The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-29
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.

LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.
Representative Cooper, who returned
from a trip to Ctiba several days ago.
says that he Is glad to be on dry land
again. He had an unpleasant experience
on the voyage back from Havana on
little boat some 200 feet long that plies
between that port aud Miami
at was real hurricane that we
struck" said MIR. 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 chip in n mill race. and 1t seemed
to be standing on end when 1t was not
lying on its side. The waves came
dashing and rolling over u.s. until the
deck was II most dangerous place to be
on. and things We're altogether 50 bad
that five of the sailors became sick. We
were out of sight 6f land for a 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. Pa. is. in Washington. He
has been in Philadelphia and in other
parts of his State since the close of Com
gress. His district, the Eleventh, is in
the heart of the anthracite coal regions.
II am confident that some means will
be found to bring about an aT1icable adj
justment of the differences between the
miners and operators" he said last night.
Il do not believe that there will be
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-
dent Mitchell Is bright man, aSd de-
termined one; yet | think that he will
find way to withdraw the demand for
the recognition Of the union, or to reach
some satisfactory agreement. j. Pierpont
Morgan before the end comes will doubt
less interfere, and probably it is his word
that is needed. L take no stock in all
these strike rumors.
..rhe Acknowledgement of the negro is
likely to prove boomerang for the Dem
ocrats," said W. Fl. McMullen. of FATS
oHs, n. G.. a. the Raleigh, last night.
Before the disfranchisement act was
passed." said Mr.. McMullen, the Re
publican party was the niger party.
Very few white men voted the Republic
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 were the poorer class Of
whites. But the conditions are changed
now. The Republican party is not the
'nigger party, because there are PRACTICAL
~ no negroes in politics The Republic
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 th.. South now who are Republic
cans. The country is being rapidly filled
with mil operatives who have been i'm
ported from the North. With the negro
practically eliminated from politics they
feel free to do as they wish | live in n
little town where the votes cas-. any
y ,,s Go not anfd'int to more than 900.
There were about four white men voting
with the Republicans previous to the
change in the registration laws. but now
there are nearly forty-live of them. The
Democratic party has created for itself
opposition which is really to he feared.
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'The automobile has not vet gone be-
yond the stage Of the toy" said Charles
w. Shaw. of New York. at the Arlington
yesterday. MIR. Shaw is an inventor and
has developed largs number of articles
which have made a great commercial sue
cess. You can stiH class the automobile
with the pboHograph and other meei.,ni-
cal playthinszs which have rot vet quite
reached the poinfs where they are really
commercial and disable. Many service
able machines hatcsbesm built. but they
all have defects The ideal automobile Is
yet to be mad. 1t should be light, and so
easily handled that 1t could be driven by
a child. It should he noiseless and odor-
less and cheap of operation. There is no
one machine now made which Includes
even majority of these virtues. and In
fact many machines have none of them.
believe the horseiess carriage Is going
flPHrplaf.atf however n
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,
where his two latest torpedo boats are
being tested I'VE have put the best
that We have of ingenuity and skill and
material in them and they ought to
prove speedy and strong l was unfor-
tunatel, 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
trials. We have the Dale and the De-
catur. the destroyers, on the stocks yet,
Dut they Will be OF 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 will 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 a 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
shall not ask Congress for an apprOpria-
tion before We know where we can hitch
our horses"