The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-05-27
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

Rufus Hatch raised and sold garden truck
lie early life.
Jay Gould was a surveyor and school
teacher in his youth.
Senator Matthew Stanley Quay earned his
first money saving wood.
Daniel Frohman was an errand-boy in the
New \ 0rk Tribune cOunting-rOOm.
Calvin S. Brice's first labor was over law
books in a country law office in Ohio.
Russell Sage was a clerk. He learned
frugality in his brothers grocery-Store at
Troy.
Oscar Wilde of esthetic fame is soon to
bring out volume of papers under the title
of Intentions"
Henry Willard, who has had many ups
aud downs as railroad man, earned his
first money as reporter.
Vice President Levi z. Morton earned his
first dollar as a clerk in a village dry-goOds
store at Shoreham. n Ii.
Sidney Dillon, the President of the Union
Pacific Railway, commenced as errand-b0y
in the New 1ork Central Railway.
The Duke of Fife is such an extreme dude
that he insists on being measured for his
neckties and pocket handkerchiefs.
James Gil!epsie Blaine taught school in
Western Pennsylvania for his first dollar.
Later he became a newspaper man, and
naturally grew rich and famous.
Mrs. Potter Palmer, President of the
Worlds Fair Lady Managers, who sailed for
Europe with her husband last week, is one
of Chicago'S handsomest women.
Congressman Stewart of Aurora, Ill,
whenever a circus comes along near that
town, charters a train and takes a lot of
children to the show at his own expense.
Prince Henry Of Germany, the Emperor's
younger brother, Is having fast forty ton
English yacht built Tor him, and expects to
have lots of fun racing in her the coming
season.
Elk Senator Thomas G. Plat was born on
a farm and earned his first dollar hOeing
corn for his father. He was three DAYS en-
his father gave him large silver dollar.
The Rev. Phillips Brooks is descended
from line of clergymen. one of them being
the Rev. John Cotton. When he was in
England in 1882 he preached in the pulpit of
his ancestor, John Cotton. i'll old Boston.
Il is reported that II. B. Walmsey OF Eau
Claire will subscribe $4,000 toward the es-
tabliShment of a ''Womans auxiliary aSs0-
ciatiOn' to the Michigan University. He
and his wife are both graduates of that in
stitutiOn.
Louis Philippe, who claims to be cousin
of the last King of France. arrived at the
Barge Office in New York the other day as
a steerage passenger on the steamer La
B0urgOgne. He said he was going TO Cali
f0rnia TO become wine-pr oducer.
The Emperor William will bring retinue
of severity people along with him when he
visits Grandma Victoria at Windsor Castle
in July, and the old lady is already having
new locks put upon the doors of the wine
cellars She is not going to take any
chances.
Cecil J. Rhoades, the rising statesman of
Cape Colony, is smart, active and progress
sive man, who has brains and ambition to
push him into any position, and wealth
enough to make him Independent of all
influences outside Of his own sense of what
is right.
Captain NJ. B. Hughes of the Ninth Cav
airy has a curious relic of the late General
Crook. 1t Is little wooden d0ll-baby that
the old Indian fighter carved out of an old
army wagon tongue with a penknife while
on the Apache campaign IN Arizona. Crook
was universally known among the Indians
as the whiting medicine man."
Mr.. Maxim, inventor of the famous gun
bearing his name, is now interested in aerial
navigation, and recently went to the Smith
sonian Institution to see Professor Langley
Mr. MaXim's experiments, conducted at his
place in England, as he describes them to
persons who conversed with him, have been
exceedingly practical in character.
During his exile to this country Talley-
rand lived for time in Philadelphia, but
none of the houses that then gave him shell
ter are now standing. The tradition that
he kept a shop and sold buttons to the
QuakerS is accounted for by the fact that
he once roomed over such a store and may
have occasionally tended shop for the pro-
prietor.