Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 5, 1902, Page 10

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, JULY 5, 1902. BIG CROWD ATTENDS RACES Heavy Track and “Head” Wind Render Fast Time Out of the Question. COLLAPSE OF SULKY WHEEL MARS RACE Fortunately Neither Horse Nor Driver Are Injured in the Least— _. Contests Are Close and 1 Exeltl FREMONT, Neb, July 4—There was a big turnout at the Driving park this after- noon and some hotly contested races. The track was not in the best condition, and & strong wind blew down the homestretch, which made fast time an impossibility. Abagall Leland won the 2:23 trot after five hard-fought heats. Vanity 8, who had been picked upon as a winner, was third In the third heat of the 2:35 clulkn :h::l iding’s (Antler) sulky brol caped with no serfous injuries. The horse was caught just as he reached |he wire and won the next two heats. Star Onel one of the speedy horses in the 2:35 ra: haved badly In the first heat and Wll tanced. Result Tre 23 cl 6 gk i3 | 5 33338 IRER] 6866 5 6 dar 77 as o hhAB)\nbl"‘l‘ O C lfln n- 'son, Mapleton, Ta. 11 g Rubber eck, ch. 3 Stusher, Bern Kan. EFE M ke, Bfanton, Neb: R Btar Onelda, blk. m. Grunke Fremont, P dl Time: 2:2, 2.3, & BUNN DEFENDS HIS TITLE All-Around Athletic Champion De- ) feats Other Contestants at ' Long Isla: NEW YORK, July 4—Adam B. Gunn of Buffalo, who won the title ol all-round hietic champlon “at Buffalo last year, iy dgtended hia tle” today et park, Long lsiand. The only other con- ostants were Edward 8. Merrill of Mil- gaukes and Myer Prinstein of Byracuse. Gunn, by his clever showing in each of the ten eVinl, outranked the other two and won again with a total score of ol inta At Buffalo last year Gunn ing total was only 6,789. n Flannagan n! he Greater New York lfllh Athietic association and John R. Dewitt of Prince- ton university contended in an all-around “hl competition, which nl“‘ agan won defeating hls opponent ‘in three of the four event Thers was a long program of track con tests In addition to the all-around events, and one of them, of the University of Pennsylvanis the intercolleglate champlon, and Jerry erce, the Seneca Indian, representing the astime Athletic club of this city, after B well-run_race, in_which Bowen cut out the work after the first half mile had been vovered. Both runners agreed to foss a coin for the first medal and Bowen won. meet_again tomorrow in a one. mile in the Knights of Columbu yames. "Which will take place on the RECORDS GO GLIMMERING Tweo -Westernr Records Are Beaten at Meet Held at b wood. ' CHICAGO, .l‘ulyl 'wo western A. A. U, flying at the cen- ck records we: Young e Cl Hl"ln uuoellunn l.‘l In..l at Ravenswood te 2’ an 1y Beaten in all but @ techni- ! Smith, " the big "sprinter ?“‘ J the Fire rmm-n(. broke arter- o t ‘the central A. gt am.n%e Aw““ 35, u'l‘lho Yy lam ol HIGY Herbert of ‘Dam Riirdion i ceraarban} and not only beat the central A. A. record but excelled the col- te Gohtorence Fecara of O 2 35, Tred all of Hyds park, who holds the western wo—muo rd, a mile from the yard mark in 48 3.5 Tho ceniral A A: U, recora’is 4:39 18 SETTLE FERGUSON MATTER Pitcher May Rem: ‘with St. Paul, PAUL, July 4.—~President T. J. Hickey the American assoclation came to St. him pened. Pres- oat Loancn of ‘the Bt. Paul Siub retused up lhohvhzor and Hickey came ere '.o compel t| he local man- rs _met with the IEITIIQ president and e e Tente df Bl Sl S Mt ot neapolls. 4.—(! al Tele- dw today two ngenecker fo team to Mclflry in_the Iln( l:::h::flhl': game Wal b; Mm tv!rfln‘ of Cl.mlnl n; l:rllnl,- it game: 0001000100001~ \x‘mw . 0000000!0000‘5—; z n”‘,. e s % (3 Bnurh-x “mc e k'” anom. Dnmc and Ml .%'noo made three fast double plays in the second game. Bcore, second ’ Y4 eld .0 01010 5 rnatee 8838188883 83 tterios: | Wahoo, Crawford and John- Springfield, Clement hd Bate. ‘e *n Association. Nashville—Momning: Nashille, 4; 1001 0. Afternoon: Nl.hvllle, 4 ttancogs, 0. At Atlanti—Morning: Atianta, 6; mingham, ernoo 3 “':":"ux'n k—Morni| :“mm b lock—Morn| 1t e emoon: Lidde Rogk: & At fl1w Orleans—Memphis, 4; New Or- ’ Three-1 League. Al 'hm Hllno—lornln ‘Terre fovans o &, After moon: | Bvansvil § o o\e ‘At D.am-—homiu Bloomington, T; E:Iur. Afternoon: Bloomington, 4; At D-ml’or'—D.VOIWPL 4; Rock Island, At Cedar Raplds—Cedar Rapids, 4; 5 o Rap! r Rapids, 4; Rock. Gordon Wins from Merriman. GORDON, Neb, July 4.—(Speci: o )—Gordon_and :-’mmln phy‘:d.x;':c nlodly at Itrfl-ln Score: " Gordon, NO MORE OILED ROADBEDS. (. Two New England railroads, the Boston & Malne and the Boston & Albany, are about to discontinue olling their roadbeds after trying that system of dust prevention for three years or more. The New York, New Haven & Hartford, which has been using ofl to keep sandy sections of its ;voadbed In order, has also stopped it. The TLong Island raliroad discontinued the practice sbout a year ago. + The rallroads are taking up the oll- soaked sand and fine cinders in the sec- tions of the track affected, reports the New York Sun, and replacing It with broken stone. That is an expensive bal- last for the ties at first, but when there 18 money to spend on a good roadbed it Is the most satistactory kind to put down. The rain washes it and after it is laid the track manager has no further trouble from dust The worst of the oil-sprinkling system is that when any particles of sand do fiy after the application of the petroleum they stick and leave marks which the gentle passing of the train porter's whiskbroom does not improve. Women have complained to the New England roads of delicate fab- rics rulned by a spatter of olly dirt and volces of male passengers have been loudly ralsed on mccount of collars and shirt fronts polka dotted after a journey in & style never intended by their owners. TAB ON FREIGHT CARS. System that Makes It Almost Impos- aible for One to Be Lost. ““That freight cars are ever completely lost 1s a fallacy,” sald W. E. Beecham, car accountant of the Chicago, Milwaukes & St. Paul to a Chicago Tribune reporter. Mr. Beecham has been connected with the raflrond since 1878 and éhys that tracing cars is one of the easiest and at the same time most perplexinng of the problems of railroading. The rallroad has a system by which any one of its 40,000 freight cars can be placed absolutely within a reason- able time. The record is kept in a room contain- ing half a dozen immense counting boards filled with pegs, each peg containing a rec- ord of a different car from the time it goes Into the service until it 1s abandoned. Tiny colored tickets are hung on to the pegs every time a car is reported as trans- ferred to ome of the many intersecting Iines over which it travels, the ticket con- taining the car number, the name of the road and the date of transferring. It takes but & mment to find any one of the com- pany’s cars, the top ticket indicating fts Iast known position. “The history of one of our furniture cars trom October 1 to the present time might give some idea of how accurately the whereabouts of a car can be known at all times, am. “Here is & furniture car which started from Racine on October 3 of last year. It was probably loaded with furniture when it began its Journey, as it is among our furniture equip- ment. Tt left that point via the E., J. & E., which Intersects all the great lines run- ning into Chicago. The next day it was transferred to the Chicago & Eastern Illi- nols, the day after to the Evansville & Terre Haute, on October to the Kentucky Iron Bridge railway, then to the Southern rallway, by that railway on October 11 to the A. W. P. It then started west by way of the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louls on October 22, but was turned back south via the Southern rallway, on November 4 into Georgla, sent north by the same route and ewlitched off west again to the Cinetn- natl, New Orleans & Texas Pacific on De- ‘cember 19. “The Southern rajflway again took it on January 6, turned it over to the Georgla Southern on the 9th, from which road it started north again by way of the Louls- ville & Nashville on the 17th; the Balti- more & Ohio Southwestern took it over on the 19th, used it untfl February 11, on which date it was transferred first to the Big Four and then to the Louisville & Nashville; it then went back to the Big Four on the 13th, to.the E., J. & E. again on the 18th, the Chicago & Northwestern on the 20th, to its owners on the 22d, and to the Chicago & Northwestern again on March 7, on which date it was again de- livered to the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul at Racine, having covered several thousand miles in the four months and a half at the moderately slow rate a freight car-travels. The average mileage of freight cars is thirty-three miles & day, although some of them out-distance passenger cars and travel 300 miles a day on the fast freight lines across the contiment. ““The life of a freight car is about twenty years. The only ones ever really lost are those destroyed by fire, when no record can be found. After a certaln time one of these pegs will show for fitself that the car. is not being traced, when an inquiry will be made. It may have been heard of last in QUIESCENT WEEK IN TRADE Inanimate Oond.ifin Pnufll Branches of Business. GENERAL LEVEL OF GRAINS IS HIGHER in Most Drawbacks the Ra: % for Past Half Year ted—Commers res Moderate. NEW YORK, July 4—R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekiy review of trade says: Qulet con- ditions have prevailed in most branches of business, especially in those markets al- ready affected by labor disputes. Large in- terest payments testify to the prosperity of the raliways, Industrial corporations and financial Institutions aside from the labor troubles the half year just ended was remarkabl; satisfactory, Hallway earn- ings for June exceeded iast year s by 64 per cent and those of 190 by 19.9 per cent. In the fron and stesl districts there have been no developments of notice. Leather is dull and hides weak. In the textile mar- kets the cotton goods sold freely at recent concessions and the tone was steady, while woolen mills_are more active ed and buyers are in the eastern matkes raw material. uotations of wool mi further slight advance and firmnens ect, the London auction The general level of grain prices is or the week, euneclll’r corn and Eastern markets ect the nrenxlh but did not share the ICNV") Both recelp! nd exports have been l&! wheat arrivals amounting to only 2,4 bushels, against 2,886,000 last telr. and* el- pon trom all ports of the United States ere 2,7M,639 compared with 876,108 in 1901, Cotton_prospects brightened with rain In he southwest, yet there was no weakness. he crop year closed with receipts of cof- fee at Brasll ports far surpassing all rec- ord. and prices remained at the bottom ushels, ln spite of many serious drawbacks rall- road earnings for the hal ust closed are the largest ever report otal gross nings Iroads In_the URLL tates, reporting for the half year to date, fre isa0oe, a gain of 67 per cent over it year and per cent over 1900, 'his Toport s practically complete {or roads em- bracing_three-fourt the total mileage of the United Btates for five months and includes partial returns for June. pGommercial fallures in' the fiest halt ot 65, with llabllities of $60, Frses Although tits ls an Increase of §10,166 compared with last year and $15,311,- 923 more than the exceptionally favorable Fecord of 18, it s necessary to g0 back fitteen years fo find another mor, ng showing than that of few exceptionally heavy failures in British Columbia, total Mabilities in the Dominion of Canada for the first half of the year were only 35,739,451, against 630,98 last Yoar, Sohlie*the' mumue of deracits, ‘o, compares favorably with all recent y ‘e gratify- 1902. Despite a Foreign Financl LONDON, July 4 — Gold premium_ at 1. ' Money was abundant. in fair demand and rates were easy today. Dis- counts were steady. The knowledge that large "exports of uovercigns were being le to the Cape tend to strengthen lbe market. Business on the Stock ex- change opened idle, with prices fairly firm and occasionally heav. of the settiement was a ments. .Consols were llell-l}' at the ope: ing, but weakened somewhat later. Hom Tia were irregular, Americans were prac- tically neglectod, in view of the holiday. They scarcely Varied from parity ~aid closed firm. ffirs were A few Shares hardencd. siightly, but (Hey Slosed weak owing to_fears of mative trouble in South Africa. Builion amounting to £40,- 000 was withdrawn from the Bank of kng- land today for shipment to South Africa. Gold promiums are auoted at: Buenos Ayres, 18.60; Madrid, 3.0; Lisbon, %60 Khrs, July 4—4 p. m.—Three rentes, for the account. hange n London, 25f 16c for checks. Spanish 4s closed at §1.22 ex. interest. Prices were hel on the bourse today and business was light. Rentes suffered on account of the realizations, due to the conwsrsion d Ital ‘were very tramways and trac- tions were supported. Rlo tintos were weaker., Kaffirs were adversely affected by forced sales. ’l‘ho flvl e rate of discount ‘wa unChlnsv.d er cent. BERLIN, ly AABunnm on the beurse today was generally dull. Operators were \inciined to realize, imports from the manu- facturing districts being unsa! 'actory. E: change on London, 20m &4pfgs for check Discount mm. short h"ln % per cent; three months' bills, 1% per cent, 4 Lo news. the vicinity of Milwaukee at about the |SM'eiF® time a great fire occurred or a wreck, when | Denver it is reasonable to suppose the car was burned, although no actual proof is ever Again proof may be given within a few hours after the car is destroyed. Then we turn the peg wrong end foremost and pay po more attention te It.” WORK FOR WOMEN. Question of Smoke Abatement Passed Up to Clubs. It 1s well to remind purselves frequently, says the Indlanapolis News, that we have, or ought to bhave, an unusual interest in smoke. The mere money loss from un- burned smoke is something that ought to be strong enough to equip every smoke- making plant in the city so that there would be no smoke—a thing entirely practicable. American Medicine quotes an experiment made in Manchester, England, last Febru- ary, in which, at a place three miles from the center, a sample of snow that had been lylog on the ground for ten days was melted and the dry residue weighed and analyzed. It was found to be equivalent to something over ten pounds to the acre and consisted of 48.6 per cent carbon, cent grease and 445 per cent ash. Another sample taken very near the city showed about three times the amount mentioned, or nearly one ton of soot to the square mile per day. The grease mixed with the soot makes It stick to the bulldings or to whatever else’| coa: it falls on. In London the Smoke Abate- ment soclety is making inquiry concerning domestic grates, which promises to yleld waluable results. In Chicago the Edison company has appropriated $20,000 to carry out plans to abate smoke, because it recog- nizes that “smoke is horse power going up the chimney.” We have repeatedly cited other valuable instances of work at Chicago, by way of contract with nothing being done ber To the point of ‘getting something done, American Medicine says: “Why do not American women's clubs take up the subs Ject? It is in the line of their avowed function as to national housekeeping and public health. They bave the time and the abllity to bring the nulsance to an end.” We beliove this, and we echo the question: Why do not women's elubs take up this question? There have been not. ble instances, both local and general, where the persistence of an organized body of women has resulted in bringing about reforms, none, perhaps, as great or aa difcult to bring about as this, but, on the other hand, women's clubs generally bave not united In those things. Were the women's clubs \of Indianapolis to unite earnestly In this, we belleve they would make an ending of the smoke nulsance. They ought to set us an example of neat- ness and cleanliness and economy, and if they think the undertaking & great ome, they must remember that much of the first work has been done. No one can deny its practicability, its feasibllity, its desirabllity or its economy. These things have all been demonstrated. Other citles, like Clevejand, Chicago, St. Louts, are setting us an example, an ex- ample that bears on us with the stingiog force that If we do not follow it we shall fall behind in the race. Under these con- ditions, the women's clubs should begin the work with much in their favor. We know of o bodies that might begin It with bet- ter hope of BAR SILVER—Quiet at 24616 per ounce. MONEY-2g25 per cent. The rate of dis- count in 'n market for short and fhree months' Biils 1s 2 7-16 por cens. OMAHA WHOLESALX MARKETS, Condition of Trade and Quotati Staple and Fancy Produce. EGGS—Candled stock, 14%4@1bc. LIVE POULTRY—Chickens, T%@8c; roosters, lceomlnl to a ; turkeys, lle; ks and geese, i rollers, per Ib., 'TTER—Packing stock, 15%c; cholce dal 1o tubs, 9c; separator, 2I¢ 3 i “CAUG SH roe shad, each,'7oc; shad roe, ‘pair, le, split shad, r b, 10c; lnbll.e bolled 1b.. e; lobsters,” green, b., o b\lllhcl ofil—u“ B dos., llo. g OATB—ble. BRAN_Per ton, §15. HAY—Prices quoted by Omaha Wholesale we’ association: Choice hay No. 1 medium, Yo Ny AR Tiem pnc- are for hay of good color and quailty. De- mand fair. Recelpts light. GETAB! CAUu"wwhk—Homo grown, per dox., Hay 3 Jolane atoes, per bu., 6. ‘os., according to iza of bunches, 16gGvc, RBPARAGUS-Home grown, per dox., 0@ CUCUMBERS—Hothouse, per dos., 4@ LIT‘X'ES%—PO! doz. b»»nhes, 25c. PA'I‘)‘kIHI;‘hrdd.u‘ 280 Mx EAN.— OII'M mwn. per market pasket, Deans, per market basket, BAKI e grown, pcr 1b., 134e. BB BAGE Califorma " oF © homé-gown, "')h S—New California, in sacks, per FOMATOES—Texas, per {-basket crate, AVY BEANS_Per bu, 82 ApmicoTs-Calitornia. " sLia ‘HES—Callifornia,” $.10. PLUIl—Cleomh ver i-Dasket crates, RIES—Caltfornia, / per box, s1'50; lom”:m'n. -qt. cybe, $2.00g2.35. PE—Texasl per busket, Toc. luurn:mul:lfi—m.c . per 24-pts., $3.00; ELO) WA‘I‘IR{ PICAL FRUITS. PINEAPPLES—Florida, % to 3 count, 'BANANAS—Per bunch, according to size, NGES—Valenclas, M76G5.00; Medi- e g Faney, 00G8s0; Measinas, MISCELLANEOUS. -] 24-section case, tu;gm CIDI‘HY—N’;.BPIVI:C pc: bbl., New Y PopEORN-—Per b, b shlled, te. UTe Walnsis, Nop d soft & o Hara r 1b., 3" sott Braztls, Imonds. .?fu g, bt e, b R T S L Je.‘u'a‘f‘n.a .,,‘Lm. igiic; sheep SR i rn quotes 'I tollow!n| oes: Iron, countey mu per ton, $10; fron, i 0; gopper. per T, W5, Grase, \f:' .or i 303 lght, [ T, be blge Im: per Ib., runb-r. per l Liverpool Grain a LIVERPOOL, = July 4—WHEAT. 8po firm; No. 1 ndrthern, spring, e "u tures firm; July, 6s; Septem cember, nominal CORN—8pot, firm; American mixed, new, e 10d; American mllrd. old, bs Fu' mr;u firm; September, 34d; October, Puvlllnl\ EAS—Canadian, steady at 6s 0d PROVISTONS-Hame, short cut nudx 8s 6d. Bacon, long clear and fight, at S ¢d; long clear middles, heavy, firm at 0 “short clear backs, rm, at s\ls. clear belltes, llrfl“ at l!l shoulders, square, firm at & rd, Drime western, firm 'at S 6d; Kaerican refined, firm at &s 6d. TALLOW—Prime city, steady at 28 94; Aypiraiian, tn London, dull at 28 PS—Pacific coast,’ firm at £6'10s. CHEESE - American fineat’ white, ste at 46s 6d; American fine colored, steady at 498, Recelpts of wheat during the last three days, 114,00 centals, Including 145,000 Amer- lcneculpll of American corn during the last three days, 1,600 centals. Cotton Market. LIVERPOOL, July 4. —COTT 00d_ busi do rices 1 merican 224, the weekl, cotton’ statisti al of all kinds, 6,000 b total sales Am ican, 50,000 bales; En lan spinners taking 17000 bates; total ex Lo i1 Tmports of all Kinds. 14000 bate orts nAmeflcln 3,000 bales; stock of l“ inds, bales; stock American, 698,000 bales. Qulnllt[v Ahoat. all " Kinds, 25000 bales float American, y b speculation, 2,600 bales ales 0 Specuistion vales LONDON, July 4—OIL—Calcutta linsesd, spot, 5ls d; linseed, 30s 6d Fetroleum, American refined, . Turpentine _spirits, Aherican strained, is 5d; fine, . Dry Goods Market. MANCHESTER, July 4—DRY GOODS— Cloths, dull and inactive; yarns rather steady. ! Segar Mark, LONDON, July 4—SUGAR—Raw, Mus- govado, e Centritugal, T8 6d. Béet, b ik DAN RICE'S OLD SONGS. One of His Circus Boys Reecalls the Clown's/Love for Chil Dan Rice, the pet of the children years agone, the clown of all clowns, loved boys, says a writer in the Chicago News, and I never heard of his misusing a youth of either sex. I knew of one Instance when a young girl, fascinated with the sawdust snd spangle life, ran away from home to follow his circus. Dan found it out, sent for her, told her the truth about circus lite and its consequences and sent her, pen- itent, Innocent and wiser, with a kind, fatherly letter to her parents. ‘We boys knew how to work him. A dosen or twenty of us would gather round the entrance of the tent and raise such a row as to bring him out. Then something like this dlalogue would follow his appearance: Chorus of Boys—Hullo, Dan. Hullo! We haven't got any money. Take us in, Danm, please! Dan—You little devils, quiet? Chorus—No-0, no-0-o! (long drawn out.) Dan—Then, darn your little hides, come inside where I can make you keep quiet. ‘When with three cheers for “Dan” we would march inside and he would maké us all sit on the outer edge of the ring, where would introduce us to the sudience as his “little family,” sometimes adding: *“The girls had to stay at home to take care of the babies.” This, of course, made a hit. Dan used to sing a song entitied “The Raging Canawl,” which deplicted a terrible storm on that once popular thoroughfare, in the height of which the ““waves ran as high as saucers en that ragin’ canawl,” and they knocked down one of the towing horses which was “takin’ in a sail.” ‘We had a load of Dutchmen and we stowed ‘em in the hold; They didn’t appear to care for the weifare of their souls. The captaln came on deck and implored Fite ae wet Tie could get 'NI: et he coul was, “Nix Nix for s “. fosd The lamentable drama of “Villikins and His Dinah” was another of Dan's songs, can’t you keep not original, but adapted. He usually wrote or had written his own lyrics. Villl- kins, like many another father, wished Dinah to marry, and she objected. “Oh, ,nldpl' Oh, papa! I've not made vp my min To marry just yet I don't feel inclined; To you my large fortune I'd gladly give 1t ynu lst me live single & year or two mo; The chorus Dan always asked us, “his tamily,” to assist in— Tooral lal looral lal looral, lal lay, four times repeated. The “papa” was obdurate and the sad de- nouement follow: As Illlllllu was a-walkin' his garden He ‘spled te dear Dinan lying dead on the ground, A cup of m by her side, cnld pizen lay dow Am?”. Dilly dux a-statine ‘twas by pizen she “Joe Bowers” was another, who Intro- duced himself th Oh, my name it is Joe Bowers, I've got a brother Ike; 1 come from 0ld Missour, all the way from Joo was smitten with the charms of a Pike county damsel, who cruelly deceived him, as witness the last words One a-y l 22 letter, ‘twas from my It c-ml from old Missouri; yes, all the way rom Pike; 1t bmulhl‘ the gol-darndest news that ever How shat ‘Saily’ ] mufl.d the butcher, and the baby What so| Smith nmoll 'u to the stage Dan Rice was to the sawdust arena. Without desiring to detract from the ability of Dan Emmet as a writer of popu- lar songs it may be remembered that a still older song than his “Dixie” contained similar ideas and vonlfluuor Way down souf. in da state o Da.rt:. whar I used to Wb, chllk Au“ de na, Ebry mornin’ early massa gib Ju;ly in de skift, un down de nbb-' dl‘! An’ lfl;ch as many sof crab as any nig- ger Once 'pon a drif’ log, tink I see a alligator; sc".f-'n Iy boat Tound an’ chuck him sweet ater "Tool him bad nohow to fix it, g:uldn wl'a’ a brick, an” T fotch him ‘such ! :uQn' but & pine knot ‘pon & fel Now my ole missus she marry Will de But she #5on found out dat he was a gay e n his pecket, An’'_de way he cut he stick was a sin to Davy Crockett. ‘Why He Knew the Ropes. Chicago News: “Have you ever had a experience in bandling high-grade pottery?" asked the importer of an applicant for a Job. “No, sir,” replied the applicant, can do the work all right.’ “Suppose,” said the merchant, should accidentally break a valuable vase, what would you do?" “I would put it together carefully, plied the job-seeker, “‘and set it wh wealthy customer would be sure to kaock it to pleces agaln.” “Consider yourself engaged,” sald the merchant. “‘And now tell me where you got on to that trick of the trad “A 1 short years ago,” answered the other, “I was io the ‘wealthy-customer’ class." “dut 1 LUCK ANDPLUCK WINFORTUNE Taking Oppnrtnh;;.ho Topknot Yields | ¢ Whole Lot of Money. INTERESTING CAREER OF JOHN W. GATES Halls from M __—- a n't Need Shown—A Promoter Skilled in the Art of Grab and Freese On. (Copyright, 1902, by Victor Smith.) Just a.quarter of a century ago California sent to New York a smali, wiry, silent man of 39 years. His fame in the masket had preceded and the world was informed that “Jim" Keene had made his way east to “take Jay Gould's scalp.” Keene has been a factor in specu- lon ever since. He Is regarded as the ablest operator the street has ever known. No well could be deeper. Two years ago Chicago sent to the me- tropolls & great, big, beefy, rollicking, loquacious man of 45. He had no f 3 He was an adjunct of the steel business. He bad been a commercial traveler, selling barbed wire to the farmers of the west./| Ness: 1t he bad dealt in stocks it wi dabb) Keeno had made~ $6,000,000 in wheat; Oates had made as much in promoting steel. Keens welghs 100 pounds; Gates weighs 300. Keene is an Englishman; Gates is & Missourian. Keene's first con- tract was sprinkling the streets of Shasta, Cal.; Gates' first contract was hoeing & hill of beans in a garden not far from 8t. Louls. Keene hus made himselt a power in the world of speculation by the force of intel- Ject. Gates is a lucky chap, whose success lles In his ability to grasp, seize, grapple, gTab and freese on to opportunity. Gates has grown so fast that he can bardly keep track of it himeelf. He did not mean It at all. They say he used to have a little shop beneath the Southern hotel, 8t. Louls, where he retalled barbed wire to the farmers of Missourl. At that time his sole ambition was to make & liv- ing. He had no designs on New York and the stock market. Drifting into Chicago, he went Into the employment of “Ike” Ell- wood, after whom Ellwood City is named, and there ran into what we now style the ‘steel crowd.” For a few years he was on the road, earning $3,000 a year for him- self and $10,000 for Ellwood. He saved money, married and settled down. Beeckoning of Opportunity, A land agent induced him to buy some acres near Chicago, and the responsibilities of landlordlsm quickly developed an inde- pendence that had been slumbering like the image on a photographlc plate. Oppor- tunity beckoned. Gates riushed to the em- brace. Barbed wirp was a new thing. The ranches of the west demanded tons of it. There were not mills to supply it. Gates cut the timber off his land and sold it for money to chip in with his coterle of friends and bulld a small factory. This coterle was much ltke that with which Grover Cleveland used to fraternize in Buffalo—ail 800 fellows, up to any risk and equal to any emergency. The sum invested was $36,700. In the first year the profits were nearly five times fhat sum. Some of the partners desiring to sell, Gates generously took their inter- ests off their hands until he owned the mill. Among the friends he made were the Moore brothers, Judge Willlam H. and Jemes Hobart, Danlel C. Reld, Judge Elbert H. Gary, B. C. Converse, Willlam Eden- born, Veryl Preston, Charles M. Schwab, W. B. Leeds, W. E. Rels, Richard Trimble and J. 8. Keefe, ail big men in the manu- tacture of steel. Gates might now be making barbed wire on a small scale if it had not been for the sudden desire on the part of somebody to form a steel trust. Confilcting interests continued to conflict until the name ‘of J. Plerpont Morgan was mentioned as bonding material. The leading steel men of the country begged him to form a central steel government, and for the sum of $55,000,000 he did it. Every one of the westerners had & mill or two to sell, among them Gates. Opportunity beckoned a second time. = The Moores led the way. Gates followdd. A plant at ENwood that cost some hundreds of thousands was turned over to Morgan and the Steel trust for $2,400,000. Other plants in proportion. The independent steel and wire men made tortunes. The world mever before offered 50 golden an opportunity. The steel crowd met once a week at Ell- wood to play poker. Fabulous pots were won and lost. The limit was the sky. Bchwab and Gates gave their winnings to charity. Neither knew how to lose. They were deluged with luck. With each jack- pot a steel plant was sold to the corpora- tion, or trust, and the steel crowd pock- eted a million. Nome of the ““boys” came in on less than a royal flush or bet less than the limit. mere nee Jim Fiak. Gates' equal has not appeared in the street since “Jim" Fisk gntered the fnan- clal vortex and startled the world with his hemes, his bold, multitudinous ful operations, his executive ability and his masterful grasp of condi- tions. It was far easier to be a power in Fisk's day than it is in Gates' day. En- terprises regarded as prodigious in the ‘708 would today be looked upon small busi- ness. Most of the glants of the street have had names of one syllable; t Is among the operators. Morgan is not an operator, neither are Harriman, Rockefeller and men of that stamp operators. I refer to kings of the ticker, such as Jay Gould, “Jim' Fisk, “Jim" Keene, “Deacon” White, Louls V. Bell, Thurlow Weed, Danlel Drew, and last, but not least, Jobn W. Gates. First of all comes Keene, for he is an operator, or speculator, pure and simple. He is a director In mo corporation and never had & partner in the great game of stocks. He Das dealt in more millions of securities than all the rest put together ever dreamed of. After Keene we must place Fisk, then in their order Gould, Drew, Gates, White and Bell. Gates was the most sud- den of all. He cam: & bolt of lightning out of a clear sky and caused convulsions the moment he struck the street. Like Fisk, he is of great girth, with an enor- molll capacity for food and drink. He is a tton for work. Nobody ever heard of Ml being tired. He looks ready to tackle any shape of man or beast that ever en- tered the arena, and no proposition is big engugh to frighten him. He educated his merve when he was an ordinary 1 and wire man selling fences to the farmers in the southwest. Fame at a B The steel and wire crowd burst upon New York at the time when the National Steel, American Bteel and Wire, National Tube, American Tinplate, American Steel Hoop and one or two other allled stocks were attracting the sttention of the specu- lative world. Presidents of some of these corporations made their headquarters in a and commission house in New t was the New York branch of a Chicago establishment which bad long bandled the commissions of the steel crowd. ‘The manipulation of these stocks kept local speculstors in & ferment. The “Steel Crowd"” coined money, while the outsiders lost it. At first New York refused to take the westerners seriously, and everybody plunger | bought Steel and Wire, National Ste American Steel Hoop for a quick turn. When every man had his load the steel stocks stumbled, tumbled, tem, twenty, thirty points. Then he and his crowd quietly and contentedly picked up the bar- gains lying around and held on until the United States Steel corporation was formed, when they disposed of thelr holdings on terms that made many of them millionairos. That stupendous deal made the fame of Gates. Attention has never been diverted trom him since. He became a marked man. He established a following that will buy and sell anything under heaven whenever he gives the word. All the world loves & winner. Gates is & winner. He likes to see others meke money, and never refuses to tip off a good fellow. Gates Has Had Hard Knocks. Beneath his breezy western style, his devil-may-care gabble, his bonhomie, there lurks a shrewdnees such as only his most in- timate friends are aware of. He has had hard Juocks. It took him twenty years to save $1,000,000. Today he has $12,000,000. He has trained with a merry crowd of the highest high-rollers the industrial fleld could furnish. There are blg men in steel. The manufacture of rails, wire, tubing, etc., appears to enlarge capacities for having fun as well as for carrylng on busi- The steel crowd can get more jollity out of life without seriously interfering with legitimate business than any other crowd on earth, And Gates has been a recognized leader of this crowd. He Is ashimed of nothing. that he does | and his heart s as big as all out of doors. No hypocriey In that big bulk! Gates has become such an influence In speculation that traders make use of his name to boom or depress stocks. This is the gauge by which a man is judged in the treet. Two years ago the query was, ‘Who 1s this chap Gates?” A year ago it was, “Do you. really think Gates knows " Today the alarm goes forth: s buylng Steel.” fellows buy steel. Gates s a factor, and & big one, in our commercial lite. The Windsor hotel was for years the evening headquarters of leaders of finance and speculation. Willlam H. Vanderbilt, Addison Cammack, Jay Gould, James R Keene and others were to be found there. When it was destroyed by fire the Wa streeters, such as were left, moved to Delmonico’s Twenty-sixth street place. When the Waldorf-Astoria was built and “Del's” had moved to Forty-fourth street, far out of rqnge, the financial element camped in tbk hostelry of Herr Boldt. Gates lives thers when in New York, and creates sufficient interest to attract mobs All the little to the cafes and dining rooms. He has made some of the waiters rich. To illustrate his influence. One night he was chatting with Charles M. Schwab of the Steel trust on a at the “Peacock alley.”” It is not neces: tell what they talked of. It may have been a reminiscence of poker at Ellwood. But the next day there was a big boom In Colorado Fuel & Ir ‘The shares rose ten or twelve polin Wherefore? Be- cause Gates was seen in the Waldorf-As- toria chatting with the president of the Steel trust, was supposed to have made a dicker with S8chwab to turn over the Colo- rado Fuel and Iron company to the Steel trust at a tremendous advantage. The “Gates Face.” “Gates face” 18 prevalent just the bleycle face, the automobile tace, or the ping-pong ankle. It indicates a man breaking his neck to find out what Gates is doid In the market. Most of Gates's great successes on Wall street have been hccldents. He was “dead wrong” on Northern Pacific, losing a mil- lon and a half. In the Loulsville & Nashville deal he was the creature of ool ditions that he did not know existed. His intentlon was to make a quick turn in the market, to buy wsomething intrinsically g00d and sell it again at a profit. To his own amazement he found himself in pos: slon of the road. The discovery nearly ve him stage fright. It would have given a more excitable man heart disease. Instead of perspiring, Gates drank two quarts of wine te three pounds of beefsteak, with hments. He is magnetic. His voice is mot that of a man who has fed on fats. Rich gravies usually produce huskin Gates' bari- tone, soft and mellow, and just a trifle m tallic, is as clear as a bell and well modu- lated. He could bellow like a bull if he took s mind to, but there is no n for lite to him Is one grand, sweet song. Gates'’chief interest in life just now is to push to the front his strapping son. He himself having achieved and arrive that G in the world. The young man {s much taller than his father, but not #0 big around. Wall street is beginning to keep an eye on him. Gates goes abroad each year. He hi engaged apartments In London for the coronation parade whica cost him a small fortune. His tours of the sontineut usually make an impre: He always travels ““first cabin,” as the say- ing {s. His rooms at the Waldorf-Astoria cost him $300 a week. His favorite game is not ping pong or bridge and he wast t church. dresses as well as {onal gambler and is mot blind to his own importance. It has been published broadcast that J. Plerpont Morgan had Gates “pilled” at the New York ht club, and that August Belmont had a hand in the pilling. Gates denles that there is any friction between him and those two gentlemen. As he has ‘made millions out of Morgan and relieved Belmont of the Lousville & Nashville rail- road, be can afford to let bygones be by~ gones. Gates 1s one of the few bave pot bullt palaces In -upper Fifth avenue. He lives in Chicago. He is in Wall street for fun. James R. Keene is there for business. That is the difference between the two kings of the ticker. Mr. Keene believes in basic conditions belleves In taking a flyer. But Gates will not settle down. He is & glant of capacity, copper-bottomed and Steel-lined. 1 men who . ABSOLUTE SECURITY. Cenuine Carter’s Little Liver Pills. 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