Show VK MKMH FROM OVER THE SEAS A Chat With Mr W S McCornick THE CRESCENT SALE IN P ARIA ARI-A Pleasant Voyage Along the H dlter anean French CapitalMonte Carlo Etc Etc Mr W S McCornick head of the banking house of McCornick Co returned turned home on Friday evening after an absence of two months and a half the reater part of which was spent with his family in Paris and the travelling with them through the south of Europe I Throughout yesterday llr McCornick did little but go through the hand shaking ordeal and it was in an interim of these ceremonies that a reporter of TUE HERALD met him and enjoyed a few minutes chat We had a stormy passage over the water going said Mr McCornick but in very pleasant and prosperous one coming back I returned by the North German Lloyd which to my mind is the finest company that sends its boats across the Atlantic It has been reported that your visit to France had something to do with the sale of the Crescent is there any truth in that Well yes I did not go ova purposely pur-posely for that of course but something some-thing was done about it while I was in ParisThere is a project on foot to make a sale of the property then Oh yes Senator Ferry is in France in relation to the matter and Mr Window Win-dow has not long since left there What are the prospects for the sale being accomplished That is very difficult to say there are so many contingencies that arise that it is impossible to say anything definite Have you any objection to stating the figure asked for the property I should not care to say anything about it at present The amount is a good one however Did you not find a prejudice against Utah investments owing to the outcome I out-come of the Telegrapn JSo not particularly the Paris capitalists t capi-talists are still spending a gooddeal of money in experimenting and in Bingham I learned they have some very good prospects of meeting with favorable results The Lexington had been doing very well f < Jr the investors up to a recent period Did you hear anything of Med hurst Nothing whatever Mrs Medhursl is living in Paris I met her one day on the Champs Elysces but nothing was known over there of her husband Anything of Munro Butler John stone He is wandering about Europe and was in Cannes at the same time I was but I did not meet him In London he is regarded as being broken up Mr Goodhart who was out here in relation to Mammoth affairs some time back seemed to think that there was some chance of getting the matters of that company straightened up ultimately But the prospect seems very remote How did you find business matters generally There is an extreme depression everywhere In the old world everything every-thing is dull in money circlesthey have nothing at all but rumors of wars In New York it was tor nbly quiet Omaha and Salt Lake are the only places at all that I have met where they I seem to have any life remaining Omaha looks to be particularly prosperous I I pros-perous I had expected to find it much worse here that am rather agreeably surprised Business ac the bank seem to have kept up remarkably well I Mr McCornick stated that he bad heard little or no American political talk since he had been gone In New York he had been assured that Cleveland Cleve-land was very pronounced on the Mormon Mor-mon question and it was not anticipated antici-pated that there wouldbe any cessation in the crusade against polygamy He had enjoyed a very pleasant trip with his family oyer the Meditcranean and had visited Nice Monte Carlo Genoa and Milan at Monte Carlo he said gaming was still at its height and he nightly scenesat the card tables at the Casinoa tremendous building devoted to all varieties of games at cards and at which mCl and women indiscriminately in-discriminately mingledwere suck abe must a-be seen to be appreciated Mr McCornicks family remained in Paris and are not expected to start for borne before the fall of this year |