The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1881-09-06

! he does. and be is quick TO recognize
! good work. HIS quick reproof follows
any negligence or bad work, but that
he is no. 9 hard task master is shown
( by the fact that most of his men have
I been = long time Iu his service The
Herad often bears the impress of Mr.
Benefits iiiosyncrssles, but no one can
deny that on the whole the concern is
very successfully managed. Is income
has greatly increased since the elder
Mr. Bennett died whether its influence
has been extended or not The rev
euue is the criterion of success in news.
paper management, after all.
1t is another mistake 10 suppose that
Mr Bennett squsnders his money.
Though his income is already some
where between $50, ,O00 and $4,000
per year. he is regularly increasing it.
His investment in the Newport Casino
is an instance of his management. He
advanced sl00. 900 on this property, do
ing at the same time an act which the
people here praised him for. since it
made the construction of this wonderful
pleasure resort possible, and one which
also paid him we'll. since he gets six
per cent interest on the money and has
it well secured. Although he has inn
mense establishments at London, Paris
aud Pau. as we'll as at Newport, and
maintains each regardless of expense.
he does not spend all his income. His
coLdition then, according to Mr. Micaw-
Der. must be happy.
However, don't believe it is. If
Mr. Bennett is happy. his face is lie.
be locks weary, worn. bored to death
with the mere effect of enjoying him
self. When ! see man apparently
unhappy because he has 100000 to
dispose of annually. feel that there is
very little hope for him aud a great
deal for me I feel that l am really
better off than he is. But since Mr.
Bennett is not happy and am, and
since l am very benevolenuy disposed.
| am very willing to change places
with him if he is DESTROYS of doing so.
Won't he jump ut the proposition
of the players charging across the turf
would not have been seen if Mr Benz
nett had not set the fashion; the gilt
tering msss OF equipages, with their
burdens of fair women aud more or less
corpulent men, had come there. in q
certain sense, at Mr. Benefits call and
and yet there was rather less style
about him than any other visitor on
the grounds. He could hardly have
put on less style, indeed, unless he had
gone outside the fence and taken stand~
ing-room on 'deadhesd hilr-a long
ledge of rocks which command the best
possible view of the whole polo field,
and which is always covered by the
rabble of citizens ON foot when the
games take place. These rocks, by the
way, would have been deprived of their
commanding view of the field by the
erection of high board fence if Mr.
Bennett had not interposed his veto to
the proposition. The citizens of New
port, thanks to Mr. Bennett. can see the
polo games t0 better advantage than
any one within the enclosure, and see
them without money and without price.
The man who shows such delicate
consideration for the welfare aud pleas
ure of the people of a town where he
spends two or three months of each year
is not at all handsome or striking In
personal appearance. His face is long
and thin, and wears an expression of
settled melancholy, as if the pleasures
of the world had palled on him. He
does not seem at all broken down in
health and does not have the appear
ance of man whom dissipation has
worn out, but he does look as though
the world yielded him no further en-
joyment, and as if his only occupation
now were to kill the time. Certainly
he has provided himself with excellent
weapons To kill il with
His house here. which he bought
some time since for S6s 900, he has con-
verted into palace. he calls it Stone
Villa. and it stands opposite the Casino
"a place which is also virtually his
own. since he advanced the money with
which it is built. and holds 9 mortgage
of $1,000 on it--on Bellevue Ave-
nue.. the principal street 10 the new
part of the town. Stone Villa Is
large, PLAIN. two-story structure OF
granite. originally square, but now pro-
vided with projecting octagon dining
room. of Mr. Benefits own design. and
surrounded with q broad aud airy ver-
ands The grounds. which the owner
has just decorated with some costly and
beautiful marble statues bought in
Italy. poised curiously on swivels or
pivois, so that they turn about. sre
surrounded with q low granite wall.
which does not obstruct the view OF
even q child.