The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-05-24

t6O,OC, ard IA doing a isfge add pfospefon
business, The wdtef, however, desifea
be- independent NJ her husband, and ash
Mr.. IOfoOran ~ send her money enough 4
she may live on the Interest. This letter
we'll written, and closes with M urgent In
| yllatlOn 10 Mr.. C0f0ofan 10 come and MAX
| her visit nj her bome In New England, u
SEQ her garden and enjoy the fruits ant
flowers The writer was evidently well !,
do In this world, and refined and educated
yot, amid her prosperity, she had one am
| bition which was not satisfied, and tina
was TO have bank account OF her own
| In this particular she Is not, perhaps, ~
isolated example, but the course OF reason
ing which led her TO think that an entire
stranger would help her Is entirely unique
~ want barrel Of mess por &; and want
you TO send IL to me-" was the laconic but
peremptory letter received from man IN
one of the southern states. Mr.. Corcoran
amused by this strange demand, sent the
pork as requested: What was the result
He was rewarded by receiving request fol-
another barrel"
A young lady asked Mr.. Corcoran to send
her a pink silk dress, trimmed 10 order, to
enable her to attend a ball in Virginia. This
letter is much in the style of an order to d
dressmaker. and there Is nothing to indicate
that the writer had any doubt but that the
request would be granted.
Another lady correspondent, living in
Europe, sends sixteen pages of commercial
post, closely written giving history. OF
her family, which seems to have had a
very ancient origin, ana requesting, that
Sc 900 be sent to her address, to enable the
writer to take trip to the southern part OF
France for the benefit of her health.
1t is said that Jay Gould receives scores
of begging letters every day. A newspaper
writer states that few days ago one came
from Switzerland, in which an impecunious
DIRE shaker, wanted him to aid in estab-
fishing her in Paris, where she might cut in
to Worth and break bis ''corner" in the
dressmaking art. An ambitious Stuttgart
student recently asked for small sum to
enable him to open q studio and compete
with his more fortunate rivals, and Lon.
don soldier in the Queens Own wanted
money to enable him to reach this country
and buy farm. Many of the cases are in
vestigated, and if the walters are learned to
be worthy of charity they are not left
empty handed. 1t is said that Mr.. Gould
gives away many thousar DIS of dollars a
year for charity's sake, not ostentatlously
but in quiet way, where it will do the
most good. Frequently he receives letters
from men who have gone down in the many
Wall street upheavals. If their failures
were due to natural causes, and the aPpli-
cants are worthy, they frequently receive
aid from an unexpected quarter, little
knowing that Mr.. Gould was their benefac-
tor.
Mr.. G. P. Huntington, president of the
Central Pacific road, is probably worth
s15,OOO.0Oo. He is also in receipt Of many
begging letters. His letters are from all
portions of Europe and the United States,
and contain requests based on every i'm
aginable scheme. The bulk of his appeals
come from the Pacific coast, from men who
are sure, if they only had few OF Mr..
Huntington's dollars they could soon de-
yelop mines of untold wealth, make
western prairie lands blossom like the rose
or fill their ranches with the cattle upon a
thousand hills. Mr.. Huntington, his friends
say, is not much given to charity, and losses
begging letters away without reading them
very closely.
Henry Clews, whose wealth is estimated
at $40 600 900, receives a large number OF
letters asking for help. Many OF the appll-
cants are unfortunate operators in Wall
street, and they often find in Mr.. Clews a
sympathetic friend. Many of the letters
are written in behalf of charitable institu-
found to be deserving the desired assist
auce is given. The Wall street brokers are
said to be always ready to listen to charita-
BILE appeals, especially in behalf OF those
who have been Unfortunate on the street"
Russell Sage is not credited with throw.
ing money away as he terms it, and
brokers generally observe; "a man with
SIC, 900 900, who will wait in his office over
half an hour to catch the five-cent trains on
the Elevat ed road. must be too poor to give
money away for sweet charity" James r
Keene, his friends say. receives scores Of
begging letters every day, and Cyrus ".
Field is the recipient of more than any
other man in Wall street circles. He gives
away $50 per day for charitable purposes
his intim ates assert, and generally answers
correspondents who solicit aims, ii he
thinks it is charity worthily bestowed
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