New-York tribune., 1900-04-01
THE PASSING THRONG.

A 3. Campbell of Spokane who is one of the
most prominent mine owners ars operators of the
Coeur d'AIspe res. on was chairman
THE WEST Of the Idaho des sgation to the ST
BACK IN Louis Conv entiou of 1896 that nouli-
THE FOLD. mated William NJ cNinIey for Presi-
dent. Mr.. Gam lbeH. like large
majority of his trans-AIissis sipg hrethren. a
believer in free silver for the then exist
ing financial ills OF the Repu bt; and with the
ssrtou Of the gold standard pia nix IN the Rspubli
can platform bolted the no limitations and led
5of 9 1r our 91 1e & sgn Al q sne N
ing of the present aspect of pol tcal affairs in the
The Adrainistration's policy AT expansion is pop
ular with the Western people. no en- Enthusiastically
favor 1t. All the se-called Silver Republicans the
West are now back in the party fold. and although
I chairman OF the Idaho del sgation that boted
How viii Idaho o 90 this fae 1: is hard to ns%er
that question for local matters bear strongly
ernor is renominated he viii ur luestionabIv be re-
the Electoral VoTe or Idaho in % the Dsmoerafic
column. But Bryan and Bryant sm are unqueston-
years ago This is largely due to the great pros
Rey @ o 1t 6a Sae COUNTY and Lners r aSo Ine feeng
living issue, but like tlss gra enback question. II
believed that the quest on oss bine talsm alone
BFyan ; would have been esectai in 1895 but that
paig1 the Democrats introduced Socialism. that
the Supreme Court they ruin ed he partys Chances
y in the campaign aboul TO be fought out they
same questions think they win go down
The modern Florida as a winoss- resort was large
" developed by the late Henry 3 Plant and Henry
II. Fiagler Thu two were great
FLAGLERs friends. and their rivalry, as a con-
DIRECTIONS sequence, alvv avs Of the friend-
TO PLANT. Iy sort. To F1as Ter fell the east
coast with Miami his southern
most point, from which a line OF steamers TO
Cuba Plants southern terminus Tampa, from
which similar line ran 70 Havana To Plant one
hat E1ar-Ia z1rar he f0llo owing
invitation by wire:
Henry B. Plant, New-Tork City.
can't you Pay visit MTand7
H. NJ FLAGLER-
And straightway came the reply:
H NJ. FlagIer, St Augustine Fla
= Accept with much pleasure but " here on earth
In answer % this Flagler sent. the following
To e,535a Henry B Plant, New-Eork City
The late Sam Ward. every Of the pre-
vious generation knew was the gIeatest OF BON
vivants and a past MASTER in the
THE SEN art of dinner giving" SAID p "A
ATOR GOT Haynau. of Washirg gton. at the
THE WRONG Hotel Imperial yesterday. In the
DINNER DAYS when Uncle sam was IN the
fulness OF his glory in Washington
the great restaurant of the town as WeIcker's.
and 70 meet the then growing demand for private
dining rooms John Welcker had constructed an ad-
private dining room 70 floor, they eing reached
Ry a private stairway. one evening a party
Mr. Wards guests had assembled IN me Of these
rooms, and We're awaiting the coming of the final
guest Fifteen minutes. twenty-five cU1es.
by. then the host decided delay fouSer
and dinner was served. II had Just got into swing
when the door opened and Henry ". Blair. then
senator from New-Han1pShire, entered the
and looked around in deprecaring way Now
senator Blair was not the guest for VIII, the
lay had occurred. had he been inv ted the
dinner. but Wards ready mind grasped the sftus-
ton and in the most natural possible he point
afraid you couldn't come. and GO with
out YOU. That's your seat there With ex-
preston Of relief the Senator from Ne W-Eamp-
shire took the place indicated and dinner
passed gayly and successfully off n the
with Uncle Sans dinners
The next day, however. fellow Senator came
TO Mr.. Blair and said: Where the devil We're YOU
last night? We waited three-quarters OF an hour
for you Why didn't you send word?'
Where? What When2 What talk
ing about gasped the astonished Blair.
My dinner Welcker's. or course Tou ac-
cepted il In due form. the reply. Blair tried to
satisfying his friend that il had actually so come
pass. 1t that he had arrived AT v'elcker-x
and found that ne couldn't remember VINO. had IN
vited him 10 dine. He then late. and TO re-
home look at the invitation was out OF
the question. and he had hit upon the sxpeslent
presenting himself dining ro6sm after
another. thinking that sooner later 2 would
strike the right and his troubles for
ing be His ingenious scheme defeated.
however. by fortuftouS combination of
stances, aided by the nimble brain of sam Ward"