New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-10-15
THE PASSING THRONG.

Captain George Cochran Broome Of Rnghamton
who is running for Senator on the Democrats
ticket in the XXXvIIIth Senate
FUTURE District has been appointed one Of
or the two Commissioners TO the Pan
NICARAGUA. American Exposition at Buffalo for
Nicaragua In speaking Of Mica
ragua, which he has recently visited at the Wal
dorf-Astoria yesterday, Captain Broome said.
Ii seems TO me that there IS a great future for
Nicaragua 1t is wonderfully fertile and hesItbfuI
country, and capable Of supporting a far greater
POPULATION than it at present has. The great need
70 develop it. on my tourney rom Cos Pop le
Managua the capital. bad chance to see the
country and It IS wonderfully rich We passed by
eo 9i corn fields and there signs Of pros
PPeIlty everywhere. I was in Nicaragua in July and
faIsIst, ahG Whle there had the pleasure OF meet
ing General Jose S. Zelaya the President OF the
soRaty and verv @g 5T6r e man q marked per
course the greatest interest that attaches 70 Mica
NlcaraguaIn Canal This canal I feel certain. is
backs to the Panama canal and the Nicsra 9TyS
route mas many advantages over t. The plans OF
used in the higher ocEs to P be- i hed water r b
5 soIs- ne evaporation in that climate in the
GlenL supply OF water in these reservoirs for the
nual expenditure IT, indeed il viii be possible at
AZ AZ IN me wet season. engineers believe the
torrent which the canal peopIe vii 6 Gnsbi Sr "a
6 sbIs r., A IN an dc not believe that they viii
even they should succeed in completing ~
tnued Captain Broome. is perfectly possible and
URGES struction II should h. coo1DIsea+
NICARAGUA at once. One great ADVANTAGE n viii
ROUTE. have Will he that you can float
feet in Lake Nicaragua, and could
thus control both oceans I am decidedly against
the canal being under joint control or in fact any
country having any authority u other than
the United States. I think also that when built
1T should be fortified In the dry seasons the
will Iarlr
lakes slong the route are natural reservoirs which
would conserve a sufficient quantity for the needs
than that Of Panama. Indeed the records show
workmen on the canaO only three dsatbs occ,t-raS
IN a tW9lyemonth-two from drowning and one from
Captain Broome comes OF distinguished ancestry
57lS 81 T Coi9nei John Bro2me was
IN Lao, and received a vote OF thanks from that
man by legislative body Of the original thirteen
states; was passed IN recognition o. his lending
to pay OF his regiment which refused to serve
coIonsI n M 81 S-ynr VII 4r va ~ Pii,d
airy War. He served in the Assembly and State
erao- OF the State. Broome-st in this city, and
Broome County are named for him His son. John
OF 1872 and loaned the city Of NewYor SO 900 with
ont S s6G fGT m Sf eF b. de ~9S later Gouny
John l. Broone. served in the Marine Corps rising
Marine Barracks at Brooklyn when he retired in
and +b-onqSot tSa Cifl Wa 5 Ssy ne Igss +i
brevetted for gallant and meritorous conduct. He
wounded both battles OF Nicksburg the last
time severely. George c Broome served IN the
Spanish War captain OF the 4th United States
Infantry, Immunes and rendered efficient service
Mt Campo chueIa Cuba. Of which town and district
he Military Commandart.
What woman do, whether with intent or
unconscousIy. is something that cannot be meas
ured by human standards. A
A WOMAN woman showed at the Fifth Ave
/ SCARED nue. Hotel the other day what she
| THEM AWAY. could do unconsciously. She
walked quietly into the corridor
and took seat on one Of the sofas IN the Amen
| corner II before the influx OF those who each
afternoon point out to each other how the Presi-
/ dental campaign should be conducted. and
| dispose Of the most momentous public
| questions. They began TO drift in,
| however and as each discovered the woman
| in the Amen corner he stopped short Then he
! crawled over and took a seat in the opposite
/ corner. Pretty all the seats were filed up.
! but the late arrivals drifted over to that corner
just the same and stood up For once they did
discuss the affairs of nations. That one woman
! absorbed their thoughts and their conversation
/ She demure, inohensve little woman but
7 it's actual fact that not man there had the
nerve occupy Of the half dozen extra sea =
( in corner. Finally her escort came along and
/ she departed. BY that time they standing
/ three deep across the way, and the stampede for
/ the corner she had vacated bore marvellous re-
! seublance to the rush IN a football game when
/ they are following the ball down the field.