The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-22
MORE FATHERLY CONDOLENCES
~ NEW LETTERS OF 4 CANAL
CONTRACTOR TO HIS son.
That Meal At Syracuse Faint Suggestion
OF tho Fat Years OF the SlOl ,OOO.oW'
-Odel in Ions Enough TO Let All the
Contracts-P1er Improvements Here?

-Odell in Ions Enough to Let All the
COntracts-Pter Improvements Here7
From tho Letters OF a Canal Contractor to His
Son-Second Batch.
SYRACUSE, June 20.
DEAR BILLY Took your tip and came
here to-day to sit in at the banquet our
fellows gave to the farmers hereabouts.
The boys had a Joke on me, for brought
along my evening clothes, and the dinner
was pulled OF at noon. This little Incl
dent enabled me to stand up at the bar
with bunch Of the good fellows and put in
nv strong arguments for the canal.
always make good impression when I
let the barkeep uncork my arguments.
Old man Ahem was here from Buffalo.
He let me go as far as liked, never lifted
an interfering hand to say, Here, this
ia my turn although he's got wad OF
elevator stock that's so fat it promises to
crowd his wife into society.
Coming here on the train I met Umph,
who rode as far as Rochester with me-
He's great friend OF the Governor and
gets very solemn when he talks about a
third term and whether 1t wouldn't be
better to nominate some one else than
hbDstNelU hSAV col. Aio Woo yluk
a copy OF to-day's Buffalo Evening Neus
which has an editorial about Odells esti-
mate that the canal would cost moro than
s255 900 ,oOo and says 80 much the worse
for the Governor for he Is certainly not an
engineer or an authority on the cost of
great public works. Umph thought 1t
was very sad that thu Governor should be
dragged into the thing in this STYLE and
hinted that IL the Governor took his advice
Editor Butler wouldn't be one of the Presi-
dental electors at large next time. When
| get back to Buffalo I'm going to drop
a few words in the right Office and then
go away and wait for tie crash. When a
fellow like Umph has mghwayed himself
into every good thingfor twenty years.
we'll. I'm getting away from the subject.
umph began to sound me about getting
In on a canal contract or 80, said IL was
prepared to do the square thing I could
use his name. Told hin his name was an
augur that wouldn't have any boring
capacity in this game: that didn't know
how to split 1t up mo negotiable COM
modities.
Well, tho speeches wsre great, suppose,
although they SOUNDED to me much like
them wide-column editorials in New York
which say all great mN since the beginning
OF time have had Ngk eyes, therefore the
canal Is necessary to the commercial su-
prsmacy Of New Yosx or Of what benefit
to the world was to French revolution
IL We are not to havea barge canal. A lot
Of literature was passed out to be read by
the evening lamp h the farmhousee Of
tho eight counties mar BY. Ny old friend
Commander George H. Raymond. Of the
pirate ship The GrNshopper. seems to be
running tho literary end Of the game. It
must be great temptation to tho old skip
per Of the Grasshooper to pitch into the
elevator pool.
looked around br Get-Rich-Quick Mil
Ter, but they tell ne he hasn't been par
doned out yet. Tint $40 per cent. per an
mum advertising vas just the style tho
canal game needs md I'd indorss Miller
but no Wouldn't ned any fresh indorss-
ment.
think told 20 In my last letter that
the collector II on. Down in New York
they've got profsadonals running around
getting cash, chicks or promises from
the fellows In the Produce Exchange and
the canal transportation interests for the
campaign. I didrt wait to DO dunned.
II things are as you SEQ them at Albany
and Newburgh tho assessments are light
enough. Remember that the first 80, 900, 900
Is available the day after election II the
people approve the Davis act. Don't
worry about delay In letting the contracts.
The act says that not moro than 90, 900, 900
shall be paid out in 1904 and 1905, but it
doesn't put any restriction on letting the
contracts, and with almost fourteen months
In r,Ppoo hA AIM fhok
of the SOL 10000 will be disposed Of in
contracts.
The Governor can appoint his advisory
hoard OF civil engineers at once. Five fat
jobs there at q compensation to be fixed
by the Governor himself. Well have to
scan that list in advance. bad man might
be Troublesome. As for the resident engi-
neers, the act says that State Fin gineer
may appoint as many as he thinks neces-
sary and remove them without cause; so
we know they'll be all right. All you have
to do is to hold to the connections you have
made ndhops for the result in November.
I wouldn't insist on a written contract
now as to the prices on grocer les and sup
plies. II they boost them up we'n have to
resort to Injection Of the Davis act which
says that the State Engineer may issue
orders for extra and unspecifled work.
Goodnight Your FATHER.
SYRACUSE. June TO-
DEAR BILL: Forgot until had mailed
the other letter than I wanted to let you
know that I'm sending an engineer to New
York MONDAY to make an estimate on the
North Risr Pier work. I've given him
your address and told him to shave this
a. close to actual cost as he can, as you'll
probably have to discount that figure 20
per cent. Don't let that frighten you.
Do you nmem Der that big dredging Job
did for Senator K and charged him nothing,
but made ~ 900 on contract that closed
the next reek? In haste, FATHER.
NOTHING Doing In Elizabethport.
ELIIAHErH, N. j., juno 1l.-As q result
of energetic proceedings on tho part Of the
Rev. Dean Cassner, oil the saloons at the
port were closed to-day for the first Sun
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