The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-15
A COMMERCIAL LANCEL0T.

A COMMERCIAL LANCEL0T.
Bunnie's Baby Bunting Desires to See All He
Can for Small Amount of Cash.
Special to the Indianapolis Joprnai
NEW YORK. Jan. IA song came out of the
West many years ago. q verse Of which ran ~
follows:
Come, Philander. let us be a marchin'.
Everyone his true love q sarchin;
Choose your true love now or never
Charles Arbuckle, the millionaire coffee mer-
chant, waited until he was fifty years of age be-
fore he yielded to some such sentiment as that
embodied in the sentimental stanza, and began
his love-lorn peregrinations HIS 'marchin'"
and his ''sarchn' led him to the feet of q
maiden of a certain age, said TO be about fortys
and he called her Bunny" and she called him
Baby Bunting" She accepted money from
him. wrote long letters to him, one of which,
she AYERS, contains thirteen more words
than the which 1T answers;
is said TO have proposed marriage to
him: receives from him letters full OF such
initials as HIS and K's"-hugs and kisses-and
*. NJ O." which stands for kiss me quick
At length, when the lover sighs less vehemently,
the lady drops poetry and sentiment, and IN the
most prosaic manner him for breach OF
$45 900 from a jury of esteemed shoe-string
yenders. susp enc nder-dealers and other equally
important lights of commerce. This sum. OBJ
tanned through a letter of introduction to the
millionaire bv clerk on a Mississippi steam
boat is equal to more than $4,000 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 case of cloves" labor lost
Who is Charles Arbuckiel
His name has become known all over the
country by an unhappy denouement of his SEN
timental adventures, which have been the theme
of gossip in society and business circles for sew
eral weeks. He is one of the largest coffee mer-
chants in the world. Short, stout, ruddy-faced,
with round, moon-hke features small dark eyes
aud a thick bull neck, he is a familiar figure on
the Coffee Exchange and In lower Wall street,
the haunt of coffes i'm porters and brokers' he
is plainly, almost habbi.y. dressed, wears
moustache dyed bac k, and has quiet. of-hand
manners. He is illterate, close ana sharp
in bargain, but as business man no
business skill. but knows how to keep
what be has. Brokers do not like him, because.
as one of them said the other day, you can
never maize a cent out of him, and he passes
around cigars worth SO hundred" He is not
hail fellow we'll met with every broker or his
acquaintance; be does not take them to Del
rnonico's for champagne dinners, nor to private
boxes at the theater or the opera, nor on MD
night explorations of the neither world OF New
York He is regarded as a man who would see
as much life possible at the lowest cut rates,
and who is by no means averse to a certain
cereal in liquid form. In other words. to
employ term more expressive than Snester-
fieldian, he is known ''big stuff tie IL
without the ostentatiop of some men or wealth;
his manners are entirely devoid of pretense. and
the only display in which he INDUCES Is large
diamond shirt-stud. suggestive OF small iocomo-
tive headlight and ali equally imposing diamond
ring. Standing by the trading ring In the Cof-
fee Exchange he is picture of stolid ignorance
and ptf II a
a half in money, but appraising his worth 10
every other respect at an appropriately mooess
valuation. In other words a mere trader.
John and Charles Arbuckle came to New York
from Pittsburg about fifteen years ago. Johu
is the elder brother, and is sixty years OF age.
married aud like his bachelor brother in the
now famous suit, he lives in Brooklyn 1t Is now
generally understood that John Arbuekle would
have given $4,000 rather than that ms nrm
should have acquired the disagreeable notorlety
of this suit The family is of Pennsylvania Dutch
origin The two brothers commenced business
some thirty years ago as wholesale grocers ROGERS IN
penny than was necessary, Simply
saved what they acquired In trade, and, without
any marked business capacity, grew Wealthy
In time they bought patent from one Carruth-
srs for roasting coffee in an improved manner
introd ucing the white of eggs and perhaps
dash of gum arabic into the roaster, which gave
the bean a polished coating and not only i'm
proved its general appearance, but prevented
the aroma from escaping. In this simple pat
ent, as so many other cases, lay a large fort
une. The brothers removed to New YORK,
built big ing-mill at the foot OF Catherine
street, in Brooklyn, and now they are worth to-
gether three millions. while the Arouckie famiy
possess some four or five millions.
The roasting company is stock corporation,
COMPOSED of Mr. and Mrs. John Arbuckie.
Charles Arbucks, James Jarvis, formerly an
Office boy for coffee broker, Joshua Stoman and
a few old employees who received one or two
shares the formation OF the company. Inc
two brothers, however form second concern
engaged in the importation and sale OF coffee,
ard in single year have received from Rlo and
Santos the great Brazilian marts, more than
100 600 900 pounds of coffee. At the mill in
BROOKLYN fully half million bags of 40 pounds
each are roasted annually. Whole cargoes OF
Brazilian coffee are unloaded at their wharf. a
single steamer unloading from thirty TO forty
thousand bags amounting, In some cases. TO
more than 5. 900, 900 pounds of this berry, the
use of which, two centuries ago. was considered
as disgraceful as the immoderate use OF liquor
is to-day.
The Arbuckles are really the largest coffee
,nerchants in the world None of the large
houses of London, Havre, Amst erdam, HAM
burg. Rio de Janeiro approach them in the
magnitude of their transactions, and they have
achieved their commercial prominence SIMPLY
by frueaity and strict attention to business.
They have mill and large warehouse In
Brooklyn, and branch houses in Rio and Santos
They naturally power In the speculative
market, as we'll the strictly legitimate
branch of the business. Their success IN the
roasting of coffee. however, is creating competi-
ton. There three roasting establishments In
Chicago; the Thurbers have entered that Drancn
of the trade, and another firm is about to do SO
on large scale. with the advantage OF improved
patents. AS usual the inventor has derived lit
tie profit from his invention. and Carruthers,
who heaped millions into the Golfers OF close
fsted Pennsylvania Dutchmen, was Obliged TO
form a connection with another house to better
his financial prospects.
So much for the millionaire who roasted
coffee only to be roasted himself in the red-hot
arms of the legal Moloch, whose "Hs aud KS
were a little too warm for comfort, and utterly
failed to evoke a reciprocal TX. NJ. @"
OSCAR WILLoUGHBY RIGGS
Through Frosted Glass.
Lon