Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-01-22
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/ IL 1OlOuti " ANhNts
For its size Denver has the best dressed
citizens of any place in the West. Ed
ward +. Woolcott, who is q candidate fol
United States senator from Colorado, gets
all his clothes made in New York, and il
costs him s., coca year.
WALL STREET sILHoUETrEs.
II is an interesting procession of life
that one daily sees in and around Wal
street The successful men pass quickly
along wrapped in thought and scheming
for new millions, and the men who have
been struck by the hammer OF the
financial Thor and are mere wrecks OF
former opulence move slowly, as to the
sound of funeral-drums. 1t is far across
the treacherous straits to the palaces of
Corinthian ease and elegance all are not
Leanders to swim the financial Helle-
spout. But let the half-drowned waits
and strays on the Dead Sea Of speculation
pass and notice only few who have, as
the French say, CARVED"
That plainly-dressed, smooth-faced
gentleman hurrying into the United
Bank building, at the corner Of Wall
street and Broadway, is Alfred Sully,
who was recently reelected president OF
the Richmond and West Point Terminal
Railroad Company, destined to be one
Of the great carriers Of this country.
He wos formerly a lawyer in Davenport,
Iowa. Now he is worth five or six mil
lions. Austin Corbin enters the Boreel
building, on Broadway, having just
returned from Philadelphia. where.
as president Of the Reading rail
road, he has been fighting a strike Of
sixty thousand men, evidently laboring
under the impression that he is Guilt
yer among a swarm Of pigmies. Such
men ns Mr.. Corbin benefit the cause of
labor by compelling it to consolidate for
the struggle, which can only end in De-
mocracy or Observation-Disclosures
able terms herein trade, and The degra-
datIon of commercial power to the mass
of the population, even as the republic
can impulse in the direction of govern
ment is gradually overcoming monarchy
among the civilized nations of the earth.
Mr.. Corbin has made considerably
more failures than successes in the
various enterprises which he has
undertaken i'll his busy life; he
has been sort Of William the
Third of finance, receiving severe drub-
blngs on the field of railroad contention,
yet with stubborn pertinacity turning to
something else, and at last succeeding in
amassing n large private fortune. His
greatest success was in developing the
Long Island railroad. There ne had no
competition. He is sixty years of age,
and his firm, square jaw tells OF decision
Of character, even iif there is nothing
in his features or the shape of his head
to indicate anything more than mediocre
abilities. His manners are usually bluff,
though among his friends he can be the
courteous gentleman. Some are inclined
to accuse him of double dealing with the
Reading operatives, but there is as yet
no evidence to indicate this, and Wall
street men consider him man OF princi-
pie and one who is straightforward in all
his dealings.
COMMODORE SMITH.
Commodore James ID. Smith is one of
the notable figures. He is president of
the Stock Exchange, and personally one
of the most popular men III Wall street.
he would have been defeated Mt the last
election, however, if candidate had
been nominated against him. When he
found that Henry 5. Ives that reverend
looking young gentleman of railroad
celebrity, had changed from a chrysalis
germ of uncertain future to bright
winged butterfly of wealth, he sought TO
toist him upon Wall street on the princi-
pie that the end iustities the means, the
StOck-Exchange president concurring
with the Quaker who said to
his son, Just beginning life: "My son,
get riches honestly ii thou canst-but
get riches" The easy-goiug Commodore
saw no reason for ostracizing the young
Admiral Crichton of finance; he had
merely cornered few mapping brokers
with the view OF gently bat firmly adj
an old-fashioned allopathic |
dose of medicine which they naturally |
prefer that others should take. The |
brokers awoke in time to put aside the |
bitter draught, but they have never re-
covered from the shock that the mere /
SIGHT OF IL gave them.
There is William G. Rives, the law
yer, who has just been elected president |
Of the Southern Society Of this city,
club composed exclusively Of men Of
southern birth. He is son OF William c.
Rives, one of the well-hnown statesmen
Of Virginia before the war, who was
vice Minister to France and who was n
United States senator from 1892 to 1915. |
John G. Calhoun is occasionally seen in
Wall street. lie is identified with large 4
southern railroad interests and is the
vice president of the Southern Society.
President Norvin Green, of the Western
Union Telegraph Company, and Vice
President J. Fl. Parker, Of the Cotton
Exchange, both physicians by education
md successful as business men, are often
zen in the money region and both are
members of the Southern Society.
ALEXANDER ORR.
There is President Alexander L. Orr,
# the Produce Exchange, tail, of will
owy figure, with square features and of
courteous manners. lie walks with a
ane, as years ago he broke his ankle
lie was born in Londonderry, Ireland,
,ut has the accent and appearance of an
He is Republican, but
,as for years personal friend of Gov
rnor Iilden. As chairman OF the Arbi-
ration Committee OF the Produce tx
hange, whose decisions carry with them
be judgment Of the Supreme Court of
he State, he was really "a Judge. Hewas
gently elected a director of the New
'ork and New England railroad, and he
/, identified with half dozen other cor
There is a square-featured, resolute-
,oking young lawyer, whose name is
nown all over the United States. 1t is {
,elancey Nicoll. He has been retained I
Y the Stock Exchange to exterminate {
le keepers of bucket-shops
And here comes Daniel Magone, col
'ctor of the port OF New York. the law !
er from Ogdensburg, who sits at the
sceipt OF custom in a metropolis, none ]
I whose inhabitants could pass q civil {
'ryice examination if required to state l
he precise location OF that interesting '
amlet. Collector Msgone has passed {
busy day. lie has sharply interro-
ated inspectors, treated merchants like {
.hool-boys, and unfolded to the re- t
0ttqrS a tale of reform in the matter of