BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-03-18

dealers as in the remark of a prominent
Wall Street broker. This man is one of
thu busiest on the floor of the Stock Ex-
change, and when the other night he was
asked for an opinion as to the relative me-
,rits of gut strung racque.s and those covered
with sheepskin said:
ssWell, all the brokers on the Exchange
with whom have talked about ping pong
seem to favor the gut strung racquet.n
And this would certainly seem to prove
that at certain times in the day brokers talk
Of other things than stocks.
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Persons who fancy that horse can get
his feet wet with impunity are in error,
according to q local veterinary surgeon.
| This mans practice is confined principally
to public cab horses, and for the last ten
days he has been up night and day attend
ing cases Of spinal meningitis. All of them,
| he declares, have been caused by the pa
TENTS standing in the snow and slush, with
which the streets have been covered.
eTkere are few abuses to which the horse
is subjected" said this doctor, ssmore dis
astrous than leaving him for any length OF
time in snow that is even fetlock deep. II
it does not bring on spinal meningitis it is
almost certain to result in acute laminits or
founder. Pavemeuts on which salt has been
sprinkled to melt the ice or snow are parti-
cularly dangerous. The salt when it beco-
mes saturated plays the mischief with a
horses hoof. have known cases where the
animal has been made absolutely worthless"
Spinal meningitis is considered fatal, and
unless the patient is an extr+ 'nely valuable
animal it is put out Of its suffering as soon
a. the disease develops.
There has heen more four finland driv-
ing in New York this week than is usually
seen at this season of the year, and among
q class, moreover, that does not, as q gen.
eral thing, 90 in heavily for this ancient
diversion. Tk3 blizzard drives and the con.
sequeAt heavy gong have been confined
exclusively to truckmen and drivers of beet
and milk-wagons.
| In the handling of their tours, these driv.
ers violate all know ethics of coaching. Nine
out OF every ten brazenly drive with both
hands-in itself an objectionable offence.
Most of them find it more convenient to
take the of leader and wheeler 10 the right
hand and the near wheeler and leader in the
l
West traffic, this is from the amateur coach.
mans point of view atrociusly bad form !;
nor is it considered quite Sportsmanlike to
keep ones leaders straight by hurting Jumps
of coal at them at critical moments. Tnls
was what one truekman resorted to in work
ing his four through Broadway, and, bow.
ever crude the method may have been, it
was eminently effective.
Selection Of the "Osptains of Industry"
for the Prince Henry luncheon, kindled
more sappu ssed wrath than any selected
list Rince Ward McAllister innocently pub .
lishsd, in his book, the names OF the cap.
tains of soeisty. The question when
commissioned officer of industry, so to
speak, becomes captain, and what shall
satitls one Of two men to that rank, when
both hold equal positions in the industrial
world, has been discussed With good deal
of angry animation since the luncheon, and
scithout reaching very definite conclusions.
A captain Of industry, may he banker, an
inventor, q railway president, q physician,
an astronomer, rsar.admiral, statistic IN,
q librarian, an insurance oficer, or msr.
chant. This is sufficiently catholic meth
cd Of choice, but the trouble was that it
drew the line all the more severely against
q multitude of conspicuous men in exactly
the same lines Of work, who, naturally,
could not see what claim to captainship
their associates had which they did not pos
sess.
It has not been possible to learn on pre-.
cisely what basis or bases the line was
drawn, and no one has appeared anxious,
tkis week, to svow responsibility tor the
construction Of the Inst. TIE effort of al
morning paper, some years ago, to publish
in q s'sCpplemenp the names OF American
millonaires, with the estimated fortune oil
each, was recalled in the same connection. |
In that case, however, the number Of more
or less INDECENT persons who were promoted
to wealth beyond the dreams of avarics |
created sn opposite impression from that oil
the present week.
Adriana came simpsring TO her mistress.
Gould she have the evening cut = Mister
johnson was in the kitchen--and giggies