The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1873-07-24
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pam toa-i, sbI the white oi an EGG. Ma,
dinners are equally frugal. IL. t.ses The
| air Every day, rain or sLine. lie kerps No
late hours. Company or no company. he
moves of to bed At ten. He prefers the 70
| cieiy Of a lev friends 10 4 hot eoiree. The
| eimple Bravarian airs of his boy hood, plsy.
ed by bis accomplished wife on the piano.
is sxeeter music to him than the crash and
fury Of the Opera. In his business he i.
cool, collected and self-reliaat. The fume,
fretting, and wasting or exciting bueinees il
done BY Others. and NOT BY himself He
never sells what he does not own, nor buv.
what he can not pay for and, il he will.
lock up. He reads men With the intuition
Of prophet. He locks HIS busine.. affair,
in his own bosom and. he saws, changes his
mind when lie chooses without being accused
Of vacillstion." He touches nothing that
he does not control. He II at nobody's
mercy; nobody Can be,rsy him, cell him
out, buy him Of, or thvart his plana
Al the funeral Of Horace F, CLARK
wAs Moses Taylor. He 10 over sixty: one
OF the hardest working men in New York
nsXt TO Stewart, Aston, Vanderbilt. doing
more business than any other man in the
ely. He is rugged, hearty, full Of the
visor OF youth, and seems good for q csntu-
~ of rough tough toll. He runs one Of the
largest banks Of The ciiy. He is more than
presiien;-he is authocrat Of the concern,
tie has been Tor years his own bookkeeper
and should anything happen to the books of
his business down town, he could duplicate
them from under his own hand. He has
kept a record of his bis;n rs since he was q
boy, and can show you tie profit and los..
day by day, for fifty years. His style of bu-
siness has preserved his health and per-
pe:uated his fortune. His great point has
been TO make money. Horses rast-iiyine.
eating and drinking, hot liquors, Yachting,
ocean and mountain travelling, seven by nipe
rooms at fashionable watering places, races
ard clubs have no charms for him. Mr.
Iaylcr takes his recreation in his wise: He
rises early; takes bath; eats q simple
breakfast, aud is down to the hank before
The clerks. He is never excited, never in
hurry; is self-posse-sed and mister Of the
situation. Business over, most men 6ud re-
creation lie qniet game Of billiards: in a
dash over the waves at Sandy Hook:
little rpeed over the road, where
the rivalry IL sufficient TO make the bottom
of horse worth gold. Not 80, Mr.. Tayior.
The man who has made twenty dollars in
Wall Street spends halt of it TOR coach to
ride uptown, and dinner at Delmonico'..
Mr.. Tay lOr, worth $4,000, 900, rides up
Town in an omnibus, takes q frugal dinner
takes bAth-goes 10 bed and has q refresh
ing sleep-gets np-wri,es down the business
Of the day until ten, and then goes to bed.
A man who wants to ace Noes Taylor in the
evening won't looa for him in the concert
rall, theaier or c.ub-roOm. He will find
him in his own room. second story front,
pleasantly at work til bedtime. The pre-
vailing style Of business 10 entirely unlike
these specimens. The young business men
on the street copy Jim Fisk, Horace F.
Clark, and men OF that stamp. They are
prema,urely old. Boys OF thirty are older
than their fathers AT sixty. Breakfast 1t IL
heated lunches, with abundance Of drink
rushing into wild sPeculstions. This takes
the hair of the top Of their heads-knocks
the underpinning ou:-gives our boys incip-
lent paralysis, and makes them walk around
the streets with canes. 81 can't sleep Of
nighta; get very little sleep after twelve
O'Clock; get up at three to get bath, and
read and Law around"