Judge — September 22, 1883 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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O1p Morr Coron has jt ring” in oil, and was figuring on the price he would put upon it— Alonzo Busbee: His Life and pressions. Im- BY WILLIAM. GILL, cma, v “A wit's a feather, and a chief's a rod, An honest man’s the noblest work Confessions of §. 1” W. Dorsey. Many changes has the old mansion s since the days when large-hearted, hospital Sir Rod O’Finnigan, the burly alder- man from the Third Ward, held high revel within its w: By my hali h old times—for in those nd all the ya fat old contract did he bestow upon his faithful henchman, Sir Rod- erick. Wh . was forced to abdi- cate, he was followed into involuntary exile by Sir R., and deserted were the ers’ halls of dazzling light; the pop of the cham- pagne cork ceased to ech th ugh the corri- dors, and the elick of the chips was heard no more. ‘Then it was rented by a professor of elocut‘on, and all went well until he ran off with his most promising pupil, Miss Gracie Turban, daughter of the well-known oyster merchant, leaving his wife and four children without a cent, and a month’s rent ‘They went to the poor hous nd then the house was taken by a Jersey City cattle deal- er, but his family ¢ t on with the neighbors, who didn’t like foreigners nor for- eign ways, and they departed—and then it | was pu er, widely banker. Josiah O. Bullenbear was a distinguished leader of the ** Street; he had a seat in the Stock Exchan: big b t hi ks, piles of governm a good appetite, w digestion that never went back on him, and profound reverence for, and unterrified belief in—Josiah O, Bullenbear, If Josiah O. Bullenbear were commissioned to draw up a new set of commandments, they would, probably, run as follow 1. There is but one Josiah O. Bullenbear, 1 every one is his profi ‘Thou shalt not deal in any stocks except those controlled by Josiah O, Bullenbear. 3. Thou shalt not forge the name of Jos hased right out by the present own- th O. Bullenbear, the eminent and ted Wall street broker and O. Bullenbear, for the Courts will not hold! British Dooks and Hearls, and were laughed | the way to fortune. due. | THE JUDGE. PPECT. When a sudden pipe out of hi “fine cut.” “whish” of his brush sent his dt covered bis beauty with Tt was a stunner! nout him guiltle | O. Bullent 4. Remember the settling day of Josiah | Bullenbear to keep it strictly . Honor Josiah O. Bullenbear’s drafts upon thee that thy balance may be long in the Bank which the laws of the State have given thee. Thou shalt not kill Josiah O. Bullen- | 10 forgeth the name of Josiah \o. | alt not adulterate the food thou selleth to Josiah O. Bullenbear. 8. Thou shalt not steal from Josiah 0. Bullenbear. 9. Thou shalt not bear false witness against Josiah O. Bullenbear. 10, Thou shalt not covet Josiah O. Bullen- bear’s house; thou shalt not covet Josiah O. Bullenbe: yacht, nor his trotters, nor his wine, nor his railroads, nor his horse cars, nor his mule cars, nor anything that Josiah O. Bullenbe Josiah her h working bricklayer, but shrewd withal; a boom in building struck the city, and Josiah father struck the boom. He took contract got the price of sound bricks and adhesive | mortar and saved quite a lot of unnecessary | expense by substituting second-rate half- baked clay cubes, and mixed his sand with inferior lime. Then_he got city contracts, and made streets and laid sewers; then he got railroad contracts, made beds and laid | rails; for the latter took shares in part pay- | ment; then a railroad boom struck the | country, and again Josiah’s father struck the boom.” He bought when low, and sold when high, and in the course of years Josiah’s father was president of three big roads and ried half a dozen little ones in his | ockets. At last a boom struck Josiah’s father that he couldn’t strike back—Death —and the old gentleman was gathered to h forebears and iah became the boss. He | kept the ball that his father had started | rolling, and the more it rolled the bigger it | became. From the loins of Josiah, with a public school education, sprang sons and daughters who received’ college polishing, | and they grew up cultured, even to the verge | of high-tonedness did they become, and from the summit of their mountain of refinement | | and wealth, they looked down with scorn | | upon working and trades-people; and toadied | d_been an honest, hard- } day at for their pains; for British Lords are damphools by right of descent, and the would-be damphool of plebian parentage, is such a very poor travestie of the legitimate damphool that he only excites ridicule when he fondly hopes for affinity. Oh! Josiah the First, had you, when climbing the builder's ladder with a hodful of bricks on your hardened shoulder, been vouchsafed a look into futurity, and’ there beheld your almost immediate descendants scorning the class to which you belonged, and contemptuously regarding the work which laid the foundation of their fortune: I am inclined to think, Oh! Josiah, premier, that you would have stuck to hod-carrying, spent your earnings as quickly as you made them, and let your offspring rely upon their own hands and brains for their income. And oh—not alone you. h, but all the losiah’s, the farmer- ilor and the can- h’s—if you had, what a vi rt would behold h’s, the tinker, the stick-maker Jos! But Josiah O. Bullenbear wasn’t a bad fellow for a rich man. And that is more than can be said of every millionaire. It is easier for Jumbo to get into a box car than for a rich man to avoid being N. G. Josiah O. would do a good turn for any man, provided it gave him no trouble and didn’t cost him a cent. In all his stock transactions he was never known to rob any- one who was too smart for him, and he never put false information in the path of a man who wasn’t worth plucking. He partic- ularly kind, too, to the employees on his roads. He never expected any of them to work more than eightecn hours a day, for he | held that the poorest and humblest should have time for rest and recreation; and if the wages he paid them were barely sufficient to provide them and their families with the | commonest and cheapest necessities of life, it was not because he grudged them a living salary—no, he did it to prevent them buying fruit, and candies, and jam pies for their children, and so averted mild stomach-ache and serious attacks of cholera morbus, ‘The manner in whic O. became possessed of the mai Washington {eights was characteristic of the man. The owner, old ‘Tom Wade, had been a partner f Josiah’s father, and, at one critical period in the latter’s career, had at great monetary risk saved him from ruin. Old Tom took a great fancy to Josiah O., and many a happy did the latter, when a boy, spend in old Tom’s mansion, and many a five-dollar bill did old Tom bestow upon him when he grew older and longed for the seductive pleasures of theatre, ball and pool for drinks—pleas- ures he would have had to forego but for his old friend, for in those days Josiah the first grew miserly in his habits and allowed his son and heir barely enough to keep him in collars and cuffs. Naturally, Josiah O. be- came very much attached to old Tom, and felt a love for the old mansion, a love so trong that when his father died, and he urried, he longed to rear up his children within its walls. He made up his mind to possess it, and when Josiah O. made up his mind to possess anything he generally suc- ceeded in accomplishing his purpose. Now old Tom had a son who was the apple—aye, the very California pear—of his eye, and the son was worthy of the deep love his father bore him; he was honest, manly, generous, in short, a white man, from the very middle of White Man County, and was actively en- gaged in the cotton business, and rapidly on Old Tom gloried in his comicbooks.com