The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-08-30
take the tips of his fingers and to wish him
good morning. After which pleasing little
ceremony each went his way.
A CHUM OF JOHN MoRRIssY

-oAOo anu bHSANC do sdAGdDlG thoroughbred
stations as are to be found in the land.
The farm is an oasis, even in land flowing
with milk and honey, and it is there that
the hrm OF Z. Reed 81 Sons breed yearly
scores OF thousands of dollars worth of
colts. 1t is not, however, the regular pro-
hts, which cannot fail to be returned from
such magnificent establishment, that give
TINS curious old gentleman his interest in
lie. The spirit of speculation lends exist
ence Its only zest for him. He loves the
atmosphere of loss and gain, in which all
last living of to-day moves and has its be-
ing, IN the stock exchange, in railroad man
agement In TOO many banking enterprises,
IN many forms OF conservative business as
well as on The race course Were ], - said
he not long since, ito know thatin certain
spot IN this city would find every Monday
morning for the remainder of my natural
lie an envelope containing S425 with my
name upon 1t should at once commit sui
eide. That would pay my expenses, and |
would have nothing left to live for.' 1t
sounds odd in the ears of men of to-day to
near how "old timers like Reed speak of
John Morrlssy and the great men of that
time Mention to Reed the name of the
puglhstlc congressman and he will reply:
why, served as cook under Morrissy,"
meaning thereby that he owed to Morrissy
a great deal OF his start in life. And there
by hangs an interesting little story. A
good many years ago Reed went down TO
New Orleans to tempt the tickle goddess
and make fortune. The ''bank roll'' with
which he went into business was advanced
MN by Mr.. Morrissy, and when he return
ed from his southern experiences, some
years thereafter with a fortune of $500
no one was more delighted than Morrissy
himself. 1t was with this $4,000 that
Charley Reed bought an interest in the
famous Saratoga club house, which Nor
rlSsy had started some years before and in
which Morrissy and Albert Spencer were
then partners. The three were associated
Tor long period, and when the share be-
longing to the Morrlssy estate was sold,
there being 500 shares in all, Reed was en-
abled to buy Jointly with Spencer until
each owned 2l7 shares, so well had the vet
eran Tennesseean prospered on the "stake''
which Morrissy had advanced him to go to
New Orleans with.
NO ECONOMY IN HIM.
Nobody to meet Mr.. Flagler could posi-
bly, conceive the idea of him at sight that
he Is the master spirit of the greatest mo-
nopoly the world is ever likely to know
Tor after Standard Oil there can come
nothing but some great change in economic
conditions. A well proportioned man of
serious, quiet face, verging past middle
lie and showing the white marks of time
IN his grizzled brown beard, j. H Flagler
is so quiet and so kindly in manner as to
impress himself favorably on whomever he
chooses to have pres ented to him. For the
choice is by no means an extensive one
and OF the men of affairs in the lower city
probably not one in hundred knows him
by sight. A characteristic anec-
dote of this remarkable person
age In .. the arena OF contemporary
human action will give newspaper
readers better idea of the manner of the
man than would a half a dozen wood cuts
and biographies. 1T was not long after the
new refinery of the Standard Oh trust was
built IN South Chicago at an expenditure
all in all of millions and with a working
force of unexampled numbers, that Mr..
tlagler concluded to take a resting spell
and run down to Florida. The Alcazar and
Ponce de Leon hotels, which globe trotters
say resemble Aladdin's palace in their
splendor as well as in the almost magical
celebrity of their creation, were Just then
being noised abroad in the world They
were the creatures of Flagler's fancy, the
pet children of his imagination, and in car
ing for them, enormous as was the expense
attending their maintenance, he was after
all simply relaxing his mind from the enor-
nous business strains he had been under
in Chicago, New York, Berlin and, indeed,
all the centres of human activity. For not
one has up TO this time escaped the atten-
ton of the Standard Oil Octopus That well
known orchestra leader, Joyce, has since the
occurrence laughed over his experience
with Mr.. Flagler at ST. Augustine, and
there is abundance of other evidence TO the
correctness OF this narrative. joyce had
been sent down to st. Augustine in charge
of two bands of thirty pieces each, one q
string and the other brass orchestra. 1t
was the opening season, and after the ex-
penditure of millions and preparations
which would have enabled the pleasure
seekers OF the world to find easy accom-
modations, there were not more than ten
guests in the house. Mr.. Joyce's musicians
sixty in number, were strung out through
magnificent suites on the second and THIRD
floors, each having a large apartment al
lotted to himself, and even then making nc
more impression of human presence along
the great marble corridors and among tbs
tapestried apartments than a half doze1
hall boys would on a floor of the Fifth
Avenue hotel Morning, afternoon anC
evening the string band played il
one of the reception rooms or great hall.
ways, while outside in the courtyard
among towering plants and marble foun-
tains, antique statuary and rare eXotics
the brass band discoursed its sonorous
strains, waking the echoes which there
came, Mr.. Joyce and his thirty PLAYERS
were lost in one end of the big dining
room, while the ten guests, scattered here
and there like currants in pudding, made
no more Impression upon the vast solitude.
There were droves OF walters, and one or
the other of the orchestras played con-
tinuously. But the solitude at last became
oppressive to the good hearted Joyce ST
one morning he sent word to Mr.. F,lagle
that he desired to speak to him. mir
Flagler," said he, 1--WE come to suggest
that we could get along just as vel
here with only one orchestra, which | an
sure under my direction could furnist
quite as much music as the house ought tt
lavish upon ten guests, aud that we dis
pense with the services of one band and
send il back to New York 1t won't cost
you anything, as L have Just heard of s
good engagement. Besides, Mr. F,lagler. ;
he continued, lit seems a shame for m,
and my orchestra to occupy sixty OF tn,
best rooms in the house. We could gel
along with fifteen, l am quite sure, and
Before the economical Joyce could pro-
coed further with his scheme for reducing
Mr.. Flagler's expenses the Standard Oh
magnate interrupted him with courteou,
but firm wave of the hand and said: ''Mr
Joyce, whenever you have any suggestion:
looking towards an increase in the comfort
luxury and completeness of my house
shall be glad to hear from you. Nothing
have is too good for my guests, and l do no
propose because there are few of them nov
to deprive them OF single lot of tina
which they would be entitled. to were al
the crowned heads of all Europe here il
their company"
No experiment has as yet been made i,
this city, by the way, as far as | am in.
formed, with the peculiar building materia
which Mr.. Flagler's architects made us,
OF at St Augustine. 1t was mixture O.
sea shells aud Portland cement. which
hardens until II becomes as solid as ston,
and gives off il tie soft southern sunlight
peculiar pearly CLEAN which is gratifyin,
to the eye and artistic to a degree