The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-15
A COMMERCIAL LANCELoT.
A Coffee Merchant Who Waited fol
Love Too Long.

A Coffee Merchant Who Waited for
Love Too Long.
NEW YORK, Jan. IA song came out
which ran as follows:
Come, Phander, let us be a marchin',
Everyone his true love 'sarchin';'
Choose your true love now or never"
Charles Arbuckle the millionaire coffee
merchant, waited until he was fifty years
of age before he yielded TO some such senti-
ment as that embodied in the sentimental
stanza and began his love-lorn peregrina-
tious. His 'marchln'h and his ''sarchin' y
led him to the feet of a maiden of certain
age said to be about forty, and he called
her Bunny and she called him "Baby
Bunting She accepted money from him,
wrote long letters to him, one of which, sh 9
ayers, contains thirteen more words than
the one which it answers is SAID to have
proposed marriage to him. receives
from him letters full of such initials
as "H's and K's"-hugs aud kisses
and *. NJ. O." which stands for kiss me
quick. At length, when the lover signs
less vehemently, the lady drops poetry and
sentiment, and in the most prosaic manner
sues him for breach of promise, and has
Just recovered a verdict of $4j, 600 from a
jury of esteemed shoe string vendors Sus-
pender dealers, and other equally important
lights of commerce. This sum, obtained
through letter of introduction to the mil
lionaire by a clerk on a Mississippi steam
boat, is equal TO more than $4,000 a year
during the time of the acquaintance, and
as the lady could hardly have earned that
sum in the role of opera singer, to which
she aspired this is clearly not a case of
cloves labor LOST
Who is Charles Arhuckle2
His name has become known all over the
country by an unhappy denouement OF his
sentimental adventures which have been
the theme of gossip in society and business
circles for several weeks. He is one of the
largest coffee merchants in the world. Short,
stout. ruddy- faced, with round, moon-like
| features, small dark eyes and a thick bull
neck, he is a familiar figure on the Coffee
| Exchange ana i'll lower Wall street, the
haunt of coffee importers and brokers. He
is plainly, almost shabbily, dressed, wears
a moustache dyed black, and has quiet, off
| hand manners He is illiterate, close and
sharp in bargain, but as business man he
! is straightforward. He is, without excep-
| tional business skill, but knows how to ep
! what he has Brokers do not like him, be
| cause, Us one of them said the other day,
''you can never make a cent out of him, and
| he passes around cigars worth s. a 100. "
| He is not hail fellow well met with every
! broker of his acquaintance he does not take
| them to Delmonico's for champagne dinners,
| nor to private boxes at the theatre or the
! opera, nor on midnight explorations of the
| neither world of New York. He is regarded
as man who would see as much life as
| possible at the lowest cut rates, and who is
| by no means averse to "A certain cereal in a
! Hquid form. In other words, to employ
term more expressive than Chester
| fieldian, he is known us a big stuff He
| is without the ostentation of some men of
wealth his manners are entirely devoid of
! pretense, ami the only display in which he
| INDUCES is large diamond shirt stud, sug-
| gestive of a small locomotive headlight, and
an equally imposing diamond ring. Stand
ing by the trading ring in the Coffee Elk
change he is a picture of stolid ignorance
and petty vulgarity, a man worth $780,
| 600 in money, but appraising his worth in
every other respect at an appropriately
modest valuation. In other words mere
trader.
John and Charles Arbucke came to New
| York from Pittsburg about fifteen years
ago. John is the elder brother, aud is &c
years of age, married, and, like his bach
elor brother in the now famous suit he
lives i'll BROOKLYN. II is now generally uu
derstood that John Arbucklo would hav,
given 100000 rather than that his firm
should have acquired the dislgreeab.e uoto
rety of this SUIT The family is of Penn
sylvania Dutch origin. The two brother
commenced business some thirty years age
as wholesale grocers i'll Plttsburg. They
were close, never spent a penny more thar
was necessary, simply saved what they
acquired in trade, and without any
marked business capacity, grew
wealthy. In time they boughta patent from
one Carruthers for roasting coffee in an i'm
proved manner, introducing the white O
eggs and perhaps n dash of gum arabic int
the rooster, which gave the bean a poishe
coating, and not only improved its genera
appearance, but prevented the aroma iron
escaping. In this simple patent, as in $
many other cases, lay large fortune. Tn
brothers removed to New York, built a hi
roasting mill at the foot of Catharine street
in Brooklyn, and now they are worth &c
gether three millions, while the Arbuc1l
family possesses some four or five millions
The roasting company is a stock corpora
ton, composed of Mr.. and Mrs John Al
buckle, Charles Arbuckle, james Jarvis
formerly an office boy for coffee broker
Joshua Stoman and few old employees VIII
received one or two shares on the fOrInato
of the company. The two brothers, how
ever, form a second concern engaged in tn
importation and sale of coffee, and in
single year have received from Rio an
Sintas, the great Brazilian marts, NOR
than 100 100000 pounds of coffee At tn
mill in Brooklyn fully 100000 bags of Is
pounds each are roasted annually. Who'll
cargoeS of Brazilian coffee are unloaded a
their wharf, IA single steamer unloadin
from $4,000 to 10000 bags, amounting i
some cases to more than 5000, 900 pounds O
this berry, the use of which, two centurie
ago was considered as dis2aceful as tn
immoderate use of liquor is to-day.
The Arbucl1les are really the largest COTE
merchants in the world. None of the larg
houses of London, Havre, Amsterdam
Hamburg or Rio de Janeiro approach ther
in the magnitude of their transactions, an
they have achieved their commercial prom
inence simply by frugality and strict after
! ton to business. They have mill and