Life — July 21, 1898 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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SS ANNUAL MEETING OF THE DAUGHTERS OF THE DELUGE. The Financier. FINANCIER {s ono who handles other people's money so carefully that they He has A are never bothered with it again, certain hypnotic qualities that differentiate him from the bighwayman, and methods that render him more agreeable than the footpad. The burglar, the road agent and the sandbagger are mere retailers; the Financier is a wholesaler, No man is so tolerant and broad as the Financier; be May want the earth, but he will not mini- mize water, The real Financier is able to make bricks without straw—gold bricks; he can produce verdure in the desert places of Broadway—green goods; and his knowl- edge of hydraulics enables bim to float iron mines and flood markets, He is always a man of Christian sympathy and tender sen- sibilities; he is never so happy as when lightening the burdens of widows and orphans, or relieving tho financial cares of his brethren, His charities, he who rans may read—in the newspapers; and post- mortem examinations prove the possession. of hearts in flnauciers. . . . TTVHE Financier always begins life asa poor country boy, who comes in tho flush and innocence of rustic youth to New York to support an aged mother and raiso a mortgago from tho old homestead ; and certainly nothing appeals to the great American beart—in melodrama—tike the aged mother and the mortgage, where the raucous villain is constantly seeking to plant one to raise the other, This is why the Financier is so popular in America, par- ticularly in the whiskered West. Wo all remember that splendid type of Financier, John Jay Jones, who recently experienced tho first failure in his career— heart failure—and who was followed to his fifty-thousund-dollar nickel-steel_ mauso- leum by the plaudits of Wall Street. . . . F began lifeon a mortgaged farm, and H worked his way to the top of his fellow-creatures by industry and applica- tion. He early developed a passion for col- lecting scrap-iron, which he stored in the family well for safekeeping. He was sur- prised when a sanitary syndicate paid hima round sum for his farm; but he was too honorable a man to break a bargain when he learned that it was the rich mineral spring on bis premises they wanted, not his farm, The duplicity of the syndicate hurt his feelings, but he bore his robbery with patience and fortitude. * . * E purchased a shopworn railroad, four miles long, with his capital, and by industry und eloquence raised enough county bonds and bank accounts to comichooks.