The times., 1901-03-29
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.

LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.
Representative Cooper. who returned
from a trip to Cuba several days ago.
says that he is glad to be on dry land
again. He had an unpleasant experience
OH the voyage back, from Havana on
little boat some 20e feet long that plies
between that port aud Miami.
ut Was real hurricane that we
struck said Mr.. Cooper. in relating his
experience last, night And it, kept
some of us praying for quite q number of
hours The little boat was tossed about
like a chip in a mill race. and 1t seemed
to be standing on end when it was not
dashing and rolling over us. until the
deck was most dangerous place to be
on, and things We're altogether 50 bad
that five of the sailors becam sick We
were out of sight Of land for long
while. and the boat was nearly six
a West indian hurricane you have no
idea of the violence of the wind.
Representative William Conncll OF
Scranton, Fa., is. in Washington. He
has been in Philadelphia and in other
parts of his State since the close of Con-
gress His district. the Eleventh, is in
the heart of the anthracite coal regions.
Il am confident that some means will
be found to bring about an aTnicable adj
justment of the differences between the
miners and operators" he said last night.
Il do not believe that there will be
a strike, and am sure the miners want
none The only contention now is for the
recognition of the union; the men have
had all other demands acceded to. Presi-
jant oil fG n hrfp fpri1t nd de-
termined one; yet | think that he will
find a way to withdraw the demand for
the recognition of the union, 20 reach
some satisfactory agreement. ]. Pierpont
Morgan before the end comes viii doubt
less interfere, and probably it is his word
that is needed. l take 40 stock in all
these strike rumors.
..The Acknowledgement of the negro is
likely To prove a boomerang for the Dem
ocrats," said w. Fl. McMullen. of Fais-
ous. N c.. at the Raleigh, last night.
Before the disfranchisement act was
passed. said Mr. McAIullen, the Re
publican party was the 'nigger party.
Very few white men voted the Republ-
can ticket. Those who had Republican
principles did not care to vote that tick
ct because it represented the negro ele-
ment, and those who did vote with the
colored men We're the poorer class of
whites. But the conditions are changed
now. The Republican party is not the
niger party, because there are PRACTICAL
ly no negroes in politics. The RepubN-
can party is as good as any and if you
feel like Republican, you can vote the
Republican ticket. There are lots of peo-
pie in the South now who are Rapubli-
cans. The country is being rapidly filled
With mill operatives who have been i'm
ported from the North With the negro
practically eliminated from politics they
feel free 10 DO as they wish / live in n
little town where the votes cast any
year do not amount To more than 300.
Ihere were about fdaFr white men voting
with the Republicans previous to the
change in the registration laws but now
there are nearly forty-dve of them The
Democratic party has created for itself
opposition which Is really To be feared"
"The automobile has not yet gone be-
yond the stage Of Tho toy said Charles
W. Shaw. OF New York at the Arlington
yesterday. Mr.. Shaw is an inventor and
has developed large number of articles
which have made a great commercial sue
cess. You can still class the automobile
with the pioHograpIf and other meehani-
cal playthinSs wlrielt have not yet quite
reached the poirffA where they are really
able machines have beS,F built. but they
all have defects. TIE ideal automobile Is
vet To be made 1t should be light and so
easily handled that it could he driven by
q child. II should be noiseless and odor-
less and cheap of oreratio There is no
one machine now made which Includes
even a majority of these virtues, and IN
fact many machines have none of them.
L believe the horseless carriage AZ going
to bG developed. however. and that In
few years we will have an ideal vehicle
President Trigg, of the Richmond Iron
Works. was in Washington for a few
hours yesterday on his way to Annapolis
whore his two latest torpedo boats are
being tested. we have put the best
that we have of ingenuity and skill and
material in them and they ought to
prove speedy and strong. / was unfor-
tunateiy detained South and shall not ar
rive in Annapolis until after the trials.
! feel pretty confident OF the results. how
ever.
I'VE are congratulating ourselves upon
the record We have made in getting our
three boats out. Out of the entire batch
which was ordered by the Government
ours are the first to be put on their
trials. We have the Dale and the De-
catur. the destroyers, on the stocks yet
but they will be off the ways we hope in
two or at most three months
The Department of Agriculture is
studying the conditions OF all our new
island possessions. said Secretary VIII
son yesterday. Experiments are now be
ing made with rubber and forage plants
and all kinds of plants which viii supply
sustenance for an animal in those parts
of the world. We want to teach the
brown men how to grow the tropical
plants which we now import from other
countries, SO that We may buy from them
we nave sent q man already to Hawaii
to establish an experimental station and
after July ]. the beginning of the fiscal
year, we shall do the same thing in Porto
Rico. We shall go to work in the Philip
pines as soon as they will let us. But We
snail not ask Congress for an apprOpria-
ton before We know where We can hitch
our horses