The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-04-21
AT THE HOTELS.

j am going to Europe 10 spend the
summer, but the day ] get back / shall
make bee line for my farm I'm Transyl-
vania County. North Carolina. which I'd
| rather have than any Old World estate"
remarked Col Sylvester r. Everett. one
OF the leading capitalists Of Cleveland.
Ohio, ut the New Willard
There isn't, 10 my mind. any finer
scenery in Europe than the ToxaBay
country down in the old North state. no.
where is the verdure Of the trees so re-
| splendent: nowhere is the air so glorious
/ ~ inVgOTating; nowhere is the mere
sense Of physical existence so fascinat-
| ing as in this land Of the sky. which We
fail 10 appreciate because il IS so near
at hand. Years ago ! bought tract
/ partly IN the mountains and partly In the
bottom lands bordering the beautiful
/ Preach Broad River, and Of all my pos
/ sessions / prize this the most. Don't
| imagine that I merely care for it as q
/ lOafng ground No, indeed; I ana one
/ OF the most serious farmers in the state,
and raise big crops Of corn equal 70 any
/ thing they can make out in Kansas or
/ Nebraska The soil Of North Carolina, if
taken care of properly, will produce
astonishingly. and when agriculture IS
put on a scientific basis the farmers Of
that region viii be the most independent
/ people on earth"
The most famous lawyer of the State
Of Washington if rot of the entire Pa
cifc Slope, Judge Thomas Burke, Of Seat
/ tie. stood in the New willard lobby yes
terday, chatting with friends in hts usual
vein OF witty and entertaining style.
/ The judge is very diminutive physi-
/ eally, being but little over 1ve feet in
| height but one forgets his lack Of stature
In listening TO his polished utterances-
Don't ask me anything about politics"
he said 10 d Herald reporter. a good
many years ago i ran for Congress on
/ the Democratic ticket and got a beating
which was about the luckiest thing that
ever happened 10 me. / remained a Dem
! oerat up 10 1896, when the silver question
drove ne into the Republican party,
/ where suppose stiu belong. In view
OF my party abandonment, ] suppose u
/ does not seem appropriate that ] should
/ offer the Democracy any suggestions as
/ TO a candidate in 1903, but an article ]
read in The Washington Herald about
/ Judge JudsOn Harmon OF Ohio, yester-
| day, emboldens me to say this much.
IF the Democrats have not lost All
[ political sagacity. they could name no
better standard bearer than Judge Har-
/ mon. He IS one Of the ablest and sound
est men in the country and possesses
/ ideal qualifications for che Office Of Chief
/ Executive. I haven't the pleasure Of
/ personal acquaintance with him, but for
years have been his admirer. His cand-
/ dacy would attract the support not only
/ OF Democrats. but OF thousands Of con-
/ seTYative and independent men in every
/ part of the United States"
/ No one would take Senior Carlos Silva.
/ Of Santiago. editor Of Fl Mercurio. the
/ oldest daily newspaper in the republic
/ Of Chile. for a Lstin-American, as he
/ has the light hair and fair complexion
! Of the TeutOnic race. He is young and
/ highly educated, and with his wife is see
/ ing the United States for the first time,
very greatly 10 their qualification.
/ At the ShOreham last evening Senior
Silva told a Herald reporter a good many
interesting facts about his country Il
wish" said he. that the people of the
/ United States knew more about Chile. We
/ seem TO know far more about your coun-
/ try than the Americans do about us. All
/ our educated young people speak the
/ English language with fiuency, but / find
/ very few, since landing here who can
/ converse in Spanish. Chile is going
I ahead faster now than at any time in
/ its history. We have had but one revO-
luton in sixty years. and another
one Is improbable Our country Is Of
/ vast size. but has only 100000 peo-
/ pie. We need more people and more
/ capital The lack of money keeps us from
/ developing resources as abundant and
/ rich as can be found on the globe. Our
( copper mines alone should produce mil
/ lions annually. and viii when We get the
money with which 10 work them. In the
l northern districts there is nitrate enough
10 supply the worlds demand for the
/ next 100 years
II required IhiTty-siX DAYS TO make the
journey from Santiago TO New York. We
could have come quicker by way Of Eu-
rope, and more comfortably. This lack
/ of good communication between Chile and
the United States is a serious injury To
both. The Chileans are fond of travel. and
/ II there were a good steamship line be-
! tween the two countries you would see
our wealthy people coming here by the
/ hundreds instead OF journeying 10 Lon
don and Paris
! Col Arch NJ Hughes. who has just been
/ deposed as postmaster at Columbia.