The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-10
FRANK H0LMANS DEATH.
WHY STEWARDS RICHT-HAND
MAN DIED A PAUPER.
His Wife's Infidelity Made Another
'Ostler Joe of q LIilliant Dry Goods
Merchant-He Was Once Paid
$4,000 Year by the Millionaire.

From the New York Worid.
| HARVARD, MASS, Jan 6.-The story OF
'"Ostler joe" taken from the life, is the
story of Frank f. Holman, Of this village,
whose sad death yesterday as a common
pauper in Cincinnati was announced. The
single difference in the life Of the poets
creation and that OF Holman is the differ
ence between their stations-the one sim
pe-minded, but honest, untaughU and I'M
hammered countryman, the other mag
unanimous. cultivated, chivarous gentleman.
With both woman's perfidy brought care
and trouble and untold misery to their
latter days. Both lived to love and cherish
the women they welded at the altar, in
spite of the dishonor brought to their
homes Both drank to the dregs from the
cup of this worlds bitterness, and Holman,
once the proud strong brave man OF the
world, the guardian at ono time OF respon-
| slble business interests and the wner OF
considerable competency won by his own
rare powers, lived to see that competency
| swept away, and then To find himself pau
| per in the pOorhOuse of the town that non
ors his family name, and at last, broken
| hearted and alone, he died among strangers
| III strange lty, with grim poverty as MS
nearest neighbOr and only companion.
Frank E. Holman was born in Bolton,
town not far from here but he claimed
| Harvard-and the town was proud of the
| distinctiOn-as his home. The story of his
| life-how in youth he went bravely forth
into the world by dnt of hard work
mounted high up the ladder of success be-
came the contidant of men of vast CONNER
cial interests in Boston, and then the conf
dental advisor and trusted agent of Mil
| llOnaire A. r. Stewart in his mammoth
Broadway house-that story is pleasing to
read, and its only dark feature is the con-
| trast afforded between the first picture and
the one presented yesterday by his death in
Cincinnati. For Holman in Harvard there
cannot be found single
person who has aught to say but
praise, mingled with sincere pity for his
misfortunes Such a fine, great-hearted,
| generous fellow | never saw, said a friend
of Holman in Harvard, to-day. "He had
no enemy but himself As Holman died
penniless, the selectmer here will give his
body decent burial, and it will be strange
| if the ceremony is not witnessed by the best
part of the population here. His life was
filled with dramatic incidents. The story
turns on his wife's dishonor, and its most
| admirable feature is HOlman's heroic patti
ence in the face OF his wife's wrong
doings, and his faithfuness even unto her
| death. Although separated for years, dur
ing which the husband experienced the full
| sum of human suffering, Holman heard of
her death in Boston last spring, and, true
man that he w8s, he forgot the past and
saw her laid away in the grave, the chief
among the small but fearful group of
mouTners.
She was considerably younger than Hol-
man, and, like him. was cultivated, attract
i've and beautiful Her maiden name was
| Margaret Stebbins, and she came of very
| l,I la 10 in, Ia
married her in the height of his success, and
the marriage was regarded as certain to
bring happiness to both. Holman was the
son of DR.. Holman, of this place He was
born fifty-eight years ago. His father.
learned in medicine above all his contempt
raries in this part of the State, was a much
respected, genial gentleman, who enjoyed
a competent fortune, partly inherited, but
chiefly self-acquired. The son he intended
to bring up to follow his own profession,
but the young man at an early period
leaned towards a commercial life, and after
receiving first-claSs schooling left here
when still i'll his teens and entered Boston
house not now in business. When about
p years old he entered the
large dry goods house of Jordan, Marsh
q Co., and it was not long before his alert
business mind and Gentlemanly department
! made him of such value to his EMPLOYERS
that a large salary was offered him in order
that rival house might not catch him up
He was for years the chief salesman IN the
FIRMS wholesale domestic department,
where as time went on his services became
indispensable to its successful a1mnistra-
ton. His salary was raised again and
again as the years went by, so that by the
time he was thirty eight or forty years old
he was receiving a salary of $4,000 year,
and some say he had an interest in the
house.
In Boston he lived luxuriouslv, spending
his money freely but not lavishly, and
giving his wife large sums for entertain
ment and luxuries. His natural free heart
edness and jovial whole-soued man
ners endeared him to all. and he en-
ioyed the friendship of many promi-
nent business men. In Boston he lived
a long time at the United State
hotel, the directly opp site the Boston and
Albany depot and one of the best hotels in
Boston. His reputation in his line had long
ago extended to New York City, and about
this time Mr.. Fabyan, then of the firm of
Wright, Fabyan q Co., now of Bliss,
FabYan & CO., induced him to go to New
York in his employ. After a few years
connection With that house he was induced
by an offer of $4,000 year to enter the
house of A. I. Stewart as chief salesman i'm
the wholesale domestic department. Here
Holman proved himself a very valuable
man to the millionaire dry goods merchant,
to whom he at last became an adviser i'm
the business of the firm. with a $40 OOO
salary and an interest in the profits, which
was conditional upon the gross sales for the
year. He was thus encouraged to tax his
powers to the utmost for the mutual adj
vantage of the house and himself and in
several years he got Il share of the profits
Mr.. Stewart made great deal of Hol-
man, consulted with him daily about the
business of the department. aud evidently
was anxious TO put him in the way Of max
} ing even more money. In New York Hol-
man lived like prince, making his head
quarters, when it was built, at the big hotel
Mr. Stewart erected by invitation of the
owner. Holman was now in the zenith OF
his success was the idol of the EMPLOYERS
was courted by everybody and was to ali
outward appearance the hapuiest man III
the world. When Mr.. Stewart died, in
common with all his old business assistants
he left Holman small annuity, said here
to be 81, 900 year.
When Stewart died and the business
passed into new hands, Holman was of
course out of an occupation. Out Of the
large sum of money he received during his
business career Of twenty years or more he
still had left a considerable amount, which
was increased 10y successful speculation in
Wall street during his residence in New
York. His father having died the son came
to the Old homestead here, which was a
comfortable old house surrounded by ample
grounds and with well-cultivated farm