Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1890-02-20
HuNrINeToN.s HORSES.
A MllliOnaire's Dicker with Another
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MllliOnaire's Dicker with Another of
the Same nix.
1t Is fun to hear one millionaire tell n
story of another millionaire, aud here Is
one of that kind, saysthe New fork World.
Some time uGo he heard that Mr.. Hunting
ton had couple Of very handsome cobs for
sale, and being in want Of Just that sort Of
thing the millionaire communicated with
Mr.. Huntington and asked lis price. In re
sponso to the note Mr.. Huntington appeared
next day In the office of the would-be pur-
chaser. he explained that the cobs were
particularly fine animals, and that he would
not part with them except for the reason
that they were rather small, indeed too
small for himself and wife, who were
rather large people. The purchasing
millionaire and his wife not being large
people, this of course was no objection, and
Mr.. Huntington was asked to state his
price. He said he wanted $1,000 Well,
the millionaire had seen the cobs and so had
his coachman, and he knew that this was a
pretty long price. He expressed that opin-
ion 10 Mr.. Huntington, and told him that If
he could get down to a reasonable figure
they might talk business. Mr.. Huntington
asked what his idea of reasonable figure
was, and the would-be purchaser said he
would give him $500 for the pair. Mr..
Huntington scoffed at the offer, and SAID
that he wouldn't entertain it for a moment
and the millIonaires parted and mattera
were left in this shape.
The next day Mr.. Huntington reappeared
and said that he had thought the matter
over, and that he was willing to take min
hundred dollars, but the other party to
the negotiation was not wiling that he
should have nine hundred dollars of his,
in this transaction at least, and stuck to his
original offer of eight hundred dollars for
the cobs Mr.. Huntington talked for some
time and expatiated on the equine eX-
cellencies which justified the nine hundred
dollar price, but the millionaire purchaser
wasn't at ell impressed. Mr.. Huntington
was quite as eloquent as any auctloneer
who ever held forth at Bulls Head or any
that Mr.. Van Tassel had ever employed,
but the eloquence failed of any effect, and
Mr.. Huntington again departed. He APP
peared again, however, and appeared and
disappeared for all the days Of the week
and several days of the following week, and
altogether spent perhaps twelve or fourteen
hours in striving to convince his customer
that nine hundred dollars was not too much
for what he had to sell. But falling utterly
in this philanthropic desire, he finally said
that he would take the ghthundred dollars
which was offered if the purchaser would
pay his coachman twenty-five dollars.
"But," SAID the other millionaire party,
~ have nothing to do with your coach
man"
"But," said Millionaire Huntington, "my
coachman expects something, and it seems
TO me that if give you the horses at your
price you ought to pay him"
Well, the purchasing millionaire didn't
look at it in that way. He didn't
think that a coachman on wages-and
he presumed that Mr.. Huntington paid
his wages regularly--was entitled to
commissions, and he thought they had a
demoralizing and corruptlng influence on
the stable or unstable morals of the coach
man, and he thought also that if there was
any corruption or decentralization to go
forward it would have to be done with Mr..
Huntington's money. These arguments
were, of course, unanswerahle, and Mr.,
Huntington, having spent number OF
valuable hoIrs-because millionaires' hours
must be valuable-in attempting to induce
the other party in negotiation to pay one
hundred dollars more than he wanted to
pay, and having failed utterly, accepted the
check for eight hundred dollars, and the
horses were duly transferred.