Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1889-07-23

| Henry Il. Trevor Is great lawn tennis
player aud likes 10 give bachelor parties
60 young ladies. Rich bachelors OF New
York reeIprocats social attentions In this
way. ne 10 no more than fair, Tho last
"bao helor party'' which Mr.. Trevor gave
was " Dslmaniea's and delighted the
young ladies aud their chapsrones. II cost
| sis Thousand dollars r. l.. iireahpsn, Of
The Stock Exchange and n itipihbrr Of M
old New York family, Is the champion
lawn tpnnis player Of America Daniel
Starr Is tho champion billiard player Of
the Stock Exchan9e. He married a
daughter of Peter 0iIsey, after whom the
I, hotel was named. Wilbur Bacon was a
member OF the Yale College boat crew.
r.. W. Setback, another Stock Exchange
man, was, at one time champion amateur
oarsinan OF New York State and is pow
| srful athlete. He put up one OF the
heaviest dumb bells made ten thousand
times.
good many nnanclers and stock
brokers are sea-dogs In their way.
Some OF them make long cruises
IN their yachts. Commodore Arthur E.
Bateman owns the steam yacht Meteor"
and lives n great deal Of the time on board
Of her. He has cruised from Labrador TO
the river Amazon. lie WIS formerly
In the United States Navy and IL OF bold
and energetic character. James Smith.
sx- President Of the Stock Exchange and
OK Commodore OF tho New York Yacht
Club, owns the yacht "Estelle." Thomas
w. Pearsall owns the ''Banshee," an Irish
name, meaning spook. She Is fast
sailer. Roger Maxwell, President Of
the Central Railroad, OF New Jcr-
sey, owns tho very fast sailing
yacht shamrock" Washington L, Con-
nor, Mr. Goulu's old partner, IL u vet
eran yachtsman. Mr.. Gould long ago
presented his yacht to his son George.
j. Pierpont Morgan. of Drexel. Morgan 81
Co, bankers, owns the big steam yacht
"C0rsair," which Is about 500 tons register.
IL is nm expensive luxury keeping yacht.
Mr.. Morgan's probably cost him n hun
bred thousand dollars, and presume that
Il costs s., 500 n month to run IL. This
would include fuel. provisions and
wages for Grew OF say thirty
men. Captains OF these pleasure
yachts are paid from 500 TO sl25
n month; first mates, S45 to $50; quarter |
S35; sailors, $50. Some hnanciers
have yachts on the inland lakes, Alfred
Bully, who is worth six or seven million
dollars, lives at Haokettstown, N. j., but
comes to New York daily. has ene yacht
of this class and entertians his friends roy.
ally.
Stock brokers Rre apt to DO fond of q |
ouiet game OF cards. The champion poker |
player OF the Stock Exchange 10 David |
Barnes, Charles j. Osborn, the stock |
operator, was great player. He died |
worth seven millions, being tho only one |
NJ Jay Gould's brokers who was shrewd |
,nough TO keep the fortune founded upon |
his commissions. Mr. Osborn managed |
Mr.. Gould's celebrated corner In North |
west stock, when the latter squeezed the |
bears till their tongues seemed to run out. |
Mr.. Gould, by the way, In speaking Of this
corner once said, In his customary low
tone OF voice and dryness OF enuuciation, |
II considered the stock cheap at so and |
began to buy. People were disposed to |
sell 1t down. My brokers had orders TO |
BUY. Before knew II they had bought
good deal more than there was. Then the |
price began to 20 mp. / think IL went to |
30 think I was induced 20 part with |
some at that price" Mr.. Gould smiled |
faintly Mt the recollection, 1t was AS
suredly liberal act TO permit any one to
''induce" him TO "part with some" Mt more
than three times as much as he paid for Il. |
The hears felt sore over that experience
for years. "Charley" Osborne, as the |
abl.st Of Mr.. Goulds brokers, made tho
furry brethren fairly howl with disgust.
They had sold themselves into the deepest |
kind Of hole aud their only recourse waa
to taks hold OF the rope that "Charley"
Osborn let down to them and to pay hand |
somrly and try to look happy. This
famous broker used to play high poker
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