The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-07-13
I(H MAN PALMER.
aroughly Competent TO Be
Worlds Fair President. :
s WONDERFUL STOCK FARM.
-, walton in the Hotel Business
- he Won = Million in Races
Mrs. Harrison's Cottage.

WARRINGTON CRY. July 7.-[Copy-
...ss,dl--Ex- Minister Palmer's appoint
~ = the head of the Worlds fair. is
- ropllar in Washington. He was one
s 80 r;chest members of the Mlliionaire's
- and was pointed out as one of the
! ..r.a;ocre Gold Bags when he first came
ID. After a short time, however, he
5ss-.d himself to be man OF broad cul-
- and a thinker. He made several
-.s.he. which read like the old English
! 5ss.;cs ana at the end of his first year he
- tnown as the iolliest and brainiest
~ new senator's. A short experience
~ him showed that he did not worship
q money. and he put on no
-. airs than the poorest mes
....e, Who stood at the Senate doors.
A then rented the big mansion on Scott
s.r,e. which Window then owned and
- oren house, The year following he
sspebt lot and built his $4,000 brown
/ -. palace on MACPHERSON square and
.rtertained magnificently. One of the
ssrtriues in his philosophy of life is that
- should cultivate his social nature ana
- of his friends. Palmer did
IA He went on the principle
81 II was Just as easy to say
.eIeassnt thing as q mean one. and his
srsions bred him friends as fast as though
Az had been so many Australian rabbits.
p~iore his term was over he had the
t5end.hip of all his brothers and he got
wme bills through for his constituents
dan any man from the Northwest.
palmer is q man of strong friendships
"A he sticks to his friends. He is also q
-,n Of few enemies, and he once told me
AT life vas too short for revenge, and
h,t he could not afford to spend time
linking how to get even with man who
did him an injury. These features of his
el.racter made him an excellent minister
3 SPAIN and they will make him strong
nhead Of the fair. He is a diplomat
xithouta diplomats hypocrisy, and he
vill make the fair popular in this
tountry and the world over. He will
tayel over the United States in its inter-
eyts. win know all OF the governors before
1855. and will have every one of them
working for him to make the exposition
success. hear it rumored that he will
IKE run over to Europe and look up
matters there this year or next, and the
acquaintance he has will do wonders.
Senator Palmer is in many respects like
Chsuncey Depew. He can make nearly as
rod an after-dinner speech as Chauncey,
md there Is no man in public life who can
sousl him in singing Methodist hymns or
Moody and Sankey songs. Like Mr.. De-
pw, he has temper as smooth as the
Ike Of Como in its gentlest mood. Moth
Ing ever worries him. He doesn't fret and
Y never loses his head. If he is ever an
noyed he doesn't show it. and he can do an
immense amount of work while pretending
b 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. believe if anyone asked
him be would tell him in a lazy, unosten-
ttious way. without thinking. / know,
however. that he has his millions,
and that his lumber mills, his
pine forests, his great salt wells
and his real estate if put under the ham,
msr would bring in pile that would have
bought out Job ten times over: that would
have made the Queen OF Sheba bow down
to him q she did to Solomon. and would
have redeemed Midas from the lust of
more gold. His wife is also worth several
millions, and the two control one of the
biggest fortunes OF the country. This for
mns was made in lumber, and Senator
Palmer married the daughter of his part
ner. When he began life he was
Tor time unsuccessful, but after his
marriage in connection with his father-in-
hs ne made money hand over fist, and
nos everything he touches turns to gold.
ne once told me that a man ought to work
nard until his property brought him in an
income OF $1,000 year, and after that he
ought to let up and take things easy.
everything comes TO the man who waits"
Sd ne land If you keep your eyes open
you're sure to make by and by. / don't
Naese that big fortune makes q man
any napier, and after he gets TO a certain
point De reaches the limit of his spending
power. There Is no man in the world who
can, for his personal qualification, use
more than per cent. On a million dollars,
ana Is ior me, can be satisfied with lit
te.n
Ssili Senator Palmer has a number of
's expensive luxuries. His farm near
ps'foit Is one of them, but the increase in
we value OF the land has made this pay for
sseh many times over. If he could move
as iarm TO the Worlds fair it would be
,ae 0i the great sights OF the exposition.
"eohtalns $50 acres, and it is laid out like
great English park. There is big forest
~ IL IN which are shady glens and roman
uiises' ana where you may wander
Iio"gn all the IMAGES of Rosamond's
Wxer and lose yourself in the end. Every
v'e Oh The walks has its name, and some of
lese hooks are called after the senator's
Asnos. | remember Henderson avenue
saa snerman's Hill, and / saw a grey
squilrei playing on Evart's Knoll. The
sus'or has sixty fine Percheron horses
~ sssn Oh which is worth at least 81 900. He
myugnt some of them over from France
~ ne mas one horse thru Jesrs old which
.slgns two thousand pooDdn HI has
WI months old cola ,<hfek eh as
! s.aen as the ordinary a. ~ ~ has
= sown theory of horse -..sdimn He fell
= 'ose with the Perchsr. horso ii max
study of Rosa Bonksl fam<us pic
are The Horse Faix. and 10 Relieves
the fneot hora that
safs He Clair the3 ii is a
ss0ss between the 41aki,S md the
~, n ~ and it-waaW1lk ikaie 10 that be
Nm Nm ais farm manas u y Ism to pick
as r on. an Arabiaa tta& The farm