, 1875-10-25
WARDS WILL.
What II Thought Of the Cusc in New
York,

York.
| Hen Tsrk Ttints, OIL e..
Cant. Ehcs D. Ward was 4 man WIN wo,1d
hhvo boen ranked, by any ono rLo knew him IL
his public relations only. as an excellent typo o,
tho enterprlsing, onorgolc, aud successful
American capitalist. lto built up a thriving ant
busy little town; 10 owned or controlled arnett.
fng-Horks all OF very extopstyo character; he
owned pine lands oqual I'm extent to ton times
TIC Area OF this tatand; and ho Was olthet tho
colo proprietor or tho controlling stockbodcr In
/ minca OF iron, lcad, silver, copper, aud corun.
aim, IN hltchigan Missouri, Utah, Arizona, and
north Carolina. Ho WAS 3 ship-buiIdor sud
eh'p-owner, President Of two railroads and
s1ndry !nduAtrinl enterprises. JIo was tho fay
oflte candidate for Secretary Of the Treasury dur
ing tho nntt-Johuaon movement, and wns rccog-
nasod as powor IN politics up to tho day Of bis
iieath. Altogother, Capt. Ward seemed one Of
tue highest ombolimcnts Of tho PRACTICAL push
inf spirit or our reoplo,-n man who had con-
tfio'ted ~ largely ~ any nns living to tho ma
terial proR1ess of l,ia ago. and who had achieved
deserved anccoss by sheer forco OF working an
orgy and capacity for organization.
Al. "a SahnhrT last, onpt- Ward fell down dad In
Ito streotB Of Detroit. The breath was hardly
cut cut Of llle body "hen two Of Lis sous, by bis
hfst marriage, hastoned to secure the services
OF outnont connael to contost Lin viii. Tim
case ~as opened last month. and, sitter some Ten
tays of legal fonce aud judicial rulings On pre-
liMinsFy points, tho private lIfo Of lid sIichlgan
stand: 1t appears tLatCap Ward camo froIn
T., = issriy strongly tainted with inssnity that ho
had both legitimate and tIlegitimato ci,ildran
who Wern confirmed lunstics. II haa boep shown
that no procured divorco from Aia first vifo
BY EFoss fraud and that. two months attor that
achievement, ]lo married. tho Young Jady who IL
now bis wtdo~ and tho Iegatoo OF two millions
o. o. h,s property; There il, perhaps, nothing
very snrprietng abol1t tho fact that ts great in.
dussrinl chiof Of tho Northwest shouid baye
been rnan Of low passions and imnnro 1ifo=
But it dooa geem violent contradiction of TIN
ordinary ideal Of Ruct, character that ho should
naye been an ab}ocs sare 10 tho dcluslons Of |
The sorvicos of metiiums vera invoked Nv |
Capt. Ward, not only in regard TO tho nfraira ~
bis family, thoy wcso his constant rocourse in |
matters Of business. Yhon he wanted advice |
on railroad Affairs, ho procured consultation
with tie eplrlt Of Deau Ricbmouu: md INNS ~
his numerous mining ventures woso uu,artskeu
without an Interview With the spirit Of q Oar
man geologiat. who answered. to tho ouptou,ous
pane y Of Cabbage John" THIS appcarB to |
ticsanon Of tho deceased German i,o sent ont @
Expeditions in soalch OF silver, aud Le oheyel
orders ord from the nsme source n opposing
:ourBe Of cross-o1amIpatiop. tho nthar dnv -
[oma!o medium wont into q trauca ip tho vii
ness-box, aud 1nalo some remsrke in Gar.
nan. though hho Hworo on regatnipg co1,
'clousnees TINT she did not understand 4 word
II that language. It msy bo inferrnd that this
'olznro was duo to tho intcrost Which C.pt.
Wards favor.o 1outonio afj,iiE Still peraists in
nan'teat1ng in bis hlfnirs.
!, Had the deceased millionaire not taken tho sd.
'ico OF tho spirits about bis viii. his int,msta
citations with tho unsees, world would pronahty
lot hayo been revealed to tile general publ,c.
10 certainly lad fair warning, Mhilo that inetru.
aent "asin pfcnaEatiou, that there waa trouble