The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-01-05
STATESMEN STORIES.
Gossip about Cal Brice, the New
York Millionaire.
THE STORY OF HIS COLLEGE DAYS.
Kate Field and Her Paste Pot-A Glimpse
OF Susan B. Anthony Congress
ional House Dealers.

reSponuence Oh IHE dERALD.l-Ca Brlce
the New York millionaire. is making hi.
canvass for the Ohio Senatorship at Coium
bus in a silk hat, broadcloth coat and pat
ent-leather boots. He cuts a ditferen,
figure now than he did when 1 knew him
there nine years ago. He was building the
Ohio Central railroad, out of which he 60,
mis- start in 1880, and he used to come
o the Ohio state capitol with his pan.
falcons in his boots, a rustic coat spattered
with mud and a slouch hat pulled over his
steel blue eyes. He worked with a will
and came up to Columbus
TO SCHEME FOR MILLIONS
with Charlie Foster Who was then COVER
nor. Elk Congressman Jameson, of Lima.
who has long been one of Brice's righthand
men, tells me that Brice lost in the first
instance on the Ohio Central and when il
was done he owed Charlie Foster Sis. 900.
Foster and he had been ~engage1in railroad
building before and Brice had cleared
$4,000 out of the strip of road which runs
from Fremont to Lima. He had put this
into the Ohio Central with Foster and he
had lost this as well as the amount above
mentioned. Foster, however, had conf
dence in him and the result of the plottings
was that they ran a branch from the Ohio
Central into the great coal fields of the
Sunday Creek valley. This branch paid
so well that Brice was able to paw Foster
the $4,000 he owed him and to have s135 :
600 left. 1t was after this that he orig
mated the nickel plate scheme, pushed it
through and made in connection with sew
eral others aboutS13, 000, 900 out of it. Since
then he has continued his railroad specu-
%latlons, has lost some money and made
more. He moved long ago from Ohio to
New York, and he now owns a house
there which cost him $3.50, 600. He is worth
at least 81, 900, 900 and is, l am told. getting
richer every year. All of his prosperity
mas come within the last ten years, and a
decade age he was a administered, blue
eyed young lawyer of thirty odd years on
the ragged edge of a country practice.
BRICE's FIRST DIAMoND
1t was at this time that Brice made an
Investment for his mother. the story of
which | heard last night. His mother in
herlted a small sum and when Cal told her
that he saw a good place to invest it she
gave every cent of it to him, although she
had four young children vet to educate
She warned Cal to be careful, but Mr.
Brice, with the sanguinity which has made
his future speculations a success. put the
money into the Ohio Central and by the
aid of the Sunday Greek branch trebied If
He received his profits from the deal some.
where in the east and ne was so pleased
with the success of his mothers investment
that he put a third of the money into dia-
monds, n when he returned home and
his mother timidly asked as to the state of
her inheritance, Cal p%ompcusly handed her
the case containing the gems. Mrs. Brice
was IN despair she thought the purchase
UprU foolish an6 Shn 1osl A.. -,
standing he had increased her Investments
and had got her back twice as much in
money as she rave him, she could not see
how any good could come from a man who
squadered his first earnings on anything so
useless as lewelry. "She had,n saws nv
friend, 1.-The finest diamonds in Lima.
but her income was still ~insnfi'
cient for her to carry ont the
education of her children. Her predictions
of her son, however, did not come true. and
his successful career soon supplied her
with all the money she needed"
THE CHARITIES OF A LIoNA
Representative James w Owens of
Ohio, tells me that Brice is very charitable
He went to school with him at the Miami
university, and he says that Brice has
given $1,000 to that school. and that he has
lately made an offer that if the state of
Ohio a~ppropriateS any sun of money for
the college he will add to the appropriation
an equal amount out of his w pocket
This offer" said Congressman Owens
twas made not long ago, and l am going to
see that it costs Brice q good round sum.
Mrs. Brice is as charitable as the general
She is a trustee of the Western Seminary.
and she is the only woman who has ever
held a place on its board of trustees. She
gave S., 900 to this Institution not long apo
and she is always giving.
o BRICE BECAME A FRATERNITY MAN.
Representative Owens says that when
Brice went to college he was by no means
rich, and he often found it hard work to
make the ends meet. The ID. K. E. frater-
nifty was the swell one of the college. and
its members embraced such men as Gen.
eral Sam Hunt, of Cincinnati. and others
A number Of the boys saw tina Brice was
a brainy fellow, and his name was bro.
posed. The rule Of the society was that
one black ball would prevent the election
of a candidate, and Brice's name was twice
black balled The members of the frater-
nifty demanded who had cast the onposinp
vote and they found that it was a voung
aristocfat named Fisk, Of Covington. who
said ne didn't want Brice in the fraternity
because he was a poor fellow and had not
what he considered a high enough social
standing. The remaining members of the
ffONSN IL. ~ VI
admitting Brice that they informed Fisk
that the question had resolved itself into
one Of himself or Brice, and that if he
again voted against Brice he would be ex-
PEELED from the fraternity. The result
was that Brlce became a member of the D..
h. b., and that Mr.. Fisk voted for him.
KATE FIELD AND HER PASTE POT
The noted women of the country are
making an onslaught upon Washington.
Kate Field has established herself at the
Shoreham. The first edition of her journal
numbered $4,000 copies. and she tells me
she has come to stay. She has a den on the
sixth hoorof Fice-President Morton's fiat,
and when l called upon her last night /
found her grand piano turned into alibrary
table and IL was covered with piles of news.
paper clippings, stray bits of manuscript.
apaste pot as big as a two gallon crock and
a pair of scissors as long as your arm. An
antique mahogany writing desk in a corner
near the window and under the gas lets
was likewise filed with proofs and copy.
and L I noticed that the ink on Hates quill
pea was still moist, as she arose and bade
me good evening. She took me from her
den into her reception room, and She
s'pned a cup of boiling hot water
while we chatted over her Jour
nal at its prospects. 81 takes this,
said the plucky editor, ''as a tonic and 7
always have my drink just one hour before
dinner" Kate Fields reception room is
one OF the cosiest and most characteristic
OF the parlors of Washington. Its walls
are hung with rare e~ngravirgs and beauti-
full etchings, and just opposite the den
shows out an autographs receipt of Alex
ander Pope for the two guineas which he
received for his translation of the Iliad.
This is no index of the prices which Miss
Field viii pay for literary matter. Just