The Washington herald., 1907-02-08
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then he moved 70 Chicago, and recently
has moved to New York. Il am not one
OF those lawyers who appear frequently
In court. he says; my business lies out
side OF the courts ! am the attorney for
various corporations; not the big corpora
tions. you understand. bat the small fell
lows. who need help IN organization and
reorganization. the sort Of work. you
know, that does not count ln the news
papers Mr. Oliver was the lawyer who
settled. last week. the suit over the viii
Of Bailey. Of Barnum & Bailey. the great
est shOwmen on earth. as they adver-
tised. Nobody knows the amount Of the
estate left by Mr.. Bailey. and his lawyer.
Mr.. Oliver, viii not give any information
on the subject. But that it ran up into
the millions no one doubts. At any rate.
there were people in the West who
thought they had claim on the estate.
and they made their claims. and Sir. +.
\. Oliver, who was then in England. vas
sent over 20 defend the estate against 1e
claimants His defense was succsssf d.
and the viii as Mr. Bailey made if -
sustained.
One thing about the suit. however be
remarkable, and that was the fact
after all, the greatest American Shea b.
earth" is not 50 strongly American.
all The suit showed that the Barr
and Bailey Company, which we have
thOught-pcrhaps on account Of IT'S hr
bug-was distncuveIy and honor.
American. is an incorporated BriusHe.
pany. and that IN reality the Bauum
Bailey show, instead of being an exam
Of American smartness. is one iustal
in which our British cousins have 600
nered the market" and have been naakr
a proit out Of the American amusement
loving public
MT. Oliver said, when asked about tlL
matter. Il am one Of the lawyers KID
do not talk. but if you want 10 know vino
owns the stock OF the biggest circus of
record. all you nave to do is % look at tls
Incorporation papers"
You mean incorporated here
NO, ] mean incorporated iu EngIauk
That is where Mr.. Bailey incorporated hE
company"
All that Mr.. Oliver would say about III
matter was that in his suit the -}aHr
viii was sustained, aud-that the circt
would 20 on.
Such a bevy Of modestly CARRIED prsf-
girls has not been seen iu the preeitrs
Of the Ebbitt House for a long Whit
There were so many Of them that the.
quite filled the corridor, and gazed anon.
in happy curiosity while they were bsiD,
/ registered. Many Of them were dlstiuttli
pretty all Of them were plainly II pie-
/ lilly. CARRIED. The crowd was composed y
the pupils OF the Friends Central scho,
Of Philadelphia, over here to see Il,
sights. Last night they visited IN
/ Congressional Library, under the guid
ance of their teachers; to-day they hop
10 be able TO call upon the President. ant
the Ebbitt Hotel telephone was ken.
busy last evening calling up people Wht
might be able 90 arrange for the inter.
view The faces of the young ladies
were very serious until one or Tie teach
ers announced that everything was salts
factory and-Whether il is or u0t-the
girls went away happy 90 the world Of
/ books, believing they would see the PreSi-
dent to-day. They belong % q Quaker
school. and 5his, perhaps. accounts for
/ the mocesty and piainness of their garb.
4 am in the city" said Mr. Webster
Bishop. OF W5nder, New. in the effort
to secure legislation looking TO the estab-
hshment of a department of mines and
mining. We have a. department that looks
after agriculture, and one that looks after
tie fisheries and other Things, but we
have no governmental department that
looks out for one Of the most important
industries of the country-that of mining.
You see the newspapers filled with ad-
vertisements Of mines that are alleged to
pay a thousand per cent profit. and there
/ Is no check on what these claim. We,
who are interested In legitimate mines,
think that it is time for government
supervision: not only for the protection
of legitimate mining interests. but FOR
/ the protection of the public. 1t was many
! years ago when The gold rush was made
I TO the Pacific Coast, and at that time
every one thought IL was bonanza time.
but the old placer mining days in Cali
f0Inia are absolutely surpassed by the
mining in Nevada to-day. There we have
hundreds of mines with queer names
I'm not going 90 tell you what mines I'm
interested iu-but when there is one big
strike made I'm our country there are q
thousand fakirs who try % take ad-
vantage of il and soak the public on fake
mining stock What we want is 10 have
a governmental department of mines and
mining that by rigid investigation into
the claims Of the newly found mines,
shall prevent the public from being swim
died by fakirs, and thus allow the money.
which heretofore has been stolen, to be
ilegitimately invested in properties which
at least have chance 10 pay.
Il have lived in Nevada for some years
now. and 1 am sure that no one who
has not been there has any idea Of the
wealth that that country IS adding 10 the
nation. IL is high time, 1 think, that the
government took official cognizance Of It.,
and took some steps TO regulate IL, and
To provide some legislation that viii pro-
tect legitimate industry and honest min
ing industry against the many fakirs.'
Mr.. r NJ Collins. for many years the
special correspondent of Reuters Tele-
graphic Agency. is at the New Willard.
He was Reuters agent during the Japa-
nese- Russo war and worked, during that
war, hand in glove with the Associated
Press. Mr.. Collins has recently accepted
the post of Associated Press correspond
ent at London, and he travels thither in
a few days to take up his duties Mr..
/ Collins has recently returned from Pekin,
China. where, since the war, he has
been acting as agent for Reuters. lie
declares that China has made marvellous
| progress within the last two or three
years, and that especially her army has
been remodeled according 70 the European
idea
He does not believe that Japan is ever
going to successfully dominate China,
though the Chinese are willing just at
present TO accept. the japanese as teach
I 49, II. .hf-1-- tb,+ tbe chinese have