Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-04-20
Liza Of Dennis C. Wilcox Gives
'rsIIsts an Opportunity to At
tack Wall Street,
| ..,.n Tor Onicers Of the stock
l snarge Looked Upon as an
Important Event
poycot,s Coming to q Curious
anu ,,oot- placlss' strike the
Latest novelty.
wan street Sren.

. TO repeat uay a''OA s9
-, that there is neither specula-
1 ,sgitimate activity in any kind OF
H. begins to be tiresome, and un-
/, ha,ter or much worse prospects
~ y ,,referable not TO speak about !
y eaters at all. Let them run
Ia wall street men are concerned,
= always something to be said
Lthenl. -. chos,or A.
W. rsver a Wall street man in the
~ se n OF the word, he has enjoyed
4 ronularity among Wall street men
p c the days of his collectorship OF
~ ~ New York, and the present
IN ~ his health is causing great
% hosts of his old Wall street
i The reticence in regard to the
4 and progress of his illness makes
A onlu worse, for people argue that
\ Mad been nothing to conceal the
rgonld have been plainly told. The
hst hls daughter Nellie has been
a home from school, that his son
remains day and night in his faith
.nartments, and that no one can get
zsormation from The attending ply
4 nr, George Peters, in regard TO
Stient,s condition, are by no means
aIraging Indications of the probable
<Mr Arthur's recovery. There was
: intimation given that he would
INV he soon able to take a short
4 oon drive, but he has not yet taken
a i then we have often seen cases
= sick man is allowed, for his own
r his friends encouragement
4ake some bright afternoon q
Rirlye in an open carriage, and take
& DAYS later another kind of a drive
'shuch less open vehicle.
In curious to observe how prevalent
"A desire to conceal the actual condi
IN people when they are sick. Th'
:tncy is not peculiar to America. l
"a Is be universal, and 1t has every
Z the same result, namely, that whel
Datient is dead the doctors ar
Ia. the relatives and friends of tn
4 sed are pronounced to be eithe
81 or Lnayes, and the settlement o
4 pst-mortem affairs or the dead per
N yery much embarrassed. i
81 case of William II. Van
In. for instance, it was know
early three years that BRAN diseas
snskine alarming progress with hin
None Of the members of his family 0
business associates would acknow
IA the fact to each other, and every
50 surrounding him was working a
M as possible to keep the facts out {
4 swspapars. Yet IL was known thu
|1Ierbilt was sometimes sitting fl
)sP at his library table, with his moui
~ and watering, his jaw hanging c
+ hide and his eyes staring into vacanc
|t}but anybody or anything being ab
4 juse him from his semi-paralytic co
En-, unless it were Chauncey NJ. ID
I'D coming with some eXJraordina
x&ment IN regard to the family's ra
VA interests, or some trotting hor
~ calling in to say that somebo'
IA Somewhere horse which is likely
M Maud SIS time. OF course, in I'll
Al, the condition of Vanderbilt's su
ts death did not have any importa
"a Il, for his will was made, all busine
lsiers were provided for, and Meth
family interest nor the interest
~ corporations he had CONT
4 have suffered. But suppose I
had not been made, what wor
q been the result Of the death OF Il
s.. both for his family and for the c.
1Ntions ne was interested int AS So
~ be, this tendency Of concealing I
al condition of prominent people W
81 ZEN to be sick is universal. Quite
1ily, for instance, the duchess OF G;
'tkht became very sick, but Queen V
b. her mother-in-law, ordered the p'
dion Of the bulletins stopped until
tthess began to improve, when,
6se, all anxiety on the part OF
1eb Ids and persons dependent upon
IN I'D be over.
be suicide of Dennis G. Wilcox W
yfhe time this letter goes TO press,
Eeussed by a number of moralists
XII Cheers, and will give them brillii
Brtunity to attack Wall street a
6Hbling hell aud a halfway house
2Rral perdition. But it so happel
81 almost at the same moment that p
N Wilcox blew his brains out in his
i-room, the earl of Shaftesbury,
q the richest aristocrats of Gr
lain, did the same thing in a hans
# In Regent street, London. Yet
NJ nothing 10 do either with Wall stl
Fith the Chicago grain market.
H' is that Wall street people, as a r
F too much common sense to com
ide under any circumstances. I
2'4w that the market is always there
.H II they take 4 loss to-day they ha'
''flee TO make 1t up tomorrow.
tNessional gambler may be occasion
FHken down, but he never despairs;
'3 the amateur who weakens and is
IN Y Of a foolish act under the press
'tA diversity, Rich as ne was, Wilcox
reason 10 gamble ut all, and the
~ ne went into speculation so lat
Z Is an indication that his mind be-
#kiYe out. The writer happened by
'fnt some two years ago TO hay
protracted conversation
' which plainly indicated that
gentleman's mind was not
~ normal condition. lie said, fol
AZ pee, that anybody who sold snyt
q. orr" or predicted lower prices
llties or any article OF American
2ft Try was In his eyes Il criminal, 10
related his countrymen's propt
" very likely that Wilcox lost n
'r than he could afford TO lose, b
W. ialner of a large family. ButShe
leht OF his estate will probably 6
ne was not completely ruined,
MS suicide is very much more 4
loated to a weakening brain an
a. and nervous temperament tina
lhlng Ike the moral and mental
which Is apt to drive 10 desI
||4l poor man unahlp m haar She