The Washington critic., 1886-07-23


ting occupation for hoary hairs than to
sell puts and calls, or be II book maker
for the young bctters in the street.
Cyrus W. Field, another notable spec.
ulator of our time, came out of u
clergyman s parsonage, Of a family OF
editors and writer's, and although he
went TO business in New York City
when boy, he was seen at only
thirty.four years of age becom.
ing n foreign traveller, with
prediction for books and
study. Thirty years ago he formed
the Atlantic Telegraph Company, the
experimental beginning of what seems
to many persons at present nothing but
war Of SPECTATORS and monopolists.
So Samuel j. Tilden, who is about sew
enty three years of age or some eight
years younger than David Dudley
Field commenced his life writing
newspaper and literary contributions,
which finally took the direction of cor.
poration and interested advocates, un
Ill he graduated into politics aud be.
came leading speculator nearly at the
same time. / group these men together
because they live nearly within sight
Of each other In fine country houses
hardly twenty miles north Of New
York City. Mr. Sage is felicitously
said in the street to be too poor to
have house in the country, but he
stays around among the rest of
whom some think he Is the
King and worth $4,000, 600 II you
will take u carriage of an afternoon and
90 up Broadway to Kingsbridge, where
Mr.. Cooper commenced his novel of
"The Chainbearers, you will, in an
other hours travelling on that same
Broadway, which leads to Albany, be
in the midst of these effective villas of
the big spectators of New York. Mr.
Gould lives adjacent TO the Hudson
River, overlooking his own pier, to
which his steam yacht Is attached al
most every night, and in front Of his
Tudor gothic house stretches an ample
lawn, flanked by glass conservatory
which would ornament palace. Mr..
Gould goes down to his pier every
morning, gets on his yacht, which
is said to have cost $4,000,
and he is carried to Wall street,
where he transacts the days bust
ness, and comes back to his villa
in the afternoon. Mr.. Tilden, who
was fellow speculator with Field,
Gould and others in the elevated rail.
roads, occupies one of the largest
houses in the land, though he is bach
elor, and he is making conservatory
to rival Mr.. Gould's. though neither of
these persons created their own es
tatcs, but took them off the hands of
stumbled in the game of life and found
hat I, 81 tI,a lanai uA,IiI
of their possessions.
wv
That fellow, Algy Sartoris, is said
to be treating his wife, pretty little Mel
lie Grant, in very shameful manner"
said Richard M. Waters of Cincinnati.
to reporter of the Commercial Gazette.
81 wish l had hold of him for about
five minutes" said Dick, "I'd give him
prettier pair of black eyes than those
gave him twenty-five years ago"
"So2' Eyes, just so. / was raised on
his fathers estate, near Llandowllln,
Carmarthenshire, in the Welsh coun-
try. His father was member of Par
lament from the county, and my
father was one of the sub mag.
mates of the county, as it were, and
as matter of fact knew Algy
intimately; but he never was any ac-
count, always in trouble, and the older
he grew the worse the trouble he got
| into, until at last, as / understand, his
father shipped him to this country.
Yes, he always had plenty of money,
and is or was pretty handsome dude,
as dudes go. So ! suppose that is about
the way that he managed to capture
the affections of the Generals daugh-
ter. Poor Nellie! I'd like to break
| his neck,