Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1904-06-04
NEW YORK GOSSIP
WEEKLY RESUME OF
MEN AND EVENTS

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, have collapsed. the activity in the cent
| ers of speculation has practically
ceased. Stock brokers are enjoying in
voluntary holidays and find 1t neces-
sary to retrench. During the last two
weeks more than twenty-five hundred
clerks have been dismissed by Wall
street brokers and the clerks who are
| still on the various payrolls have lit
tie or nothing to do. But, that is not
all. The demand in nearly every
, branch of business has decreased to a
serious extent. Many factories, which
had been working day and night and
had been paying record wages. to be
able to keep up with the demand, are
working half time at reduced wages. or
are closing down altogether. Business
transactions in every branch have
shrunk so much that the railroads are
greatly affected. The receipts have
fallen off to such an alarming extent
that the managers of the various rail-
road systems have considered 1t neces-
sary to reduce their working forces.
Several hundred thousand workingmen,
! laborers, railroad employees clerks. ETC.,
have already been thrown ont of en-
ployment and it is safe to say that the
worst stage has not yet been reached.
Those who are in position to feel
the pulse of the commercial and indus
trial condition of this country, do not
hesitate to predict that the coming
winter will not be prosperous, but they
are confident, that the depression will
not last as long nor be as serious as
that which preceded the election of
President Mckinley. They base their
opinion upon the fact that the econom-
ical conditions in this country have be-
come more substantial and solid during
the long period of prosperity than they
ever were before and the reserve force
is great enough to carry the country
over this period of depression.
There is every reason to believe that
/ Senator McCarren, who won consider
able notoriety by his rebellious OPPOSE
ton to Tammany just before the last
state convention. will live to regret his
districts which form Senator McCar-
ren's senatorial district. has withdrawn
its allegiance and is in open rebellion
and owing to factional fights another
one Of the districts will probably be lost
to McCarren. Experienced politicians
are confident that McCarren will not be
renominated for the senate and will,
eventually, lose every bit OF political
prestige he still possesses.
Central park was the scene Of a
rather unusual occurrence the other
day. a, fierce battle between three men
and six full grown specimens of Ply
thons. The big reptiles who form an
interesting feature in the Central park
menagerie, were suffering from intes-
final parasites. probably by feeding on
infected rats and other animals. 1t
became necessary to give them medi-
cine and three of the keepers were d.
tailed as nurses. AS 1t was probably
the first time that these h,ge reptile
were subjected to such treatment, they
rebelled against having medicine in
jected into their stomachs. A lively
scrimmage was the result and for a
while the outcome was rather doubtful.
. Finally, however, superior intellect
overcome superior brute force and the
snakes were subdued and properly
, dosed.
AS was to be expected the board of
, aldermen adopted without a dissenting
I Ivoice the withdrawing report of the
) committee on the bribery charges in
( connection with the Port Chester rail-
). ways application for a charter grant
, ing to 1t the right Of making certain
, extensions. Theoretically the bribery
: charges were not substantiated, but the
+. report Of the investigating COMMITTEES
4 IL not convincing enough to remove
E every doubt from the mind Of the
: public.
a. Hugh Mclaughlin formerly a promi-
y nent Brooklyn politician, has donated
: his entire stamp collection. including
: over one million stamps to a fair which
: will soon be held for the benefit Of st
t Mary's hospital. This Is probably thu
/. first time that a donation of such 8
t character was made to any hospital.