Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-07-24
A CRGSUS.
The Monaghan Millionaire, All
Say, and How he Made his
Money.
Kansas City Timas.

A correspondent writing from Ev.
anston, U. T., says: All Say is a spec.
linen, and a good ones of what a China.
man can accomplish in this country,
where prudence, ability, and thrift are
supplemented by a fair education. In
fact, the union of the frugal virtues OF
the patient Asiatic with the energy
and liberallty of the Western eau
casian (Which conjunction seems to
have taken place in the case of All
say is a combination which, under
any ordinary circumstances, is almost
certain ofinsuring financial success.
All Say is no madarin of three, or
even one button, in his native land.
He is self-made, and has no reason
to be ashamed Of his handiwork
When first he gazed on the land Of
gold land Dennis Kearney) from the
deck Of an emigrant ship, All Say had
as little worldly wealth and knowledge
Of the ways and wiles Of the "Melican
man. az any of his pauper compatri-
OTIS. He began life in the usual hum
BILE avcc tions which supply the
wherewiLhal to keep the domestic
chopsticks going. He had a faculty
of shrewd observation, though, which
taught him hal if he could apply his
really comprehensive intellect to the
solution of the question in American
life, and deduce a correct result from
them in an American way, that his
Chinese industry and economy would
give him a start in life which his
natural ability would successfully inn
prove. All Say made a Napoleonic
stroke-he Am~ericauized himself in
s grounding himself with a Chinese
atmosphere in an American climate, as
is the fashion Of the greater number
Of his conservative and, ergo, stupid
countrymen.
The opportunity came in the shape
of the Union Pacific railroad. That
company had need to employ thousands
Of coolie laborers in its construction.
The management felt that it would be
Of infinite advantage to both parties to
have in personal control of this large
body Of men some one man who was OF
their race, language and religion, and
yet who was sufficiently enlightened,
educated and liberal to act in concert
with the interests and other officers of
the road. Where was such a rare
combination to be found? | am no
firm believer in the mute, i~nglorious
Milton theory" and have noted that
a place is always vacant for practical
genius to earn its bread and meat. All
Says light was under no bushel. He
was chosen as superintendent at a
yearly salary Of $4,000 per annum.
His star is at its zenith, and this
American ChiDaman can safely draw
his check for something over $3.50, 900.
He is not wholly American in domes-
tic life. His house, a neat, substantial
and unpretentious place, is American
enough outside, but when one enters
into the atrium he literally encounters
tho Lares ct Penates OF o thorough
Cbinaman.
LuJeIluB Ju6 uOOI you dIo bViuOA
with what, in my ignorance, l sup.
posed was a tolerable specimen OF
Chinese statuary placed upon a kind
Of prie-dieu, or small altar, l hardly
knew which. This was, however, the
joss or domestic god of the proprietor,
The furniture was by no means a dis
agreeable mixture of American and
Chinese work, and was simple hut
elegant in material and fnish. Here
All Say received US pleasantly aud in
fair English, rising as he did SO from
his desk, at which he had been work.
ing with his secretary, an American,
Fol Mao, his wife, sat a little distance
off in a rocking chair, singing a
Chinese lullaby to some one Of her
children. II was a pretty picture Of
domestic enjoyment.
The walls were covered with some
few indifferent works in oil and anum-
| Der ofgelqiue Chinese chefs d'@uyres,