The Washington herald., 1907-03-19
AT THE HOTELS

4 young Fl Paso Tex lawyer. E
Wallace By name, nstive Of Tenneiee.
who was seen At the Willard last svelng.
is going back 10 his home on the boier
Of two republics IL an aneomm0nly happy
frame Of mind. He came here to repretnt
before the United States Supreme Coui
client whose cause he has been figbhs
for the past eight years. This ciienttn
American citizen, got his leg cut OF vie
in the service of the Mexican Nstioal
Railroad. Suit was brought by the IN
to which Wallace belongs Ia the Unia
States Circuit Court Al Fl Paso. win
town is entered by the aforesaid railroad
a corporation with a Massachusetts, cha
ter-and a verdict for s15.0o0 was obtaine
for the plaintiff.
The railroad appealed the case 70 tfs
United States Circuit Court Of Appeals 81
New Orleans. and Il was brought 10 tht
Supreme Court here on writ Of error
The Texan. who is youthful looking, and
who. admitted but yesterday 10 practices
before the august tribunal. made an ar
gument of one hour and twenty minutes,
in which he held the closest attention oil
every member the court being attracted /
By the ingenuity Of his argument and /
his undoubted legal lore. He had worked
On his cause 50 cieverly through ali the
years OF his association with L that he
knew il in every phase and was able to
make a presentation that vas mastery
enough TO have done a veteran credit
So taken vas one OF the justices with
the young man that he asked him % take
tea at his private residence, aud when
the guest was making his aeieu tie
/ learned Judge warmly congratulated him.
and said that though this WIS his first
appearance and speech befof the Su-
preme Court Il surely would lot be his
last
Messrs. NJ. II. Bryan and G. { siaugh-
ter, leading citizens Of. Nashville, Tenn.
are at the New Willard. Mr. BFan was
once active in politics. but Of ate has
devoted his time and talents to the up
building and hetterment Of Nashville. He
! is president Of the Cumberland River
Commission. which has done gres work
toward making that historic stream
available for navigation.
tWith the completion Of I'VE ocks.
said Mr. Bryan. ''the CumberlaIs viii
be navigabie for vessels Of sis feet
draught from Carthage almost to earks-
1 VILE, q distance Of 175 miles. The oeniug
Of the river viii be Of vast bepfit 10
Nashville and big section Of cuntry
tributary thereto. Nashville. lnc- its
emancipation from the monopolisc gr.sp
Of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad
and the acquisition Of the IllinoiIentral
and the Southern systems, has ben max
ing enormous strides. In many aspects
IL is ahead Of an its competitor It is
beyond question the greatest edlational
center in the South. with Vanderiit and
Fisk universities, the Peabody ichooi.
/ and scores Of other high-class lstitu-
tons It is getting TO be a greatRanu-
featuring town also. possessing ready
mo less than coo Industrial establishments.
giving employment to 1859 worknn."
''The Florida resorts have done big
business this season, said ME. T. JPen-
nell. OF New York. at the Arlington
Pain Beach has been crowded With
wealthy and pleasure-l0ying New lrk-
ers. who have spent their coin theI in
the most liberal fashion, not only iTthe
regulation way but Ia downright an
bling Right adjacent 10 the great hel
J there is what is known as the Beeh
Club and ! want TO tell you. as one No
has been often TO AK Monaco and Mole
Carlo. have never seen a me-
sumptuous or better fitted gaming palas
anywhere than this Florida one. Fro
early evening 10 midnight its rooms vel
thr0nged this season with beauufi
women and splendid-looking men, all &
their best clothes, and all trying 10 bea
the roulette wheel.
Il should say there We're more women
gamesters than men, and very often the
) fair ones played for high stakes. I saw
one woman lose 500 in less than an hour s
play. She took her bad luck IN a grs-
, cious way, merely remarkiHg that It
wasn't her night TO win. But if the truth
must be told, il cannot be denied that she
, was an exception to her sex. Women
? are almost always bad losers. and the
: doleful faces most of them put on after
, an adverse turn of the wheel showed
their inability % take defeat with eompla-
eency.
, 1T Is understood that Mr. FlagIer is
very much opposed to this open gambling,
which IS carried on contrary 10 the State
laws; but he cannot help himself. as the
club. or 'Bradley's.' as II IS called, is out
of his Jurisdiction The authorizes are not
! going to modest the sport for reason of
! their own. and as it affords excitement
to the tourists. the chances are that the
: games are permanent fixture.
enjoying life under the sunny skies OF
: Georgia and South Carolina" said that
I most urbane gentleman. ex-Gov. Wood
/ bury OF Vermont. at the New Willard.
] Most Of my time was spent at Hamp-
e ton Terrace, a delightful place just across
e the Savannah River from Augusta Al
the hotels III that part Of the country
\ have been full to overlooking. I don
y suppose there was ever a time when the
' South was getting on so well as If is IN
[ these piping good times. told them
I down there that they We're at last getting
{ even with my Yankee brethren for what
s happened forty years ago.
i Il am here to tell you that Los Angeles
p is the coming town of the Pacific Coast,
: remarked Mr. VIII D. Gould. one of the
2 oldest members of the bar Of that city
1 at the Raleigh.
!. People in this part OF the Union ought
to get down their maps and see the Ioca-
( ton of Los Angeles. and then they would
I tfealize that I am not weavor Of romance
s or an enthusiast. I have seen our cts
I double five times in the thirty-five years
$ iof my residence there. and 1 viii live q
see 1t double again. Notice its place or
: the map; see what short haul it is to
tidewater at Galveston, not much ovei
. ene-third the distance by northern routes
+ from San Francisco TO New York, and b5
. the easiest grades We are, moreover, the
first port as you come from the Panama
> isthmus. and are hound TO be the greatest
gamer on the Pacific by the construction
of the canal
: zone project that Is now under way
and the completion Of which is assured
| viii give Won an idaa OF bic Lhinga u.