Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-06

concluded to hold his Electioneer colts for
a rise. On this stock farm Stanford has 125
stations, 16O brood mares and $50 hllies and
Reliings, each of which is worth fortune
and the poorest Of which will bring more at
q horse auction than a clerks yearly salary.
Stanford began mis- horse breeding, he once
told me, for his health, got interested in 1t
and kept it up until he made it pay. He
has certain plans and theories of breeding
stock peculiar to himself and when he first
advanced these the other horse breeders of
the United States laughed at him and called
him Cray Stanford"
A few years experiment and the excel
lency of his stock showed them that he was
right, and he now gets the highest prices in
the country. One of his theories was that
during certain seconds of every race the
trotting horse had
ALL HIS FEET OFF THE GROUND
ut the same time. This was sneered at until
Stanford employed the photographer, Muy-
bridge, to test the matter with a score of
cameras The result proved that Stanford
was correct, and the experiment formed the
foundation of instantaneous photography,
Stanford published a book about the matter
which cost him $40, 900 for ], 900 copies, and
this is the cOstliest horse book ever pub
Standford's income is by no means con-
fined to horse breeding profits. He has
miles of vineyards and farms, railway and
steamship stock, and he receives every year
at least 8, 900, 900 from his investments.
He makes good turn every now and then
In speculation, and not long ago while
riding across the Potomac to Arlington he
stopped his horse at the end OF the George
town(bridge, and, looking up and down the
river, told his private secretary to buy all
the land he could see from that point on the
Virginia side. The private secretary upon
inquiry found it would take two wears at
least to perfect the titles and get hold OF the
property. Senator Stanford then said he
would drop the matter, as he had enough on
hand and his fortune was so large that it
would not pay him to bother to increase it.
Had the land been bought be would have
built railroad into Virginia and have laid
out big suburb on the Potomac Heights
He saw there was money in it, but he did
not care to worry about it. II was the same
when he was in Turkey some years ago.
The Sultan wanted him to build railroads
and he replied that he would have Jumped
at the chance if he had been Younger and
poorer. He is said to be worth 500, 00o, ,OOO
and his hrst money was made peddling
horse-radish.
STEWART AND HIS WEALTH.
Senator Stewart, of Nevada, is at the head
of the California syndicate which is now
putting millions into Washington suburban
real estate. They have bought the land bv
the acre and will sell it by the square foot.
They have a number of bills before Con-
gress authorizing them to build railroads
through it, and they are asking about 800
per cent advance on the money they paid to
the farmers. Senator Stewart rolls in
money. Still, he looks more like a farmer
than millionaire, and his ROSY face has
none of the signs of the dissipated life of
the very rich. He has blue eyes. beard of
straW-colored silver, and his bald head is
fringed with fuzzy white hairs. He has, it
is said, 5000 laid by for every one of these
hairs, and though he has lost several for
tunes he is again on top. He still holds the
big castle which be built opposite Blaine's