The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-10-21
WIMAN THE MAN
WHO II NOW THE GRE4T sPErU-
LATOR OF NEW YORK.
His First Great Deal and the Re-
suIts-What ne 10 EnEaKen
I'm now.

Nav YoRK, October 20.-Erastus
Wiman ID one OF the busiest and most
ubiquitous spectators this city ever
saw. He is 90 pro ific in schemes for
money making and diversion that
even his close friends find it hard
work to follow them. He has q new
venture. apparently, for each day ia
the year. When y0ur correspondent
called on him yesterday he found him
reading letter from Col. Glider, the
Arctic explorer, dated "GIand Rapids
on the Saskatchewan" and thanking
Wiman for passes on the Canadian
Pacific aud letters introducing him at
the Hudson Bay Company's stations,
almost as far north as human life ex-
lists. Another letter hsd inst been re-
ceivsl from Sir Roger Tichborne, the
alleged Tichborne heir, for assistance
rendered to the claimant, then sick ia
bed in Fourth avenue OF an illnefs re-
bulting from pennilessness end almost
statVa ion. A third letter was from
Russis, offering 10 Wiman troupe oil
seventy CiTCaSsian horsemeu, twenty
five women and twenty children to IL
lus rate the life, habits and pastimes
OF that rude people on Staten Island,
as substitute for the Buffalo Bi
Wild West 81 ow.
This called to mind the most re
markable recent achievement OF this
arch speculatlr. The Baltimore and
0nio road wanted to enter New York.
Wiman had a railroad on Staten Isl
aud connected with beats in New
York. The Baltimore and Ohio folks
offered him large sum for his road.
Il won't accept" said he, 'but instead
/ will give you half interest in the
read II You will bring over your road
to my road as much business for New
York az bring to it from New York,
the number OF passengers you bring
never to be less than / contribute dur
log the next two years" The bargain
was sealed, for Wiman had never car
lied many passengers to Staten Isl
and up to that time. Instantly the
A'ppct OF things changed m raculously.
A great ball ground was opened, the
Wild West show blossomed out, and
there were concerts and prismatC
fountains and fireworks, ard the pa
pers and dead walls OF New York
psraded the name OF Staten Island as
the most attractive place on earth.
One million five hundred thousand
persons were carried there at 10 cents
q head 10 see all these wonders. Next
year the excitement will be kept up.
Among other attractions Mr.. Wi
man says he is going TO lay out the
biggest cemetery in America there.
"The great mejority must be cared
for" he Gays. He is "into" thou
sand other things. The automatic
weighing machines one sees all over
the county were introduced by him;
be il getting up 81 sewing machine;
he is going to build houses for the
poor, to be paid for iu few years at a
hxed sum Of rent, and he has ca'cu-
lated that he can sfford togive mouse
10 the widow OF any man who dies in
one before he has paid for it; he is in
scheme for building, cam supple
ments to sailing vessels, which have
one hollow mast for smokestack.
He is interested in the queerest spec
ulations ard the most surprising
number Of them, and yet he is grow.
ing stoutsr and joler and richer
every day In the year. He is Cana.
dian and junior partner in q com.
mercial rating C mpany.