The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-04-18
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It Is. fun to hear one millionaire tell
story OF another millionaire, aud here IL
one OF that kind, says the Now York World.
Some time ago he heard that Mr.. Hunting
ton had . 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-
Spouse to the note Mr.. Huntington appeared
next day III the Office of the would-be pur-
chaser. He explained that the cobs were
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 and wife, who were
rather large people. The purchasing
millionaire and his wife not being large
people, this Of course was no objection, and
Mr.. Huntington vas asked to state his
price. He said he wanted $1,000. Well,
the millionaire had seen the cobs and sohad
his coachman, and he knew that this was q
pretty long price. He expressed that cpin-
ion to Mr.. Huntington, and told him that II
he could get down to o reasonable figure
they mightta III business. Mr.. Huntington
asked what his idea of q reasonable figure
was, and the would-be purchaser said he
would give him sS0O for the pair. Mr..
Huntington scoffed at the offer, and said
that he wouldn't entertain it for q moment,
and the m%iilionaires parted and mattera
were left in this shape.
The next day Mr.. Huntington r%eappeared
and said hat he had thought tho matter
over, and that he was willing to take nine
hundred dollars, but the other party to
the negotiation was not willing that he
should have nine hundred dollars Of his,
in this transaction at least, and stuck to his
original offer of eight HUNDREDS dollars for
tho cobs. Mr.. Huntington talked for some
time and e%xpatiated on the equine ex-
c%ellencies which justified the nine hundred
dollar price, but the millionaire purchaser
wasn't at all impressed. Mr.. Huntington
was quite as eloquent as any a%uctioneer
who ever held forth ut Bulls Head or any
that Mr.. Van Tassel had eve employed,
but the eloquence failed of any effect, and
Mr.. Huntington again departed. He ap-
peared again, however, and appeared and
disappeared for all the days of the week
and several days of the following week, and
altogether spent perhaps twelve or fourteen
hours in striving to convince his customer
that nine hundred dollars was not too much
for what he had to sell. But failing utterly
in this phllanthropic desire, he finally said
that he would take the cighthundrcd dollars
which was offered if the purchaser would
pay his coachman twenty-five dollars.
'sBut," said the other millionaire party,
~ have nothing to do with your COACH
man,"
"But," said Millionaire Huntington, tiny
coachman expects something, and 3 Gems
TO mo that If l give you the hors. your
price you ought to pay him."
Well, the purchasing millionaire didn't
look at it in that way. He didn't
think that a coachman on wages-and
he presumed that Mr.. Huntington paid
his wages reg~ularly-was entitled to
commissions, and he thought they had a
demoralizing and %corrupting influence on
the stable or unstable morals of the coach
man, and he thought also that if there was
any corruption or Generalization to go
forward it would have to be done with Mr..
Huntington's money. These arguments
were, Of course, unanswerable, and Mr.,
Huntington, having spent q number of
valuable hours-bccause m~illionaircs' hours
must be valuable-in attempting to induce
the other party in negotiation to pay one
hundred dollars moro THAI he wanted to
pay, and having tailed utterly, accepted tho
check for eight hundred dollars, and the
horses were duly transferred.