Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 15, 1887, Page 5

BURLINGTON BENEFACTIONS. The State Journal Breaks Forth iu Praises of Its Masters. A GROSS MISREPRESENTATION Wholesale Grocers File Complaints Against the Union Pacific For Fxcessive Charges — Agent James Discharged. [FROM THE BEE'S LINCOLY DBUREAU.| The Lincoln Journal yesterday, edi- torially and locally, in words of fulsome praise, asserted that the B. & M. had con- ceded all that had been asked of it in the rate question, and, ‘‘that Lincoln is now on as good a freight basis as any other Jobbing town, and has the full benefit of extra advantages as adistributing point.” This statement 18 8o utterly false and mis- leading that the people of Lincoln are ontitled to the truth in the matter. The Journal, like the scriptural ox, knows its master’s crib, and the visit of General Manager Holdrege to the city was undoubtedly the cause of this outbreak and word painting picture of pralse to the Burlington road, that might be believed if the position of the Journal was not so well understood. In the face of the efforts of Lincoln citi- zens and the board of trade, through the freight burean, to secure commercial rates that will upbuild the city, a yoice of “flattery like the words of the Journal are 4 a 4 " - - of direct injury and damage. The truth of the matter is that the alleged equaliza- tion of rates amounts to practically noth- ing, 1tis at best only an equalization in part of the out rate to points in the state, and in a very moderate way as- sists, a few of the wholesalers, and then only on a special class of goods. Coal, tumber and heavy materials are not af- fected in the least, and the in-rate, the rate that isof direct benefittothe city and which drives away every new institution seeking a location here, is a8 heretofore utterly ignored. The equalization of rates praised and lauded by the Journal Is an admission by the Burlington that they can be regulated and in that is all tho direct benelit that the city gets. The fact that the road recognizen that Lincoln Is demanding attention is, in a secondary way, of a good deal of encouragement to the citizens who have planted their money in the contest. But what Lincoln must have to pros- Eer, and what the freight bureau and the oard of trade are working for, is an equable in rate, and tho Journal, just as woll as every other posted man, knows that that question is the germ of the en- tire business. That which holds Lincoln back is the fact that on every vound of freight shipped to the city, on every ton of coal for fuel, and every car load of lumber for building, an extortionate local rate is charged from the imaginary line known the Missouri, river to Lin- coln. Herein, in the words of one of Lincoln'’s best posted citizens, lies the trouble; and from the same source the statement comes that the treight burean has asked of the inter-state commission that the in-rate to Lincoln be made pro- portionate to its distance from eastarn Points per mile with the rate given cities on the Missouri river or from 1t. A mile- age rate of this kind would make the rates on lumber, conl and merchandise from the initial point of shipment to Lin- coln only about a cent greater than Mis- souri river rates of the present, instead of some 6 cents as now in vogue under the added local rate. A readjustment of rates on this basis, the spirit of the inter- state law, would be of direct and prac- tical intorest to the rank and file of Lin- coln ci , to both wholesalers and re- tailers, to every man who builds a house fuel. When, therefore, the s with the glib of a conti- that the B. & M. bas re- objections and given what Lincoln asks for by sim- ply readjusting rates out on one ingle class of shipments that benefit at g;cnl only one class of wholesalers, the ridiculousness of its position becomes npparent to the most obtuse, and the value of the Journal as an exponent of Lincoln interests is at once realized. The Journal, like the leopard, may change its spots by shifting its place Bt night, but the tatoos of the Burhington company are too indelibly Eicturud on every part of its anatomy to be covered up by such simple subterfuges asits declarations that the road has granted all that has been asked and Lecome a benefactor, COMPLAINT FILED. Yesterday Plummer, Perry & Co., wholesale grocers of this cilr, filed the following complaint with the railroad commissioners. The complaintisagainst the Union Pacific railwa; To the Honorable Board of Railway Com- missioners of the State of Nebraska: Your etitioners state as follows: Attached is & i1l of lading for one car of sugar, No. 17088, initials C. & W. R’y., shivped from San Francisco, C; une 27, 1887, and contracted to Omaha at 60c per hundred; consignees: Plunmer, Perry & Co. Lincoln, Neb.: also expense _bill attached for the same goods In the same car charges paid under protest at Lincoln, Neb., July 7, 1887, A rate of 0 cents per hundred is collected to Omaha and shown as advanced charges, A local rate of 15 cents per hundred 18 charged in rebilling to this point. 1bn connection ‘with these facts Flumer, Perry & Co. com- lain that the rate of 15 centa per hundred, at which shipment was rebilled to Lincoln is unjust, unreasonable and extortionato under exfsting conditions and circumstances. Please observe the following facte. The ailroad company named in rebilling did not {!unk bulk but forwarded shipment to des- tination from rebilling point in same car in ‘which it was shipped from the original point. Also, this company In disregard to precedent ostablished by quoting Missouri river rates to Lincoln for several Jars prior to Auril 5, 1857, during that period Pacilic coast business for this city was contracted to Omaha and xebilled trée of charge, or if charges were collected they were refunded to the con- slgnees, making the net result the same. Aval the distance from San Francisco to Omaba s 185 miles, and Lincoln 1588 miles. When it is consid that the difference is but 25 miles the re-bill- ing charge should particularly not exceed an ordinary switching charge. = Finally the Union Pacltic and Omaha and Republica alloy railway, the lines hauling th to and from the re-billing point, are to an unlawful combination and dis. tion against this locality and the mercantilo prosperity of Lincoln. The local distributing Tates from Lincoln and Missouri river points to stations within tho state of Nebraska reached by these railways are practically the same and the local rate charced on the re- shipment to Lincoln is prohibitory and pre- wvents complainants from competing with other Jobbing points within the state in cowm- petition with them. ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION of the Ameris mortgage and guaran- tee company have been filed with the secretary of state, eated at Franklin, Franklin county, Ne- braska, and hasa capital stock of $500,000, ‘The incorporators are James F, Zediker, Albert R. Peck, James .. Thowpson, E. D. Phillips and E. T. Smith. AGENT JAMES DISCHARGD. John D. James, the ex-law and order league agent, who was sentenced at the Iast term of the district court to thirty days imprisonment tor adultery, was re- Jensed from custody on the order of Judge Pound as follows: 1t _appearing that John D, James, confined fn the county jail of Lancaster county under sentenco of the court, is in a tn uld ly :earrhy :ldrud llhd“ hP" be disal lrli‘;)ud. 4 o d jail, Lils sentence [haviug nearly expired. g4 A e 8. B. Pouxn, Judge. ry sick man for the “all > James has beon a This company is lo- | past ten days and Sheriff Melick was alarmed lest he would die while confined in the jail. James will probably return to Kansas City as soon as able. DISTRICT COURT CASFS. The following cases were filed yester. day with the district clerk for hearing at the (-nminE term: Badger Lumber company against Mi- nerva L. Beachley et al,, an action on foreclosure of mechanics’ lien 1n the name of nes Burcham, assigned to this plaintift, in amount $482.80, with in- terest from August, 1856, Gilbert . Barnes brings action against William and Wilhelmine Rhodes, the action being for #1,000 damages based upon a violation of contract in the sale of lots 5 and 6, in block 2, Laven- der’s addition to Lincoln. The petition recites that in April the defendants en- tered into a contract to sell the Jots and afterwards in May, in violation™ of the agreement, sold the real estate to Mary E. Sawyer to plaintiff’s damage in the above amount. Henry C. Martin sues Adam W. Smith and asks judgment for §25 and costs, basing his claim on tho fact that in June he was employed by the defendant to sell a stock of ready made clothing, boots and shoes, and was to get the usuai commission for the sale. After afew days the plaintiff alleges that he pro- cured a purchaser in the person of Marcus De Brumer, who purchased the stock for $0.000. The defendant not paying the commission, action s brought to recover. John P. Lader has filed suit against George A. Watson, foreclosing a mort- gage given in 1886 to secure a promissory note of $78. The plaintiff asks judgment for that amount. In the case of Esther L. Warner, who secured an injunction against the Atchi- son & Nebraska branch of the B. & M. railroad, the attorney the rail- road hive filed a with _the district court asking that the injunction be dissolved. TRYING AN OFFICER. The city council yesterday were en- gaged in taking and hearing testimony n{(uhlst Officer Hobson, the ecaptain of the night force. This alleged policeman ought to have been dismissed months ago, as he does not possess the first re- quisite for a good officer. The offender that could not escape arrest from him would need to be blind or a cripple, and the police force ought to be shorn of such useless timber. There are several charges against him, but one of general inefli- ciency ought to be maintained by a ris- ing vote. ———— REAL ESTATE, Transfers Filed July 18, 1887, South Omaha Land company to the Union Stock Yards company, part of dnul‘lh 3 41413, 776-100 acre: W diicooiiion South Omaha Land company to the Union Stock Yards company, 763-10 acres in 414-13, wd. - wee South Omaha Land Company to the Union Stock Yards company, 8 158 1,000 acres in self of 83-15-13, W d....4,590.50 William H_Woolster and wife to Onetta C Johnson and Julia E Ken- nedy, w 110 feet of n 1273 feet blk Q Shinn’s 2d add wd.. . Chauncey O Hownard and wife to Willis A Bostwick, lot 10 blk 8, Mt Pleasant add, wd.... oot Charles Morton and Georg: to the public vlat ot Morton’s s divoflotsl, 2, 8, 4,5, 8, 9and 10 blk 6, Boyd’s add. Joseph~ Smith and Morrow, n 25 feet of lot 2 blk trick’s First add, w d . Jolin A McShane (widower) to Thos B MecShane, lot 23 blk 24, West Side, wd... ‘e sisese Douglas County to T ¢ Bruner and 1 0 A‘llm y Jot 2 blk 6, Douglas add, deed... . 2,850 Morse and V Bruner, 45x90 teet of lot, D Has Il's add. to Okahoma, ‘and west 7 feot of 1ot 6, nise’s add, q ¢ RS Van Gorder lou 8, block 20, Boyd's add, John ¥ Mawhinny to Sarali lots 11 and 12 i d . 2600 wd. Alvan John F Mawhinny, lots 11 and 12, block Lowe's add, wd... sevees o (trustee) to John F block 4, Bedford Place J Hanna, block G, Lowe's add, 2,600 iam Latey and Willlam V Benson, partof lot 4, Regan’s add, W d........ Larmon P Pruyn and wife to D J Hutehinson, lots 8 and 9, block 1, Pruyn’s subdivision of block 8 Hydo Park, w d. Charles I¥ Manderson and wife to Mar- tha A Round, lot6, blk 19, n 3¢ ot lots 7and 18, blk 4, Hanscom place, wd. . Joseph ward to T'ra @50 £t of w 140 L of blk 16, Gardner. lot ¥ blk 5, Horbach’s 2nd add, wd 3 Jay C Whinnery and Andrew J blk 8, Kilby place, q 4 Jennie Hall and husband to the South- western Presbyterian church, Jot 15, blk Kountze & Ruth’s add, w d Martin Sorenson and wifo to Frank Snyder, lot 6, blk 1, Oxtord place, wd. James 1T Van Gioster, ¢ to Mary E Gaston, € % of lot 24, blk 1, Millard place, administrator’s 7,000 John 1 of 55-16- in o-15-1hqc.... John G Jacobs, a 1 Redick and WilliamJ Connell, divided 3¢ lots 64, 103 and 105, Gises' s LET THE PEOPLE ALONE. Jay Gould’s Adjuration Sharply and Juastly Criticized. Lincoln Democrat: “What the coun- try . said Jay Gould to a news- r:mer reportor the other day, *is to be et alone. The country is able to work out its own prosperity. The American people are a great, noble and brave peo- le, and all they want is tobe let alone. 'hey don’t want interference from the president or congress, the state legisla- tures or goverr 1t would bo better if the state legislatures met only once in five years.,” What is ‘‘the country,” sould? What proportion of it does your £100,000,000 constitute? Do you count every man a citizen with equal rights, or do you estimate & man's importance in the social fabric by the amount of prop- erty he holds* Doubtless you hold the latter view, and from that point of view what the country needs is to be let alone. Capital has no-difliculty in takin; itself and can afford to be “let alone.” Tolliver gang asks nothing more than to be let alone. There are a groat people who could get along if they wore only ‘ot Mr. John M. Thuraton craves nothing 8o much as to be ‘'let alone.” 1f legislatures met but once 1n five years, the sohtude of the people would e s intense that they would no longer have the company of their property or Mr. Gould could_acquire rmer *if let ulone’ five years rs. Poppleton, Thurston, Wal- Hanlon, Crawford and Gurley would have small difliculty in getting up s corner on the latter. Your scheme does not strike the people favorably, Mr, Gould. You may leave them alone for a centery if you wish, but they must decline to be “lot alome’” by themselves for periods of five years at & stretch, I Victory at Last. Consumption, the greatest cure of the age, the destrover of thousands of our | brightest and best, is conquered. It is no longer incurable. Dr. Piere “Golden Medical Discovery™ is a_certain remedy for this terrible diseasc if taken in tin exses-- consumption is a of the lungs-—can be oured by it. »tr in disvases of the throat and lungs are little less than mi- raculous, All druggists bave it, Mr. | care | THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY. JULY 15. 1887. HE WAS CORNERED BY BEARS, . A Qolorado Miner's Adventure in Midwinter on the Mountains, BESEIGED IN A CABIN BY BEARS. He Holds out Against the Attack ‘Without the Use of Firearms ~One of the Olosest Calls on Record. Rocky Mountain News: “Yes, sir, that was about the closest call Iever had.” This remark, coming from a well built, goud looking young miner, and made with a serious reflection that left nodoubt of its sincerity, attracted the attention of a News reporter who happened to be standing close to a group of mining men a few days ago. ‘‘Close calls,” are very attractive fea- tures for journalists, and anything in the hairbreadth escape line will' attract the attention of the news reading public from the ablest editorial which ever emanated from the pen of a writer on political economy or the ethics of cul- ture. Therefore the News man invested half a dollar in a couple of regalias and, lighting one of them with a crisp two dollar bill, Foli(cly handed its mate to the author of the above remark with a on that they seat themselves bly and enjoy a quiet smoke. The offer was promptly and eflectively accepted, and between whifls,after a des- ultory word or two on mining prospects, the writer said: *‘Sullivan, what did you refer to when you made that remark about a ‘close call,’ a few moments ago?” “‘What I said to the boys just as you came in, do you mean?" said Sullivan. ‘*Yes; you call it about the closest call you ever had, and I like to hear about such things, €0 just fix yourself comfort- ably and tell me about it.” Sullivan, whollY unaware of the dan- gerous calling of his acquaintance, read- ily consented and soon was decp in the recital of what was truly one of the most DAIToW escapes known ot in an even eventful regions where tornadoes are born and the festive six-shooter waxes eloguent. ‘‘It was last winter," started Sullivan, ‘‘when me and my partner, Jim Rogers, wus working an assessment on a couple of old prospects of ours up in Geneva ark about half way between Grant and lontezuma, Grub bad given out a few days befors, and while Jim was driving the work on a hundred-foot level through solid rock. I started over to Montezuma for a supply of grub. Snow! Well I should remark. And cold? Well, if we hadn’'t had to have grub nothing else would have got me over that seven miles and back, but it had to come over and Ibrought it. I had just got to the cabin and fixed up supper” for Jim and me and ot the dishes on the table. I stepped to the door to throw out some potato par- ings, talking to Jim, when, as 1 turned around at the door, I saw, looking through tho little window in the side o the cabin, one of the ugliest and biggest bears that I ever want to sce. She was sltting up on her haunches and looking rightin at me, and as [ turned a little more, I saw through the partly open door two more big bears in front of the cabin. Wedidn't have even a dirk knife 1n the eabin, no gun or revolver, and the axe was at the wood pile thirty feet from the door, and the two bears between me and it. I tell you I thought it was rainin’ bears for & minute, A good deal quicker than I'm telling this I jumped for the poker that we used to fasten the cabin door with, and slipped it into place. Just then the old she bear atthe window gave a growl and made a pass at the window with her paw. Biff, it came, sash, glass and all on to the tloor. Before the noise hac stopped, smash came the other bears against the door, and it’s only a miracle thatit didn’t come in. The poker was bent all out of shape. Well, Jim and me did lots of thinking about that time, and if ever I wanted a 45-repeater 1 wanted it right then. You sece the snow had been lying awful decp up there and the bears Wi venous and most likely hadn’t had anything to cat for a longtime. They have to get terrible hungry before they will attack a cabin like that. “Wo threw burning paper and fire- brands, dishes and everything we could get hands on at the old bear in the win- dow, but she just stood there and glared at us. 1 never thought there could be so much fire in an eye as there was in hers. She stood there looking at us and we at her, when all at once wo heard a noise on the roof. You bet we knew what it was too, and wero about ready to gi np then. The 2-year-olds, the old bear's cubs, had gotup on to the dirt roof of the cabin. Pretty soon they commenced throwin’ dirt and in about two minutes had got down to the poles that held the dirt.” We could look right up through the poles that held the poles where the dirt was clawed oft and see them. And wasn’t they mad! They would claw along lengthwise of the poles and rake the bark off every chip, and every minute we were cxpecting them to get their claws n between the polie and then we would have been gone. If they had Kitown enough to give one ar two scravos sideways they could easy have scooped oft enough poles to let them down in. What then? Well the bears would have had a square meal and 1 wouldn’t be here telling you about it. All the time thoy were scraping away up there I stood with the straw bed tick on the floor open and a lighted candle in my hand. As I told Jim, it was poor chances, but I'd rather be burned up than eaten up. The old bear staid right there at the window all the time watching us. It was too small for ber or she’d "have been in her- solf. After a while they secmed to get tired, and, after prowling around the cabin until we were near frightened to death, they went off, I measured the biggest ones tracks in the snow next mnruinF, and it was fourteen inches long. It V't long before that cab had'a rifle in it, and you don't catch me in a bear country again with no protection buta straw bed and acan- dle. el il o Always Giving Satisfaction, Brandrein's Pills bave always given ction. In fifty years there has been npinint of them. That is about their life in the United States, and mil- lions of persons have used them. There is no doubt that they have established themselves by merit alo) hey cure rheumatism, dyspepsi s, diaerhan, liver complaint, and fovers, and greatly prolong the human life. One or two at night on an empty stomach, for a week or two, will keep you in good form and tone up the system, 2t M S SUDDENLY BEARDED. A Philadelphian's Whiskers Grow Out n One Night. Philadelphia News: “Peculiar? Well, I shouid say so: but that man going down the street is the greatest curiosity I've ever secn,” said a friend to a8 News reporter us they stood together on Chest- nut street yesterday. “‘How's that?" “Did you notice his full brown beard " was the answering interrogatory. “Yes: well?" “Woll, that man a week ago had no more beard than & baby, and’ now look athin, You mightn't believe me, but that man’s face was £s bare as the palm of ruy hand up to five days ago. lle was awfully anxious to grow some sort of a hirsute appendage on his face, and some time ago Lw started to shave, and, though he lathered nnd shaved for six months, the beat he could raise was a pretty set of pink pimples. Ho gave up in disgust & year ago with a heart full of despair, and hig face as bare of beard as before, “‘His name 18 Erank Gilder and he lives over in West Philadelphia on Darby rond, just below Chestnut. He tried every beard starter he vver heard of. He looked with longing cyes upon pictures labeled ‘before nad “after;' he shaved fruitlessly, he cursed, he prayed; in fine ho did everything, yet the board 'retuse ut. n the night of June 97 Mr. Gilder went to bed m a disturbed frame of mind, a great deal about his beardlessn fore retiring, he relates himself, he wished most earnestly that his beard might sprout, and his accommodating fairy must have overheard the wish, “‘When he arose in the morning and saw his reflection in the glass surprise would bardly describe his “!eolmgs. Heo was frightened; then those feelings gave way to unmitigated delight. He danced a regular war dance in his stocking feet, and wound it up with a whoop that rat- tled the glass in the windows For A Bquare around, and brought the entire family o his room. *“‘His glass had shown him that a fine beard had sprouted. His faco was_ cov- ered with a quarter inch stubble of fine brown beard and he could feel that 1t was growing still, His long delayed beard had started and it had all come out in a night. Such a case was never heard of before. His :\]llpournnm,- created consternation at the Jbreakfast table. the family fnilmf: to recogmize him until they heard his voice. The curious urt of it was that his new beard grew so fast that by noon it was more than an inch long, and by sundown it was three inches long and ,qul;.imwing. It is three inches long now and still growing, but he has had it trimmed every day since it first came out. His great” fear now is that 1t will all grow at once, and that its vigor will in that way become exhausted, the hair fall out, and leave him as badly off as before. He has theadditional fear, too, that 1t sapping his vitality, as he feels himself 1s grower weaker daily, and the chances that an overgrowth of beard my cause his death. “Physicians whom he has consnlted are at'a loss to account for the spontan- eous growth. One whom he consulted stated that he had never neard of a simi- lar case. He gave it as his opinion that the essential structure of the hair, which is an assmblage of epidermic cells at the bottom of a flask-shaped follicle in the substance of the skin, were always pres- cnt, but that some condition of tie cells vrevented them from being suplvlicd with blood, and that they uimpl{ ay there without sprouting. Further, he said there may have been some condition of the papilla, in the bottom of the follicle and upon which the hair rests, which pre- veuted the prover enlargement of the root.” — Heroes and Herolnes. There are few people who endure bod- ily troubles without complaint. Did you ever meet among the heroes or heromes of your acquaintance—if any such there have been—one with a yellowish cast of countenance and that jaundiced aspeot generally, which the most unpractised eye recogui as the product of a dis- ordered hiver, who will not complain,and shly too, of the soreness of the rocal- ant organ, of pains beneath the right shoulder blade, of dys c symptoms, constipation and headache? Of cour: you never did, and of course the individ- ual was not using Hostetters Stomach Bitters or he would not have looked 8o, —so _haye complained. To purify the blood when contaminated with bile, and conduct the secretion into its proper channel, to ish rezularity of the bowels, banish bilious headacha, and re- move impediments to complete d it nothing ean approach to eflic: peerless alterative and tonic. Ma complaints, always invclving the 1 und kidney and bladder mactiv remedied by it. It i Sl SHAVING DEAD MEN. A Chicago Barber's Experience With Different Corpse. “I'vo shaved dozens of dead men,” said a barber to a reporter of the Chicago Inter Ocean. *I'd rather shave a ‘stift’ than a crank any day, for these reasons: You get paid more, they don’t bleed if you cut 'em, and never grumble at your work. I've'becn paid as high as §10 and never less than $3. That is the regular l)rict', and I won't take less. I've scen ots of funny thin, in this end of our business. Less than two weeks ago I went to a house not a thousand miles from Washington park. Ihad finished the job and was packiog my traps when the dead man’s wife—I mean widow— came in. She walked over to the corpse, examined the face closely, and was turn- g away with a sort of satistied look, whed suddenly she e a shrick and cried like a professional, “\\;Iml's the matter, madam?” I Why, you-you mean thimg. You've p-p-p-parted his h-hair on the wrong side —boo! boo!” Another time I went to an aristocratic residence on Michj, avenue. I won't tell you the number, because it wasn't The dead man’s brother was room with me—one of those al- leged Enghsh dudes, you know,who talk through their no: and lisp like a wo- man. The first strike I made on the neck of the corpse caused his brother to take a conniption. **Now, now, now; stop that, I say, stop that,” he lisped. ““Aw-aw, donchuno, that's not right. You musn't shi the neck up; you must shave it down. If you shave it up the hair will grow up and curl the wrong way, don't you know,and ho can never part it again liko it is now.” “I'looked at the man and saw he was in earnest, and I tried to keep my face straight, but 1t was pretty hard “work, The idea of shaving a corpse so he could part his whiskers nice afterward!" — —— When nature falte: recruit her enfeebl J. H. McLean’ and Blood Purifie mires heln, ed energies with Dr, Strengthening Cordial . $1.00 per bottle, — Warm Weather Wit. Boston Post: Tee 1s about the only thing needs a blanket wrapped around it to keep it comfortable in hot weather, Pittsburg Chrounicle-Telegraph: *‘The first musquito of the season visited me last night,” observed the snake editor, and I m; him iy enémy.” “How was that?" asked the horse editor, “Well, he landed on my hand, T mashed him, and now he 1s dead against me. Baltimore Argus: So the girls and the young man tripped up to the fountain and he called for seven sodas, and his face was a study when the druggist told him the fountain wasn't running. Bat it wasn’t a circumstance to the druggist's face. As for the girls, they said George was real sweet and 80. disappointed bo- cause he couldn’t treat them. And on the way home Gieorge explained that he had discovered that every other druggist for squares around used metalic stoppers 1n his epigastrium that generated cuprous oxide of nitrogen 1 the syrups, which was liabl to bring on attacks of megalo- saurius, Pittsburg Dispatch: Jones—"Who is that fellow? He ought to be flozged.” Johnson—"Maybe he ought, but then—" Jones—*The confounded fool tramped on my pet corn as he passed by.'" Johnson 1'm! ell, if [ was in our place I just try to look as (huu;h I iked it. He's a desperate character.” Jones—""He is! What's he done?" Johnson—""He went into an editor's sunctum the other day and asked: ‘Is 1t hot enough for you?' " He's a bad man:” -~ For more than half The genuine Brown's G Brown, Philadelpbia, 1 y in use. rederick entur; er, s M o SRR T Ll 0 il GOTHAM'S ~ MONEY GODS. Oyrus Fleld Ten Times a Millionaire in Spite of Jay Gould's Equeeze, SOME PLETHORIC Other New Yorkers Who Will Not Go Broke Though They Lose & Few Millions of Easily Earned Lucre, PURSES New York Letter Chicago News: “Is Cyrus W. Field broke?” That is the all- absorbiug question in Wall strect, the ex- changes and the clubs. His friends stoutly maintain that he 18, and that even his reul estate is held by Jay Gould and Russell Sage. But that is not true. Mr. Field has lost perhaps $10,000,000 during the past month, but heis not a bankrupt. He has still about $10,000,000 left. The Washington building, which is occupied by lawyers, bankers and brokers, is worth $3,000,000; Mr. Field's city house with 1ts contents, is worth $50,000; his newspaper, the Mail and Express, he values at §500,000; his country seat and forty cottages at Irvington on the Hud- son are worth $1,000,000, and in addition to this he owns a big block of Anglo- American cable stock, New York Cen- tral stock, and securities that are worth $£5,000,000. So it will be n that he 1s I comfortably off so far as wmoney is concerned. He is out of Wall street now and out of speculation, The chances are that he will put his business in shape and go abroad for a while. He s tired of work. He says he wants a little play now, “I'm entitled to it,” he smd a few days ago, “and 1 mean to have it."” Who is the richest man in town? is a question often asked here. John Jacob Astor undoubtedly. His fortune is placed at $200,000,000. A tidy sum indeed, but J puld is pushing him pretty hard, and the Vanderbilt boys are close behind the king of Wall street. Here is a list made up by a Wall street broker that is as nearly accurate as any such estimate can be: Cornelus Vander- bilt, £100,000,000; W. K. Vanderbilt, $50 000,000; Russell Sage, $£60,000,000; Win- slow, Lamar & Co.,$30,000,000: D. O.Mills, Whitehall Reid’s father-in-law,$20,000,000; Pierrepent Morgan, $18,000,000; Bob Garrett, $20,000,000; Fred Vanderbilt, $15,000,000; Sidney Dillon, $10,000,000; Addison Cammack, $8,000,000; John Rockafeller, the Standard Oil man, $10,000,000; Hi Rockafelier, his brother, £8,000,000; August Belmont, $20,000,000; Cyrus W. Field, $10,000,0003 Dea 5 V. White, member-elect of the new con- $7,000,000; R. P. Flower, $6,000,- 'Wash Connor, Jay Gould’s old broker, who has just married the di- vorced wife of the ex-lottery king, Sim- mons, $3,000,000; Victor Newcomb, $4,000,000; Harry Hart, who is manipu- lating Pacific Mail, $10,000,000; Oswald Ottendorfer, editor of the Staats Zeftung, $5,000,000; James Gordon Bennett, $10,- 000,000; A Corbin, ~ $30,000,000; Erastus Winan, $3,000,000; and there are a score of others who are worth from $1,000,000 to $10,000,000 each. ~ But why zo on? Jay Gould is likely to make $50,000,000 more in | years, and the men named above will all add to their i live a few years. A plain, ordinary, overy- sort of a millionaire couats for nothing here. You can staud in Trinity church steeple and throw a stone in any direction and hit a millionaire. T are very common, and are really considered of no account. The Astors have seldom dabbled in Wall street _speculation. They prefer real estate. No family in America has 80 kept its wealth within itself ns the Astors, who continue the financial policy originated by old John Jacob Astor about the beginning of the ceatury. It is commonly supposed that he made the bulk of his fortune in furs. He formed a gigantic project for extending the busi- ness from the northwestern lakes to the Pacific by means of various trading posts, by nslnbfishm a central station at the mouth of the Columbia, and then, by ing a depot at one of the Huwaiian islands to supply China and lndia di- rectly from the Pacific coast. The pro- ject was partially carried out, but mean- while Mr. Astor saw greater opportunites for making money in_city real estate than n the fur trade. He "began to buy i , and the growth of the town V' pid that insome cases the prop- erty increased a hundredfold. When e died forty years ago he was estimated to be worth §20,000,000, He left to his son, William B. Astor, the bulk of his estate, to be managed in the inter- est of the family. William B. leftit in turn to his son John Jacob, and now John Jacob has intrusted it to his son— his sole child, indeed—William Waldorf Astor, ex-minister to Rome, who, by the Way, is writing a society novei. This virtually amounts to an_ entail and pre- vents the wealth from being scattered, though thereis small danger of that, the Astors being noted for conservatism and thrift. ‘They have always invested in real estate, buying few bonds or stocks, and have evinced great care and discre- tion in their investments. ‘Their con- stantly increasing surpius they have, so 1o speak, put into the ground, reaping ex- traordinary profits thereby. They never hey ‘are ever buying, buying, but keeping their transactions as seerct ns possible. No one but themselves and their agents have any idea of the vast blocks of real estate in their possession. They own thousands ot business houses and dwellings, and add each year t ‘o or three hundred houses to their 1mmense holding. When 1t is remembered that wealth doubles at simple interest in less than seventeen years, and in less time when invested in real estate, it is easy to un- derstand how theirs must have grown in the past ninety y One of the advan- tages of such investments is that they in- crease with the value of the ei They are not contined, as bond. similar se- curities are, to a fixed rate of interest. Certain lots purchised thirty years ago would pay to-day what is equivalent to 10 or 50 per cent per annnm. There is hittle doubt that the Astor estate is by far the greatest in this country. It cannot be much short of §350,000,000, and by the close of the century, if managed as it has been, it will be nearly doubled, Whe will Jay Gould be then? HENRY JAMES. 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