The Portland daily press., 1892-09-07
PORTLAND. MAINE, WEDNESDAY MORNIl

worker in the land. Ed Wolcott runs
out of cash pretty often, but he has the
great advantage of always being able to
get more by simply telegraphing to his
k49aMu pt Uiu un aier MI r1ces living en-
penses" exceed $1,000 week the year
through. Besides his villa at Newport
he has house in New York, another in
Lima, O., and he soon will have fourth
in Washington, where one OF the finest
and most famous houses of the city is
being fitted mp for him at enormous
cost. Tt is the residence Of the late w.
w. Corcoran, and before that was the
Swami house. The central part of it
was for a short time owned and occu-'
pied by Daniel Webster, having been
presented to him by his New England
admirers.
Judge Holman, who saves so much of
the peoples money, has none of his own
to save. The clerk at the hotel where
the judge and his wife board tells me
he is often asked for a loan of a dollar
or two to tide the great economist over
TIL pay day. The judge could at any
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cared to do so, but he has scruples
against that. When the sergeant-at-
arms cashier ran away with congress
mems salaries two years ago and money
was voted out of the treasury to make
up the losses, nearly all the members
took the sums due them. Judge Hol-
man had about $400 in the safe when it
was. rifed, and there is $500 now to his
credit. He says he will never draw it.
President Harrison doesn't know what
it is to be hard up nowadays, for he is
putting aside about $50, 900 year out Of
his salary, but there was a day in which
silver dollar appeared as big to him as
cart wheel. It was just after he was
married and he and Mrs. Harrison had
gone to housekeeping in cottage in the
outskirts of Indianapolis. The rent was
only twelve dollars month, but the
future president found it very difficult
to pay even that much, and he used to
walk to and from his Office in order to
save car fare.
We have in Washington official life
number of men who have known what
it is to 'stramp for job" Amos Cum
mings used to be a tramp printer, and
though he tramped principally for the
fun of the thing he was more often
without dime than with one. Amos
tells story of how he spruced up once
on squirt and astonished all the resi-
dents of the town of Auburn, N. Y. The
night Amos reached the village, after a
long and dusty ride on a coal car, there
was to be dance, for which several of
Amos compositor friends held tickets.
They gave Cummings one of them, more
as matter Of joke than anything else,
for the future congressman didn't look
as if he would dare show himself in the
presence of 1adies.s
But Amos knew all the tricks of the
trade and he wanted to go to that dance.
He borrowed fifteen cents to get shave
with. Then he went into the printing
office, and with pair of shears cut out
of piece of white cardboard one of the
neatest and most immaculate shirt fronts
you ever saw Collar and cuffs of the
same material followed, and a strip of
rich, creamy wedding" inlaid note
paper made very handsome necktie.
The trick of mixing little kerosene and
printers ink in just the proportion to put
good shine on an old pair of shoes Amos
had learned long ago. At the ball no
one showed up tc better advantage or
attracted more attention from the ladies
than the handsome tramp printer who
now represents New York in congress.
Senator Hansbrough used to be a good
deal of a wanderer too. He was out in
Burlington, Ia, once ''busted." He
tried to get job at typesetting, but
failed. His landlord was about to turn
him out because his bill was unpaid, and
something had to be done. Hansbrough
had made the acquaintance of Ken
tuckian who had brought over from his
state lot of stock to sell. He had a
few common looking horses, cattle,
sheep and one old Jimmy" "Let me help
you sell your stock" said Hansbrough
to the Kentuckian. "I'll write your
animals up as blooded, give their pedi-
grees, ETC., and after you sell out at fancy
prices you can give me what you can
afford out of your profit" The Ken
tuckian jumped at the chance.
A long account of the importation of
thoroughbred Kentucky stock, with an
elaborate pedigree of each animal and
cogent reasons why the introduction of
such blood in Iowa should be encour-
aged, appeared in the next number Of
Frank Hatton's Hawkeye, being printed
without charge as a news item. There
was a rush for the blooded stock. Fancy
| prices were obtained, the old Jimmy"
which the Kentuckian afterward ad-
mitted he had bought for seven dollars,
bringing 1915. Of course Hansbrough
got a generous stake ont of the profits,
| and he says if the Iowa farmers who
bought this thoroughbred stock will for
give him he will promise never to repeat
his offense.
| Frank Hatton knows what it is to DO
'broke" himself. About four years ago,
after an unsatisfactory newspaper ex-
perience in Chicago, he rode into Wash
ington on pass. He had enough money
to pay his hotel bill and other expenses
for two weeks. In ten days he had
bought the Washington Post, paid $1O,-
600 cash on it and obtained control.