The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1884-12-26

we'll suppef: 4: +: stewaft gave him
pcthing, Strangely enough MI. Field
has lived ID, see the name Of A. T.
Stewart as thoroughly painted out as il
that millionaire had never lived.
Comforted by one good supper and
adorned with his presentation pin, Cy.
rus threw himself into the work of SELL
ing paper with such zeal that in two
years he had mastered the business.
He then formed q copartnership in this
city. His venture was unsuccessful.
and in q few months he was bankrupt.
The blow was . heavy one, he hsd been
recently married., and had lost every
dollar, but Mr.. Field bore his misfot.
time with his accustomed courage. He
started in again, and on the first day
that he took possession Of his new Of.
fee he made The sanguine remark. II
shall make q fortune here in twenty
years." Better than his word, he made
his fortune in twelve years and retired,
still in the prime Of life, to enjoy that
rest which he had never before known
since his boyhood.
In Q leisure moment he formed an
acquaintance with one Gisbo rne, who
had conceived the project Of an Allan
tic cable, and had procured charter
for the laying of the cable from the leg.
islature Of Newfoundland. The Gfs-
borne's work had ended but he talked
il over with Mr.. Field, whose leisure
hung heavily upon him. although he
had travelled through Bogota, Guaya-
qui and Ecuador with Church who paint
ed the Heart of the Andes" TO try and
while away the time. Mr.. Field be-
became interested in Gisborne's scheme
and one night, while studying the geo.
graphical globe, which still stands in
his library, his interest famed into en-.
thusiasm, and he shouted: ut can be
done, and it shall he DONE" The next
night he called together his friends
Peter Cooper. Moses Taylor, Marshall
o. Roberts, Chandler White and Wilson
G.. Hnnt-and preached Atlantic ca
BILE to them until they were converted
to his plans. A stock company was
formed, the necessary capital for pre-
liminary expenses subscribed; his
brother Dudley acted Is lawyer of the
enterprise, and Cyrus sailed for Eng
land to wrest the money for the cable
from British investors. No monk of
old ever preached the crusade with
better vehemence, and in wonderfully
short time, ard in defiance of innumer-
able difficulties, the cable was COM
menoed and the ships chartered to lay
il.
Before the Atlantic cable was an &C.
accomplished fact Mr.. Field had labor
ed upon it for twelve years and crossed
the ocean fifty-one times. The first
cable would not operate, but lay
dead in its ocean grave. The second
cable spoke for three weeks. then part
ed and was dead as the first. In 1865
the Great Eastern succeeded in per.
manently uniting two worlds. Then
all the terrible labors of twelve years
were forgotten in the triumphs of sue
cess. Congress voted Mr.. Field med
al; the queen of England knighted his
associates, and he would have been Sir
Cyrus had not his American birth and
prejudices prevented.
In 1879 he celebrated, at his Gram
ercy Park residence, the silver wedding
OF the cable project, and here as in
England the best society did honors to
his achievements. William M. Evarts,
in his commemorative address, de-
clared columbus said; Here is one
world, let there be two But Cyrus w.
Field said; Here are two worlds, let
there be one.' and both commands were
obeved."
Mr.. Field is the owner of the Wash
ington building and other real estate
valued at SIC, 600, 600. In stocks, bonds
and other securities has go, 600 600
more.
He owns . country house at Irving.
ton and mansion opposite that Of his
former business associate and recent
rival, Samuel j. Tilden, in Gramercy
Square. In Mr.. Fields shirt front
flashes one of the largest and purest
emeralds in the world, and one often
wonders as he admires that Jewel
whether Mr.. Field really values it high
er than the diamond pin. presented to
him when q poor cash boy by A. T.
Stewards clerks.