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The Portland daily press., 1892-12-16
HAMILTON WILLIS, BANKER.
How the Scion of an Old Portland Family
Boston.-His Daring Methods and Final
Co1lapse.-Reminiscen of Wildcat
Banking Days, .4
Boston Transcript

Hamilton Willis was the son Benjamin
Willis, rich man, who was the son of
an older Benjamin, who was also wealthy
These older Willises came Originally
from Portland, Maine. Old Benjamin
Willis was rough-appearing and a
ugh-talking man; was full of French
ideas of the revolutionary kind and we
used to refer to him as "Old Robes
pierre He was very frugal old man
and was a frequenter of auctions and in
the habit of buying anything that went
cheap, and so filed his house full of buds
it was said, to the annoyance of his wife ;
and she, when the house was too full
would send them to the auction unbe-
known to him. He often bought them
over again without knowing they were
his. We used to laugh at this fancy of
his, which seemed to be mania for buy
ing everything that was cheap. On a
rainy day he would appear on the street
with an old-fashioned hat SO out of date
as to look odd; but he did not care, he
could draw big cheque on the bank, SO
he was wonderfully respected and wholly
for his money. They were remarka-
trio-father, son and grandson; but
father and son were suspicious of Hamil-
ton, the grandson, who was fast as
well as smart young man, and did not
seem inclined to walk in their frugal
ways, but was inclined to paddle his own
canoe without any regard to his ances-
tors advice or opinion.
went into C1ark's office as clerk in
1910 and saw a great deal of Hamilton
Willis. and [ could tell some strange
things of his way of doing business; but
there was time when he wanted some
money to make new arrangement with
Clark and he said to his father
"Father, want you to lend me $10,-
O0O."
''Ten thousand dollarsr' said the old
man. What do you want it for?"
Hamilton did not go into details; he
only said, ''for business purposes"
The old gentleman went to This desk in
the back part of the office, and drew a
cheque and brought it forward land said,
Hamilton, [ don't want to lend you
$4,000. but here is $4,000 that twill give
you.'
But the son said, 81 want $4,000 or
nothing
The old man slowly tore up his cheque
saying while doing SO, II would have
been very glad to have present of $4,000
at your age"
''Well | am not" said Hamilton.
The lzind-hearted old gentleman felt
badly, and spoke of it to me afterward.
He wanted to help his son, whose smart
ness he liked, but not his ways; but he
wanted appreciation, and I think he ex-
fusal and come to take the $4,000, which
1 assured was ready for him; but he
never did.
Soon after this the partnership with
Clark ended; they settled and separated.
Willis had had but small interest and
The Portland daily press., 1892-12-16

uniform tariff and would demand preferential
treatment in our markets as against British
and foreign goods. The answer was that
uniform tariff would be necessary, ana tlaU,
too. on the line of the present United States
tariff and that tn United States could admit
oil no arrangements which did not give their
goods favored treatment as against foreign
goods, especially those of Great Britain who
was their chief competitor. To these PROPOSE
tons the Canadian representatives declined to
agree. The conference then broke off so far as
i CARDS the consideration If the commercial
question What the conference plainly de-
Veoped was that the Canadian government con-
sidered the practical surrender OF its hscal
powers. and absolute discrimination against
Great Britain with all thatin involved as too
high price to pay for any advantages which
might accrue from possible treaty"
Whether Mr.. Fosters recollection of
the conference corresponds with that of
our representatives we cannot say. But
it must be evident that as long as we
maintain protective tariff against Great
Britain a free interchange of goods be-
tween this country and Canada can only
be arranged upon the basis here indi-
Gated. To shut British goods out of our
ports only to be landed in Canada and
brought overland into this coun-
try would be absurd. Not only
would the protective purpose of the
tariff be defeated but the revenue pur-
pose as we'll. The practical effect of
such an arrangement would be to hand
over to Canada the decision as to what
goods should come in free and what a
duty should be levied upon, and also to
deliver to her the Iintire proceeds of that
duty,
The Portland daily press., 1892-12-16
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We OFFER FOR SALE
Municipal Security
COMPANY
3 1-2Per Cent Bonds
DUE 1889.
Especially secured by Municipal Evidences
OF Indebtedness, deposited with the Trustee
The par value Of such deposited debts and OBJ
value of the outstanding bonds issued by the
Security Company.
DIRECTORS.

-DAL E15N~ Z &Vl k-<gs
Byron d. Verri1l, President, Attorney at
Law, Portland, Maine.
Weston Lewis, President MaineTrust and
Banking Company, Gardiner, Me.
Stephen j. Young, Treasurer Bowdoin
College, Brunswick, Me.
L. L. Keith, President Machias Bank and
Treasurer Machias Savings Bank, Machias,
Me.
Theodore G. Woodbury., of Messrs. Wood
bury s. Moulton, Bankers, Portland, Me.
The bonds are in denominations OF $1,000,
$500 and 500, bearing 51a Per Cent. interest
payable semi-annually at the Company's Office
In Portland, Maine.
We have made careful examination of this
Security and can recommend these bonds for
Trust Funds, as we believe them to be per-
fectly safe security. based as they are. on the
ing, and secured by Municipal Obligations.
We shall be pleased to give further informa-
ton in regard to these bonds upon application.
Price par and accrued interest.
The Portland daily press., 1892-12-16

Mr.. Cleveland since the Reform Club
banquet must appreciate as he never did
before the truth of that passage from
Proverbs, "Better is a dinner of herbs
where love is than a stalled OK and ha-
tired Herewith"
The Portland daily press., 1892-12-16

The Hon. George E. Foster, Dominion
minister of finance, has recently given
his version of the conference with our
government looking to closer CONNER
cial relations between the United States
and the Dominion. The Dominion
commissioners, according to Mr.. Foster,
asked Mr.. Blaine if the United States
would consider an arrangement on the
lines of the reciprocal treaty of 1854 for
the free interchange of natural products
and Mr. Blaine replied that it would not.
What followed is stated by Mr.. Foster in
these words:
Mr. Blaine was asked as to certain conditions
of possible wider arrangement, among others,
whether the UnitAd Stotea would insist upon a
The Portland daily press., 1892-12-16

Various explanations are given of the
narrow majority which license received
at the election in Boston. They all re-
late, however, to the mannerin which the
law has been administered. There is no
claim on the part of anybody that the
vote indicates that nearly a majority of
the electors of Boston have been con-
verified to prohibition. Many Democrats
voted against license because they be-
lieved the law had been administered in
way to hurt their party. Many liquor
sellers. or men who wanted to be liquor
sellers, voted against it because they
thought it had been administered with
partially; that is to say, that by means
of certain influences some men had OBJ
tanned licenses, while other men whose
claim was intrinsically better were re-
fused. Now these charges are Identical
with those that have been made against
prohibitory laws. How often we have
read in our Democratic contemporaries
that the prohibitory law was being
worked in favor of the Republican party,
and how often has the charge been made
that certain persons were pursued by
the officers, while others, equally guilty,
were overlooked. But the people who
have been in the habit of making these
charges have always insisted that these
forms of corruption or favoritism were
peculiar to prohibition and that under a
license law they would disappear. The
adoption of TINT form of restriction they
have claimed would take the saloon out
of politics, and they have professed to
believe that the people who did
not obtain licenses would readily
acquiesce and go out of the bust
ness. The history of license in
Boston disposes of every one OF these
claims. The saloon has not been taken
out of politics; the men who have not
obtained licenses have not acquiesced.
Not single one of the incidental bene-
fits claimed for this system has been
realized, neither has the amount of
liquor sold and consumed been dimin-
ished by a single gallon.
The Portland daily press., 1892-12-16

The Hon. Roger @. Mills has risen up to
say that the report that he had said that
Crisp had speech but wouldn't get a
chance to fire it off is false. By the time
that tt gentlemen who attended that
famous New York banquet get through
denying what they did not say and ex-
planning away what they did say they
are likely to become very tired indeed.
The Portland daily press., 1892-12-16

The communication of DR.. Banks, the
physician of the Marine Hospital, else
where printed, shows that though
cholera has diminished in some parts of
Europe, it is very far from extinct,
and thatthe time has net yet come when
our quarantine precautions may be safely
relaxed
The Portland daily press., 1892-12-16
THE PRESS.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16.

Mr.. E. Ellery Anderson's explanation
made to Speaker Crisp has not served to
smooth that gentleman down to an appre-
ciable extent.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-03-23
The Scientific Bore.

Did you ever reflect" said the scientific
nuisance TO victim sitting beside him as they
rode downtown on the Third Avenue ..L' road,
ION the immense amount Of emergency which
is wasted annually by New Workers in going up
and down the steps OF these elevated roads,
NO, said the victim YEARLY, for he was
anxious TO finish the stock report he was read
ing; II never did
well" continued the man Of science. 81 es-
innate that half million tickets are sold daily,
which means that these steps are ascs ended and
descended 1000, 900 times a day, and that
means So5, 10000 times year. Do you follow
so. yes: O. ves~ ansuerad the o.bAr no.
paying the slightest attention, says the New
York HeTdLd.
Now, IL we put the average hight Of these
stations at 80 feet and the weight Of the average
passenger, counting in women and children at
100 pounds, We have 100 times 30 times 365, 900,
wasted annually BY the people Of this city IN
climbing these steps. IF you have no objections
we will call il 100 900 600 600 900 of foot pounds
20, have no objections" said the other
man, getting red in the face. Not the slight
est. -
''And if we should add TO this the number of
foot pounds OF energy which would be obtained
II all the noise produced by these elevated trains
were converted into useful force instead Of be
ing wasted"
eyes, " interrupted the victim, land IL we
should add TO that all the foot pounds of energy
which are wasted by good, long suffering pas
sengers, who are fools enough to listen to such
internal nuisAnces as you are instead of kicking
you down these steps you are talking about so
much"
But the scientific gentleman had started for
the door and as the train drew out of the sta
ton he was seen in animated conversation with
a gateman whom he was pumping for new
statistics,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-03-23
PERSONAL.

Ma. JACKSON. the new Irish secretary. In q
few months has already crossed the Irish
channel oftener than Balfour did during the five
years incumbency.
SOMEBODY sent Mr.. Balfour sprig Of 4-leaved
shamrock on st. Patricks day with an express
sion that Il would change his luck in parlia-
mentary leadership.
ISAAC WALDRIcK of Biairstown, n. j., who was
fatally stricken with paralysis on Saturday
morning. was q member Of congress from New
Jersey from 1919 to 1853
EvES royalty practices economy at times.
The King and Queen Of Portugal are removing
to the palace OF Necessidades a tumble-doun
e1if1ce reprinted to hide its real condition.
TIE wedding Of Maj. Post of the United
States legation at London and Miss Pulitzer Of
New York will take place at St Margaret's
church, Westminster, shortly after Easter.
THE Duchess of Sparta, daughter-in-law OF
the King Of Greece. and sister to the Emperor
of Germany, is said to be more like Queen Vic
toria than any other Of her majesty's grand
daughters.
NJ. RENAN says that he made the discovery
over forty years ago that by the writing of
amusing works one grows sad, and that the
best way OF remaining merry is to write OF
serious subjects,
RUSSIAN COUNT, whom political exigencies
compelled to leave st. Petersburg. is now NOV
ing IN the highest circles in Cincinnati where he
is doing quite we'll with a furniture car business
he bought out recently.
Mrs. CUNNISeHAM GRAHAM, the Spanish wife
OF the socialist member of Parliament, is a re-
markable woman. She spends half the year IN
Spain following the track of Saint Theresa,
whose life she is engaged in writing.
DENMARK has dramatist named Holberg
whose comedies are regarded by his country
men as above those of Moliere. Some Of his
PLAYS have been translated into German and
II is proposed to do a number of them into
English
THE Marquis de Mores, who tried hard to kill
NJ Isaac in a recent duel was the SWEETEST
ranchman that ever beautined the plains of
Montana. He was accustomed to wear silk
shirts, and boots that would have won the heart
OF stage hero.
ROBERT l. GLENN of Chicago is negotiating
for the purchase Of Farragut Point, tract of
60 acres on West Pascagoula river, louisiana
two miles from the gulf, with a view of making
It a winter resort. The property belongs to the
heirs of Maj George Farragut. father of Ad-
miral Farragut.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-03-23
savannah,s Good Fortune.

Savannah has no reason to complain Of
the treatment she receives in the river and
harbor bill. She gets $425 900 for her har-
Dor improvements for the next fiscal year
and the Secretary Of War is authorized 10
make contracts 70 the amount Of S3,217,000
for osntinuing that Improvement after the
S425, 900 appropriation has been exhausted.
Il is estimated that these gums will be suf-
fcient to complete the 26-foot PROJECT.
There is no doubt that the bill will pass
witho Ut material changes. As soon as the
appropriation becomes available work on
the Improvement will be resumed, and will
be pushed vigorously and continuously until
completed. There will be no more long de-
lays for the want Of money. The
Secretary Of War will authorize the
contracts which the engineer in charge Of
the harbor recommends, and the necessary
money will be appropriated in the annual
sundry civil bill
1t may be reasonably expected that the
20 foot project will be completed within
three years. 1t will be If the Secretary Of
War throws no distractions In its way by
delaying the making of the contracts recon-
mended by the engineer in charge Of it.
Savannah will feel the effects of the bill
as soon as it is passed. The fact will be
recognized that she will soon have the best
harbor on the South Atlantic coast. and
confidence in her growth and commercial
prosperity will be greater than ever be-
/ fore.
The progress Of the river aud harbor bill
through congress will be watched in this
city with intense interest. 1t is bill that
means a great deal for Savannah and the
entire section Of country tributary to her.
With channel to the sea accommodating
vessels drawing % feet of water, she will be
the seaboerd outlet Of an immense section
| of the south aud west.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-03-23
BRIGHT BITS.

ETHEL-I hear that you have been ill., Mr.
Chapley
Chapley7I have been under the doctors care
for week back.
head.-Truth.
AM 1 cross-eyed. Charley?" asked the rich
Yes, Maud; but who wouldn't be with your
eyes? If my optics were as beautiful as yours
I'd be trying to look into them myself, too"
Nelc York Sun.
Mrs. SNowBALL-So you is sprinklin' flows on
your husoans graves. Which one 20 deco
ratin' now?
Mrs. Widowthrice-Sho', 1 dunno. Nebber
could 'membah what ordah dey's laid in.-Kdte
FIELDS Washington.
Pretty GIRL TEAoHER-If you devotedIy be-
lieve all have taught and religiously observe
the commandments, you will meet me in
heaven
Chinese Pupil-whattee goodee thatee doi
No malllage There. -Neto York Weekly.
AUNTY TO little visitorJ-Do you drink tea,
pet?
Wee Niece-No'm. Mamma won't let me.
Aunty-What do you drink?
Wee Nlece-O, mamma mixes me up q mess
that looks like tea.-Street f SMITHS Good
NetCs.
" HEAR" said the Russian traveller, that in
America there is no such person as a press
censor"
"Well," returned his interviewer, 4" that shows
that you have been greatly misinformed. Wait
till you see the holes the city editor will knock
out OF my Puck.
REV. Mr.. ExTEMPoRE hearers, 1 shall
have to ask your indulgence for few minutes
forgot my manuscript, and have sent my little
boy for 1t.
His Son mounting pulpit, in loud tone
Mamma couldn't fnd the writin', but here's the
book you copied it from. L. Bits.
EIsENsTEIN. PERE - key, have you been
sphending more money!"
Eisenstein, flls-I only sphend Elm penny,
fader. for paper.
Eisenstein, pere-Anoder paper already, ven
you haf not read all die paper vot you puy last
week! Ikeyl key You will ruin us!-Boston
Courier.
MRS PARvENU-How is your daughter getting
on in Europe now, Mrs. Newriche?
Mrs. Newriche-She has pulmonary tupercu-
losis
Mrs. P-whatl Has she married him!
Mrs. Mo. no. That's disease.
Mrs. P-O, | thought 1t was one Of them
Polish counts Minneapolis Journal.
81 DON'T quite undahstand this leap yeah bust
ness " said Gus de Jay to young lawyer whom
| he met at the club.
What is the point you don't understand?"
why, does fellow stand chawnce of get
| ting damages fob bweach OF pwomise and ali
mony and that soht of thing. or does he Just
have to go along unprotected. ~ Washington
star.
ToM-When saw you at Minnies wedding,
| thought that you should have been the groom
yourself, old man.
| jack did come very near marrying that
girl once. | was calling there, and about 1880
| | bracsd up aud commenced a proposal; and
| Just then her father came into the parlor.
Iom-That was awkward.
jack should say so; he put me completely
out.-Detrott Free Press.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-03-23
INDEX TO NBW ADVERTISEMENTS.

MEErrse-Forest City Lodge No. IL. Ma
kional Brotherhood OF Boilermakers.
SPECIAL NoTIcE-Notice to Traverse Jurors
City Court Of Savannah.
RAILROAD SCHEDULE-Savannsh, Florida and
Western Railway.
FINAEcIALc-The Citizens Bank OF Savannah.
AUCTION SALE-Household Furniture, ETC., by
j. Mclaughlin & Son.
FOOLISH MAN-Collat's.
You ALL-Appel & SchauI.
OFFIcIAL-Circular No. 2l2 and Telegraph
Circular No. 2. Railroad Commission of Geor
gia.
SUITS FOR SPRINs-B. H. Levy & Bro.
SPRING HArs-Falk Clothing Company.
CHEAP COLUMN ADVERTISEMENTS - Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For
Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-03-23

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The Power OF Love.

i've heard of a girl pawning her engage
ment ring to buy her lover Christmas pres.
ent. but never heard anything stranger than
a story told me while out west recently said
the barber to Boston Herald man as be
stropped his razor the other day.
I'm a combination jewelry and pawn shop
a diamond pin was exhibited for sale It
caught the fancy OF young lady. The more
she gazed on the pin the more she wanted il
for the man she loved.
She went home and got all the money she
possessed. Coming back to the store. she
asked the price of the pin, and found it a few
dollars more than she had.
Haven't you any old gold that you can turn
into cashs' asked the ,jeweler. I'VE will buy
old gold at any time"
The girl thought a minute Suddenly she
frightened up and took set of teeth from her
mouth. The plate was Of solid gold.
Cant you use that?' she asked the pawn.
broker.
~ shall have to weigh it, he said.
"All right"
And to weigh it shall have to knock the
teeth off,"
KNOCK them off, then"
The broker did so. weighed the plate and
found that its value made up the lack and 9S
cents
The girl took her 90 cents and the diamond,
and went out with handkerchief over her
mouth.