New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-25
GATHERED ABOUT TOWN.

r,ho-los r, Heron of Nome Alaska. guest at
the Hotel Bresn. was klondlke prospeC'oI -
$685. and has been for four years ldehtl'eu VIZ
the gold mining operations in the Nome dls'ric|
81 left Nome said Mr. Heron ION OCTOBER x
In the Interior twenty-five miles at the placer
workings in which l am interested, the snow was
waist deep. The season was most uhproi"is'ie a.
the beginning but the gold output of only niue
over two months will approximate last years pro
duction. which exceeded s4O0OV. In NoHgl III
and the placer ground troze to a depth never be
fore known in that regon-at some PIdS 5sn snow
did come in January it unusually light IN
pne n tne sn gTcunG f ran Off It took the Of
July TO thsW the gToNT6; thu End Of SePteIn-
Der had freeze, and many thought me 9 9he
OF {ne season After aao two DAYS it warmed up
rained for two weeks The result was IT, de-
veiopment in progress is being acconpnshed
b the f0 6fh sh back in the interior OF
bitches more than one hundred miles were cGm-
large canal systems is now in progress. The pros
poets for next o,,tSt Sceed 1ne and is my
opinion that as a result of canal construCuon ana
Ears win reach SIS 600 900 annually. Nome has
summer p9pHI@on 90 sen % Gr a ~ ee
graph service just estaolshed beiween 81. Mtchael
oF no miles makes it possible TO send
and get answer the next
Ex-senator Thomas c. Bates. Of Boston. who is
nj
from a trip in Texas, and brought with him
obaDter in the career of Senator Joseph w Bailey.
when Bailey first elected to membership in
the lower house of Congress. so the story runs.
he was advising with local judge IL his district
as 10 the he should pursue to make the most
Of the opportunities opened 10 him. Have a hobby
was the friendly injunction OF the judge. BAILEY
readily recognized the cogency Of the judicial rea
soning in support of the hobby programme. and
asked the judge what sore OF a hobby ae Would
Make the Constitution Your hobby was the
subject Of legislation an for trottns the
Constitution Demand that every promised enact
document BE heard upon every possible occasion
as inG e bb With ri athofIes ana 7ak You cane
talk week. and. right OF wrong there will not be
take issue with you. AS a result you will get a
reputation Daniel Webster-a defender of the
Those Who have watched the career Of the Texas
ST. said tho narrator. may be disposed
believe that he wasted no time. hut acted on the
judges suggestion
That the restraints cf superstition stronger
than the dictates of reason excmplifed at the
carriaSe entrance OF Broadway hotel recently
opened The woman in the just entering
the wings of the storm door when she spiel Il lad
der that stood inside. tilted against the wall In
SUCH way that II she continued her course she
under it. She baked. then backed out
S i, Had been assured by the carriaro man mat
there was no ore on the ladder ara that il could
not tali but she cared ncthins for guaranteed I'M
go under ladder-not if I know itr'
The conviyfaI citizen wa. homeward bound but
4 little wabbly. He bought paper Broadway
The neWsboy noted his condition. Say. mister"
said he give ma a quarter for desc nickes."
Willing 10 accommodate the Eroggy individual
produced the quarter and getting the niCkeis
in return when the scheming Kid said. Make II
half dollar and in exchange for the five add-
tiOnal nckes the accommodating Ch3ngemaker
gave up a shining haf The quarter nesting
in the "newsys" jeans, and he off
He is 4 German-six years from the Father
land-and a familiar figure in the streets near
Herald Square. He dress suit and an
opera hat. He is the bearer Of a banner that
tells of a convenient paradise for the bewhiskered
in which no tips are expected and mo waiting
FOR the call of next is encountered. Six dollars
for twenty miles of daily tramping is his weekly
compensatlon-a mere existence. and yet he counts
himself In luck I've been cook. but I'm forty
seven and now they say I am TOO old So much
for the competition OF city life in which 4 man