The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-11-02
Gossip Caught IN
The Hotel seobbies.

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the Hotel erobbiies.
.one never knows how big this United
States is until he has chased around it
for some time said Prof. Charles E.
Mallory, OF Quebec, as he stood in tue LOBBY
Of the Lexington yesterday. Prof. Mall
1ory is a roun6ed sort Of an Individual
and travels for a big music house. And
he continued, zone, however. Vivid his
imaSlnatlons, can never dream of the in
finite variety of weather on tap in these
United States until he has within the
space OF ten days passed through every
thing from a. blizzard to a simeon, all
thin the United States.
Something more than a week ago left
Frisco, where the man with the straw
that IS yet looked upon as sane. and where
the flowers are as thick as politics in
Kentucky, and made my way up through
AAlnnesota, in spots burning waste, to
the edge of Canada, where L ran head-on
into snow storm. threw away my
straw hat and linen buster and invested
in an overcoat. When LETT there small
fringe of fc.cles on the whiskers was quite
the proper caper. Then l came down
through Cincinnati to Richmond, amt
when got here to-day was almost long
ing for the straw hat again. rom here
am going on down into Florida, where
they tell me the population hangs itself
out on the orange trees to sleep, because
of the intense heat. l expect to come back
with the yellow fever.
Prof. Mallory stopped long enough to
tan himself vigorously.
You know" he continued. lin these lit
tie places like England, where every time
you go out in the back yard, You are
afra.u you'll step in the ocean, they don't
know anything about weather. In that,
as in everything else, the United States
leads the world
Captain H. y. Patterson and his wife
are at Murphys. Captain Patterson is
IN the United States Engineer Department
of Naval Architecture and is . superln-
tendent of construction. He is here to
look over the final plans for the sea go
ing dre6ge now being built by the Tr1gs
Ship Yards and will leave to-day, prob
ably, for Maine.
Books might be written upon that
glowing .opic, How Success succeeds.
One OF these might be devoted, thinks
George B. Morton, of st. Louis, who is
now stopping at New Ford's. to the life
and tremendous success OF youth who
has risen from nothing to all in Missouri.
This man is David r. Francis. In talking
Oh Mr.. Francis and his success yesterday,
Mr.. Morton said:
''He is an example of the highest type
of the successful man. When a young
man he was penniless at the time he be-
gan his struggle with life in St. Louis;
by the time he was thirty he was worth
million; when he was thirty-four he
was mayor Of st. Louis, ana before he
was forty he was the Governor Of has
State. Then he rose to be member OF
the Cabinet, becoming Grover Cleveiaud's
Secretary of the Interior during Mr..
Clevelaud's second term
Just now Mr.. Francis is president of
the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, which
will be held in ST. Louis in 1903, and the
best man in the world for the place. He
is, I believe, one OF the wealthiest and
most level-headed business men In this
country, and his administration of the
affairs Of the great exposition have
shown an executive ability which is all
coulpTehending. Associated with Mr..
Francis in the management of the expo
sition are many Of the wealthiest men Of
the West, but Mr.. Francis is the best
OF them ALL
Mr.. Morton is a native born Virginian,
by the way, and evidenced keen interest
in the present political fight in this
State. Incidentally, he brought from
Missouri-ward a. breath Of the opinion of
President Roosevelt, which has arisen as
a result of the noted dinner to Booker
Washington.
II don't know how that dinner affected
people in this part of the country he
said, in referring to the political situation
in Virginia, but it has ruined him alb
solutely in every place 1 have visited
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declared when Roosevelt was sworn in
that he would within a. few weeks either
do something which would make him Pres
ident OF the United States to succeed
himself, or else he would do something
which would kill him politically. think
he has done just that thing.
I'm every part OF the country l have
seen, and all through the South and
Southwest there is a feeling Of disgust
that President Roosevelt should have
made such a mistake. am well ac-
quainted with his personal character, but
I have never been able to figure just why
he should have done such a thing. Pos
sibly. he didn't think what he was doing:
possibly. the Importance Of the thing had
never struck him; possibly, it was a play
to the grandstand which failed.
81 believe that If Booker Washington
had had the tact to refuse that invitation
to dine at the White House he would
have been the greatest negro on earth In
the popular estimation. Washington
himself has caused surprise In the mat
ter, because it is q well known fact that
he has never stood as an advocate Of
social equality I personally believe that
he would have been the saviour OF his
race if he had followed out the lines of
work he had laid down
From what I hear here understand
that Roosevelts act has alienated a large
proportion of the vote for the Republican
gubernatorial candidate in this State.
Is that so? AT any rate. it has killed
Roosevelt and destroyed completely his
sudden popularity everywhere I nave
been"
Hon. E. E. Montague. cousin of Attor-
ney-General \. ]. Montague. suberna-
torial candidate for Governor on the Dem
ocratic ticket, is at Murphy's. Mr. Mon
tague is from Hampton.