Life — July 21, 1898 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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“LURE extend it ten milos, where he joined forces with a magnato who owned a six-mile trunk line toa summor resort. Ho placed tho business on a sound financial basis by changing its name and increasing its capitalization. His business motto was: “Solidity for investors, fluidity for floanciers.” Always an observant inan, he carly saw tho possibilities of transportation, and he approciated tho valueof railroads and canals, To him wo owe the greatest flnancial discovery of theage, the easy multiplication of wealth by pouring the water of one into the treasury ef the other. * * . OUR years of his financioring had a marked offect upon tho county he lived in, Fourteen banks wero consolidated underono receiver; farmers were enabled to mortgage their estates; the workhouse had becomea flour- isting industry; and his partner was able to live perma- nently in Canada for his health, It was regarded as a great foancial triumph when he sold his shares of the New York, Midland & San Francisco Railroad, then some fifty miles long; but it grieved him later to learn that the purchasors were only trying to ruin a rival road, He nobly came to the rescue of the rival road by selling them the bonds of the N. ¥., M.& 8. F., which enabled them to foreclose a mortgago and gobble it up. These operations mado him loved and respected when he gold-brick merchants moved to New York, and even respected his simplicity and innocence. * . . E was a conservative force in New York; a steady patron of logislatures; a warm friend of foreign “AN OLD WHALER” a> “WHAT'S THE MATTER, BABE??? “THOSE CHILDREN WON'T PLAY WID ME.” missions; a consistent temperanco man; and he never hesitated to loan his wealth to the government. He was a model family man; be raised the ancestral mortgage; he purchased two European hus- bands for his daughters, and en- tered his son, a student of Jag- ology, in a gold-cure academy, as an endorsement of his gold stand- ard viows. His death was endorsed in splendid resolutions by Wall Street, and a ten-ton leaden casket was wrapped around him in his mausoleum to prevent his body being stolen, and to insure inves- tors that he did not contemplate returning to Wall Street prior to Gabriel’s sonata, His life is a lesson to every American boy struggling to juggle the accounts of rural grocery stores, Joseph Smith. OLONEL THEODORE ROOSEVELT’S horse is reported to have been shot under him in a fight, as he was riding up hill about twenty yards abead of his men, somewhere in the neighborhood of Santiago. Here's hoping that he may not get another horse until his whole regiment is mounted. For the present, he is better off afoot, Theodore is un agitating person, and entertains, boisterously and with untimely in- tensity, many sentiments which are bad for business and hostile to repose. Nevertheless, we hope most sincerely that a reasonable quantity of him will get home alive. Escaped His Memory. IRST STATESMAN: I see that you were interviewed at length yesterday. Secoxp STATESMAN (sur- prised): Is that eo? But, now I think of it, I did find a reporter’s card when I got home. USTOM HOUSE OFFI- CER: Open your trunk. Have you anything but personal property? Distixouisnep LAWYER: What do you call personal prop- erty? “Don’t you know what per- sonal property is?” ** Well, there is no real estate in it.” GTATISTICS bid fate to show that an American warship in a fight 1s @ much safer place than a French liner tn a fog. Our French brethren seem down on thelr luck these days, We must hope that a full investigation of the loss of La Bourgogne may modify in some de- gree the Impression made upon the public mind by the horrors of that dis- aster, and the loss of all but one of the two hundred women passengers. comichooks.