The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1888-01-06
HOB SIZES Or RICH MEN.

GNASAA ANAGISs
George w. Childs' $4,000 in Clocks.
Chicago Tribune: George w. Childs'
hobbies are lasany,,, and He is so Shari-
table that no one ~begrudges him the
money he spends upon them. He has,
it is said, $4,000 worth ofclocks, and
them cost him $1,000 at auction.
.This clock belonged to I.ouis Napoleon.
1t weighs two tons and is hihc feet
high. Another of his clocks belonged
o David Rittenhouse, audit cost 500
in 1867, when it was made. He has u
French clock which cost over $500,
and it is made of marble and bronze.
Autographs form another of Child's
hobbies, and lie has, perhaps, the finest
autograph collection in the Uniled
States. He has original manuscripts
and letters from nearly every noted
statesman in the world, and his auto.
graph collection embraces nearly 20, OGo'
names. Like most of tne rich auto;
graph collectors of today he does no,
care for mere, signatures. and a letter,
to be of value, must contain some SEN
tinent characteristic OF the writer.
Among his" letters are some from
Charles Dickens, Thomas Hoo6, Ma
thaniel Hawthorne, and Others. MANY
OF them are directed tn;Mr. Childs HIM
self, and every one OF them is worth.
many times its weight in gold. He has
The autographs Of all tbs ppresidenis,
beginnirg with the lastletter that Gen.
Washington eyer wrote, and these
autographs are bound into a bsok with,
the presidents portrait on each page
and an autograph letter Of his on the
page opposite. He has many Gne
pictures.
Gould, the yanderbilfs, George /.
seney, and ". T. Walters, OF Bali,
more, own many rare paintings. Wal
te:s bought, the other day, a little pic
,ure, not more than eight by ten inches
IN size, which cost him $1,000. Cor
coran's best pictures are in the Corcor-
an Gallery. ~
Standard Oil millionaire Flasler, of
Cleveland, from his earliest days has
had an ambition to keep a hotel, and
the offspring. of this oesjre crops out
in ,thetmiilion dollar hotel which, he. is
now building at st. Augustine. florida.
1t will cover four acres of ground. 1t
IS the finest hotel IN the United States,
but Flagler is said to be worth at feast
$25, 0oo,o and he can afford it
Erastus Corning's hobbies are butter.
flies and orchids. He has one of the
largest collections of butterflies in the
United States. There are 10000 of
them, and lc~has been fifteen years
gathering them. together. Deacon
White, the millionaire Of Wall street.
who is o in congress, in addition to
being m art, collector is Il star-sazer.
He has an observatory on the top of
his house in Brooklyn, and his hobby
Is astronomy and amateur telegraphy.
D., II. Wade, of Cleveland, is another
rich man who likes to talk by ,cle-
graph, and who, in addition 10 his
other accomplishments, boasts o ftaking
the first daguerrcptype taken west Of
the Allegheny Mountains. Senator
John Renna, of West Virginia, doses
on amateur Photography, while Pierre
Lorillard, the rich tobaccoaist, spends
fortunes IN horses and dogs, and
makes a hobby on Plies SAINTS and chick
ems. Senator Tom Palmer, of M;chi-
gan, has q hobby in his Jersey COWS and
~Percheron horses. His butter costs him
about ~ a pound, but he has the prond
satisfaction of knowing that he raises
1t himself. His Jersey cows are i'm
ported from Europe, he going there
to PICK out the animals, and lie is pres
ident of the Percheron Horse society
OF the United States and has horses in
his stable which it would take several
times 3 consicssman's salary 10 buy.
RI $, wife has some of the finest dogs in
the country, and her Blenhcim ,spaniels
are so delicate that they lave to be
fed with q spoon. Another Of Psi.
iner's hobbies is his log house
and farm ear Detroit. lie has spef,
100000 in improving the farm and.
the log house cost Sla, 600 to- build.
here is Il lake in front of it which was
dug with pick and shovel. and q steam
'nglne is constantly. employed in
pumping the stream which makes the
waterfall which fills it. = 9
Roscoe Conkling's hobby is athletes,
and he has q gymnasium in his house.
When he was senator in Washington.
he got Matt Carpenter to try a round
Of boxing with him and punished him
terribly. Matt said nothing nut q few
days later called with q friend Of her.
C 1esn proportions. Ia proposed to
Conkling to take n look at the gvmna-
stun, and Conkling gladly consented 10.
take a box with the stranger. The
stranger hutleted him worse than he
had Senator Carpenter and it opened
Conhlng's eyes 8 day OF so Lter to
know that the stranger that he3 had
boxed with under an assumed name
was in reality one of the noted pugil-
ISIS ofthe country.
Jay Gould is very fond of books, and
Jay Cooke lotes on candy and flowers.
It Is said that 9 clerk has orders to put
two Sticks OF mint candy on his desk
every morning, and be SUCKS these rs
he thinks finance. A. II. Stewart was
y connoisseur in wines, and he was as
particular about his table as was ex.
President Arthur or Sam Ward He
had an agent travelling in Europe to Sc
'ha best wines for him, and he
=" a present Ct several
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