Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-09
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Frank G. Carpenters PEN Pictures of New
Senators and Others-A Rich Statesman
From the Black HiIIs-AIiuister Palmer
Likely 10 Resign-Other Probable va
cnncies.
IcoRRE sPoNDENcE OF THE DISPATCH!
WASHINGTON, December 1.-THE Senate has
new millionaire this session in the person of
Watson c. Squire, of the State of Washington.
Senator Squire is worth 100000, and his in.
come is $4,000 month. He can spend $4,000
a season in Washington and never miss it, and
am told that his entertainments will be fire.
quent and liberal He will live at the Airing
ton Hotel. and his family will be among the
leading figures in Washington society. Sena-
tor Squire was born in Ohio, has lived in New
York, and has made his fortune in Washing
ton Territory. He married into the family of
the Remingtons, the noted gun and typewriter
people, and it was some years ago that he
moved to Seattle and began to speculate in
real estate. He now owns houses and lands,
and his property increases in value every year,
and his buildings bring him in gold galore. He
looks more like New York club man than
one of the newest of the Western Senators.
He has the tastes Of a club man, too, and his
well filed out front will not be out of place
among the fat goldbags of the Senatorial cham
q
asked an Indiana Congressman who knows
him well, tonight what kind of man Squire
is. He replied: ''Well, he is a curious kind of
fellow. he is full of good nature, has the
accomplishments of a man-about-town, is a
good story teller, and is combination of gen.
erosity and the reverse. He will be ugly with
you as to the difference of % cents and will
spend SIS i1i champagne in explaining the mat
ter to you. They tell q story of letter of in
PRODUCTION which Nicholas II. Owens once gave
Squire in introducing him to friend of his.
This letter read:
My Dear Governor:
This will introduce you to my friend Watson c,
So nire. You will find him hog in little things
[sighedI NICHOLAS II. OWENS.
''This story, however, is probably unfair to
the Senator. Like all good business men, he
has to watch the corners closely in his money
transactions and he does not believe in mixing
up business and charity. am told he is one
and that he believes in spending as well as
making fortunes"
a Senator From the Black Hills.
Another bright Senator from the new States
who is considerably well-to-do, Is Gideon O.
Moody, of South Dakota. Moody's home Is at
Deadwood. in the heart of the Black Hills. He
is the leading lawyer of his State. and good
share of the metals that come out of this
of fees 1 am told that his income is at least
$4,000 year from his practice and he is pos
sessed of lands and stocks. He is a straight
broad-shouldered, well-flled-out man of about
so years of age. His hair is as white as newly
Stacked lime, and there are silver strands
among the gold of his full beard. He tells me
that he was born in New York and that he
moved to Indiana at manhood intending to re-
main there for 10 or II years and then come
back to Washington as President or Senator
from the wild and woolly West Indiana how
he never got higher than the Legislature. He |
was IN the Legislature at the beginning of the |
War, and in the stirring times of 1881, he |
showed himself bold and fearless statesman.
He left Indiana for Dakota about Is years ago,
and when he settled with his family on farm |
Just outside Of Yankton his neighbors in the |
village thought him foolhardy on account of |
the danger from the Indians There was no |
house between him and the north pole and the |
only signs of civilization were in the town near
by. This farm of Senator Moody's is now di- |
vided up into building lots. He paid So an |
acre for 1t, and it is now worth more than $780,
600. don't know that he owns any Of it, but |
he undoubtedly made good thing of of its |
sale. When he left it he went to DeadWood, |
and this was IA years ago
/ met him first when he was here at Wash
ington three years ago as one of the Senators |
from the then organized State of Dakota,
which was planned by the people. but which |
was not recognized at Washington. Senator
Moody had, by the courtesy of the Senate, a /
place in the chamber while the question of the |
legality of Dakota Statehood was pending On |
its being decided illegal he went back to Da-
kota and Dided his time. He now comes to
Washington with no cloud upon his title and |
he has taken quarters just across from the
Capitol, where his Office windows can look out
upon that great marble building in which for
the next six years he will have chance to
make for himself a national reputation.
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