The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-07

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Men and the Fortunes They Spend
Upon Them.
Frank G. Carpenter. in Chicago Tribune.
George w. Childs hobbies are many, and
he is so charitable that no one begrudges
him the money he spends upon them. He
has, it is said, $50, 900 worth of clocks, and
one of his clocks cost him $4,000 at auction
This clock belonged to Prince Napoleon. 1t
weighs two tons and is feet high. Another
OF his clocks belonged to David RittenhouSe,
and it cost S640 i'll 1851, when it was made.
He has French clock which cost over $500,
and it is made of marble and bronze.
Autographs form another of Childs' hob
hies, and he has, perhaps, the finest auto
| graph collection in the United States. lie
has original manuscripts and letters from
nearly every noted statesman in the world,
and his autograph collection embraces about
10000 names Like most of the rich auto
| graph collectors of to-day he does not care
for mere signatures, and letter, TO be of
! value, must contain some sentiment charac-
teristic of the writer Among his letters
are some from Charles Dickens, Thomas
! Hood, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and others.
| Many of them are directed to Mr.. Childs
| himself, and every one of them is worth
many times their weight in gold. He has
| the autographs of all the Presidents, begin
|
ington ever wrote, and these autographs
are hound into book with the Presidents
portrait on each page and an autographic
! letter of his on the page opposite. He has
many fine pictures
Gould, the Vanderbilts George l. Seney,
and w. 7. Walters, of Baltimore, own
| many rare paintings Walters bought, the
other day, little picture, not more than
eight by ten inches in size, which cost him
$1,000. Corcoran's best pictures are in the
! Corcoran Gallery
Standard Oil Millionaire Flagler, of
| Cleveland, from his earliest days has had an
| ambition to keep hotel, and the offspring
of this desire crops out in the million-dollar
| hotel which he is now building in st.
Augustine, Fla 1t will cover four acres of
| ground. 1t is the finest hotel in the United
States, but Flagler is said to-be worth at
least S25, 0,000, and he can afford it. Eras-
tus Cornings hobbies are butterflies and
orchids. He has one of the largest collec-
ton of butterflies in the United States.
There are $4,000 of them, and he has been
| fifteen years gathering them together.
Deacon White, the millionaire of Wall
street, who is now in Congress, in addition
to being an art-collector. is a star gaZer He
| has an observatory on the top of his house
in Brooklyn, and his hobby is astronomy
and amateur biography. j. H. Wade, of
! Cleveland, is another rich man who likes to
his other accomplishments, boasts of taking
the first daguerreotype taken west of the
| Allegheny mountains. Senator John Ken
| ma, of West Virginia, dotes on amateur
photography. while Pierre Lorillard, the
rich tobacconist, spends fortunes on horses
and dogs; and makes hobby of pheasants
and chickens.
Senator Tom Palmer, of Michigan, has
hobby in his Jersey cows and Percheron
horses. His butter costs him about 50 a
pound but he has the proud satisfaction of
knowing that he raises it himself His Jer-
sey cows are imported from Europe, he
going there to pick out the animals, and he
is President of the Percheron Horse Society
of the United States, and has horses in his
stable which it would take several times a
Congressman's salary to buy. His wife has
some of the finest dogs in the country, and
her Blenheim spaniels are SO delicate that
they have to be fed with a spoon. Another
of Palmer's hobbies is his log house and farm
near Detroit He has spent $1,000 in i'm
proving the farm, and the log house cost
$12. 900 to build There is a lake in front of
it which was dug with pick and shovel, and
a steam engine is constantly employed in
pumping the stream which makes the water
fall which fills it.
| Roscoe Conkling's hobby has been athlet-
les, and he has a gymnasium in his house.
When he was Senator in Washington he
| GOU MAUI Carpenter 10 UTy AROUND OIL DO8lnR
with him, and punished him terribly. Matt
said nothing but few days later called
with friend of herculean proportions He
proposed to ConSling that his friend take a
look at the gymnasium, and Conkling glad
" consented to take box with the stranger
The stranger buffeted him worse than he
had Senator Carpenter and it opened Conk-
ling's eyes a day or so later to know that
the stranger that he had boxed with under
an assumed name was in reality one of the
noted pugilists of the country.
jay Gould is very fond of books, and jay
Cooke dotes on candy and flowers. 1t is said
that clerk has orders to put two sticks of
mint candy on his desk every morning, and
he sucks these as he thinks finance. A. T.
Stewart was a connoisseur in wines, and he
was as particular about his table as was ex-
President Arthur or Sam Ward. He had an
agent travelling in Europe to secure the best
wines for him, and he made this man a pres
ent of several thousand dollars for getting
him an invoice of Prince Metternich's Blue
Seal. Nearly all of our noted millionaires
have French cooks, and Stewards cook was
one of the best. Secretary Whitney's house
at Washington has a range as big as that of
a hotel, and he has a very cheerful way of
serving champagne at the most of his re-
captions Theodore Havemeyer the rich
sugar factor, has hobby of stock farming.
and his mountain-side farm has barn 1863
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through it, AS on Palmer's farm, which
spoke of, steam is here used for everything,
and Havemeyer, like Palmer, has nearly. a
hundred Jersey cows, with Jersey bull
which cost him $1,000
Phil Armour has mission school which
contains /, 100 children. Armour has also a
kindergarten in one of his schools, and it is
said that he has given more than 100000
to such ends.
Robert Bonner has spent $500, 900 upon
his hobby of fast horses. Senator Stanford
is now erecting stable in Washington
which is to cost $50, 900, and his horses upon
the Palo Alto farm have a value running
into the millions. Pierre Lol1llard sold off
Sl50000 worth of horses year ago, and
has owned some of the finest steeds in the
United States Congressman Scott, of
Pennsylvania, has stock farm of 500 acres,
and he keeps this full of fine horses. He
has a race track, think, under cover, and
one of his horses cost $50, 900 Sena-
tor Palmer, of Michigan, does not al
low cross word to be used upon his stock
farm, and he tells his men in working the
horses that they should give them water to
drink whenever they want drink them
selves. Palmer has his stock so trained that
the colts will come up and rub
their noses against him when he
comes into the field, and he saws
that the average horse has considerably