Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-15
TWO HAPPY HEARTS.
How a Poor Young Man Won the
Hand of q Beautiful Heiress.
A BIG FORTUNE IN REAL ESTATE
Quickly Secured by the Foresight of a
Young Woman Wildly in Love.
A BROWN STONE FRONT AND FELICITY

Ten years ago Mr.. Poorman and Miss
Rich met at charity fair, where they stood
on opposite sides of table and fshed for
the strawberry in the charity cake and en-
deayored to detect the flavor of lemon in
the lemonade. 1t was case Of love at first
sight. Or, to speak in business way, for
this is business story, they Immediately
took stock in each other. She was the
daughter of proud, rich man, who had
made his money by buying bank stocks
when they were away down; he, the son OF
an oil broker who managed to scratch out a
! living by trading in puts and calls. This was
an insupe1able bar to their union. How this
| difficulty was overcome will be told in the sue
ceeding sections of this true story.
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"Love laughs at Iocksmiths" is an old and
true adage. These two fond hearts put their
heads together, fguratively, and toiled until
they had devised plan by which Mr.. Poorman
could acquire fortune, this being all that was
needed to raise him to par and secure for him
the hand and the heart of the charming Miss
Rich. 1t was determined that he should en-
gage in the real estate business. This import
ant preliminary being settled, he engaged an
Office on Fourth avenue, and went to work.
As he was a pioneer in the business he had
very little opposition. and he soon had all he
could do. Love inspired his every act. In
imagination his adored one stood beside him
whenever he made a deal. Thus encouraged
he labored early and late, and made his Gus
TONERS pay pretty steep prices for those days.
He also placed great many mortgages. in
variably STIMULATING that the borrower should
pay the State tax.
Of course Miss Rich took a deep and per-
haps selfish interest in Mr.. Poorman's rising
prospects. Every sale he made every mort
gage he foreclosed, brought them closer to-
gether. She contributed to his success in
various ways-by smiles of encouragement and
by inducing her gentlemen friends to throw as
much business in his way as possible; with
profound emotion she read Of his first sale as
reported in the morning papers. 1t was to this
effect:
''Mr. Poorman sold three lots in Mr.. Green
sward's plan, each 60xl20, for S3, 600 spot cash.
He reports great demand for lots in this de-
sirable locality"
She cut the notice out and pasted it in her
scrap-book. among other literary treasures,
where it remains to this day. In the language
of the day this was 'the making of him." He
encouraged the reporters to write him up with
great liberality, and it was cold day when the
papers came out without a reference to Mr..
Poorman as "our leading real estate dealer"
or as ''our rising young capitalist who is doing
so much for the Improvement of the city"
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Of course NIP oorman soon became wealthy.
He had chosen a pursuit that necessarily led to
fortune. As a real estate dealer he could not
emain poor and humble. Fortune showered
Jslcats at his feet, and all he had to do was to
hck them up and invest them in unimproved
Phoperty, sub-divide it and put it on the mar
3Ptt. Sometimes he would vary the programme
II gobbling house on Diamond street, in the
Expectation that it would be improved and
hde one, of the principal thoroughfares of the
city he ,y.s nm ~ nf the original "; ,, hut
his progressive views do not seem to have made
much impression, or the street would not be
permitted to remain very long in, its present
condition.
At the endiof three years Mr.. Poorman was i
rich man. He was the proud possessor of $780,
000in cool cash, all of which he had made in
the, real estate business. He was happy and
SO was another. Miss Rich had patiently
waited for him all those years-waited for him
to become wealthy so he could stand before
her father and the faithful watch dog without
fear and claim her hand as an equal But
while waiting she never grew discouraged. She
knew she had a sure thing of it; that the years
VI SepaIdtiOu WOulu De IeW--IOr was ne not en-
gagged in apursuit that bestowed affiuence upon
all who followed it?
At length the crisis came. Mr.. Poorman got
corner ON old Mr.. Rich and sued for the hand
of his daughter. The old man said: You say
you are worth 100000 Prove it." The suitor,
nothing daunted, drew from his inside pocket |
cash and mortgages representing the amount
specified. Take her." said the old man, with
tears in his eyes. "She is yours SO long as your
money holds out" And they were married
within two weeks. After a short excursion
they moved into brown-stone front, lot COX |
l2O, where they have lived happily ever since.
Moral-n you want to get rich and marry ad- |
vantageously invest your money in real estate. |
If you have none of your own invest somebody