The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1870-10-27
Career Of a Wild speeulal0r-

/ The death OF Andrew Wilson. Jr
{ formerly CinciDnatian, shows the
i EMBELLISHMENTS and danger Of reek.
F less speculation, of which so many
men m this vicinity are the victims.
Wilson was a born specUlatOr, il
/ ever there was one. You remember
/ his immense transactions in pork in
I your city, and how he endeayOred tC
I control the market, extending his
/ business season after season, and go
ing entirely beyond his means, until
finally he failed for about one million
/ dollars. Then he entered into rea
estate transactions, and purchased
the White Sulphur Springs, where
ne was unfortunate, and again fail.
/ ed.
After various vieissitudes he found
Ohio too contracted for his operations,
and came to New York, some two
years ago. With no capital, or very
little, he began buying real estate
wherever he thought there was any
prospect Of its advance. He was soon
doing a business OfhUndreds of thOus-
ands of dollars, and had a prospect Ol
making a fortune. But the more he
did, the more ambitious he grew, and
after sustaining considerable losses he
became wild in his speeulatiOns and
his mode Of business altogether cha
otie.
Wilson was a tremendous worker,
doing in day more than most men
do in q week He would get up at
two or three o'clock in the morning
to make calculations and estimates J;
start of from ManaTOneck, where he
lived, for the city early in the morn
/ ing, without his breakfast, and get
ting into Pine street would rush about
nearly all day without a mOrsel OF
food. He literally lived upon his
nerves, which, though excellent in
themselves, are not good for a steady
diet. He so neglected his body that
his mind tyrannized over it complete
ly.
He became partially deranged, and
had no more method in his business
than a kitten would have in unwind
ing silk. He would give checks and
forget to register them, and some
times draw on banks where he had no
money. Nobody could do anything
with him. He dashed about in a
loose, tumultuOus way, buying prop
erty everywhere and making con-
tracts with every one which he had
no ability TO hold or meet.
So strained and worn was his
nervous system at last that he was
unable to sleep more than a few min
utes at time. bis friends made ev-
cry effort to manage and control him;
but they found it impossible. A few
days before he cut his throat, he con-
ceived the idea that persons of whom
he had been buying property had
formed com mbinatiOn against him,
and intended to crush him.
During this great cerebral excite
ment, from which he had been suffer
ing for weeks, he committed the rash
act. He lived several days after the
attempt upon his life, and seemed,
very soon after he had used the knife,
to be restored to something like men,
tai ealmness and balance. He ex-
pressed regret at what he had done,
and was anxious to live, saying he
could see opportunities then for max
ing money which had escaped him
before. But his system had been too
much abused to rally, and the poor
fellow died.
Wilson, described by all who knew
him as q waTm-hearted and generous
man, quilted the world after all his
vast transactions so very poor that
his friends were obliged to defray his
funeral expenses. If he had lived, it
is said he would have come out all
right, notwithstanding his exceeding
ly irregular mode of doing business.
Though his family are now left des-
titute, 1 understand they viii get
100000 or more from the general
wreck, and 1 hope it may prove true.
There is q deep, sad moral in Visions
death, which shows the evil of seek
ing to grow rich too fast. He was
man of marked ability, and if he bad
been content to make money as most
men make it, he would have been
comfortable, even wealth, and have
lived to ripe cid age.-N y Cor
Gin Times.