The evening times., 1900-03-13

Representative Packer of Pennsylvania
returned to the city today from an ex-
tended vacation, and is quartered at the
Normandie' Il 81.
Judge ]. 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 will stop off in that city for a
few days. II
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]. G. Wright, Indian agent for the In
dian Territory. is at the Normandie on
department business.
DR.. L. E. 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 at the Hotel Norman
die. Mr.. Farrelly in addition to being a
prominent Democratic politician and a
member of Common Council of Morristown,
Is the president of one of the largest news
distributing companies In New York city,
and IS well-known throughout the state oil
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 wide circle of friends in New
York and New Jersey.
Col. c. Floyd JONES' United States Ar
my. retired is at the Arlington from New
York, accompanied by his valet.
J. S Henley, a New York manufacturer,
who has just returned from a winter Vaca-
tion in Florida, is quartered at the Arl!ng-
ton. Il am stopping over to get warm,
said he last night, AS l was nearly frozen
in the land of flowers As fact, II
seems to me that the winters are getting
colder in Florida every year and this
winter the temperature was anywhere
from fifteen 10 thirty degrees colder than
what you experienced in this city. / have
been going over the hotel blotter, getting
the temperatures OF each day. and fnd
this TO be true. There will be no orange
crop this year, and ! don't believe the
growers will ever attempt to get another.
Six years OF frost is enough to disgust
anybody
There are many splendid opportunities
for American capital in Mexico" said John
b. Hardy. 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. mo other country offers so many
openings to the miner, manufa cturer. capi.
talist, or planter. and the growing pros
perity of the place is only an evidence
of its natural resources. the cheapress OF
labor. and the confidence in the stability
Of the Government Electric street rail-
roads and lighting plants are being in
stalled in all of the larger towns. and the
tendency toward other municipal improve =
ments is source of profit TO the American
manufacturer. Almost any investment in
land will be found 10 pay well especially
in coffee and rubber plantations below the
frost line in the southern portion and in
sugar lands along the Pacific and Gulf
coasts. There are q number of large Nor
mon settlements in the State of chihuahua
which are fiourishing prosperously on small
capital. Many Americans are making for
tunes out OF the mines throughout the Re
public. Already there are 5,Co0 silver mines
and over | 600 gold mines being operated
and last year the value of these metals ex-
ported was nearly $40 ,0Oc.OoO. In no other
country I'm the world are cotton mills pay
ing such dividends on the capital invested
as are those in Mexico. and new manufac-
turing plants OF every description are go
ing up all over the Republic II has a great
future. and in developing itself IL is bene-
fitting the business men OF the United
States. The importation OF machinery from
this country in the past year amounted 10
over $4,000 .oC0."