The evening times., 1900-01-15
In THE HOTEL CORRIDORS.

In The HUTEL GURRlDURS.
Judge A. T. Bliss, former Representa-
tive. is at the Arlington from Saginaw,
Mich Mr.. Bliss is here looking after
some legal matters and will remain sew
eral weeks
j. W. Richards. of Iowa, has returned
to the city and is quartered at the Nor
mandie Mr.. Richards is Speaker Hen
derson's private secretary and has been
attending to the State campaign.
Eddie Bald. the weii-known cyclist,
passed through the city this morning and
was at the Regent for several hours. The
Cannon Bali will do little except train
during the winter and expects to eclipse
even his best work when the spring re-
turns He looked prosperous. having
adorned himself in gorgeous raiment and
many diamonds. He received warm vel
come from his local admirers.
Il do not see why Porto Rico is dis
criminated against by the custom houses
in the United States said A. A. Jurose,
of San Juan. at the Shoreham today. The
island might as well be foreign and IN
dependent state for all the benefits Of tafin
obtained 1t is now as much part of the
United States as il New York. and yet We
are treated as foreigners. This ought TO
be remedied.
Il suppose you know who Magnus A.
Hess, the original Mckinley man, is, said
p. A. Warner, of Chicago, at the Raleigh
today. We'll, he is still alive. and still
holds that he is the most abused man on
earth. | met him last week, and he sent
me away mourning and filled with badly
written literature. He acquired nOtorlety
some years ago by his persistent advO-
cacy of the candidacy of Mr.. Mckinley for
the Presidency, and in 1892 was con-
spicuous figure in Minneapolis during the
National Republican Convention. He ran
a little printing Office in Chicago and every
day or TWO issued appeals to the people 10
vote for Mckinley. These appeals were
such strange and wonderful documents that
their Iudicrousness attracted attention, and
secured wide circulation. His failure 10 De
rewarded by Mf. Mckinley when the latter
became President filed Mr. Hess with
much disgust and for a time be issued
quaint denunciations OF the Admlnlstra-
tion / see that he has sued his sister-ln-
Law for sl00, 900 for having. as he alleges.
caused his wife TO leave him. Perhaps ne
is trying to collect his campaign printing
bills"
Matthew Stanley Quay. of Pennsylvania.
appeared at the Arlington this morning
in no very genial mood. He has refused
to give out any statements 10 newspaper
men. or TO be interviewed in future. be
cause Of the work Of a New York morning
paper. This organ. hearing one day last
week that Mr. Quay was giving a banquet
TO a number Of Senators appeared in the
next issue with a long story on the Quay
dinner and the number Of Senators VINO
had slighted the host After the story hal
been printed accompanied by cartoon, 10
was learned that Mr. Quay had not given
any dinner and that the whole story was
based on the fact that Mrs. Quay had held
a o'clock reception which was attended
by a number of fashionable ladies' The
number OF carriages and the willingness
Of a eolored coachman to tell all that he
did not know led to the imagination that
the dinner was in progress. Mr. Quay is
very angry because of the story and his
door is closed to newspaper men He de
MES the entire statement and states that
Senator Penrose. a frequent caller. was
the only visitor on the night of the imag-
ined dinner.
'1 think that Americans have an alb
normally sweet tooth. said John Huyler
the candy manufacturer, who is at the Ar
hngton. from New York. for a few days
Il think that in the last six months in 1899
the value OF the candy output in New York
alone wgs at least $50. .000, 900 The total
output for the United States was at least
$4,000. O60 during the last year This
would give every man. woman, and child
in the country four pounds OF the best
candy
'I attended the University Of Strasburg
in 1853, said DR.. r. G. Burroughs of BOs-
ton, Mass, at the Ebbitt today and while
there met three men who were students
and bosom companions and whose names
are household words today. They we're
Roentgen. the discoverer Of the x-rays.
/ Tesla. the brilliant electrician, and Pader-
ewski the pianist. All three were very
good fellows but displayed no remarkable
genius al that time. and were in as many
scrapes as the rest of the students
Z Roentgen was the most StudiOuS of the
trio, and we used 10 predict that he would
make a great surgeon. Tesla was TO be-
come the attorney for the crowd and Pad
erewski was slated TO be a literary man