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��Senator William B. Allison, of Iowa, should be the Republican nominee for president. He describes him as a man of great executive ability and fine quali- ties, who would be supported by the Mugwumps, carry New York, and be elected.

There are scores besides these who are well known in various parts of the coun- try. Such are ex-Secretary Columbus Delano, who presided over the interior department in Gen. Grant's cabinet ; Da- vid Harpster, of Ohio, one of the largest wool-growers in America; Thomas M. Nichol, better known as " Hard ]Money " Nichoi, who has been wasted nearly to a shadow by illness ; A. C. Cheney, presi- dent of the Garfield National Bank and chairman of the National Board of Steam Navigation; Capt. F. AV. Vosburgh, the popular Hudson river steamboatman ; Capt. R. C. Gray, of Pittsburgh, the vet- eran and grizzled Ohio river steamboat- man ; Gen. James S. Negley, of Pitts- burgh, with his curling hair, his French moustache and goatee, and distinguished appearance ; Gen. Newton, the commis- sioner of public works ; Stilson Hutchins, of The Washingto7i Post; E. H. Ammi- down, president of the American Protec- tive Tariff League ; Robert P. Porter and A. M. Garland, its secretaries, who were members of the old Tariff Commission ; Gen. O. E. Madden, of Boston, who is heavily engaged in electrical invention and improvement ; Col. A. Piper, IT. S. A., who was for years an instructor at West Point; William Plankinton, the athletic son of the wealthy proprietor of the Plankinton house at Milwaukee, who has just returned from Europe ; Mayor D. R. Haddon, of IVlemphis, who has been ill at the hotel for a month, and is creeping around on crutches ; big-headed Burke Cockran, the Tammany orator and coun- sel for Jacob Sharp, who has called for a friend ; ex-Gov. Samuel Ilauser, of Mon- tana, who conceals his wealth under the most unassuming appearance ; W. F. Proctor, the Singer sewing machine mill-

��ionaire ; Horace L. Hotchkiss, the broker, who mingles literature with business and enjoys both; Capt. T. W. Collier, for- merly owner of The Santa Fe New Mex- ican and James Bell, the sandy-whis- kered and disappointed owner of the yacht Thistle.

From the Nev) York Snn we quote a few facts about the underneath world in this great hotel. The kitclien is one hundred by tlfty feet. lu the early morning this was what the re- porter saw :

The six fires in the mighty range were burning briskly now, and cast a ruddy glare upon the walls whenever the cook uncovered that at which he was engaged. Fantastic shadows danced upon the dark stone floor, and ihe polished utensils on a long table in the centre of the room flashed back the glare defiantly. The range for forty feet stretched away a black monster, while beyond rose the great chimney, the open firepkce, and the spit. Upon the opposite side of the kitchen the long vegetable range, serving table, and various other appurtenances were lost, except for outline, in the shade.

It is broad daylight now, and the kitchen apparatus has put off its ghost- like air. At one corner of the big room is a door leading to what is known as the cook's room, because here are prepared the meats, &c., before they are introduced to the range. Along one side of this smaller apartment runs the immense re- frigerator, divided into compartments, into which are packed enough prepared cuts and fowl to feed an army. And here Gustav and Pierre were busy, while their comrades were arranging other de- tails of breakfast in the main room — two of them being engaged at huge boilers? from which arose delicious odors of coffee and tea.

The chef strode into the steward's room, where the latter was looking over his accounts.

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