Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-07-12

and she was the picture of good health and ex-
pressed her preference for Denver after WASH
ington.
Mr.. Roger s. BARLEY, s'Bob." as he was
| Familiarity known in the old days when he and
Jesse Grant, payne Dent, Cook Flenner, Whit
| Wilson. the Cole boys of California and the
rest OF the Youngsters used to play together,
has been here many years. He 10 with the
| county clerk and recorder. He is hustler in
| business, and but few who see him rushing
around attending to business know that he is
| the nephew of the man who marched TO the sea
and the cold and unimpassioned Senator from
Ohio.
| MIR. Sidney H. Dent, good-natured. genial
popular Sid" sits in company with his Coke
and his Gritty and his Cooley on Taxation in his
| pleasant offices in a big block where his name
appears on the doors of rooms AZ and Az His
law books are not his only companions, for Sid
has many clients and he has happily passed the
| day when he was but a briefiese barrister.
Some real estate investments which he made
turned out most fortuitously for him. and he is
holding on to them with q tenacity that shows his
| wisdom.
John P. Smart, known all over the District
| as JACK, Is another Washingtonian who il
rapidly climbing the ladder Of success and for
| tune. He commenced trying his hand an
| advertising agent in Omaha a couple or three
| years ago, and is now considered the best
solicitor west of Chicago. He is with the
Denver Republican at fine salary, aud on the
! 9Th of June he had so matly advertisements on
his desk that the Republican was compelled to
publish forty-four-page paper 10 accom-
modate the demands of its patrons and Jacks
friends. Mrs. Smart and her little daughter are
| here also,
Pratt Dixon, whose fund OF stories and
anecdotes was the cause of continual visibility
when he lived in Washington, occupies one of
the most responsible positions in the Denver,
Texas and Forth Worth railroad offices. He is
the tariff clerk of the road and reigns supreme
III his particular jurisdiction. HIS wife and
her mother. Mrs. Hardin, are with him and
they have bijou of home ON Stout street.
Mr.. Millard X. Page, who was a society favor
lite in Washington for many years, and one of
the most prominent members of the Columbia
Boat Club is equally favorite in Denver He
is connected i'll an important capacity with the
Tabor Investment Company, and it is guaran-
tee OF fortune for any one to be connected with
that corporation.
Frank Appel is also doing well. He is with
Mcnamara. who owns an immense millinery
and ladies furnishings establishment and ia
one of the credit clerks of the store He has
also made fortunate Investments in real estate.
Ham. Cruger is in business and is doing well,
ana william Bokern, who presides over the
creature comforts at the Hotel Brunswick, is
also being smiled upon by fortune.
A cloud OF sadness overspread the Washing
ton colony Thursday morning when the dis
patches announced the death of Mrs Fred q
Motfatt. Fred came here only four months ago
and took a position in his uncle's bank-the
First National. He was becoming as popular
here as he had always been in Georgetown, and
his new friends as well as his old ones extend
their sympathy to him.
ADVICE TO FASTENERS
have endeavored to give an idea of what
Denver is like. and in conclusion would like
to indulge in a few words of advice to the east
erners who contemplate coming out in this
wonderful country. 1t will not do for any one
to cherish the delusive idea that fortunes are
hoatlng around over the emerald face of Colo
radios prairies or the brown. beetling sleeps
OF Its mountains, waiting for somebody to come
,.iong and gather them in. There have been
come lucky men in the state who have become
Immensely rich because they couldn't help it,
There are landed proprletOrs here today whose
possessions are worth seven figures, who have be-
come what they are merely because they could
find no one to purchase their holdings when
they tried to dispose of them couple of de-
cades ago. They have become nabobs in
wealth IN spite Of themselves. Blu,
the majority Of the rich men in
| Colorado have reached their high estate
of atf1uence by hard work, persevered in
with unrelaxing vigor and relentless energy.
young man OF vim and determination, who
Is willing to put his shoulder to the wheel
o. endeavor and keep it turning no matter how
hard the struggle may be, has field before him
in this country which cannot fail to weld him
fruitful results, but the lly-dallying individ-
ual who does not believe in the dignity of labor
and who, like amiable Mr.. Micawber, is always
waiting for something to turn up, will not find
hole small enough to fit him in this neighbor-
hood. Such person will do well in the effete
east selling collar buttons. ana he will an
preciate that fact if he comes west. This coun-
try wants muscle and Drawn, with brains to
back them. Such combination will win in
the race Tor success out here, but it will be
long race with no quarter-mile dash about it.
Even the individuals who possess the aualifi-
cations l have indicated must not expect
to ind plain sailing it they arrive
here as strangers. would advise no young
man to start for the western country who has
not something tangible in view in the shape of
a position, or who has not some profession to
fail back on and means to support him
self while he is awaiting clients. patients
or other visitors whose calls mean contri-
about men reaching the west with a single
shirt and empty pockets and then re-
visiting the east in year or two
in Pullman car and clad, like
Dives, in purple and fine linen are all the
yeriest bosh. Such things might have occurred
in the days of the Genesis of the west but in
these days Of Revelations they are as extinct as
the megatherium. The army of the unem-
ployed does not contne its operations to the
seaboard There is great division of it right
of success which in their case
means something to do. In a word, if a
man can't get along in the east he might as
well give up ali lUed VI succeeding In the west,
The fact is, though, that energy, determined
application and willingness to identify ones
self with ones work will make one successful
anywhere, and that's all there is to it.
TO THE CAPITALIST,
however, Colorado's capital presents a most
inviting field Of operations. While there is an
immense amount Of money here the demand
for it is still greater. Ready money
cannot be secured here even on
extra Al gilt-edged security, even in
amounts of $50. 900 and upwards, for less than 6
per cent, and only at this figure for large
amounts and on property in the business por-
ton of the city at that. In smaller
amounts, and where loss is absolutely impos-
sible on the part of the capitalist who
advances the money. per cent and even 10 per
cent is willingly paid, and in every case the
expenses of the transaction are borne by the
borrower.
Denver is undoubtedly the place for the cap
ltallst, and as soon as / accumulate the sum Of
SIT all at once propose becoming one myself.
G. @.
Different Kinds of LIGHTNING.