Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-13
In VERY GOOD HANDS.
Ex-Minister Palmer Well Fitted to
Manage the Worlds Fair.
HOW HE EARNED HIS MILLIONS.
A Wonderful Farm Near Detroit and His
Fine Horses and Cows.
MONEY MAKING NEWSPAPER WRITER'S
rooRnrs,oxnrrcr OF THE n,spAroY.

was pointed out as one Of the "Mediocr'
Gold-Bags" when he first came here. Aftel
short time, however, he showed himself te
be man of broad culture and thinker
He made several speeches which read like
the old English classics and at the end o.
his first year he was known as the Jollles1
and brainiest of the new Senators. A shor
experience with-him showed that he did moi
worship his money and he put on no more
airs than the poorest messenger who stood
at the Senate doors
He rented the big mansion on Scott Cir
Gle, which Window then owned and kept
open house. The year following he bought
lot and built his S85, 1000 brown-stone
palace on MACPHERSON square and enter
tanned magnifcently. One of the doctrines
in his philosophy of life is that man
should cultivate his social nature and that
OF his friends. Palmer did this. He went
on the principle that it was just as easy to
say pleasant thing as a mean one, and his
actions bred him friends as fast as though
they had been so many Australian rabbits.
Before his term was over he had the friend
ship of all his brothers, and he got more
bills through for his constituents than any
man from the Northwest. Palmer once
told me that life was too short for revenge,
and that he could not afford to spend time
thinking how to get even with man who
did him an injury.
A BOOMING MANAGER.
These features of his character made him
an excellent Minister to Spain, and they
will make him strong as head of the fair.
He is diplomat without a diplomats
hypocrisy, and he will make the fair popu-
lar in this country and the world over. He
will travel over the United States in Its in
terest, will know all OF the Governors before
1893, and will have every one of them work.
ing for him to make the Exposition a sue
cess. hear it rumored that he will take a
run over to Europe and look up matters
there this year or next and the acquaint-
ance he has will do wonders.
Senator Palmer is in many respects like
Chauncey Depew. He can make nearly as
good an atter-dinner speech as Chauncey,
and there is no man in public life who can
equal him in singing Methodist hymns or
Moody and Sankey songs. Like Mr.. Depew
he has temper as smooth as the Lake of
Como in its gentlest mood. Nothing ever
worries him. He doesn't fret, and he never
loses his head. If he is ever ANNOYED he
doesn't show it, and he can do an immense
amount OF work while pretending to do
nothing. He understands how to make
others work for him, and he carries on one
OF the biggest businesses OF the country with
no friction. Just how much Tom Palmer is
worth don't know. I believe if anyone
asked him, he would tell him in lazy, un-
ostentatious way, without thinking.
know, however, that he has his millions and
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great salt wells and his real estate if put
under the hammer would bring him in pile
that would have bought out Job ten times
over, that would have made the Queen of
Sheba bow down to him as she did to Solo
mon, and would have redeemed Midas from
tho lust OF more gold. His wife is also
worth several millions, and the two control
one OF the biggest fortunes Of the country.
HIS IDEAS OF MoNEY-MAKING.
This fortune was made in lumber, and
Senator Palmer married the daughter of his
partner. When he began life he was for a
time unsuccessful, but after his marriage, in
with his father-in-law, he made
money hand-over-fst, and now everything
ne touches turns to gold. He once told me
hat man ought to work hard until his
property brought him in $1,000 a year, and
lfter that he ought to let up and take things
Easy. Everything comes to the man who |
waits" said he, "and if you keep your eyes
,pen you're sure to make by and by. I |
lon't believe that big fortune makes q |
nan any happier. and ter he gets to a |
certain point he reaches the limit of his |
pending power. There is no man in the |
world who can, for his. own personal graft |
ication, use more than per cent on 81, OOO,- |
100, and as for me can be satisfied with |
title"
Still Senator Palmer has a number of
7ery expensive luxuries. His farm near
Detroit is one of them, but the increase in |
he value of the land has made this pay for
tself many times over. If he could move
his farm to the Worlds Fair 1t would be
ne of the great sights OF the Exposition. 1t
ontains 657 acres and it is laid out like a
reat English park. There is big forest
n it, in which are shady glens and ro-
1antic drives and where you may wander
trough all the>mazes of Rosamond's bower
nd lose yourself in the end. Everyone of
he walks has its name and some of these
ooks are called after the Senator's friends.
remember Manderson avenue and Sher-
lan's Hill, and I saw gray squirrel play
1g on Everett's Knoll.
INSPIRED BY ROSA BoNHEUR.
The Senator has 60 fine Percheron horses,
ach OF which is worth at least $1,000 He
rought some of them over from France,
nd he has one horse years old which
eights 1000 pounds He has 4-month-
ID colts which weigh as much as the ordin-
~ horse, and he has his own theory of
orse breeding. He fell In love with the
ercheron horse in making a study of Rosa
onheur's famous picture, 1.-The Horse
air." and he believes it is the finest horse
lat walks. He claims that it is cross be-
Veen the Arabian and the Norman. and it
as with this idea that he sent his farm
anager to Jerusalem to pick him out an
rabian stallion. The farm manager found
lat very few of the Arabian horses we're
und, and Palmer's permit from the Sultan
take away a horse from his dominiops
to nothing.
Outside of Percheron horses Senator Pal
er runs to Jersey COWS. His butter costs
m u pound, but he gets 50 worth of run
1t oil every pound, and the 80 cows which
Keeps are perpetual source of amuse-
ent to him. 1 wish 1 could give you
cture OF his barn. The COW stable is as
ell lighted as parlor, and the floor back
where the animals stand is so clean that
" could drop cambria handkerchief on
and pick it up without soiling. The
OF this stable is polished yellow
ne finished in oil, and it is as well fir
shed as that of many cottages.
KIND TO HIS BRUTEs.
Senator Palmer is careful in his treatment
his cattle and horses, and he has rules
sted up in the stables for his men. A
nip Is never used on the horses and no loud
'rds can be spoken to the cows. A regu-
record is kept of the milk each animal !
yes, and each COW has its name and its
ge In the herd book. 1t takes a steam J
CINE to do the work of these COW stables.
le hay is raised to the second story by
,am. The oats and corn are ground into
cal In the same way, and the water is
lmped and ensilage cut up by steam.
nator Palmer believes in modern inyen-
MS He hlowa nut his H. H.. |