The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-01-11
STILL MISSING.
The Mysterious Disappearance Of Charles
Delmonico.
bus Generous Patron OF the Arts
10 = Crusty, IlI.natured
millionaire.

NEW YORK, Jan. 10.-Diligent search 10
still being made for the missing Charles
Delmonico. Letters bearing his address
have been found In the Newark streets and
Hnumber OF persons In the vicinity OF
Orange report that man answering the
newspaper description of Mr.. Delmonico
has been seen by them In that locality.
Many OF his friends believe that he Is GER
tainy In New Jersey. There are others
who believe that II alive he Is much further
away from this city and say that the search
should have been pushed far into Pennsyl-
vauia. Search In this city has been most
persistent, almost every house where there
10 any possibility of his his having con-
cesled himself having been searched, all to
no purpose.
THR CHIEF TOPIC OF DISCUSSION
In Wall street, In business circles, ia clubs
and In hotels Is the disappearance OF
Charles Delmonico. Although he was not
apublic man or even q prominent man In
the legitimate sense OF the word, his bust.
ness brought him in frequent contact with
the leading men In politics, finance, society
and commerce, and 1t is natural that all
those men should take an interest In the
fate that befalls him. Apart from his bus.
mess position, however, Charles Delmonico
rendered himself popular in his younger
years among all sorts Of men by certain
personal characteristics seldom to be met
with in persons In bis walk Of life. He was
genial and liberal to fault. His courtesy
and cordiality were almost boundless.
More than that, be was man Of intelli.
gence and no mesn intellectual aspirations.
Some eight or ten years ago he devoted
every hour Of leisure
TO LITERATURE AND ART.
he brought every picture be could spare
the money for, frequently to give them to
his fr ends; he yer missed good ex-
hibition and finally started one Of his
nephews in the picture dealing business.
He stole nightly an hodr or two of his rest
to read some new book aud the book was
usually something more solid than novel.
One day be found friend reading Herbert
Spencer's volume on elOcutl0n. de took
II away, read II through several times,
and WAS full Of 1t for months afterward.
Tue reading Of this book induced him even
to try the other works Of Spencer, as we'll
~ those Of II. T. Buckle. He knew some
Of the brig htest son SCI Beranger and Mus.
set by heart. Painters, writer's, actors,
musicians we're always welcomed at his
house. Some Of the newspaper men were
bis cbums for years, aud he took even
pecuuiary interest in several literary ven.
lures, notably among them the Arcadian.
By and by, however, as the business OF the
firm and
HIS INTEREST IN IT INCREASED,
he began to lose the taste both for itera-
ture and art. The movement Of the firm .
up. town establishment from Fourteenth To
Twenty.sixth street, seems to have ended
bis intellectual aspirations. He gave up
both books aud pictures. Business and
stock speculatio 70 were all be seemed to
care for. The daily newspapers, and once
q week the Real Estate Record, satisfied
him thoroughly. Finding him one day alb.
sorbed iu the Record, q friend asked him
whether that was bis Buckle and Spencer
now. Yes was the answer, Sand IN
tell you why. Because, II find here that
you or anybody else took out a chattel
mortgage, I put 9 stop to his account at
the office, and id quick, too" Step
By step things grew worse and worse with
Charles Delmopico. He became
DEsPoTIC WITH HIS EMPLOYEES,
and abusive toward some Of bis oldest
friends. After bis Uncle Lorenzo had
gwen him bali liz terest in tbs whole hus.
ness OF the firm, he seemed to care for moth.
ing but money. He gave up social games Of
cards, OF which he bad been very fond.
He began to be a big Spectator. Stock,
grain, pork. oil, cotton, everything that
could be bought or sold In speculation be.
came an object Of deep interest to him.
He had open accounts in more than dozen
offices down town, and never seemed to
know how be stood. He made q great
deal Of money In the boom Of 1880, and the
subsequent death Of his uncle made him q
millionaire,