Life — August 6, 1885 — page 7: what you’re looking at

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ADVERTISE IN THE WHIRLED, -LI SOME OF LIFE'S Fe: CONTEMPORARIES. CIRCULATION LAST, SUNDAY $10923411449734. THIS OR ANY OTHER SWORN TO, “VOL. XYZ., No. 1 w YORK, SuNpay, JULY THE UmpH, 1885,—With Quadruped sheet. [Price, 4c. a thousand, OUR CIRCULATION. A MOST REMARKABLE ENTERPRISE THE WHIRLED TO THE FRONT. Upon the anniversary of the tak- ing hold of the WHIRLED by the resent management there is noth- ing we feel which can by any possi- bility be so interesting to our readers as a plain unvarnished statement of the gigantic work we have accom- plished during the time in which our superior management has been in control, In the matter of advertisements we have had 7799230456346792}{ columns daily, and in our Sunday four hundred and seventy-toople sheet there have appeared 9992273- 41144911996781021 columns to the Hatrotled’s seven, In addition we have made our advertising columns equally as readable as the editorial pages of the Police or Pall-Mall Gazette, ‘As a philanthropic concern we point with pride to the starving] pedestals we have erected and famished millionaires we have comforted. The subjoined affidavits will give some idea of the unprecedented popularity of our paper. , Thomas J. Rattlesettler, do! solemoly swear that the printed circulation of last Sunday's! WHIRLED was in round figures) Tonab 731649276924. T. J. RATTLESETTLER. Sworn to before me this fifth day of August, 1885. N, Urtan HIwater, Notary Public. I, Billy the Kid, being solemnly swom at do hereby affirm that I sold, on Sunday last, one copy of the New York WHIRLED, and am ready to swear, in like manner, at any time or place, that T.’ J.| Rattlesettler, personally unknown. to me, did state upon oath that in- dependent of my sales there were 79246731649276323 copies, which, being added to my one, make the circulation herein above referred to. Bitty HOLLARMAN. Sworn to before me this fifth day of August, 1885. N. Urtan HiwaTer. Received 7924673164275323 Te- turns, J. Dusexperry. Use Dr. Quack's Koffiline for the OUR MONEYED MEN. THE RICH MEN OF AGREAT CITY The Wurrcep takes pleasure in presenting its readers this morning with portraits of leading men of New York, procured at large ex- pense and easily recognized by the Sheriff of the County. sotomon tavinnien. Solomon Leviheimer came to New York in 1882, and started busi- hess on Broadway, dealing largely | in pink collar buttons and gilt edged note paper. He set up in business with money borrowed from friends who recognized his aptitude for gathering wealth. ‘wo months later he made an assignment and after paying three cents on the dollar had saved enough money to open a small store on Fulton Street, where, after a year’s strict attention to business, he transferred his accumulations to his wife and again assigned. Not discouraged, he went once more in- to the breach and having formed a co-partnership with his’ preferred creditors, most of whom were his wife's relations, he is now reputed to be worth four million, exclusive| of what is registered in his wife's name. J. © RENO. The gentleman whose genial features are so graphically depicted by our artist started in life some- lungs. other possessions than a paint+ and a pair of blue overalls. His first employment was in the town of Keokuk, New York, where he made his maiden appearance on the earth and to which he at once |imparted a luminous tinge of red. He came to New York in 1860 and | soon became cashier of a prominent National Bank, and being an ex- pert in the art of banking, was shortly after elevated to the Presi- dency. Some question ‘as to whose Property: the bank was having arisen, Mr. Keno resigned his posi- tion and feeling some delicacy over the matter, removed to Que-| bec to await the decision of the problem, leaving behind him many sorrowing friends to bear their loss ‘as best they could. During his Presidency, Mr. Keno accumulated an immense fortune. In fact several of them, all of which he took with him during his temporary—we hope —withdrawal from the community where his society always was and would now be especially appreci- ated. MON. P. FOGG SHYSTER. Mr. Shyster is one of the most celebrated lawyers at the American Bar, and can’ doubtless hold his own and anyone else's he can get hold of against the most learned jurists of the age. Always abso- terests of those who have been un- fortunate and have come under his legal charge, he now occupies a position of ‘commanding power, Peclatly and Bnancialiy.” ta politics Mr. Shyster has, from the outset, been the friend of the people, but has invariably been beaten when a been twenty-four times in the past fifteen years—owing to the backing of his opponents by all the powers of corruption at the disposal of the Monopolists. what over fifty years ago with no Asa lawyer Mr. Shyster has been candidate for office—which he has] retained in many of the Cawses Céhbres of our time, being defend- ant in person in the suit of the Fleeced Estate vs. Shyster, for the recovery of illegal retained com- missions, and chief counsel for the heirs in the Smith Will Case, in which five millions of ‘dollars were involved. It will be remembered that the heirs recently died in the Poor House. Mr. Shyster {s said to be worth five millions of dollars and enjoys an income of $500,000 a year from his practice. GEN. BOOSTER VAN GYSTER. Gen. Van Gyster is, beyond doubt, the most popular military man in ‘our city to-day. Born of rich and aristocratic parents, he entered the militia ranks at the age of twenty- three as a Colonel, to which posi- tion he was unanimously chosen owing to the expressed determina- tion of his parents to give Booster the swellest Colonel's uniform in New York as soon as he reached that high rank. He rose rapidly to the position of General by courtesy, which rank he still retains, and of which he is justly proud.’ It was given him while in Tennessee in 1872, attending a horse race, at which he showed much valor by his discretion in getting away from the track in time not to pay his bets. ‘The General was, unfortunately, off on a fishing excursion in the Adi- rondacks during the civil war and did not learn of ft until his return after it was all over. He often lutely fearless, he has by dint of the! speaks, with regret, of the golden most assiduous attention to the in-| opportunities for distinction thus lost to him forever. In the '77 riots in New York, he was confined to his rooms by 2 severe case of ut, which prevented his leading is division against the strikers. At the Old Guard Ball, however, Gen. Van Hyster is always to the fore, and in feading assaults on the supper table he is the bravest of the brave. If you are in want of a patent medicine, warranted to kill, consult the advertising columns ‘of the WHIRLED,