Evening star., 1902-01-28
Prospect of Shepard Being Nomi-
mated for Governor.
PLANS TO ENTERTAIN PRINCE HENRY
General Woodford Dimes With a
Prominent Chinese Merchant.
MAYOR LOWS RECEPTIONS
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star

| Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
NEW YORK, January 81. 1902.
| Tammany democrats, Kings county demo-
Gratis and democrats from up the state say
| that the present regency of Tammany had
caused no change in the plan made by
| Richard Croker soon after the last election
to nominate Edward NJ Shepard for gov
ernor this year. The friends of former
I Comptroller Bird s. Coler, who has guber-
material aspirations, say that he is an en-
thusiastic supporter of Shepard for the
democratic nomination for governor. The
| upstate democrats say that they do not be-
lieve that any democrat can be elected gov
ernor this year, and under the circum-
stances every democrat north of the city
line is quite willing that the Croker-Mc-
Laughlin combination shall continue in con-
troll of the state committees and name the
entire state ticket. Croker is reported to
have suggested the nomination of Shepard
few days after the election. The sugges-
tfon was well received by Mclaughlin and
his lieutenants, some of whom do not love
Mr.. Coler any more than Croker loves him.
Old-tlme politicians say there has not
been a time since the war when at the be-
ginning of a year in which a governor is
to be elected the democratic party in the
state was so demoralized and hopeless as it
is dJ the present NO Well-lI-
formed democrat will venture a prediction
that anything can happen that would make
possible the election of democratic state
ticket this year. If Regent Nixon of Tam
many wants to cement the alliance with the
Kings county organization and deliver the
Tammany delegates for Shepard, the up
state democrats say they will put no OBJ
stace in his way. 1t is even intimated that
Mr.. Frank Campbell of Bath will retire
from the craftsmanship of the state COM
mittee at the convention, and that the
Tammany-McLaughlin combination will be
permitted to name his successor without
opposition. In that event Senator Patrick
Henry McCarren Of Kings will likely 0uc.
ceed Mr.. Campbell.
Nixon Getting Tired Already.
Nixon is already beginning to realize the
nature of the contract he has assumed, and
it is said that the sporting element in the
wigwam is making pools on the time that
will elapse before he announces that he has
grown tired of the job. Hardly had Croker
taken leave of the states before the inside
cliques in Tammany got to work There
are at least three pronounced factions in
the wigwam, and each is laying it's plans
to get control of the organization. All
three realize that the upheaval has begun,
that internecine strife and turmoil are
ahead, and each wants to be on top when
the contest is over because every Tamma-
ny man believes that sooner or later Tam
many will get the key to the city treasury
again, and that there will be fortunes for
the combination that rules the machine.
To Entertain Prince Henry.
New York has got as far as the appoint
ment of a committee to devise ways and
means to entertain Prince Henry, and the
German residents have decided on a torch
light parade with 30 900 in line. This COM
mittee will thrash out its program this
week. 1t is about settled that there will
be a gala performance at the Metropolitan
Opera House. and Heinrich Conreid man.
ager of the German Irving Place Theater,
has been notified by Baron Won Holleben,
through Consul General DR.. Buenz, that
permission to give gala performance
there during the presence of his royal high
ness Prince Henry of Prussia has been
granted. His royal highness will attend the
Irving Place Theater on February 30, Mr..
Conreid announces. For this occasion the
prices for seats have been advanced the
surplus money received to be devoted to
charity. Cards for the performance will be
issued bearing the name of each recipient.
All who attend the theater are requested to
appear in evening dress. If the prince is
prevented from attending the performance
on the 22d of February tickets issued for
that date will enttle the bearer to the
same seat for the evening when his royal
highness will attend the theater. The
choice of the play has not yet been made
Dinner to Gen. WOodford.
Gen. Stewart l.. Woodford, ex-United
States minister to Spain; his wife and a
party of friends were the guests of Lock
Wing, vice consul of the Chinese consulate
of this port, at a dinner given last week
at the oriental restaurant of the Mann
Fong Lowe Company in Pell street. The
dinner was strictly informal, and was given
in honor of Gen. Woodford, who some time
ago expressed a desire to partake of Chi
nese foods. He has known Vice Consul
Wing for a number of years. and few
months ago, when discussing temDting
dishes he had partaken of in r,any coun-
tries of the world, he remarked that he had
never tasted Chinese cooking. Mr. Wing
Immediately extended him IN invitation to
accept Of his hospitality, with the result
that the dinner was held. 1t was one of
the costliest that has ever been given in
Chinatown since Ii Hung Chang's visit to
this country. The rarest of Chinese foods
were served, and the dinner was heartily
enjoyed by the party. See Cow, the native
drink of the Chinese, was served during the
meal After the dinner Mr.. Wing escorted
his guests through Chinatown, and all the
places of interest were visited. The Joss
House and the Chinese Opera House were
seen and cordial welcome extended to
Gen. Woodford and his party In the party
were Mrs. Woodford, Frederick Tenant,
Miss May Ross and others.
Ask Aid of Carnegie.
A movement, in which the Tennessee
Federation Of Women's Clubs is greatly in
terested, has been started to have Mr.. Car
negie give an amount Of money, which
shall be known as the Southern library
fund, the interest of which shall he ap-
piled to assisting libraries already estab-
lished in small places in the south, and to
forming new ones. The library committee
Of the federation has done noteworthy
work among the mountains of Tennessee
particularly in the establishing and cfrcu-
lating of travelling libraries through that
isolated and mentally starving district. 1t
controls now thirty-five of these libraries
containing from thirty to one hundred vol
umes each. The stories. which are re-
ported to the committee by the different
persons who undertake to act as agent for
the reception and distribution of books in
the various communities. of the almost
pitiful eagerness with which these books
are welcomed and read, would fill vol
ume. 1t Is difficult for persons living in
centers where books are almost a weari-
ness to appreciate the craving for them
that exists in many remote parts of the
country.
Mayor Low Not q Good Receiver.
1t is subject Of frequent remark In the
mayors Office that Mayor Low, with all
his experience In public life, has not
learned to handle crowd Of visitors In :
way to get rid Of them quickly without
offending anyone When receiving yisito,.s