The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-09-05
hvmrlNaroM.s HORSES.


Avnr,NaroM.s HORSES.
A ss,il,o..,r-,s nie1sr n,th Another OF
tho 4aino lllk.
Il Is fun to hear ond millionaire tell Q
story OF another millionaire, aud here is
Que Of that kind, saysthe New York World.
Some time ego he heard TINT Mr.. Hunting
ton hnd q 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 his price. In re-
sponse TO the note Mr.. Huntington appeared
next day IN the off1ce of the would-be pur-
chuser. He explained that the cobs werc
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 aud wife, who were
rather large people. The purchasing
millionaire and his vito not being large
people. this Of course was no objection, and
Mr.. Huntington was asked to state his
price. He said he wanted 81 900. Well,
tho millionaire had seen the cobs and had
his cuMllma,,, and he knew that this was q
ion to Mr.. Huntington, and told him that If
he could got down to q reasonable figure
they nigh: talk business. Mr.. Huntington
asked what his idea of o reasonable figure
was, und 4 he wou!d-be purchaser said lle
would g:vc him $500 for the pair. Mr..
Huntington scoffcd at the offer, and said
that he wou,tln't entertain 1t for . moment,
and tho iuiiii0naires parted and mnttero
were left in this shape.
Tic next day Mr.. Huntington reappearcd
and said tl.ut he had thought the matter
over, ,ilt; t.,at he was willing to takc ninc
hundred drl!ars, but tho other party to
the negotiation was not Wiling that no
should h;,va nine hundred dollars of his,
in this transaction ut least, and stuck to his
original offer Of eight hundred dollars for
tho ccbs. Mr.. Huntington talked for some
time and expatiatcd on the equine cS-
cellcncics which justified the ni,,e hundred
dollar price, but tho millionaire purchaser
wasn't ut all impressed. Mr.. Huntington
wus quito US eloquent as any auctioneer
who ever held forth at Bulls Head or any
that Mr. Van Tasscl had ever employed,
but the eloquence failed of any effect, ,,,d
Mr.. Huntington again departed. He ap-
pcare,l again, however, and appeared and
disappeared for ull the days of the week
and several days Of tho following week, and
altogether spent perhaps twelve or fourteen
hours in striving to convince his customer
that niuc hundred dollars WAS not too much
for what he had to sell. But f;I.;img utterly
in this phiianthropic desire, t:e finally said
that lie would takc the cig}itllunGred dollars
which was offered If the purchaser would
pay his coac.llnan twenty-five do!lars.
ssI3ut,'' said the other millionaire party,
81 huve nothing to do with your coach
man"
.sBut," suid Millionaire Huntington, Tiny
conchman expects something, aud it seems
TO mo that il give you the horses ut your
,,svt,t l,i
Well, tho purchasing millionaire didn't
look at it in that way. He didn't
think that conchnan OH wages-an1
he presumed that Mr.. huntington pail
his wages regularly-T7Nas ct:,ii.cd to
commissions, and he thought they had a
dolnoralizing aud corrupting influence OH
the stable or unstable morals of the coac!,-
man, and lie thought also THAT il tf.efc was
any corruption or dcmora,ization- to gt
forward it would have to be done with Mr.
Huntington money. These arguments
were, of course, unanswcrahle, and Mr
Huntington, having spent q number oil
valuable ho 4rs-bccausc millionnircs' hours
must be valuable-in attempting TO induce
the other party In negotiation to pay on.
| hundred dollars more than he wanted :.
walters down III Ueimonlco's wc..id prob
ably doubt the truth of the story. Mr.
| Gould used to lunch constantly al. ILL:
Broals.rccs place, aud he was never
! k,lown I, tip a waiter in his life. When h,
cam. III wi.h Charlie Osborne, and Osborn,
1 paid for tho luncheon, the fortunate waiter
| rccciv Il onc dollar or SO, but when Gou!,
| cnnle in alc..c there was y sk.rnii,h;ns
among tho walters as to Who would b.
| fortunate enough 10 get DIT If the w..
Gou.d went down into Texas nuM.Icr c
| years ago with u party of railroad men OH
| ,car of inspection, nd at some station ;.lonI
the road the party got OF nnd same on
blew in ~ round Of drinks. Gould :socsn'
drink. characteristic whit h is s.'s...e,, b,
number of other n,ii.ionuitcs-h,.t 80 ~
how or other le seemed to have felt it in
cumbcnt on him 10 return the roa stcs
thus offered and lnvit d the parry tos,n kc
Tue cigars wery passed around ai.d 6 !! 10
or so of tl.em were taken tut. MIR. Goul
asked tho bar. keeper how much he owe
him and the bar keeper returned the inf y,
nation that the cigars were twen. VI
cents cach.
.lsu't that pretty high price," RI
mn, acl Mr.. Gould. in his slow, mild way.
Perhaps" returned tho bar-kcercr
ssbut then you know wore rot down her
furour hcalsh.''
Mr.. G.'u.i paid the bill for tho cigars an
sa:l no more. Perhaps there was La:i.:n
moro 10 suv.