| Show WASHINGTON GOSSIP I Who the New Wyoming Senators Arc and How They Look k WARRENS BIG STOCK INTERESTS A Story of Hts Boiiiood and a Chat About His Estate Views of the Farmer Alliance 1VASIIING rON Dec 91S90 J Special cor respondenccof THE HERALD The United btatcs Senate opens this year with KO full grown jabies These ace the twin Senators from the new state of Wyoming They ore both bright follows and they promise veil Senators Carey and Warren are of the sawn age both were born in the east both he made money in western stock rasng and both came from the capital of the new state Cheyenne Senator Carey hs a good standing here as a territorial delegate He has served five years in Congress Con-gress and he is as straight as a string and as onslit as a button He has studied the iu hncry of Congressional legIstation and he goes into the Senate well equipped lor his duties SEXATOU TTAKUCX The mostinteresting of the new Senators kcLcr is Governor Warren he is cn tCiy new to Washington and his only pcuciii service has been as governor of vVjomng territory mayor of Cheyenne 2d as one of the leading politicians of hs se ton He is a man with a history und hs Lie has been typically American Hs fattier was a Massachusetts farmer who believed that all the learning a boy needed was comprised in the mastery of the three Rsreadin ritin rithmetic S When young Warren was thirteen years old he had to a certain extent mastered these and he wanted more schooling His father told him that if he got it he would have to earn it and he lot him have his time for himself From that age until now Warren has made his own living He got a good education by working in the summers sum-mers and going to school in the winters and the most of his lessons were studied toi the light of a tallow dip away up under I the root in his attic room in his grandfathers grand-fathers house where he boarded He progressed pro-gressed well In his academical ies when the war broke out and he was at this time about sixteen years old Ho wanted to enlist at once but his father sent him word forbiding it and according to the laws Of lassachusetts bo had to be considerably older before ho could go without his fathers consent He was under contract to work for his master until he was eighteen eigh-teen But on his eighteenth birthday the 23rd of June 1802 he came in to town with a load of cheese determined to go to the war There was a meeting in the town hall that night for recruits and Senator Warren tells me that when he went in he saw his father there and he was afraid he might prevent his enlistment He was also backward back-ward because a bounty of 150 had been offered for volunteers and feared it would be thoughthe went into the army for the bounty When the request for recruits was made however he found himself on his feet before he knew itand as he started up for the front his father stood by his side and took his arm and walked with him saying that he had not wanted him to go before but that he was a man now and confidently expected to find him here and that he vent with his consent and his blessing Well so young Warren started out to battle He was only in service about a year and had been offered a commission when sickness drove him homo to Massachusetts Massa-chusetts He had hero for a time charge of the largest dairy farm in that part of the country and was making a high salary for New England when he decided to go west He stopped in Iowa worked there fl < jr a time aud then went on to Cheyenne i 1 fie had no money to speak of but he got into merchandising and cattle raising and j gradually increased his capital bj successful success-ful turns and by his knowledge of stock until he is now one of the richest cattlemen cattle-men in the country He is the president and the chief stock bidder in the II Warren Live Stock company and this company has 100000 sheep three thousand cows and about two thousand thou-sand horses It has a flock of five thousand Angora goats and it has some of the finest imported rams in the United States It owns one hundred thousand acres of land and it is increasing the number of its animals ani-mals right along Wyoming is a state of thousands of hills and Warren may well be called the Job of the Senate for his cattle cat-tle roam over the best of them He is like Job too in his other possessions for he is I t a man of many interests His merchandising merchandis-ing interests extend ever the whole state and the Cheyenne house has agencies in I Salt Lake and Ogden He has interests in I the electric light plant of Cheyenne and there are Ion business interests in the city with which he is not connected now UK LOOK = Let me tell you how this Wyoming Senator Sena-tor looks I I called upon him last night in his room at the Arlington hotel and found him a I goodlooking fellow of about fortysix years of age dictating like mad to a typewriter type-writer who took down his words on a machine ma-chine that rattlrd like n corn sheller The Senator left off his dictation upon my entrance en-trance but the infernal clicking went on during our conversation Senator Warren j is about six feet tall and his form is as I straight as the straightest pine which hugs the Wyoming slopes of the Hocky moun rny loJ et es X so I tains His shoulders arc as broad as are western ideas and his chest has been made deep and full by the rarihed air of Cheyenne Chey-enne which contain I am told fity times as much ozone as any air l east of the Mississippi Mis-sissippi Senator Warren is a blonde His hair is of a light brown His eyes are blue and he has a luxuriant straw colored moustache mous-tache which comes well down over a strong and clean cut mouth His forehead is high and broad his nose is straight and his face is on I the whole rather handsome He dresses well talks well and will judge be a man j of more than ordinary weight on the Senate Sen-ate floor 1 asked him as to the present condition of the new state Said he The i state of Wyoming is increasing in populai i lion right along It is true the census gives us only I GOOOU but we had only 15000 in IfcTO and 1 think our population today is really about one hundred thousand We have a great many outoftheway towns aria districts in which it was hard to get an accurate census Our state contains about ninety thousand square miles and you could lose the six New England states inside in-side of it Some of our county seats are a hundred and seventyfive miles from a railroad rail-road and I believe that we have about forty thousand more population than the census has given us Nevada is decreasing in population but our population will steadily grow and we will have I think one of the great states of the west What has the state to make it great I asked I thought it was all sage brush and mountains Wo have one of the richest mineral regions in the United States replied the Senator Our coal and iron will eventually eventu-ally make us a great manufacturing state and we have 30000 square miles of good coal Some of our iron cannot bo surpassed sur-passed in quality and quantity and we have copper and lead and gold and silver We hare considerable agricultural country and if the government would give Wyoming its arid lands stock companies could be formed for its irrigation and great tracts of desCrt could be made to blossom like the rose We have some of the richest oil regions in the United States I nave seen oil wells which would throwa stream sixty felt in the air and there are in parts of the state ponds of oil eight feet ceep where the oil has run out from natural wells and has been caught in basins It Is not really known how valuable Wyoming is and the state is in its babyhood materially as well as polit can Cheyenne its capital is as enterprising enter-prising a town as you will find anywhere It was a few years ago the richest town in proportion to its population in the United States and now with a population o IJ of twelve thousand it has as much enterprise enter-prise and stir as many a town of a hundred thousand la the east It has electric lights a100000 university one of the finest railroad rail-road depots of the country and it is full of snap and enterprise You ask me what I think the government ought to do for Wyoming I reply she ought to give us I some public buildings let the state have tho disposal of the arid lands and strengthen the military posts We are on the edge of the Indian country and some I alarm is felt among the people as to the possibilities of an Indian war ISOALLS MAY nCTUIlS Senator Plumb tells me that Ingalls will probably be returned to the Senate and that he has a number of friends among the alliance legislators which in addition to his Republican friends will secure his election Senator Ingalls himself will say nothing about his election for publication butl understand un-derstand that he considers his success certain cer-tain There is a general desire here that Ingalls be returned to the Senate and expressions ex-pressions of this kind are common even among the Senators who have been the most bitterly attacked by him The newspaper news-paper correspondents without an exception are anxious that he should remain as he furnishes better descriptive material than any other man in the body and always has a new idea to oiler upon every subject that comes up uprnc Tan ALLIANCES INFLUENCE find a general impression that the Alliance Al-liance party will bo ephemeral and that it will not have much influence on the next I presidential election Senator Plumb said last night You cant tell w hit will be the state of things two years from now Times I may be better and the effect of the McKinley Mc-Kinley bill may show that it will be a good I rather than a bad thing for the country 1 The farmers alliance party will have a number of offices to distribute Its leaders I will probably quarrel among themselves and it may all go to pieces before the presidential pres-idential election Judge Tyner expost I inastergeneKil l and now attorneygeneral of tho postofHce department thinks with Senator Plumb and ho says it reminds him of the Granger movement which struck Indiana In-diana about the time he ran for Congress He was ad vised not to accept the Republican nomination on account of the strong farmers farm-ers element of the district which would certainly be against him He took this advice ad-vice and another man was nominated He was a weaker candidate than Tyner but he was elected because Grangers fought among themselves and could not at the end agree upon a candidate Roswell P Flower thinks tho Alliance has too many crazy ideas as to flat money etc to hold itself It-self together and George Q Jones who was the Greenback candidate for the presidency presi-dency some years ago believes that the old Greenback element will unite and that they will rally around Senator Stanford as thu next candidate for the presidency SENATOR SANDEKb IDEAS I called on Senator Sanders of Montana last night Ho says there are no alliance people in Montana and ventures the statement state-ment that the alliance party will within two years be a thing of the past The people of the United States said he will notsupport any party which holds its meetings in the dark Such actions are against the spirit of American institutions and they are a part only of the crazy of the times Wo are growing insane over secret societies If you will go into any crowd you will find more buttons and badges than you can count and it would take more learning learn-ing to read their meaning than it would to write a history of Moses and the prophets Parties have been in a transition state for the last ten years and just now there is going on all over tho United States a disintegration of parties and a change of social conditions which make It almost impossible to prophesy pro-phesy for the future This is an age of trusts of false values and of great fortunes for-tunes It is an age of fortunes made dishonestly dis-honestly and it would seem to me that a day of reckoning must come sooner or later Our great corporation values are based on false estimates Our railroads are operated oper-ated so that their directors and managers and great proprietors are little better than thieves in regard to tho public and the balance bal-ance sheet must be made out sooner or later As to the Alliance party I dont think that it is i f u ro bring this about It is only an evidence of the discontent dis-content which prevails among the people as ot Elt r ar to existing i i Rrfiar is so constituted that I dont believe that it can hold together and I do not expect to see it alive in Ski wASUiNGTON eupaovannTS New railroads are being built out from Washington in every direction Three new electric lines are being constructed and the rails are already down between the treasury and the patent office of the new G street line and cars will be running it is said by the first of January The business part of Washington is changing A few years ago all of the chief business houses were on Pennsylvania avenue with a few secondclass stores on Seventh street About eight years ago little shops began to spring up on F street which runs parallel with the avenue on the north and only about four years ago was it settled that F street was to be a great business street Now the F street property is the most valuable business property in the city and as an evidence of its rise the Honorable John W Thompson Washington Wash-ington millionaire banker bought last spring the corner of F and Thirteenth street just below tho Ebbitt house and paid 225000 for it This was considered an immense price and tho conservative investors in-vestors of the city raised their hands in wonder Mr Thompson went off to Europe during the summer and after a nice trip through Norway and Switzerland returned re-turned a few days ago and sold his property prop-erty for 330000 making a 5125000 off It in six months This G Street railroad has made a great boom in G street property and it will soon be as busy as F street is now The owners of residences along it havo grown rich and houses which three years ago were worth o00 are now worth 25000 General Denver the man after whom Denver was named tells mo that his landlady land-lady was the other day offered 5o4000 for a house which she had bought for 53000 there is a negro woman who owned a little lit-tle 5000 property put F street some years ago who has made 575000 on it ExSena tor Buckalew of Penuslyyania and General Gen-eral Denver were chatting together last night of the wonderful growth of Washington Washing-ton and of its elements of property The people outside of Washington said General i Gen-eral Denver cant understand it They say the town has no manufacturers no water front and no commerce and they cant see anything to make it grow It has in fact the biggest factories in the United States and its hands are the best paid There is the treasury factory with its 3000 employees receiving an average of about 1000 a year There is the interior department depart-ment which has three or four thousand more high priced hands And there is tho pension office the war department and the dozen of other governmental institutions which must increase in size and which distribute millions of dollars hero every month Yes said Senator Buckalew and there is Congress with its 400 men getting 5COO salaries and sending more than 5000 a year here on the average There are the thousand odd people who hang around Congress waiting to get something out of I it and there are the nabobs who are coming com-ing here from all parts of the country for their winter residences and spending here the income of their millions There are millions of dollars spent every year in asocial a-social way and Washington has I believe the best elements of growth of any city of its size in the country Yes said General Denver and the transient tran-sient element of Washington brings a great deal into the city Every inauguration inaugura-tion brings 1000CO strangers and he is a mighty close calculator who can pass through Washington without spending at least S20 on the way Washington gets 2000000 out of evory inauguration or an average of 500000 a year from this source alone and it has conventions of all sorts from week to week year In and year out Today it is the dentists of the United States tomorrow it is somo branch of ancientists and the next it is something else The city grows right along in beauty and In population Its people pay only one half the taxes and the capitalists are not afraid of the voters voting more taxes upon them It is a city of low taxation and of fair taxation and it will be the Mecca ol the capitalist for years to come HOW FLOWEIi WORKED ITS IT-S eakin of the money spent in enter < taining in Washington Roswell Flower of Now York gives some of the best dinners din-ners of the capital city He dined nearly svory member of Congress last session and he is now one of the most popular men in public life I learned last night the secret of these dinners They were given on the ground of good fellowship in the first place but in the second place they were also given to educate Mr Flower to the peculiar tastes and natures ot the men who dined with him Under the sparkling bubbles bub-bles of Flowers champagne the Senators and Representatives burst forth in their feelings as to public matters and Flower now understands to work each of them as to his own plans in regard to interests in-terests and as to the axes of his constituents constitu-ents Flower is one of the best diplomats in Congress Ho has a big head and a brainy one When he smiles he smiles allover all-over and he never smiles in vain FKANK G CAKPENTER |
