The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-09-04

George Alfred Townsend, writing a
characteristic letter from the steamer
Daniel Drew 10 the Boston Post, gives
the following sketches of prominent
business men:
While stand ont thus upon the deck,
hearing jewsharPers aud ventriloquists
performing among the crowded people,
a vision OF the passing away age of
New York's great internal capitalists
arises before me. Sonder was Dean
Richmond-fat, with "a Forrestonian n
scOrn and a Falstaftian humor con-
tending together on his broad red face;
he who was forever uttering shrewder
truths through an oath than many
preachers through n sermon-stood in
teTpreter of the popular Will for thirty
years and never held a political office.
His acumen was sure; his sympnthies
of homely earnestness. In business he
and suggestion, aud he died at Batavia,
a railway king, who once worked upon
the canal at a dollar day.
Here Is Fargo, his successor, chief of
express and railway lines, who used
to carry bag to and fro between AL
bAny and Buffalo. He watched the
nice adjustment of politics and com :
challenge of chance native to New
Workers, and his name is read by the
wild Indians as his coaches go whirl-
ing over the prairie. He lives at Buff
fulo as Richmond lived at Batavia,
both OF them miniature New Workers.
Stand up Jesse HoyI, New York
flourmAn, who could not conceive OF
grain in less quantity than the ship load, ,
nor of lumber unless Gu: off by the
thousand acres; who, starting with
hardly Il shirt 10 his back, built at East
Saginaw hotel as big as the Revere
House, while yet the woods stood
around its gildiDgs. He was one OF
those Republicanemperors lin the Inn
perial money sense) who could look in
to the tides of the Bay of Fundy and
figure up Ii contract 20 dam out the sea,
or project mill at Niagara big enough
TO take all the five lakes to turn its
wheel. tF
haired, shrewd benignity lying in the
deep business lines of his face, man
oTluck- and dash, brought up In IA wild
corner OF New York, and ready for any
spRsm Of nature or fever of man TO feel
the pulse OF either, he represents the
New York of the railway century,
when tLe wilderness began to reach
out toward the coast and we burst the
Alleghenies with our wires. He was II
shop-keeper's clerk, II corporation see
retary, WAGNER, wood-hauler, II
speculator. His little lake county is
pierced through Win railways hp"J
though there are Indians at home in 1T
yet.
Daniel Drew, mean in the penny aud
a gambler in the pound, with his maine
familiarly written along the great
river, holding fast to his early faith i'll
Methodism and one of those men who
is making ii monumental, his aims in
steamboating have come TO fact in
these leviathuns that are like the Tuil-
cries atlOat, and those who charge that
he is penurious and small must speak OF
private matters for his public ereclions
have not been such aS little man
could build.
The old man, Croesus beautiful, is
Vanderbilt, arrow strRight; with the
dart look Keen IN his eye. Grey seems
TO be the color of the locks OF youth as
we see his spun out of vital silver His
private love Is horse, but SOnder
goes his real steed-lhe locomotive on
the river bank, Rt fifty miles an hour.
He used TO be pilot in New York
waters, and afterwards schooner's
captain. When steam came on he gave
ii homes worthy of its power, i'll great
hulls and magnificent locomotives,
so that to-day he is the owner al
most outright o { the only lines between
the metropolis and the capital of New
York. His ships are in the navy and
on all the seas. He draws Il check ut
sight for million, and yet this man
can have no higher amusement than
whistl oh! incapacity of cash! 10
cover trails of ten thousand continuous
miles with lines of ships, and yet eX-
claim, "There's nothing richer than
whist" To count four aces noDler
than railway: to say: "My God my
whistles are heard in three zones, but
l cannot be happy without the odd
trick"