Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-12-22


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 began to crawl up till they reached about $S0O, then they made sky rocket movement which did not stop till 1t had reached point above $4,O00. They fell off somewhat after that, but a membership ticket to the Chicago board of trade has always since been valuable piece of pasteboard.
 There have been Q number of 'fcorner kings or tho board during the past fifteen or twenty years, but the earlier ones all went to the wall at last. Hutch mson has been ever present operating in his own peculiar methods lie has al- ways been in the Eabit of taking small profits whenever they could be secured and would usually pocket a loss without waiting fer it to grow. Indeed he has been considered one of the most timid. But Mr. Hutchinson's available means have been slowly accommodating for many years. While men would spring up sud denly on the board and shine brilliantly for a while, only to retire ruined Hutch inson stayed, working cautiously and ncthodically, till what Hutch" was go- ing to do on the wheat market in Chicago began to be matter Of as much interest tso hllssO NIAAG1lGS dl-OCIDllG UT DdlllOl Drew would once do in the stock market in New Ycrli.
 Mir. Hutchinson has a son and two daughters grown. His son Charles is said to be as keen a business man as his father. One of the daughters married MT. Lancaster, of the Chicago Carpet com pany, while another married Mir. N. B. Judah, one If Chicago's most prominent lawyers and man of especial intellec- tual tastes. MT. Hutchinson's children do not sympathize with the old man's S rating of the fine arts His son Charles is president or the Chicago Art institute. Some time ago he purchased picture of sheep by Rosa Bonheur for $1 GOO When the old man heard of it he affected to be indignant, ayerring that his son could have gone out to the stock yards and pur- chased the real article for two dollars a head.
 But there was doubtless a certain grim humor in the remark, as there was to what he said one day to new telegraph boy who came on to the floor of the FIX change with a dispatch, and standing by the old man. called "B..P. Hutchinson" /" "Got dispatch for Old Hutch?" asked tho venerable wheat dealer.
 "Yis, l 'Xpect so, " replied tho boy.
  read, anyway. Take it over there to Frank Magin." x* E
 Mir. Hutchinson has an astonishing memory. Re will run the most gigantic corner and every evening he can call of correctly every trade he has made during tho day. On one occasion friend ex- pressing doubt as to the old mans abil- ity to keep the record in his head correctly Hutch" took out his settling books and bade the doubter keep tally, while he called of their contents from memory. Ho didn't make a single mistake.
 The first thing in the morning which Mir. Hutchinson attends to is his morn ing paper. He goes to The Tribune of fee and gets his paper fresh from the | press. 4 story is told of him that one : Sunday morning he took his paper to the l premises of the Chicago Carpet company over which his sol-in-law presides, and the show window being fitted up as a bed chamber the old man threw himself 1 on the display bedstead. Here he went over the market reports till sleep over came him, and he sank into peaceful slumber. Church goers that morning were surprised to sec what at first ap peared to be corpse stretched cut on the canopied bed as if it were lying in state.
 
 Hutchinson, and it was not long before his son was informed of the attention his father was attracting. He hastened tc the scene, awoke the sleeper and drew the curtains.
 The recent corner has doubtless beer one of the most successful ever engi neered on the Chicago board of trade Mir. Hutchinson has managed it very shrewdly, and has forced his antagonist: to settle at $2 a bushel. Tie majority will pay, and it is probable that many ol the dollars handed over to Mir Eutchin son will be return of those which have been squeezed out Of tho squeezer or former occasions.
 Mr Hutchinson is now about co year: old If he has the luck to finish his careo, without any severe back set, he will lenv' an immense estate to his children.
 The wool clip of the United States has in creased from 6 ,000, 900 pounds in 1SG0 to nor than 3J0031, ,0O3 pounds i'll 1884.
 The United States is the only civilize, country ia which in recent years there ha been large increase in the production c wool.
 Wool growing is the sixth In ilnportanc of the agricultural industries in the Unite States, and is surpassed only by corn, hay wheat, cotton and oats.
 The consumption of wool in the Unite States increased from 1870 to 1880 about [ per cent. The population increased ill th same time but 50 per cent
 The average weight of a fleece of wool i the United States in 1SG0 was less than pounds. In lS70 1t was 51l pounds; in lSS it was G pounds. In 1850 ill Great Britain was I pounds.
 The quantity of foreign woolcns used b our people per capita decreased from &l.35 i 1855 to 35 cents il 1873, while the consuInT tiol per capita of American woolers il creased i'll tho same time from g. ill 1859 { S5.34 in l51J.
 Largo T. und hats are in order for autumn They are trimmed with long and half lon ostrich plumes, clusters of plumes and in Incusa panaches of feathers.
 Close fitting bonnets are the rule. The are prettily trimmed with coronets of clu tered blossoms, blue corn flowers, or unft liagcd roses, or Norma wrcaths of berrie and leaves.