The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-05-09
PROMOTERS,
Men with Gigantic schemes who Poster the
Millionafres.

A promoter is drummer on a big
scale. He wants to sell something big
to the men of millions. He has mine,
or county, or patent to float on an
unsuspecting public. He has schemes
innumerable from a patent corset. clasp
to diamond mine in which be wants
the public to become interested. He is
the discoverer OF the corset. clasp and
the diamond mine, and he wants the
men OF millions to form stock compa-
MES and by the sale ofthe stock to reim,
burse him for his discoveries. The rich
men can then have the discovery and
trust to an all-seeiug Providence for their
profits. Casual conversations with some
of these rich men give only faint ink
ling of the wear aud tear given to their
nervous system by promoters.
Mr.. Flower told the other day of the
man who had evolved the scheme ofa
pipe line from Orange County to New
York City. This pipe line was to be
similar to that used by the Standard Oil
Company in bringing its petroleum from
the Pennsylvania wells to the Atlantic
seaboard. This is continuous line of
iron pipes sunk beneath the ground, and
the petroleum is pumped through them
into the tanks at Bayonne, Weehawken
aud Long Island City. Mr.. Flowers
visitor said that his pipe line was to con.
vey the milk of Orange County from that
beautiful and blooming county right into
the streets of New York. He thought
it the most feasible scheme ou earth, and
be was annoyed 10 think that MIR. Flow.
er's business accumen conldn'E. E.grasp it.
Not long ago Mr.. Sage was: asked to
lend his name ard a few hundred thou.
sand dollars as starter to organize q
maple sugar trust. This scheme also in.
cluded combination for the control of
making syrup. Tie company was to
buy UP all the trees, especially in Yer:
mont, and the tall, lank Vermonter who
had the audacity to broach this subject
to Mr.. Sage said that they would fairly
make things hum. Mr.. Gould was once
besieged by chap from Western Penn.
sylvania who had conceived the expan-
siqe idea that oatmeal soap. should be
controlled by a monopolistic corpora.
ton. This sosp is used by miners and
others who grub in the earth: At that
time there was only about 300 cases Of
this soap in the country, and Mr.. Gould'a
visitor wanted him to buy it all up and
make him his agent for the sale of it.
MIR. Gould was of course, to watch the
importations and control them also.
Coils P. Huntington frequently speaks
of the enthusiastic citizen of Utah: who
wanted him to buy the GreatSalt Lake
and set up works on the shore for the
evaporation of the salt in the lake.
But one of the ~most extensive pro-
moters New York has seen since the war
has lust come to town. He wants Mr..
Depew to interest the Vanderbilts in
scheme to buy all the battle6elds of the
late war. He thinks this wonld be the
greatest monopoly of the times. He does
|. not promise aDy benefits to the present
generation of Yanderbilts and Depews,
but he is firmly convinced that if a stock
company was formed, the directors o.
which should have power to name their
successors in their wills, future Wander.
bilts and future Depews would reap mil.
lions from the purchase of these battle.
fields. He says that they can be fenced
around and in time made beautiful parks
and that in 100 and 200 years from now
these parks will be magnets to draw
thousands of visitors from all over the
country. "Then all you'll have to do
he says, "is to charge them Is cents ad-
mittance, charge them for tbs hacks to
convey them through the grounds lease
the refreshment stands and the millions
are sure."
Thomas G. Platt has been approached
by people who want him to form trust
to control the crop Of Florida oranges.
Mr.. Platt says he is too busy with bis
express company and his political friends
to interest himself in any such movement.
One interesting individual came to town
the other day for the purpose of interest
ing one of the millionaires in scheme 70
control importations of pictures and
books from Paris, which would be often.
sive to the eyes of Deacon Anthony
Comstock. The millionaire was to ap.
point his visitor his agent. The agent
was possessed of medical diploma, and
if the customs gu utho-ities became too in
quisitive his medical diploma was to be
produced, and the agent could easily
swear that the books and pictures were
imported for medical purposes only. The
promoter of this enterprise found himself
on the sidewalk in q jiffy.-Neso York
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