The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-02
A MILLLroNAIRE's MASH.
Episode in the Affairs of a Chicago Capitalist,
Which Has Set Section of the
Upper Ten Ablaze.
[Chicago Times

Returning pilgrims from the eastern
watering places bring nome queer stories OF
the doings of gentleman whose name is a
household word in Chicago. For some
time past whispers have been in circulation
that all was not as itshoald have been in a
south side mansion, where the wealth,
position, and personnel of the family
seemed enough in itself to warrant con-
tentment. 1t is hardly necessary to desig-
nate the principal character in the dramat-
is persona of this little episode further than
by the statement that he is the controlling
spirit of one of the greatest enterprises of
Chicago, and that he is marked not alone
as a millionaire, bat as a passionate lover
of fast horses, and man not wholly in
different to the charms of lovely woman.
He is in the bloom of his second youth,
young in spirit if not in years, and capable
of entering the lists even with his own son
where beauty is to be won as the prize of
the tourney.
His SON, who is connected with the same
business in which the father is the guiding
mind, some time since met and succumbed
to very pretty little lady, whose home is
in southeastern New York. The acquaint-
ances ripened into an engagement, and the
two are now awaiting the Development of
the engagement into matrimony The
family of his sons true love- He approved
of the boys choice. but wondered at the
same time why the young man had not
had judgment enough to burn his incense
at the shrine of the sister of his intended,
whom he considered much more attract
i've person than the intended herself APP
parently, this oversight preyed upon his
mind, and to make up for the mistake
whichshad been made, he sent nnmberless
bouquets and boxes of. earamels. uncount-
ed gloves. and many yards of lace to the
sister who had been passed over.
He was provided with wife and family
in Chicago, but the more he looked over
the situation the more he was convinced
that something must be done, the some
thing that was done, came like a thunder
clap on his astonished son, when his sweet
heart informed him that his unruly papa
had eloped with her sister. the two taking
steamer to Europe, and leaving behind
them nothing but the expressed hope that
everybody would be as comfortable as DOS
sible during their absence. For the girls
sake, the boy followed his hayward parent
tG the old country, and after much argu-
ment succeeded in bringing home the prod
igal sire and the fair companion of his |
fight, The girl went to her home in New
York, and the elderly Lbfhario came to |
Chicago. There were a couple of domes-
tic cataclysms, and then everybody for |
gave everybody else on their promising |
never to do so again. The gentlemen re-
summed the calculation of cattle problems. |
The lady in the case sought consolation in
piety.
The summer, h owever, the father went
10 Saratoga earlier than usual, his spanking
cam was forwarded after him, and the |
neatest little cottage on the road became |
ais for the season. Soon the neighbors be |
gan to understand that Dir. Blank was not |
exactly keeping bachelors hall; the curious /
sarght the glimpse of neat female form
lifting about the house The charitable |
to each other, How young and |
pretty DIR. Blank $ wife isiv The censorious
:nrled the contumelious lip and whispered I
q each other that Mrs. Blank was very
1oung looking woman to be the mother of
hat young man that was here last season, l