Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 13, 1887, Page 4

‘THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUDSCRIPTION 10 08 'bm 350 20 ARA OPPICE, NO. 914 AND 918 FARNAM STREEY. W YORK OPFICE, ROOM 5, TRIDUNE B ASHINGTON OFFICS, NO. 613 FOURTRENTIL BT CORRESPONDRNCE! All communioations relating to nows and edi- torial matter should be addressod to the Evi- FOR OF THE BRn. BUSINESS LETTRRSS All buriness lotters and romittances should be Irossed 10 THE BRs PUBLISHING COMPANY, DMAHA, Drafts, checks and postofiice orders 0 be made psyable to the order of the company. THE BEE PUBLISHING CONPANY, PROPRIETORS, E. ROSEWATER, EptToR. THE DAILY BEE. ulwo‘r:l} ltnknmen: of Circulation. ite of Nebras + Bounty of Doutlas. }" L 3 ‘I'zschuck, ucmnrY of The Beo Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the actual circulation of the Dally Bee for the week ending July 8 1857, was as July 4", Tuesdav, Jjuly 5. Wed Gro, 1. T Sworn to and subscribed in my this 9th day of July, A, D, 1887. N. P, FrIr, Notary Pubile. presence ISEAL.) Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County. Geo. B. Tzschuck, belng first duly sworn, deposes and says that he s secretary of The Bee Publishing company, that the actual average daily circulation of the Dally Bee for the month™ of July, 1886, 12,314 copies; for Aufist 1888, 12,464 copies; for Septems ber, 18%, 15,030 coples; for October, lisn, 12,980 copies: for November, 1886, 1 coples; for December, 1886, 13,257 eolyleu: lor Jlmllr‘v 1887, 16,260 coples; for February, 1897, 14,108 coples; for March. 1847, 14.400 les; for April, 1857, 14,316 copies: for May, June 1887, 14,147 ,227 “coples; for coples. Gro. B. TZSCITUCK, Subscribed and sworn to before me this 1st day ot July A, ., 1887, ISEAL.| N. P, Frir, Notary Public. FIRE protection has a very substantial meaning in San Francisco. That city expends $30,000 a month in maintaining Its fire department. The fact that they are discussing the water situation down in Kansas City clearly indicates that they will in time begin the use of it. A GREAT effort is being made over at Lincolu to save the neck of Hoffman the train wrecker who is sentenced to be exccuted on the 23d inst. Ir the noise raised by Tuttle should be the means of making him governor of Tows, it might seriously intertere with the presidential boom of General Fair- child. —— THE denial by ex-Governor Cnrtin of the assassination of Jeff Davis was super- fluous. Nobody whose opinion is worth considering doubted that the inveterate old rebel was lying. —— It is claimed that the south will be solid for Cleveland in the national democratic convention. No doubt of it. He has bought up that section by giving it about all the oftices worth having. —— EVERY voter, whether he owns property in Omahaor is smply a wage-worker should cast his vote for the Omaha Motor and Northwestern street car fran- chise proposition. The boom must ton- tinue, —_——— COLLECTOR JONAS, of the port of New Orleans, is in danger of total blindness. The injury to his eyes was caused by a copy of the Congressional Record which hisson playfully tossed t him from across the room. A great many men wish their “I's" had been knocked out. For instance, the grand syndicate of salary-grabbers. Tue Omaha boom has come to stay. It is not built upon sand, but it has wealth, energy, intelligence and enter- prise never before equalled associated in its behalf. There 18 no reason why it should not, and a thousand reasons why it should have a population within the next ten years equal to Chicago, It is Omaha that 1s to be the New York of the west. —— AWwISE thing was done yesterday at Cincinnati 1 forfeiting the charter of the burstea Fidelity bank which Harper and others wrecked with such superb ability., This is a lesson to the army of bankers who rob their depositors by practicing dishonesty. This is the first instance of fidelity yet shown in any- thing connected with that institution. THE board of education has made an excellent choice in electing Mr. J. B. Piper as its secretary. Mr. Piper is emi- nently qualified for the position by his liberal education and experience asa teacher and accountaut. He is a man of character, industrious, steady and re- liable. Mr. Piper has always manifested a deep interest in our public schools and we have no dobbt will devote himself en- thusiastically to the task which will de- volve upon him. — THE work of placing all electric wires in New York under ground will begin next week, and it will be prosecuted until all the wires in the metropolis are buried. 1t 18 a big job, but a most necessary one. The example wil undoubtedly be fol- lowed by other large cities and in time extend throughout the country. The next generation will probably be wholly re- lioved of the unsightly and dangerous nuisance of wires above ground, at least in cities. e——— Tue anthracite coal pool proposes to repeat its operations of last year in limit- ing the production and advancing the price, and yet a Philadelphia paper says there are two men to dig coal in the min- ing regivns where one can find cmploy- ment, and the wages of mining have not been advanced. The railroad companies have more coal to carry than they have cars to trangport it in or locomotives to pull it to the market. There is no cir- cumstance lacking which should tend to cheapen prices ' to the consumer, but the coal business is donein a corner hy a few masters of transportation, ‘who ake prices to suit themselves. . The whole ar- rangement is justly characterized as an . illegal and irresponsible device for " oheating every man in the whole couatry who buys a ton of coal. ¥ An Inter-State Reunton. The state encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic of Nebraska is to be held in Omaba during the first week of next September. It is not too late to suggest that the scope of the gathering should be enlarged so as to make it an inter-state reunion of the veterans of Ne- braska, Western Iowa, Southern Duakota and Northern Kans: The accommodations are ample for all the veterans that reside within o radius of two hundred and fifty miles from Omaha. The suggestion carries with it every argument that may be adduced in its favor, Hundreds of Ncbraskans were soldiers in Iowa regiments, and thou- sands of the Iowa vetorans have become residents of Nobraska smnce the war. These two clasees have not had an oppor- tunity in years to meet old comrades. That 1t would be uvailed of cannot be doubted. Omaha is advantageously situated for in- ducing a great gathering of old soldiers, and there are 10,000 or more of them within in easy reach and access of the city up and down the Missouri valley. The troops of Nebraska, Iowa, northwest Missouri and northern Kansas have a kindred feeling and the pride of having achieved whenever duty called. It is altogether apdropriate that these old soldiers should be induced to come together—to recount the old stories and recall the old scenes with which they are familiar, and when they supported each otherinbattle. And the soldiers of Dakota, who have settled up that fertite territory from every state that contributed troops to the Union, would do well to respond to an invitation to meet the soldiers of the west asold soldiers, many of whom they may be ac- quainted with as citizens. A rally such as 18 suggested demands attention. The suggestion of it ad- dresses itself to the favorable considera- tion of the Grand Army oflicers of Ne- braska and the committees having in churge the preparations for the encamp- ment. Especially at this time, it may be sub- mitted, such areunion would be oppor- tune. The Grand Army of late has been projected before the public in a charac- ter it disclaims, and the effort having been made to make it a factor of discus- sion and disturbance, every oppor- tunity ought to be given the veterans in as great numbers as possible, to discover all that partisan ma- liciousness may have conjured against them nnd to re-nssert 3ho truc objects of the great and grand organization—the conservatism and promotion, only, of the interests of the old soldier. Correction a Ci Aes. The fourteenth annual convention of the National Board of Correction and Charities will meet in Omaha on the 25th of August. The board of trade at its meeting Monday evening took timely action in apvointing a committee to act 1n conjunction with the local committee of the association of charities in securing subscriptions from citizens to assist in receiving the national board. The con- vention will consist of about five hundred delegates, representing nearly or quite cvery state in the union, constituting a body of the highest character and of ex ceptional intelligence. The last con- vention was beld in St. Paul and received marked consideration, A number of cities urged their claims for the forth- coming convention and held out liberal inducements, but without much contest Omaba was honored with the selection. It is very much to be hoped that our citi- zens will duly appreciate the considera- tion thus shown this city, and will gener- ously put those who shall be charged with receiving the delegates to the con- vention, and providing for their hospit- able entertainment, in possession of ample means to enable them to discharge their duties to the credit of the commun- ity, The members of the conventions held here this year have almost without exception had nothing but & good report to make of their treatment in Omaha, and those who attend the coming con- vention must be so well treated that they a0 conseientiously confirm all that has been said fayorable to us and supplement it with their own testimony of approval. The objects of the national board of correction and charities are such as should commend themselves to every intelligent citizen and especially to those who take an interest in the prog- ress and development of humanitarian and philanthropic work. What these objects are is sufficiently indicated in the title of the board. The subjects that chiefly receive attention relate to the management of charitable institutions and prisons, the methods pursued and the reforms necessary, individual and general experiences, statistical results, and other matters to which the increas- mngly important subject of correction and charities give interest and value not for any special class of community, but for every class. [t need hardly be said that these various matters are presented and discussed by intelhigent men many of whom have devoted years of study and experieuce to them, and all of whom are full of zeal in their work. The deliberations of these couventions have therefore grown to be of great weight in intluencing legislation and in moulding public opinion, It will thus be seen that Omaha 1s to be favored with the presence of a body of no ordinary character and importance, and it 1s desi- rable that 1its reception and entertain- ment shall comport with its high claim to consideration, The Healing Process. The “amended’’ flag incident at Rich- mond is only another chapter of the serial that southern sentiment has sought to have engrafted asa part of the history of the country since the war. There have been interchanges of pleasantries be- tween the north and south since the un- pleasantness, but there has been the characteristic difference manifested be- tween them, as was illustrated when the north was entertained at Richmond and the south at Gettysburg the other day. Southern hospitality at one time had an unbounded siguificance-it meant that the home of the host was at the disposal of the guest, and that nojhing could obtrude that would offend. ‘‘The New South," about which much boasting is indulged, hos not improved over ‘‘the 0Old South™ 1n this respect. The Rich- mond iacident is but one of many others where the chivalric southron has shown an unmindfulness of the courtesies of the host by permitting the memories of the past to canse a forgetfulness of the duties of the present. L In the way of contrast the Gettysburg reunfon stands-forth happily and con- spicuously as an evidence of northern hospitality, genuine 1n character, cordial, sincere and without the indulgence of any expression as manl- festation to mar or disturb the harmony of the occasion. There may be justification of these junketings to and fro between the north and south, under the supposition that they are a part of the healing process, but what was regarded as right down south is just as much maintained to be right to-day, The north has nothing to concede, and its day to surrender passed when the surrender at Appomattox was made. No one disputes that everything that can be consistently done to heal the wounds of the past should be done, but the south, the patient upon whom the wounds were inflicted, should try to respond to the gentler treatment of a quarter which began with Grant's magnanimity under ‘‘the famous apple tree.’”’ That response can best be made by a strict attention to business, to the development of the resources in which “the New South” is said to be en- gaged. In the rush of business, the march of progress and the growth of new generations, the south will forget that it ever had a flag. A continuance of these reunions, north and south, will only prolong the memories of the de- feated, which after all are more tenta- tive than those who can afford to be magnammously forgetful, or at least un- mindful at times. Encourage Manufactures. At the last board of trade meeting several communications were received from manufacturers who desire to locate in Omaha, asking inducements to trans- fer their factories to this city. These were referred to the appropriate com- mittee, with the recommendation that they be given favorable consideration. It is to be hoped this will be done, and promptly. All such Indications of a growing interest among manufacturers toward Omaha should receive the Learti- est and most zealous encouragement, ana the committee on manufactories of the board of trade can easily make itself the moet useful part of that body by giving its earnest and prompt attention to ap- plications of this character. It ought to make no difference in their interest or zeal that the establishments desirihg to come here are at present small in the extent of their plant and_the amount of capital invested. The possibilities of the future are not always 1o be measured hy the conditions of the present. A dozen small factories are 1 the end more de- siravle than one or two large ones. No extended argument can be required to demonstrate the proposition that the building up of manufacturers is one of the necessities to the continued growth and prosperity of Omaha. The commer- cial progress of the city 13 assured. All the conditions that make for metropoli- tan greatness and prosperity in this re- spect are present and are steadily ex- panding. In the uature of things these must assert themselves as vigorously and rapidly as the_growth of the country tributary to Omaha advances. But the situntion is somewhat different with re- gard to manufacturing. The natural conditions which would make this city a center of industrial enterprise must be stimulated. Omaha should adopt a liberal policy of encouragement to all manufacturers who may desire to locate here, and for whose busi- ness there is a reasonable promise of growth under favoring circumstances. Every merchant, and particularly every land holder, has an interest m forwarding a policy of this kind, and all such should generously aid the board of trade in its efforts to draw manufacturing to Omaha, Great as this city may and inevitably must become commercially, everybody will concede that it must be made greater and richer by the addition of industrial enterprises. How important these are to the solidity and prosperity of a city might be illustrated by many examvles. If sometimes diflicult ot creation and slow of growth, when once firmly founded in a locality 1t is next to impos- sible to uproot them, A purely commer- cial city will 1n time have its trade sub- jected to wide fluctuations, and perhaps under the pressure of strong and active competition will find it drifting and re- ceding. But a well settled system of manufacturing industries can be pretty safely depended upon as a source of steady prosperity. It - volves investments which cannot be read- ily transferred, as well as other cons:der- ations that render permanence of loca- tion necessary and important, Those who have an interest in promoting the growth and welfare of Omaha can ex- hibit it in do directiou to better advant- age than in encouraging, by a liberal volicy, the location here of all sound and promising industrial enterprises that may desire to come The Special Election. Qur citizens must not forget the special election submitting to a vote of the people the ratitication of the fran- chise granted by the council to the Om aha motor and Northwestern street railways. I'he Omaha motor project isin- tended to connect through the eity from the stock yardsin South Omaha to the suburb of Benson by way of Walnut Hill, Six miles of track are already laid, and the projectors intend to complete the road as rapidly as possible. The motor power, as required by the ordinance granting the charter, must be either air or elec- tricity. Steam is prohibited. The elec- tric motor has really been decided upon, and the machinery is being nego- tiated for with parties who have made a specialty of electric power appliances. Some of these are in successful opeiation at Montgomery, Alabama, Port Huron, Michigan, Toronto and Windsor, Can- ada, and other American cities. The Northwestern company intend, as we learn, to use the same appliances. Their line is not yet defined, however, but is doubtless intended to connect suburbs not reached by other lines with the city. While the time is not distant when the street railway franchises in Omana will command a royalty, we cannot afford as yet to place an embargo on transit and public improvement. Every street rail. way line built improves not only adjacent property, but the aggrega te realty of the whole city, In view of the fact that franchises have been recently grauted to other compa- nics, we see no reason why an exception should be made againstthe Motor or North western. ——— As will be seen in another eolumn of this paper the republican state central committee has Issued a call for the state convention to be held October 5 and 6. The candidates to be nominated will be one associate justice of the supreme court and two members o the board of regents of the State university. e. “I say, stranger,” | whispered a western man, who had straged into an up-town theater where the pjay of ‘Romeo and Jullet” was going on, *‘I can’t make head nor tail of thisthing. What's the name of this play, anyhow?) “Romeo and Julpt.” “Well, It 1'd_kn ‘4 that,” sald the dis- gusted westerner, I wouldn’t have come in. 1 understood the feller at the door to say it was something about Om: ind Jollet.” phatnbubetoesatal STATE JOTTINGS. A building boom is running loose in Plattsmouth. The corn fields in Nemaha county over- shadow the record in size, shape and previousness. The railrond diplomat has successfully rl-yud Fremont for a chump. And he loves her less because she believes him. The_ Hastings Democrat is suffering from base ball hog cholera, and makes a feeble attempt to fan the universe with the curl of its tail. Railroad surveyors in distress and war Enhn have appeared again on the Ne- raska blufls opposite Yankton. The Yanktonais, however, are not easily frigntened. These Nebraska blufls are too frequent to be woolly. The charming ros!mlsm‘.ss of ElImwood has kicked up a fracas by attempting to stop the delivery of mail on Sunday. She appeared perfectly content while receiv- ing the males, but her Sabbatarian con- stitution rebelled at the call of duty be- fore pleasure, Louise, the twelve-year-old daughter of ‘Wm, Yeils, of Nebraska City, died in the terrible agonies of lock-jaw, Saturday last. On Tuesday the child stepped on an iron hayrake, one of the prongs enter- ing the flesh. The wound was dressed and apparently healed, but lock-jaw and death followed four days after. Will 8. Jay of the Lincoln Journal is going to retire for '‘the benefit of his health,” and the enlargement of his bank account, a combination that rarely dwell in harmony with the profession. Jay will agitate the earth on his own hook and jar the cents abilities of South Sioux City for the rest of the season. The sheriff of Sm;Fy county is camping on the hot trail of Tim Hickey in Adams county. Timis wanted badly in Papil- lion for inducing a fifteen year old girl to leave the parental roof and fly with him to bowers of gilded misery in Omaha and then deserting her among strangers. His return is anxiously awaited, and his recoption will be a8 warm and vigorous us his _villainy deserves. There is no room for the seducer on top of the earth. A farmer in Otoe county nnmed Meier closed a patriotic howi on the Fourth by a display of famil§ pyrotechnics. Seiz- ing his wife by the hair, he beat her in a shocking manner,ngarly gouged out her eyes and left her na ¢ floor unconscious. ‘The drunken fiendécaped with a fine of $10 and costs. A lifdsentence in the pen, trimmed with daily #ourgings, would be about his size. But thelaw is painfully generous to wife beaters. Four fresh toughs attempted and in- sisted on seraping up an acquaintance with Sherift Terwilliger, of Dundy county, while conveying a prisoner to Lincoln. The sherift” resisted their ad- vances for a time and then embraced them. The leader ;was laid out on the floor of the car, WAh the oflicial boot beating a Lively tagoo below the belt, I'he introduction w88 so vigorous and sudden that 1t madey the gang weary at the end of the round, P TRUST CONSPIRACIES, New Fangled Syndicates to Swindle the People. New York Times: The multiplication of great trade conspiracies called trusts, formed upon the model afforded by the Standard Oil monopoly, sets before the people of this country a problem which, in defense of their rights, they must soon undertake to solve. A trust is acom- binativn devised for the establishment and main tenance of 8 monopoly in such a way that the real aesign of 1ts founders and the operation of its machinery are 1 a great measure concealed trom the public. Absolutely controlling a large number of corporations which seem to be independent of each other, monopoly in this form presents to the world the featurcs of ordinary competition, But behind the mask there is only monopoly, heartloss, tyrannical and oppros The trusts of these days are not corporations, but by usurping the franchises of many corporations they exert, without the ve- straining influence of churter regulations, enormous power, In his oration delivered at the reunion of the army of the Potomuc, Mr. Chaun- cey M. Depew said: *“The corporation is the creature of the state, 1ts powers limited by the conditions of its existence, its methods subjected to pub- lic supervision, and its hfe dependent upon the creator, It is the only medium through which many of the great enter- prises of our civilization can be carried on. But the sun of publicity can send no ray into the labyrinths of those gigan- tic combinations which are created by neither Jaw nor custom nor necessity,and whose mysterions movements are at once the peril and puzzle of the investor and the destructive traps for enterprise and ambition.’’ The context shows that Mr. Depew had 1n mina the conspiring speculators who try to ‘‘corner” the necessaries of life, But are not the words which we have quoted equally applicable to the “‘gigan- tic corporations’’ called trusts, which de- vour corporations? Do not these trusts also “‘thwart and ruin legitimate trade?” Are not also these conspirators *‘public enemies?’ The trust is a “‘corner’ whose creators are not menaced by such rui frequently befall those whe un- dertake by specu “3" buymg to raise temporarily the prick bof grain or other articles of food, A trust monopoly does not fear such reverses as those which rummed Harper and his Fidelity bank. A trust “corner’’ is, 1f we may judge by our experience thus far, a sure thing. But it is apparently secure from at- tack through the conrts as a wheat 'deal.” s there in the history of the Standard oil trust anything to show that its power to control @ great industry and to crush all individual competitors not been supreme? Have the supremac or the prohts of that great ring eye :z'oen'cndnngervd by legislation or litiga- ion # All of the gas companies doing busi- ness in Chicago were recently absorbed by a trust. The trust which rules them is not a corporation, but a conspiracy. Its creation put an end to competition in the gas business in that city. As soon as the trust’s machinery had been perfected the several companies which retained their corporate existence, and to all ap- pearances were doing business on the old plan, raised the price of gas. That is, the price seemed to be raised by the companies, while in-fact it was raised by the orders of the controlling monopoly In the charters of these two ccmpanies it is provided that 1f they shall enter into any combination with “any other com- pany concerniug rates their franchises shall be forfeited. But now, when an at- tempt to enforce this penalty is made, the companies assert that no combina- tion or pool exists. The fact that they retain their separate offices, officers and plants affords a basis for this cliim; nevertheless it is notorious that they wre i S AR o a0 ! all the slaves of the trust, or rather the machines by which it does its work. As to the trust itself, that is said to be inac- cessible. Possibly 1n the words of the officer who described another and a greater trust, “‘it has no such existence a8 subjects it to legal assault.” The rings, which are the offspring of the Standard Oil monopoly, oannot es- cape the attention of legislatures. They are to-day the foremost manifestations of monopoly. They hreed discontent, and the people should, through their legis- Iative assemblies, take them in hand without delay. —_—— CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE. Some Anecdot of Him “Carp." %punkln of Judge Walte's early days at Toledo, I had a long chat the other day with ex-Congressman Hill, of Deliance, about the chief justice. “When_did Jou first meet Judge Waitey'’ 1 asked. “It was when I was a green voung lawyer,” Hill replied. ‘I had a_case in which Judge Waite, then a noted Toledo lawyer, was employed by the opposite side. Waite had already made a great reputation, and I approached the case with fear and trembling. We took the testimony together in private, and after wo had it all before us, before we had submitted it to the judge, Mr. Waite asked me to go over and lunch with him. During our lunch hetold me that he thought we could settle that case just as well as. Judpiu Latty, and asked meif [ would be willing for him to fix the terms of settlement. replied that that was rather a strange method of procedure and 1 would like to know how he would settle it first. He then made a plain statement of the justice of the case, and proposed a settlement in accordance with this. His 1dea as to how the case should be settied was exactly the same as mine, and I could not have asked for bet- ter treatment. 1 don’t belieye that Waite ever advocated the cause of a dishonest client, and 1 don’t think he would have taken a case which he thought contrary to justice. He might have made a for- tune at his law had he charged the or- dinary fees, for he had a very large prac- tice. He was not very rich when he was elected chief justice, and 1 don’t imagine he is what would be called wealthy now. He made one large fee that 1 know of, and that was $40,000 which he received for his service in_connection with the At- Great Western railroad cases. He bas a son who is a lawyer in Toledo, and his daughter, Miss Mary, is a very accomplished young Ind{." Waite was the son of the chief justice of Connecticut. Ho had been born at Lyme, educated at Yale in the same class withWilliam M. Evarts, studied law with his father, and during the term of Mar- tin Van Buren, had come west to Ohio to practice. Ho soon jamped into a big business, but he lived” well and did not save much money, because, as represen- tative Hill says, he charged too little for his services. For the writing of a brief at the request of the Detiance county commissioners in a case inyolving $! 000, Hill says he charged only Waite's first case in Defiance county was tried shortiy after his admission to the bar, ‘The court was held in the second story of a_building in Defiance, which still stands, and Waite was terrioly worsted by a young man who had more yoice than brains, and who now lives at Defiance, un unknown and not very prosperous old man. Waite was once a member of the Ohio state legislature. He also declined a position on the Ohio supreme bench, and Grant sent him in connection with his old classmate, Wil- liam M. Evarts, as one of the counsel of the Geneva arbitration. He wus given the appointment of chief justice of the supreme court without having asked for it and having no idea that it would be tendered him. Repre- sentative Hill tells me how the matter was first called to Grant’s attention, and of a little meeting at Toledo, which se- cured Waite the appointment. “Grant was traveling over the United States, and when he came to Toledo a reception was vrepared for him. The committee on arrangements was composed of Waite's friends, and they were anxious that Grant should :\||llm|nl Waite for his pres- ent position, hey said nothing, how- ever, and had Waite make the address of the occasion, He did this in a ma terly manner, talking to Grant as b came his office, but not overflowing with the nauseous adulations which was so common to Grant’s receptions at that time, Grant was delighted with the effort. He had known of Waite some- what in connection with Evarts. He knew him to be a man of the utmost probity, and of no political aspirations. e made inquiries about him, and con- cluded that he was the proper man to take the place of Chief Justice Chase. He appointed Waite, and no better choice was ever made for such a posi- tion. Waite nceepted the position, and 1 understand that he shows no indications of intending to retire from it now. His bhome in Washington is a wide brown stone lm!hlinE of three or four stories, on 1 street, between Fourteenth and Fifteenth. He lives well and often gives dinners to his fellow judges and the other noted people of Washington i ty. He has entirely recovered from his illness of a year or 8o ago, and he ap- pears to be able to stick to the supreme bench as long as life sticks to his bones, He is alread eligible to retirement, but like other of his fellow septuagenarians of the supreme court he prefers to earn his salary to having the government pen- sion him at the rate of 10,000 a year. He wears his seventy years oxceedingly well. His eye is bright and his step is firm, and the wrinkles in his dark square face are few. His beard is, however, be- ginning to grow gray and his black hair is already tinged with bright silver. He makes an excellent chief justice, and the integnity of his decisions has never been questioned. By FRANK G. CARVENTER. e The Presidont Will Come West. Post-Dispatch: In the statement given out at the White house yes- terdap the information that Mr. Cleve- d, as a result of the St. Louis fiasco, s abandoned the intention of taking any western trip is made prominent. Those who-are presumed to be well in- formed, however, do not believe the pres- ident will give up his plans for the sum- mer and fall, t is well known that he had an elaborate programm of prepared, and a high oflicial lust evening that it would be up to. The president, he suid, will be urged to go to St. Louis during fair week in October, and will ac- t. He will proceed from St. Louis to ther points as originally intended. ‘T'his trip, on which Mrs. Cleveland will accompany him, will take in Louisville, Omaha, Kansas City, Chicago, Milwau- kee and possibly Duluth. The party,from the latter place, will go to Madisan and visit the home of Postmaster General Vilas. From there they will go to three or four places in Michigan where Mrs. Cleveland has relatives, and back to Washington by way of Detroit and Buf- falo. ““T'his is the plan originally laid out,” said the Post-Dispatch’s informant, “and it will be lived up 1o, the Grand Army meeting to the contrary netwith- standing tr said 1i e Cattle Owners to Meet, The owners of the herd of eattie which was taken up by the poundmaster west of the Belt line on Monday on complaint of a resident there, but without cause, are requested to moet next Sunday after- noon at 2 o’clock at the saloon ‘of Mr, Ruey on Leavenworth street, to investi- ate the matter and see what steps can s taken to prevent a recurrence of the same at )stigation of the aforemen- tioned resident. Cou, THE SNARES OF WALL STREET The Ups and Downs of the Great Money Oenter. JIM KEENE'S SEVEN MILLIONS The Recent Great Strike of Gould and_His $4,500,000 Check —Russell Bage's Narrow Es- cape From Ruin, New York Letter to Chicago Nows: It almost takes away the breath to read that Jay Gould has given his check for $4,500,000 in part payment for stock bought of Cyrus W, Field. 1tis a large sum of money to be vouched for by & single strip of papor. Yet the trunsaction and the events that attended have drawn fresh attention to Wall street and its ways and to threo or four wonderful men who of the thousand that have gone into the street still survive its storms and bat- tles. The stock exchange itself is an in- toresting place. You read that seats in it arc selling at $25,000 apiece but curi- usly enough there are no seats. A desk or a presiding officer on a platform and several platforms for telegraph iustru- ments are the only furniture. The rest is simply a broad floor, and on this floor the brokers crowd and jostle each other. They stand as they buy and sell, and mstend of making the record of the transaction with great formalty and with much dignity they simply jot on a pad the briefest sort of a mem- orandum. It isfor the privilege of going upon the floor, surrounded by bare walls, that the broker pays the $25,000. The room seemed to be filled with howl- ing lunatics and to be confusion itself, Nevertheless these men, although noisy and active, are so far removed from lunacy as almost never to make an error, and the entire proceedings have 8o much of system that whenever an error is made it is easily traced and rectitied, The building itself is upon as valuable land as may“be found in New York city. It fronts on Wall, Broad and New streets, and with its costly safe deposit vaults and frequent improvements has cost more than $1,000,000. Every little while there is a fresh complaint that a bigger building is needed, und with it comes the plea that the exchange should be moved farther up-town. But it will be many years before this is done. AN ARMY OF BROKERS. Surrounding the exchange are the offices of the 1,100 brokers who are mem- bers of the exchange. As each broker, almost without exception, has a partner or two, it is safe to say that 2,500 or 3,000 men are actively engaged in the business as members of commission houses. In every office is a ticker that spits out quotations as fast assales are made in the exchange, and around these tickers stand the customers or speculators—an inter- cstingi: flock of lambs who almost to a man lose money. I say that those sycculntors lose money. An honest broker of any long experience will tell you so. There arc notable cases of men making great hits in the street, and when a hit is made 1t is proclaimed far and nmnear. The wise man when he makes a pile of money through the knowledge of some impending event or from any other cause puts it into his pocket and quits the But this ir hard to do. The ion to try again is too strong to ed, and the money won is stuked another speculation, and so on ster comes and all is swept away. Thestreet is full of men who have made fortunes—almost invariably by one or two transactions—and lost them in trying to make more. Chances to make big money in Wall street do not come to the average Wall street man more than two or three times a year, yet the average sueculator wants to trade all the time. He buys and sclls every day, whether there 1s anv market or not. He is like the man who gets the horse-racing mania who must bet on every race, whether he knows anything about the horses that are running or not. THE WISE MAN'S GOLDEN CHANC The result is a foregone conclusion~he loses money. If he knows the way of the street and the condition of the coun- try he may once'or twice a year find & condition of affairs in which it is alinost absolutely safe to buy stocks or to sell them for short account. There are a few men in New York who speculate in this manner, and who as a result have piled up fortunes. When there k in prices under a clear fi such a one as the one of when Jay Gould and Ru pressed prices for no other reas that they were after Cyrus W, Field's scalp--then the wise man takes his cash and goes down into the streetand picks up things that are cheap. He must un- derstand, however,enough about railroad property and the condition of trade to know whether things are cheap ornot, for it is dangerons business at best. He should pay for what he purchases, and wait with patience for the recovery that comes—may be in & week, may be ‘not in a year. Itisthe pure and simple gam- bling on small margins that makes mince-meat of the speculator, and such a crop as Manhattan and Western Union the other day wiped out all the way from a hundred to a thousand men who had been hanging on for six months in hope of a little luck. JIM K 'S SLIPPERY MILLIONS, When James R. Keene came to New York with §7,000,000 and entered into active trading it was freely predicted that he would become a second Vander- bilt or Jay Gould, and he might have been had he followed their methods; but he dia not. He went into the street to trade every day. Things went well some days, aud on others they did not, and litile by tittle the young Californian's seven millions slipped away until he be came a less and less factor “in the street, and lately we have censed to hear of hin or his transactions. He 18 not absolutely bankrupt, but he is no longer the power that he was. There are a few men, very few, who have stood the Wall street racket. They have made their money rather by combi- nations_and consolidations of railroad llrulwrlies than by speculation Mr, sould is not more successful as a specu: lator than many others, but by the con- solidation of properties purchased cheup and by the watering of stock and the 1s- suing of bonds he has made a vast for- tune. Yet he has lost much at times when he has attempted to force tne market. The same 18 true of Russcll Sage, another of the Wall street survi- vors. He has lost man 1) & willion of dol- lars by speculation waile making many million more. People who saw him ver- spire in the May panic of 1584 well re- member how very near he came to going under on that memorable occasien, As for Mr. Cyrus W, Field, who has been uom«lhiufi of 'a power, common report has it that he was 8o nearly snowed under that there was no enjoyment in it for him, and it is plain that his days of financial power are over. It has been a very close call for him, It seenus to be acknowledged that there is not and has not been a kKing of Wall streat who has not atsome time in his speculative career been on the verge of ruin; and from this the deduction is easy that all Wall street operations are at- tended with exceedingly great risk, and, as arule, with disaster and rumr o the man who participates 1n thew: Smull fry and men of limited financial genim are sure to fio under if they stick to it long enough. RUIN FOR YOUNG MEN, W all street Iife 18 demoralizing. Itun- fits men for legitimate work and for bu ness requiring onergy and hard work. The street is surrounded with tempta- tions to gamble in other vuu{ ways, and especially to drink. The Wall street gin mills are numerous and gaudy and seductive, A hitof u few hundred dol- lars in a man's favor tempts him_to take adrink of jubilation, while a loss de- mands the cup of consolation. Money is made and lost on so big a scale that young men especially are fascinated b the rapidity of the pace and the magni- tude of the business, There is tempta- tion to prodigality in = cabs and in dinner and lunches which is freely gratified. is {oung man who has spent a year A Wall ™ street brokers’ offices, who makes §300 to-day and loses $400 to-mor row and makes $200 the next, isn't iom to censider the value of a $10 or $30 ban note when his own pleasure or comfort 18 under consideration. When at the end of the year finds himself with hardly 100 to his name, he is entirely and absolutey unfitted for work, and ho is more inclined to put $10 1n_a_bucket- shop with the hope of making it $20 than to work on a clerk's wages, He has be- come interested in potroleum and grain, and horse races and lottery tickets, and matching half dollars and draw-poker, and work is very tiresoms. He, in short, 18 good for nothing. The down-town saloons are full of these Wall street wrecks, They are on hand for drinks, but are goud for nothing when there is work to be done. On the other hand, the fast life of the street, in good times usp«cinllr. haIEs along a great variety of trade. The average speculator likes to go to the theater and the opera and he takes a jolly party with him as arule. Tho good effects of Wall street boom are felt in the shops. Retail dealers say that they can tell when things are booming by the way women spend money—for a large provortion of the money made gets around into the pockets of the women, after all. The man who has made $1,000 in a day fecls very liberal after dinner, and the wife is sure to get a bit of it be- fore it is lost on the following day, and she in turn is quite sure to transfer to the jewelor or tho furrier or the avenue milliner. 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