The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1884-10-02
MiseeIlaneons.
BNOADBREM'S NEW YORK
AFTER.

A traveller passing along Madl-
son Square looking in at the differ
ent hotels could not fail to notice
the extraordinary change that has
taken place there in the last two
years. Two years ago the Fifth
Avenue hotel, which was always
respectable, was comparatively a
plain house-that is to say, that
while the traveller could find there
every substantial comfort that
reasonable man could look for there
was but little of what fashionable
noodles call style, but plenty OF
what sensible people call comfort.
But as l said a change has come
over US, and now Solomon in all
his glory was not arrayed like unto
one of these"
When Ed. Stokes was released
from States prison he started for
Leadville, and there in the flush
time discovered the goose that laid
the siloer eggs, and secured the eggs
and the goose too. Though he
might not be fortunate in his love
affairs, he inherited the Stoke s fnan-
ciering ability, and they were a
race Of money getters, and what
they got they kept. The family
was one of the most respectable in
the city, and ranked with the oil
blue blood. Thy have been mer.
chant princes an; bankers for sew
eral generations and occasionally
they have furnished an eminent
lawyer and preacher, but most Of
the Stokes were merchants or hnan-
ciers, and they we're almost uniyer.
SALLY successful. The first great
shadow that fell across the family
pathway was one afternoon several
wears ago when New York was
Startled with the intelligence that
Jim Fisk had been shot. 1t is not
often that the death Of any man in
a great city like ours, makes much
impression on the passing honr.
The tide is too mighty and the cur.
rent too swift for one mans life to
be Of much account in its daily
record, where hundreds die: But
Jim Fisk was not an ordinary man.
From O. peddler's wagon in FIVE
years he had workedhis way up to
the head of one Of the greatest rail.
roard corporations in the world. and
he then deliberately sat down 10
plunder it. What mystic influence
was it that drew him to an insig-
uifcant little man, between him and
whom it would seem there never
could be anything IN oommon9
This little man was Jay Could
a name destined to be heard in
financial circles throughout the
world; = name before which Bulls
and Bears should tremble in tie
zenith of their power; a name to
conjure with as with a magician 8
spell, and which in its day should
represent a yaster railroad interest
than any other man in this great
globe, among the living or the dead.
Nothing could be conceived more
opposite than these two men. Fisk
was an obese giant, turning the scale
| at 27S and sometimes reaching near
800. Gould was an attenuated ana
| tony, scarcely reaching ninety.fve
| pounds and who considered himself
corpulent at 100. Fisk was a de-
bauchee, a spendthrift and a rake.
| MIR. Gould was a pattern Of con
iucal confluence; he loved his home,
and when not engaged in making
money was generally TO be found
there. Fisk was a loud mouthed
braggart and q boaster, telling
everybody what he was going to do.
| Gould seldom if ever spoke of his
affairs and never trusted any one
| with the secrets Of his business,
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