New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-10-09
THE PASSING THR0NG.

John Barrett. who began his public career
Minister 20 Siam and IS credited % Ar
gentna in the same diplomats
FOREIGN IN relation. has been at the Wai-
TEREST IN dorf for several days. On Ccto-
ST. LOUIS Der 13 he Will sail on the Deutsch-
FAIR land for Liverpool He Will taea
make his wav down 70 Lisbon ard
take passage for BuenOs Ayres- Mr. Barrert's ca
rear involves some elements OF inspiration % "a
ambitious When he decided in his b0yhoOd home.
in Windhar County. Vt. 20 80 70 Dartmouth
he became the chairman OF the COMMITTEES CT
WAYS and means and the only way that was pre-
sented was to teach school IN the college vacations
He worked his way through college. ard when -
had done that. he explains himself he felr equal
TO any emergency that might confront him IN 80
path Of self-promotion- He went 70 the Pac,f1
Coast and settled in Portland ore. After his four
year term IN SIAM his next pubic service was 5
representative to the International Cornnnerc-al
Conference in the City OF Mexico. IN thu winter
OF 1901-O Since then he has been the Commissions
General Of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. ard
spent a year in girdling the globe 10 promote ths
interests Of that enterprise 1T may seem anon
aloUs. said Mr.. Barrett TO say II. but there .
now uanfestly greater interest in the exposition
in the capitals Of Europe and Asia. such Clues a.
London. Toxic and Picking. than in The population
centres Of this country II was hard Work % H.
governments came 10 Understand the scope Of js
enterprise. their interest was aroused 11ey wee
brated When they came to understand how great
that the United States Government would expend
magnitude OF the show II is now certain that t5s
come from all the foreign countries than went %
Scaling the demands that have come from 65Toai
for space. IT viii be obvious that the results taat
must in COTnirv that is bred oy contact aS
well as the trade benefits. viii be great help "a
dealing with all parts OF the world"
William Vernon Backus was a newspaper para
grapher IN Cleveland fifteen or twenty years asc.
but he IS 4 prosperous bank
SAYS RUBBER er in the Forest City. He is res
TREES NEED tstered the Waldorf 1Ir.
SHADE Backus was the producer. whe1
IN journalism. OF a quality q
hurlor which was served 70 the readers OF Tbs
Cleveland Press under tho significant caption o:
"Peptics" one OF which taken either before or
after meals for indigestion. Mr.
Backus studied law and admitted TO practics
in Senator Hannas bailiwick in 1850. He was
elected a member OF the Board OF Education IN
1895. when the federal plan Of scyernEeat vas
introduced In Cleveland. and served i've years n
that relation ~ years q the period president
OF the body. Professional business took him %
Mexico. He met former CIevelander who lad
gone TO the Diaz repUblic with $50 and had IL
creased IT 70 100000. He was impressed with t1s
money making possibilities OF the country ard
began a systemaJIo investigation OF the interior.
He travelled six hundred miles bUrro-back and
lived with the Indian natives until he had esc'ns
familiar with the soil products OF the coast section
north OF Vera Cruz He had endured physical
discOnforts and actual havdships. besides encoun-
tering some conditions Of real danger. but Ee vas
repaid for all in the valuable practical kroledss
Of the territory. He is the chief owner o.
thres rubber and vanilla plantations between Tan
pico and Tuxpam, about thirty miles from 20
Gulr ana mas 3otalneG D,'''i..-S
vanilla beans IN that section has been a prodtae.s
rr6Wing Of rubber trees is coparatvsly n 10
Infancy. The trees We culCivats-castilo u-slastes
weld a me quality or rubber, We htSs Mon ,SSr
some inJSres5ng eSpsrlISn MS anu pave S Out
in the open grow very rapidly but the mills q
rubber Is dried out By the SUM- thar they ~.
ySiedq sroR3h tpoa GSs acTs to A
fifty trees may he grown % maturity 81 We n.aI.
grow corn between the rows. Then cut oI- f1.l
the trees and set a uttle rubber from those -,
6egn t. yield a ST92 IN tae siN.R ZeS ,s y, ,69ut
quarter 81 a pound a year Until they Well lsss ~
to ten pounds annually. They VII pIogeee' min
ing field e Mexico are inport39,, but, Sg, '''
Judge Emile Rost. q New-Oresns who Qtit re
bench OF the District Court Of Louisiana tHi's -
ago. after fifteen years conunaous
WANTS NO service. is In the city He n'' -
FREE CUBAN president cf the LOUISIANA 49, -.
SUGAR. Planters Association tos $50 re
ten wears The reports sam o."
from some parts 81 our state WouH l.e-.,~,s,,
normal crop while N others drouth ana o,.- ~,
conditions OF weather will result 10 a sl' - me
result will be something under the ~, - ABOUT
whole Stlte-betwecn 100000 and RN'' W., - ,-f
e-third Of the state is given 20 sugar e'' ~
agriculture the rest being devoted 20 -, -
course that portion interested In the P''se,.iai
sugar will strenuously oppose any -, oder
treatment for Cuban sugar We are cerIiii'' -
- ohI,s,,,, - ~ba-the obligation runs tae ,rns
way We feel that she should stinH -i !, protcins
relation as Germany ok % 10 compete in ire mel
can market with the American s"S ,6sssssion ths
ease ia difrerent and there Is NO dlssat,,cts