The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-04-22
AT THE HOTELS.

tive but useful junior Senator from South
Carolina, told a Herald reporter at the
New Willard last evening some interest
ing things about a trip 10 the Nevada
mining camps, from which De has just
returned. His Western tour also included
Los Angeles and San Francisco.
''The great wealth Of the mines IN the
GoldheId and Tonopah districts" said
Senator Latimer. has rot been the sub
Jet Of exaggerated reports. All I saw
out there produced in my mind the I'm
preston that the half had not been told
concerning the riches Of that remarkable
region. Men talk as coolly out there Of
millions as We do OF thousands here. and
/ It is not idle conversation or braggadoclo
Too many Of them have made good in the
accumulation Of fortunes for the talk TO
be olassed as pipe dreams. year ago
Senator Nixon and his partner, SIR Wing
field, Joined a third man who had started
a bank on $4,000 capital. At present
/ the bank has deposits aggregating $780,
000 and its stock has value OF ten to
one. Of-eourse, Senator Nixon and Wing
field are the men we hear most Of, but
there are others who have made large
I fortunes since the camps first got the
attention Of the outside world. If ] were
out Of public office and wanted to make
/ big money fast, 1 would not hesitate 70
/ try my luck in these Nevada camps, for
I they present the greatest opportunities, in
my Judgment, that are to be found any
where.
Despite the fact that a big strike was
/ on during my stay IN GOidheld, the town
was as lively and full Of business activity
as though there was no disturbance Of
conditions. Everybody out there seems
well supplied with money. and everybody
/ il making money. The laudlady of the
/ best hotel in town, a wooden structure OF
forty rooms. told me that she paid 800
/ month rent and wondered why it was
not 1900 The rooms were very small
not much over Sxl0 but they wefe in de-
mand at $3.50 20 S. per night. and you had
/ 10 -..-e ahead 10 get quarters. Every
/ other house 81 the place seemed a saloon,
and gambling was IN full blast, the rattle
/ OF the chips being audible from the street
! there being no pretense OF concealment
But, though a wide open town, Cold
/ field Is by no means given over 20 toughs
I or sports. / met scores OF well-dressed,
/ well-educated, respectable men. who are
out there TO make money-nOt 70 dissi-
pate. The population, Notwithstanding
/ the large sporting contingent, is law
/ abiding ana dec0TOus in its Observance Of
/ the decencies of civilization. At club
I to which / was invited a large number OF
men were in evening dress and they
showed in every way TO be citizens Of
solid worth and high business integrity.
/ Mr. Homer Davenport, the famous
maker of cartoons. which have brought
laughter 10 many and caused not a few
/ to blaspheme was in town yesterday on
an interesting mission. Mr. Davenport
/ has for years had the Arabian horse hob
/ by, and last year he brayed the sc0rch-
ing heat and terrible hardships Of the
/ desert TO get a number Of the finest
steeds that Arabia could produce, return
/ ing TO this country with seventeen good
specimens. which he has on exhibition
at his country place, near Morris Plains,
/ \. J.
But the pet OF an his string is a mag
j niflcent stallion that he has out in Ore
gon. his native State. and concerning
which he came &. Washington. for he
has. with the encouragement and c0-0pe-
ration of the United States War De
parunent. laid out a feat for this horse
10 do what he believes viii eclipse any
I equine performance III history
What / expect TO prove by my stall
i lion, NejdraH," said AFR Davenport, is
/ that the Arab horse in point OF endur-
/ ance surpasses any in the world that
/ he can 90 longer distances in the quickest
time To prove this, Second Lieut.. +. r
! McCabe L. 5, A. viii, on OF about the
lst Of May next. mount Nejdran at Sill
1 vertOn. Greg, and ride him across the
continent, the journey terminating az
( Morris Plains, \. J. The distance is q
little over 5000 miles, and ] expect my
I horse to do IL in record-breakiug time
I The experiment is so valuable from q
military point of view that it met instant
! appreciation from the highest official
sources. and array men everywhere viii
/ watch IL. ] came on 20 arrange the final
/ details with Gen. Bell
Lieut.. McCabe who / think is a native
Virginian is a student officer at Fort
I Riley, Hans. He has been selected 10
make the ride because he is not only a
crack athlete. but one of the best eQues-
TRANS in the service-a man who excels ia
all feats of h0Tsemanship. An accurate
/ record viii be kept Of the daily weights
and general physical condition Of the
rider and horse throughout the trip. A
soldier viii accompany the lieutenant, but
he viii change horses as necessity re-
( quires.
Up TO this time tho most famous feat
of horsemanship on record is that of
Lieut. BassO, Of the Russian army. He
rode from Herso0, in Mauchuria, TO ST.
Petersburg. a distance eff 5l6l miles. in
eight months and three days. and the
/ world applauded the performance. have
no doubt that Lieut. McCabe win make
I the Russians trick seem commonplace"
Judge Joseph Campbell, OF san Fran
cisco and Mr.. Philip Mansfield, a prom
inent Boston lawyer. are at the Airing
ton. They are here to represent the de-
PENDANT, Benson, in the District Court in
the noted action brought by the United
/ States government against him for al
legged fraud in obtaining Western hands.
"a man who remembers washington as
it was a quarter of q century ago. ana
who sees it to-day for the first time
within that period. can scarcely believe
his eyes, so wonderful are the changes
that have been wrought in that interval"
remarked Judge Walter Evans. former
/ Congressman from Kentucky, bat now
presiding over the Federal Court at
Louisville. Judge Evans was talking at
the Shoreham with Herald reporter Of
the great changes that have occurred, in
his memory. at the Capital
who, for Instance" said he. would be
able to recognize the block in which The
/ Washington Herald has its home Years
/ ago I used to stop at the old WOrmley
Hotel just next The Herald building.
on the north, which 1 find pulled down
10 give way 70 q magnificent modern
structure. Across the street from The