Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1889-05-11
A DEAD MILLIONAIRE,

says the Ihtlhuelphla Times, recall
many instances OF his pecullaritles an
his frugality While he was glvln
largely 10 charity he was practieIng 4,
economy that in most men would hay
been said TO have approached mean
ness.
He never married aud his friend
aid that he did not wish to INCUR N,
expense Of household. He alway,
boarded, moving us often as he eoulf
get a desirable location at a eheape
price.
II is related Of him that few YEAR
agO he had room in an upper story 4
house on Chestnut street. abov.
Nineteenth. He discovered thai otba.
Eere paying less money for simils,
privileges He said nothing. h,t 4,
packed his trunk and, like LongfelIow,,
Arab. stole silently away.
He afterward INDUCED ia the INJURY
81 summer boarding at Bryn Mawr. 4
coach piled between the railroad station
and the hotel Mr.. Williamson used Il
for week. Then bill was presented
TO him for coach fare at the rate OF 10
eenls ride The old man glanced nj
The bill Ia mild surprise. He paid h
sithout a word Of eSpostulaiion. The
aext day the driver Of the coach bowed
5bs5quioltsiy and flung open his door
as soon ~ tho bent form OF his million.
aire customer alighted from the train.
Il was raining az the time. Ne
Williamson raised his blue cotton
umbrella, from which no was never
separated. and without even 4 glance
~ recognition al the ast0nlshed coach.
maa irulgc1 GA up the muddy road
70 the hotel Each week whilo al the
hotel he carried hls soilc1 clothes 10
Philadelphia done up In d newspaper.
placing the bundle under his arm Ha
Was enabled by this arrangement 10
save - cents, the difference In the
rates Of thu hotel laundry and that or
Al anpfetantlous concern ia the city.
hr, Williamson was tobacco.
eheWsr alb his life his fagorlts being
the hard kind. II was curious 10 watch
him Take "a ehew.' lie Kept tho u.
banao Ia threc envelopes aud while
hitting on apiase would hold the seoas,d
envelope open 10 catch any places that
might fall from his mouth. his hand
betug unsteady. In the third envelope
h0 would deposr the discarded end
% h. subsequently, worked over.
BIZ Williamson never permitted his
tobacco bin u exceed ) eeus ! week.
Anuthcr pereiliaTily OF his was that
hr would never give money 70 a beg
gar.
In the memory Of tho oldest lnhabl.
t6ns Mr.. Williamson never appeared
ln news suit ~ clothes Generations
- bankers on Third sitvci Ecre aocus-
i@nlvd ~ 500 "a little. thin, bent, shah-
billy dressed sigup making Its way
painfully along Tie financial thorough
fare wlsh eyes seeking the ground and
hands behind the back ciutching tho
iHFrseraso blue cotton umbrella. A
scCpnd-riARs tailor. who had chop ON
ems ~ the alleys biscctsug Third street.
rrpalrcti end cleaned Mr., Wil!iansou's
t,tlt NJ clottca With him tho director
ui dozen powerful Institutions and the
Is0NArseur ~ millions 81 securities
would haERlo Tor a quarter Of an hour
over thu charge u repairing . coat
lining.
In his ininr years Mr.. Williamson
suffered 10 iatlrh from cnrns that BIO
found himself compelled either 90 give
UP pptlal iarunntion or Ia submit 10 an
operation nj tho hands Of q chir1podisL
On The recommendation Of the officers
81 the Gtrari bank he called upon
Ghiropotllsi Goldberg. who had M Of
flrc on Chestnut street. and submitted
tn the excelsior. when Goldberg pre-
srntcd his bin Mr.. Williamson paid Il
willingly mud remarked; You are the
only man who ever gave me the worth
ri my money.
Ono N Mr.. Wllllamson's pcculiari-
ttea WAS the mcthodical way in which
he tnadu his gifts 10 charity, He never
gave money without elaboration. He
always wanted 10 know Just what IL
would be Wsrd for His rilo never do
on one day whHt could be put OF until
tho next week was applied 10 his phil
ne we'll as his financial
work. and II proved uniformly SUCCESS
fill In both. Only n few months pre-.
yiuus "a his death Mr.. Williamson re-
auestnd q representative Of the Times
to publish AN announcement as coming
from him Ia the effect that he was great.
H. troubled with letters requesting con.
tributions for various benevolent objects
and with personal applications in the
same direction, and that he had no
money 10 give away. II was Only lew
laws after that request that Mr.. Will
hanson uuiOldcd his plans for the crea-
ton OF free school Of trades for poor
boys.
Mr. Williamson never missed q day
at his Office, which was for many years
located ne 80 Bank street He went
there rain or shine. In summer and
winter. Early In last year. when his
intrmitics began 10 tell upon him, he
was reluctantly compelled TO provide
himself with horse and carriage and
a conchman. He bought q plain one
horse carriage and very tame horse
and surprised his acquaintance by
placing upon the panels OF the carriage
81. v. Williamson. private. :,
For the past twenty years the mil
lionaire had employed private secre-
lary. Clifton trout. now book-keep-
sr In the Girard bank, was his iirst sec
rctary aud for the past six years Az
fred Hembuld. Jr.. has occupied that
position. Mr.. Williamson always IN
sfst,d ,,,,n,, ,t,sntog his own mail, no