New-York tribune., 1905-02-05
GATHERED ABOUT TOWN.


| special policeman. The trains had stopped run
ming, so far as he was concerned Another inter
ested spectator was a man in fur lined coat ana
woman resumed her dance and her steps brought
! her face to face with him. 'BravoH ne said and
snip. the apnlauder found only an unlighted rem.
said the dancer, holding the lighted end airly in
her fingers Fine business" said the special po-
| hceman
| This has been a banner winter for young Amer
lea Not for years has it had much snow to play
in. and it has not been slow in taking advantage
| of its opportunities. Seventh-ave. from noth-st
TO Central Bridge alive with youngsters as soon
as school closes in these days and snow hshts anu
rides sleigh the order of the day un-
| til the darkness shuts down Every block mas ats
two three forts, which are attacked ana
defended with great ardor The eomoatahCSS;; IN III
keeping with the times. divide themselves INTO rus IS
sian and japanese armies, but the latter are not 50
consistently victorious they are in the ar 5aSt &
There is one elderly man who gives GnooulueGa a of
light to boys and girls by always giving "a h0o Oh
afternoon he appears at about the same time and
G and o down the avenue his sleigh fairly
| ing with exuberant boyhood and girlhood me,
steps of the sleigh crowd into the seat beside hlm INN
and curl up In the bottom. ihere u l,Tp OS That
| is the horses tail.
Sweaters hitherto the mark of the athlete, have
! come into general use this winter for man and
| woman alike. They have become for many part
| of the everyday costume, women wearing theni
| shopping and clerks TO their OHlceS IeN "SSiNA7
realize however that there is nothing SO condueiVe ave
weakening the throat and laying the Ioiloatl1Iil
for cold the sweater with the high thGk he bas
| piece which comes up to the chin; he VINO mas mas
worn such sweater duIlnG G4Iu sPeh n a va tp
Weapns sweaters % do wen TO wear the collar
less kind which button together like a waistcoat
Early morning passengers at the Park Place ele-
| waited station a week ago this morning saw the
| somewhat unusual sight of men in dress SUITS
CARRYING bundles of papers up the stairs on their
backs. The explanation lay in the fact that the
bundle carriers who hon are e& ba at When
To those who had previously them in
| their working clothes the sight was somewhat Oh
a staggerer
| George E DriscolI q guest at the Gilsey House
arrived few days ago from the canal zone IN
| Panama Mr.. Drscoll is electrical engineer III
| the employ of the Panama Railroad Company IN
charge of the electric plant at La Boca in the DIS
! trict of Ancon He has been on the isthmus ABOUT
| a year and is one of the five members OF the
| Municipal Council of Ancon La Boca, SAID MI
| DriscoH. lis the Pacific port at the mouth Oh 'ie
| French canal. and is about three miles hof'n VI
Panama City 1t was the site of the machhe
| shops established by the French canal ouilders'
| and has a present population OF about hVe mum
dred The sTee5 pfr a La ans Boc in 1885 IS bout fifteen
hundred feet in length, and parallels the fnahneA
Whiie cargo must be iightered from vessels an
seTa fe m of water in the channel the La Boca
| pier and though the ship masters usually come IN
at ali times for vessels drawing not NOR, more man man
ang electric cranes that are constantly
busy loading dischargng cargo OF 3uogg9ns a r
inadequate and their early extension Is predicteds ted
fhe Sickness on the isthmus is due to the influx
of strangers who must become acsnmateo st ana
learn to take care of themselves and TO the fact
that in the very of establishing sewerage me
Canal Commssion must disturb ana eXRose 10 Tue
Baron Ernesto Won Merk, whose family at Fried
richsruh in Germany. was numbered among the
neighbors and friends of Bismarck. came few
davs ago by way of Panama, from Guatemala
Baron Merk who captain of infantry In the
163d Regiment of the Prussan army has neeh TOT
two years one of the two foreign military lnstrnc
tors of the Guatenalan army, and is memoer OF
the personal staff of President Manuel Estrada
Cabrera Seen at the Gisey House while waiting
for the sailing date of the Kaiser Wilhelm DER
Crosse for Hamburg Baron Merk sald; me
Guatemaan military forces comprise infahIrg ant gn1 ana
artillery, and they are very etLSJtise i n rim Ind
eating guns. The infantry use RemnstGflS. IN GnT
msny nsGSe 10 buy guns uniforms and horse equip
ment for the staff and mounted men i GIaterS1a 4a
is peaceful, and yet deems II proper az suGI a I
to be equipped for any conflict in which she mlgnf
ara nnier nv instruction are making good prog
res Tess. "'Osf my '''''' - '''''
Ex-Governor John L. Osborne of Wyoming came
to the city few days ago TO join the party tha'
goes on the steamer Arabic for seventy-day san
including a visit to the Mediterranean ports AFTER
serving for years the second executive u
his State Mr. Osborne was the Wyoming repre-
sentative in the 55th Congress. He was physician
before he was a politician. He is now the Demo-
cratic National Committeeman for Wyoming. ana
is extensively engaged in the sheep raising INDUS
try Carbon County in which Rawlins. my home,
is situated" said Mr.. Osborne. ''is probably the
greatest sneep producing county in the United
States. It has a million head of sheep. and the
annual woochp that finds market in Rawlins is
100000 pounds Wyoming is rich in her mineral
products which are beginning TO be developed.
and besides the coal interests which important
in several of the State. oil in the
try around Casper and Landor is destined bring
great wealth to those identified with that industry
provided. The railroad now being extended from
Casper Landor will do much for the develop
permanent location of the State capital is still in
abeyance OF course, Cheyenne has the present
advantage of population though its geographical
position is against it. and the increase OF Popnla-
nd Landor situated that will follow the rail-
road extension may have some influence IN the
5000 square miles Of territory and only 125OO0 pop
ulation affords open door OF opportunity. and
with the coming OF population must become great
commonwealth"
James NJ Cherry, of Rock Hill S c.. is guest
at the Hotel Imperial. He is native South Caro-
linian, and a manufacturer and declares that de-
spite the present price of cotton. the South
never before prosperous. 'Of course said he.
after having sold high as 16 cents
pound the planter who still holds of his last
years crop considers seven cents pretty low but
when five cents was the generally prevailing price
the present market would have been considered
most favorable.
William D. Fossetf United States Marshal for
Oklahoma Territory, is a guest the Gilsey House.
Mr.. Fossett is a native New-Yorker but he
moved West when he too young to protest.
His home is Kingdsher. but his official residence is
at Guthrie the capital Guthrie" said Mr.. Fos-
Ia