines
wanted them. Williams said he would If he could
get sufficient orders. and promised to look into the
matter He went to the various mines, and as they
all wanted American wheclbarrOws he received
orders from each and every one Of them. This.
however ala not seem wholly TO satisfy Williams,
who then went to the local traders. and told them
TOT American lbarrows In the mines there, and
asked them why they didn't import some The
great, and forthwith authorized Williams to bring
them out supply. The wheelbarrows Williams
nearly a shpload. Upon their arrival he made his
m b reta 10 ene Hes % and theT turned over
once sent notices TO the various mines that they
had imported a supply of American wheeIbarrows.
was that that particular mine had a supply of the
The investigation which followed of course showed
them them h how they had been done They had been
and remarks about another of those d Yankee
tricks they took their medicine quietly and with
chastened spirits. American wheelbarrows, though,
were were the cheapest things you could buy in the
Last summer said Horace Emery of F2unalo
n. Y. at the Fifth Avenue Hotel yesterday at
made tour of Europe. and from
BELGIAN London I took courier with me
COURIER'S from the Hotel Savoy-he was the
RAGE AT same courier General Grant had
WATERLOO. when he made his famous tour of
the world-to act guide interpre-
ter and general Pooh Bah. The course OF our
travels took us TO Brussels and, being so near. I
naturally went down to the field OF Waterloo
Ever since the fight the English have accused their
Belgian allies of leaving them in the lurch in that
and eScitedy denied this aspersion on their honor
A Belgian YOU know, is as excitable as a French
Frenchman My Courier who Se was e of PTnsyaa PFga.x
nationality, secured Belgian guide and when we
fun So told the eourier to asS the tS hsyf gEa
from T135 e point int on the field It was the Begans
Brussels. Automatically and without in the least
peated it to the guide who instantly went up about
three feet In the air and began 70 talk with ex
atmosphere took on around him; with much pro-
meant no offence that was Simply an American er
in search Of information and that my guidebook
a moment later told the courier TO ask him what
was the reason the Belstans ran away at the bat
tie of Waterloo. Again. like a poll parrot or
phonograph, md the courier repeat the question.
we got him back to Garth bat he was now 'nSS sus
picious as he knew the courier was a Prusslan,
when later I asked what time of day It was when
Ie o lex KAN x coeI g be s1 on Inns ms coat and
me fifty bob to get the courier and myself off the
battlefield with whole skins. but the fun we'll
worth the money"
Jonathan King of Denver, Yesterday at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel. 'and lived there all
THE WASH my Hfe up to about twenty years
INGTON OF ago. when l went West to try to
TWENTY grow up with the country. Since
YEARS AGO. that time and until last month
have not had opportunity to
visit Washington. and Dec volente. don't think
ever again shall, for 1t gave me a homesick and
lonely feeling that haven't even yet recovered
from. A grown when left there l had a
wide personal acquaintance, and in the smaller
city of those days most OF the people 1 passed
upon the streets were familiar 20 by sight. To-
day walk the streets and know one. and most
away while those few that are left were
changed In looks and manner that Ii was almost
The city itself had also changed both in size and
the alphabet and the smaller numerals were much
as as thayy had h been In my time but the terrace
over the northwestern part OF the city. where as
evea hunted had spread a great and beautiful fii
residence section which was wholly me.
bered It's building in the seventies and how ex-
cited every one was about IT, and how foolish
Sir Edward Thornton thought at that time
10 be for having chosen site far beyond the then
residential section and In the open fields. Take
Mrs. Dewey's house. where Secretary Alger lived
when in Washington late as 1879 or 1850. I went
TO COup's circus the site OF that very house and
In the next block little wtIte roadside inn used
stand when 1 hoy. The centre. and prac-
tcally the limit to the northwestern section OF the
city at that time Mcpherson Square General
Buffers house stood where the Hotel Normandie Is
now. Hamilton Fish occupied the same house that
John Mclean now lives ia; and block away, on
the site OF the present Hotel ShOrehG the old
home OF Oliver Morton. Of Indiana, then occupied
by Levi p Morton OF this State. who a mem
ber OF Congress
Il went TO Washington intending to stay for
several weeks. but three days drove me away I
couldn't find any one l was acquainted with. Az
wasn't the city had known, and the manner and
mode OF life itself there had entirely changed and
70 feel as stranger in strange land In the city
or my birth made me so dreary that ned from
IL as though from the plague ITSELF"