The Washington herald., 1907-01-11
HEARD AT HOTELS.

HEARD AT HOTELS.
The Hon David Highbaugh Smith. OF
/ Kentucky. vino smiIngly claims the
championship for being the ugIiest man
I IN the House Of Representatives, and the
i Hon. James a. Hughes. Of West Virginia.
sat side by side in the Riggs House last
evening. political foes, but the best u
+ friends, and talked Of the days, nearly
+ twenty years ago. when they were fellow
members Of the Kentucky legislature
That was q great lcgisiature-that OF
I iss7-ss" said Mr. Smith. "and. besides
! pesent company, it included in its mem
bership a number Of men who afterward
achieved distinction. The gentleman who
viii succeed me IN the next Congress.
+ Hon. Ben Johnson. was speaker OF the
house. William Lindsay, who came later
/ % the United States Senate. was then a
state senator Ollie James was one OF
/ the pages. and even then gave promise OF
/ future renOWn. George Davidson. Johh
/ Hendricks. and David Colsen, ex-Con-
I gressTnen. and John Langley, Congress
/ man-eiect We're in II, and so was Tom
Glenn. who later came % Congress from
I Idaho II Hughes had been Democrat
and stayed with Us be might also have
( come TO Congress from Kentucky, but
+ could not escape his fate, and migrated 20
! west Virginia, where the people ulti-
mately discovered his statesmanlike abii-
] ties"
There is hardly any doubt but that
love OF horsehesh has been the direcs
cause Of the imperiIed future and serious
difficulties that now beset one Of the
ablest statesmen Of America" said Mr.
7. T. Henning, Of St Louis. at the Airing
ton
There isn't one man in ten thousand who
undertakes 10 breed horses but makes a
rank failure Especially is il the case with
men who are led away by a penchant for
'he HoD!est OF animals and who try %
raise them as a diversion Il is hard
enough for professionals to succeed but
the Lord help amateurs. / know what 7
am talking about, for il cost me $50 060 20
ind out that my dreams Of becoming the
owner Of a great stock farm were d snare
and delusion."
As TO what ne considered the most
I beautiful building in Washington. Sir
Aston Webb, the great English architect.
refused 10 give a Herald reporter a direct
/ reply, but in answer said:
/ You have so many handsome struc-
lures that 1t is not possible to say that any
one is pre-eminentIy superior. I confess.
1 however TO a great admiration for the
/ White House and the Treasury. The lat
/ ter is a noble example Of the classic stvIe
/ and would De- credit 10 any CITY. The
/ Library Of Congress- Of which u had
4 heard much. is worth all the praise that
/ has been bestowed upon IL by European
/ travellers. In going home I shall carry
4 with me the recollection Of "a visit every
/ hour of which was replete with pleasure.
/ Washington is NOT only great CapitaL
I but IL is the center of a refined and
charming hospitality"
/ Mr. / A. Nadeau. director general Of
/ the Alaska Yukon-Pacifc Exposition to
/ be held in Seattle in 1863, is at the New
/ Willard
The prime object Of the exposition"
said Mr.. Nadeau, ''is to illustrate the re-
| cources, possibilities. and achievements
I Of tie Alaska-YuIzOn region, and the
/ countries bordering on the Pacific Ocean.
we believe that the entire country Is
vitality interested in the growth Of the
great Western portion of the United
States, and that its possibilities can be
more sharply brought 10 the attention Of
the world through an exposition than by
any other means. Alaska with its $500
square miles Of territory, is rich in
I precious metals. timber fisheries, furs,
besides its enormous possibilities as a
farming and stock country Many Of the
Eastern States have expressed their in
[
making displays Of their manufactured
+ products"
Mr. Nadeau will be in the city for sew
eral days, and before returning West Will
I visit Norfolk and Jamestown
/ Mr. Daniel O'COnnelI, a prominent citi-
zen of White sulphur Springs. w. Va. IS
/ at the Raleigh. accompanied by his bust
ness partner, Mr.. A. ViIlar wealthy
mining man of SaltiTo. Mexico. The
former has been spending considerable
/ time in the sister republic, and has made
/ large investments in gold and silver
properties in the State Of Durango.
There is scarcely rich man in Mex
/ ico." said Mr. O'ConneU. who has not
dug his fortune out Of the ground. Il is
/ "a land of fabulous wealth, and the day
win come when il will have more mill
/ liOnaires than any other part Of the
world CuTioUsly enough. some OF the
greatest mining properties Of that COun-
\ Try have never received any outside ad-
/ Ivertisement When in Durango recently
Il visited a gold mine that has been
worked for twenty years the property Of
John D. Rockefeller and associates the
existence Of which was a revelation to
me- and ] thought I knew Of all the pro-
,iucing mines in that region. It is in a
I remote district, far from the railroads
land can only be reached on horseback
l This property. If in the United States.
would have been heralded far and wide as
a wonderful producer, and il has So 0G0.-
/ COO Of ore in sight.
I a Swedish company IS working a sill
yer mine that mas paid S40GC9.O00 in divi-
dends. and has ore enough TO last for the
next quarter OF a century. 1 heard on
good authority that the mine which ex-
Gov Shepherd, of Washington, operated
in Mexico is "a producer to the extent of
$3.50 coo a month. These are only in
stances. and point 20 the great things
that will be accomplished when the coun-
try shall have reached a higher state OF
development
1T has entered the minds of many peo-
pie said Judge o. NJ. Spencer. Of st.
Joseph Mo. at the Willard, that the
time is ripe for nominating Southern
man for the Presidency. ] must confess
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