Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-08-01

! men.
! SOME OF HIS FANCIEs
were peculiarly droll. on shlpboard he
| has been known to dress himself in sailor
Z like attire and strut about the deck as the
( most important parsonage on board. A
big buyer for large New York house
tells story OF his appearance on such an
occasion near the Irish coast, when he
spoke mysteriOusly Of the weather and OF
his apprehensions, saying he would re-
main in his clothes and on deck through
out the night; that he never went below
at such times, so that he might De on
hand to give directions and assistance.
HIS penchant for the fire department
finally gave way to one for the police de-
partment. He hung around headquarters
and police courts for long time, fancy
ing that ne might be made either Police
Commissioner or a Police Justice.
At another time he inflated himself with
the notion that the proprietary company
of the Continental and Grand Hotels IN
Paris had engaged him for general man.
ager at a salary OF l25, 600 francs. Again,
he advised the captains Of the Cunard
Steamship Company to have him put in
as general purveyor for all the lines. He
told his friends that he was to take an
office in Liverpool to provision the p. II
o., Liverpool and New York, and the
North Sea and the Mediterranean lines
of the Cunarders at salary OF t0,OOO.
He has never been a drinking man, but
he has taken deserVedly great pride in
his cooking. This led him to believe that
he could best serve his country and his
kind by sending out the products of his
Kitchen TO all the world. So he started
the "BrevOort House soups" erecting
building in mis- back yard and sinking in
it and in the downtown salesroom about
$50, 900.
THE WIDOW WAITE
still remained in Europe. EXtraneous
establishments started by her son grew
in number. Parasites, male and female,
absorbed the savings OF generation. In
two and a nalf years from his fathers
decease judgments began to accumulate
against the son. He had run for A lder-
man in 1892 and been elected. Or his
second candidacy list of these judy
ments was circulated throughout the dis
trlct. Though he was the sole Repub-
lican nominee and had the support Of
Democratic coalition, backed by the most
powerful department of the city, he
CTAwled through by majority OF less
than 500 in district solid for the Repub-
lican party by over 1000. Things seemed
to have come well nigh to the end in 1884
when Gen. Baxter died at Rutland. The
General held 400 shares of Pullman stock,
which he admitted belonged to the family
of his deceased friend. He held it boldly
and res0lutely for the daughters OF his old
acquaintance when they should arrive at
majority. Unhappily, he died interstate,
making no disposition Of this fund. His
administrators handed 1t over to the
Waite family. A highly-colored cable
gram to Paris brought authority to
Charles from Mrs. Waite to convert this
into money. He sold the shares for nearly
$50, 900. With this he bought the Pequot
House at New London for Sl20, 900, re-
CARELESS of two mortgages aggregatlng
about $4,000, paying $40, 900 cash down
and So, 600 in notes payable monthly for
the balance. Others of his family have
since claimed that he had no authority to
sell this stock, and have begun suits to re-
cover from the purchasers the proceeds.
His Journey to New London was a pro-
cession. He had a steam yacht, a sailing
boat, horses, carriages and all equip
ments. This was in 1884. lie fitted up
the house anew and bought right and left,
making out checks on banks in New York,
where be had no funds, and, In some in
stances, where he had never had any.
The hotel was fun of DOarders, but within
thirty days after Waite's arrival he was
neseged with suits and threatened with
arrest. A livery man then took charge of
the financial part of the business. Waite
was suffered to remain as nominal pro-
prietor to the end of the season. Then one
creditor took the yacht, another the sail
boat, and others gohbled the horses and
carriages, while the sheriff closed out the
rest. Waite came back without paying
mis- help, having appeased several of his
creditors by great promises and assurance
that he was one of the owners in the
Broadway charter of tho FOrty-second
street and the Wall street railroads, and
that his profits in these would be half a
million of dollars,
OPPORTUNITY OR INOPPORTUNELY AT
THIS TIME
the directors OF the Metropolitan Opera
House were looking about for an entire
preneur for their restaurant. Waite's
reputation OF the BrevoOrt House sutliced
to get him enscOnced In the handsomest
suite OF apartments, where he launched
out again, but only for thirty days, when
the Sheriff closed him out anew. Then
he took a fiat in Fifty-ninth street, where
he managed to remain for double his ac-
customed time, but at the end of sixty
days he had 10 leave that. His friends
saved little of mis- furniture, and he was
at his wits end.
just at this luncture a new opening
offered. 1t Is SAID that the Aldermen who
supported the Thirty-fourth street rail
road each got $4,000. The scheme failed
"AldermanIc honor" required each who
had received Il bonus TO return 1T on its
failure. Waite kept his. Waite, Sr.'s,
reputation for thrift was part Of the
younger Yates Inheritance. + enabled
him u borrow right and left. why"
said a man about town IN company,
when laughing about W ate after his IN
generation, "he was a most plausible
fellow. Old Man Kdder lent him So. 200
on his face. This appears to be an eXag-
geraton as to the amount, for the iudg-
ment entered up in the suit of Barring
Brothers against Waite is for only half
that sum. The arrangement Of the credit
account between kldder, Peabody Il Co.
and Barring Brothers may have been such
that "Old Man Kldder" had to stand only
his half, while the great English house
had TO keep their other half.
1t la one of the Alderman's brags that
even Joe Choate" could make nothing
out OF hun on a cross-examinatiou on sup
Elemental proceedings. This is probably
had nothing and was able to swear
straightly to that eminent examiner that
be was hOpelessly insolyent.
NOT LONG AFTER THIS SORE DIsCoM-
FUTURE
OF Mr.. Choate, however. the Alderman, as
was his custom. was lettering in police
court. one OF the employees Of the ele-
waited road had so roughly handled man
that he was put under arrest. The road,
as railroads do, looked after the en-
ploye. The bail asked Tor the assault was
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