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St. Paul daily globe., 1892-07-17
SLAMS POTENTATE.
How One Monarch Manages
to Take Life Very
Coolly.
He Initiates McGinty, and His
Wives Go With
Him.
An Idea That Should Be
Adopted by American
s Millionaires.
Then Sous Mer Receptions
Would Become the Ultra
Fashionable Fad.

The young king of Siam, it appears;
is a man of excellent sense. For mon
arch, with several hundred wives, he
takes life easily. Besides the wives the
king has much more of everything than
his heart desires. He is Lord of q
Thousand Elephants" for example
But what can any one do with thou
sand elephants? If the king owned a
circus be might get along with fifty ele-
plants, and then he would really. have
the greatest show in Siam. But a thou
sand elephants! Why. good gracious
you would think they'd eat him out OF
house and home. And so they would
but that the king has more money than
he knows how to spend.
And he need not spend any of it.
That's the beauty of his enyiable lot
If he sees anything he wants he can
send some high official to the owner OF
it, and the high official will announce
with much dignity that His Unspeak
able Serenity has decided to honor Mr.
Tunamackahi by appropriating his
daughter or his chateau or his horses,
and Mr.. Tunamackahl. with Joy thai
descendS to generations, kisses the dust
and sends around what the king wants
done up in blue ribbon and flowers.
Now. the only thing that has vexed
the soul of the king is the summer eli
mate of Bangkok, his capital. Bank
kOk has a steaming, cooking climate, 6
climate of higher rank than few OF
New YOrk's summer days, for it boasts
of major general humidity. But this
king, having long ago exhausted the
resources Of pajamas and mint juieps
and having vainiy excited the jealous
frigldity of scores of his wives Iii the
attempt to reduce the temperature, hat
at last conquered the climate. A Chi
nese architect has removed the only fly
in the kings pot of ointment; has glvei
him the only one thing he lacked, abso
lutte comfort during the otherwise un,
bearable hot weather.
This is stated OIL the authority of ar
English traveller who lately arrived il
this country. The EngliShman'S name
is Clark Russell, but he is not even {
relative Of the distinguished writer who
tells such good yarns about the sea
This Clark Russell, made rich by the
prudent care and acquisitiveness of hi:
father, manufacturer of cutlery il
Sheffield, has passed the last four year:
in wandering about the continent o.
Asia picking up odds and ends. scien-
tiiic and curious. which, having +;
few enemies. it is his intention to EN-
body in book. He bas been through
Thibet, the dominions of the great lama
traverSed Manchuria and Mongolia. tht
entra-mural possessions of China; mad,
incursiOns into the unfrequented wild
Of Siberia, and latterly has been touring
the southern regions of the continent
Coc hin-Chlna, Tonkin and Siam. H,
paused for time at Bangkok ant
picked mp mnch Interesting information
there. There is one story thar hetell
Il was. surprised" said Mr.. Russell
the other day. at the size and appear
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gle against poverty John Jacob Astor
lost the faculty of being generous.
When he had become a millionaire,
bank clerk, fresh in the business and
Ignorant of his standing, expressed some
doubts about his paper"
'And what do you think am worth?"
asked the fur trader.
The clerk heSitated, but named some
trifiing sum. Mr.. Astor produced pa
pers which showed that his check was
good for $500, 900, anyhow. - -
WELL" said the unabashed clerk,
'syou are even bigger fool than | took
you for. to work as you do"
On another occasion he refused to pay
for chrOnometer which his favorite sea
captain had ordered for ahisVoyage5tO
China. The captain got indignant and
resigned, whereupon rival firm at
once employed him and started him for
China on the fastest ship they could
charter. He outran Mr. Astor's ship
and got back with big cargo of tea in
time to break the AstOr monopoly. so
John Jacob lost the entire profit of a
voyage, about $1,000. He quietly
walked down to the office and re-en-
gagged the old captain. but never offered
word OF apo logy. The same captain
saved him 100000 by seizing property
i'll China which had become e'derelict,"
as they say in maritime law. in conse-
quence of the sudden death of Mr.. AS
tors agent there. The captain was not
in his employ at the time.
II should never have got dollar but
for you," he said in burst of gratitude
when the captain got home. but that
was the only allusion he ever made to
it, nor did the captain ever receive one
cent of reward. Itappears, afteraalI,
that only S2,000.0oO of his fortune was
made in trade, all the rest was made by
the rise in real estate values in this
city, as he steadily invested his savings
in advance of the city's growth. Now
the AStOrS own some three thousand
eight hundred houses and rent-paying
lots in this city, and are by common
consent at the head of the ''FOur Hum
dred." The richest man in Rome in
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ance of Bangkok. 1t is the Venice of
the East. The city lies on both sides of
the River Menam. About twenty miles
from the east and on each side, branch
ing out from the stream. are a great
number Of canals, upon. which the
dwellings and public buildings are
built. The houses, constructed Of
wood. as in most Eastern cities,
stand upon wooden supports,
these supports at night makes a unique
and pieasureable sensation. 1t is as
though you were borne along on a gent
ly moving river, for the city is as silent
as metropolis. and there are no sounds,
no changing of street car bells, no hide
Gus shouting of street peddlers to break
the spell. Farther down the river you
see tier upon tier of floating houses
moOred to the bank, in which a large
part of the population of 100000 dwell.
but that part of Bangkok which in
terests the tourist most is the section
set apart for the king. The palace is
mile in circumference. Within them
are temples, public offices, seraglios,
stables for the sacred elephant, accom-
m0dations for ], 900 troops, cavalry. ar
tlliery, war elephants, an arsenal and a
theater. The palace of the king is
equipped In true Oriental magnificence
Hangings Of the costiliest tapestry and
mats of woven silver catch the
eye at every turn. His present
| majesty - luxurious fellow = had
lately erected structure of which the
like does not exist in the world. In
summer Bangkok is a sweat-r0om, the
hot compartments in a Turkish bath
room is .nothing to il. and any con-
trivance to escape from the heat is
eagerly entertained.
"Some Chinese architect suggested to
the king that ne have erected a glass
pavilion in the great reservoir that
occupies part of the palace gpounds.
he drew the plans, and the scheme
captured the fancy Of the king. The
pavilion is built entirely Of glass-walls.
floors, ceiling apd all joined By an in-
dissoluble cement. The plates or slabs
Of different sorts and thicknesses and Of
yafiegated ebt6rs we're obtained in
France. whiEher an agent had besh sent.
When put Wgethsf they formed the
pfettIsst and srahgesf stfGefufs thai
imagihatiQp Gan picture. TfS Chinese
architect, tEGA,fp the genius Of big face,
had ornam66ted it with Quaint fuxret3
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jacob, Astor. He loved his own people
with true German intensity. and there
never was one of the nime of Astor who
wanted for aught after he got able to
give relief. He had All absorbing pas
sion for music, and could forget every
care in looking at a dramatic represen-
tatioG. He possessed an almost super
StltiouS reverence for books and authors,
and the only two men whose views he
never crossed and whose advice he fol-
lowed implicitly were Washington Irv-
ing and Fitz-Greene Halleck. TO them
the city OF New York probably owes the
great Astor library
His father was n ne'el-do-well. a
butcher and jack Of. all trades in Wal
dorf. Germany, and the family was SO
miserabiy. poor that the four boys could
not be apprcnticed, and had to leave
home as soon as able to maintain them
selves. So it is not to be wondered at
that in thirty years of desperate strug-
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WhIMS OF RICH men,
Various Vagaries Of Several
Noted Millionaires of This
Country.
John Jacob Astor the Earliest
and 20 ID Hutch" the
Latest.
The Latter Starts a .Restau-
rant Because Pie Was
Too High.
Something About Stephen
GiPard and His UnSeifish
Patriotism.

Money is always afascinating subject
The poorer a reader is. as rule, the
more greedily does he devour the stories
or how immense fortunes were made;
with the keener Zest does he hear of the
eccentricities Of the newly rich; how
Astor dickered with an Indian for a
coonskin and turned widow out of her
home for few shillingS; how Girard
picked the old nails out of goods boxes,
and how ''Old Hutch'' compelled a guest
to eat eggs instead of beefsteak.
One hundred and twelve years ago,
says the New York Advertiser. lad Of
seventeen sat under tree in Baden.
Germany. and tearfully took a last look
at his native village. He had not been
happy there, but one does not leave bis
native place without Sigh. Three
years later he was toling in the store of
Robert Bovine, Quaker merchant and
furrier, of this city. Two years after
ward he was fur buyer on his own ac-
count, and confesSedly the shrewdest
one in the new world. lii the year 1900
he was shipowner and China trader.
In 1915 he was tie richest man in North
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the days when tie empire was at its
greatest owned 944 houses and shops.
The ASt0rS have the oldest large fort
une in the United States, and ''Oid
Hutch" probably has the newest, though
he is worth only little matter of
S2,O00,0 or SO. In fact, he wouldn't be
worth mentioning in times like these
but for his eccentricities. The world
outside OF Chicago knew very little of
this man till he organized the great
squeeze" in wheat i'll the fall of 1888.
1t Was then published that. some fifty
years before he was an oyerworked and
not very well fed boy on a stony Massa-
chusettS farm; that he skipped to a
ieighboring city, got into the shoe bus
mess. and soon after into total bank
ruptcv, not paying three cents on the
dollar.
The reporterS-most of them on the
other side OF the market-said no more.
but his Old neighburS added with in
dignation that his first move after he
gained a competence in Chicago was to
return to his old home and pay every
claim against him with good interest.
Verify. "Old Huich'' is solid in Mas
sachusetts. He owned fine residence
on Michigan avenue, Chicago, but
passed most of his spare time in the
president. manager. steward, and often
chief cook. Amusing stories are told
OF his utter disregard of the tastes of
his guests. One gentleman whom he.
had invited to dine with him said he
would have a sirloin steak.
mo you WON'T" said the host; ~ you'll
take an omelet, and you'll take it as l
cook it.'
And he did, though he privately de-
clared that he detested eggs in any
shape. About 6 in the morning the old
gentleman-his name, by the way, is
Benjamin Peter HutchinSOn-uSed to
walk from his room to the market to
buy stake. This he cooked at the
Gibbs kitchen range. allowing no one
but himself to touch it, and this was his
breakfast. He was long the 'boss of
the wheat pit" but went in too deep
zone day, and soon the world heard that
he was bankrupt and fugitive.
For some weeks he was ''lost Daa-
phin" and a "Tascott" both in one.
One day the detectives had him located
III New Orleans, the next i'm Boston or
Montreal, and finally in Paris. Mean
time his son settled his affairs, and it
turned out that "Old Hutch" had
S2,0D0.000 salted away. Next the liter.
All OF Boston formed his acquaintance,
and found with astOnishment that he is
one OF the best ShakeSpearean scholars
in the country, and his views on latter
day poets are well worth hearing. He
Is at present located in this city, where
his last performance was to start res
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America. and today the four families
descended from him are worth, by their
own account, S240, 100000.
lie never had a childhood, as child
hood goes among American children.
Never, in all the fourteen years between
his baptism and confirmation-in the
Lutheran church-did he have one
shilling to spend as he pleased. and
many a time did his poor, patient Ger
man mother toll till midnight that he
might have norsel of bread when he
went to his work at daybreak. Yet he
lived to endure seven years of absolute
second childhood," when he was tossed
In blanket as his only exercise, and
his last business transaction was to
order the eviction for non-payment of
rent OF woman much older and quite
as poor as his mother had been.
Yet there was much good in John
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Drowned on Lake Erie.

CLEVELAND, July 16.-The steamer
Cumberland, which arrived at Ashta-
bula today, brought young man named
Adolph Blazer, who was picked up from
an overturned boat three miles from the
Canadian shore last night. He and his
brother went boat riding with two young
women. They were caught by the gale.
the boat overturned and his brother and
the two girls drowned.
St. Paul daily globe., 1892-07-17
A NATURAL CROOK,
Ex-Pre sident Grevy,s Son.in.Law
Illegally Elected.

illegally Elected.
PARIS, July 16.-M. Daniel Wilson,
son-in-law of the late NJ. Greyy, whose
implication in the traffic in decorations
when NJ. Grevy was president, caused
such scandal as to lead to the forced
resignation of President Grevy, was a
short time since elected mayor OF
Loches, the commune, in which his es-
tateS are situated. Charges are made
that he had used illegal means to Sc
cure his election, and he was placed on
trial: Today he was found guilty and
fined 1000 francs for corrupt practices.
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Heavy Reward offered.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, July ia spe-
ciai to the Times from Parsons, Kan.
says that the officials Of the NJ, Z. & T.
railroad have offered a reward Of $40, 900
for the arrest and conviction of the rob-
1bers who robbed the train in the Indian
Territory last night, and reward of
5000 for. the arrest and conviction of
any one of them.
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a temperature of SO deg or your money
returned! Pass on, pass on; twenty-five
minutes and fine concert by the Mer
maid bana-all aruistsW Oh, there are
great possibilities in this Chinese archi-
tect's idea, and they are given here for
what they are worth.
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healthy action, puri6es and epfiches the
blood, cleanses and repairs the system,
returns health and yigDf, and builds m,
flesh and strength. Fdf Hl diseases that
come from . Gsordsred liver Of impure
a1G0d sk;n Ia pSYpsie silis9ensss sfEsfyions,
Tse9 54ESk 4
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InStallment
Payments !

Which may enable her to get
a better garment than she
otherwise could do. Put up
with a little discomfort and
come in this week. Make up
your mind what you want in
Fur order it and go away with
the comfort of knowing that
much IS off your m1nd, and you
have saved money Styles are
ali decided on. We hare a full
stock of garments or skins to
select from. You have all to
gain and nothing to lose. We
have plenty of time to wait on
you. Come in.
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He Was Snre ofIt

Detroit Free Press.
She-But, George, dear, do you think
you can support me on $40 week?
He-Think. darling? 1 know it.
There's place down town where wa
iacan get twenty-one meal tickets for
St. Paul daily globe., 1892-07-17

For 200 years before the estab lish-
ment OF a republic, no son of French
monarch had succeeded his father to
the throne.
St. Paul daily globe., 1892-07-17
ON MONDAY, JULY 18th,

We make our final and deepest
cut On our stock of Fine Tailor
Made Clothing--UnW August Isl.
The prices we shall make dur
ing the next two weeks will GER
tainly be great inducement to
those who have not already
bought their Summer Clothing.
NOTICE THE FOLLOWING LIST OF PRICES:
All $500 Business Suits
Reduced to $4,000.
$4,000 Business Suits
Reduced to $3.50.
$500 Business Suits
Reduced to $3.50.
$1,000 Business Suits
Reduced to $1,000.
$3.50 and $500 Negligee Shirts
Reduced to $500.
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RANSOM
-AND-
F|I()F}} I On

IT'S rafher hard to know just
what to say at this duA season
to make the buying public see
that IT'S to their interest to
shake off the tethoryic effect OF
hot weather and come in and
tQkQb0ut and look at Furs. Per-
hqps a direct dig at their p0ck-
ct is the best way So We viii
try 1t this week. For one week
We offer q
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MELTING PRICE
ON
F URSS!! }!

That is, a price that me/ts
away a good share of four profit,
and will pay you for melting a
little in trying on and handling
furs this hot heather: We MM
allow you to select from our
stock, or have made "to ORDER "
anything you may wish in
FURS and give you a STRAIGHT
DISCOUNT or 10 PER CENT
from our regular price. This
means SIS 10 SIS saving to
you. Isn't that worth having ?
We want to do business all the
year round.
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+ j R. s
AND
HOT WEATHER.!

Don't seem to go together. but
neither do muslin and winter
weather. Yet we know ladies
buy their muslin in the winter
to make up ahead for summer.
and gain BY doing it: So you
can gam BY having your FUR
work of any kind (new or re-
pairs) done row. Any iady
who IS intending to purchase a
Seal Mink, Otter or other Fur
Garment can save money no
per cent BY ordering MW
besides getting better work;
better chance of selection of
skins, have garment ready in
the early fall, ana If she chooses
can make
St. Paul daily globe., 1892-07-17

A good ap-
petite can be
bought, like
anything elsa.
And good &-
goStion after
It, too. Both
Of them come
with Deetor
Pieroe's Gold
! m Medical Dis
cpye3y. That
| stain the tor
mid ME0e into
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-06-25

bicycling The habits are almost as conven-
tional as in the city, but among party
starting out for laurel one day this week
there was hardly one not distinctive
enough to be interesting. blonde Bal
timorean in silver gray attracted the most
attention. Her perfectly cut, faultless bo-
dice had black revers and opened over a
linen shirt with black tie. Her high hat
so far departed from custom as TO in
dulge itself in long, picturesque white
gauze veil. Mounted on big black horse,
she made symphony" in gray and
white and black we'll worth noticing Navy
blue was the original color, though on
the outskirts of the group was a brunei to
in dark crimson, handsome, hot-looking
and not with profit to be initiated.
Wheeling would grow faster among
such fashionables as come to Newport il
it were more graceful. They're athletic
enough, and, in point or fact, in the
morning hours young girls and young
married women are out by dozens and
scores upon their safeties; but a good
many keep out OF it because they've
watched the others riding.
A steel-colored cheviot was the material
of the most attractive dress I've seen for
bicycling It's wearer had been after wild
roses and came back TO the city with two
escorts, each with branches of sweetbnar
tied to the handle bar. Her plain skirt
had very narrow pink fold run about IL
at the DoJton, ,stne Iolueu sklrt Opeheu over
a pink percale shirt and pink and gray
four-in-hand tie. She wore gray cheviot
cap and seemed to be finding life more
than satisfactory
There is not muchsto say about evening
dresses yet, though the dance will soon be
in full swing. Simple white Indias come
out at the informal entertainments, or
organdies of delicate tints and trimmed
with ribbons. There was on exhibition
yesterday ut one of the famous modiste's
briar rose silk frock that indicates
what we're coming to in week
or so. 1t was figured with tiny, deli
cate maiden hair fern fronds, and its
draperies were looped with ribbons of the
rich brown OF the fern stem. 1t had
creamy lace at throat and sleeves and was
the very embodiment OF June.
When the waltz music sounds more de-
cidedly there'll be much to say, even of
slippers. ELLEN OSBORN.
-Copyright
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port where SUMNER storms are very
rare. A slim, pale, light haired
gfrl--heir to an uncomfortable num-
Der OF pillions-as she sat Ia the stern OF
sturdy crews skiff, looked almost
smothered with the new wraps collar
that reached the tops of her ears, the
voluminous skirts. the vide belt and
great square pockets aud general profu-
sion OF stuff and absence Of fit But, of
course, what the Duchess Of Portland
wears on a nasty night In a gale off
Cowes Newport girl must put on in
good weather and on q rippleless sea.
The riding clubs are active and, curl
ously enough, Newport quite takes to
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white and fiat and burdened with tan
gle of wild roses. White taffeta strewn
with fern fronds was founced with lace
and worn with an enormous picturesque
hat, from which wild grasses dropped to
the shoulder. A scarlet India silk blouse
was the finish to a while batiste frock
looped and knotted with broad scarlet
ribbons.
IL was pretty sight with huge, bright
colored lace and silk parasols, like gay
pinioned birds, lowering here, darling
there, never "A moment still anywhere.
When night settled down, as il did be-
fore the last OF the boats with its merry
company pulled ashore, there came out
the long. shapeless. dark blue and white
yachting cloaks that are the proper thing
at Cowes where it is nearly always stormy
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The YACHTING FASHIONS
SUMMERS CAPITAL FILLING UP
what the summer Girl Wears When She
wheels or Rides = Costumes In the
Casino-sheIl Pink, Blue and Cream
when the Dance Music Sounds.

NEWPORT, r. l., June 4.-The sum
mer capital has flied up amazingly the
past week, and the dressmakers and mil
liners and jewellers and ministers to lux
urious tastes of all descriptions who flock
here from New York and even from Paris
at the beginning Of the season are busy
and apparently happy.
The air is full Of the scent ofroses The
cottage verandas are wreathed with them.
and the great pink, crimson and white
dewy-hearted blossoms make the early
morning hours, before Newport fashion
ables are stirring, sweet and ailuring.
The yachting contingent have at
present much to say. Commodore
Gerry's Electra, Cornelius Vanderbilt's IS
great English yacht Conqueror, w. X.
Vanderbilt's Alva and Mr.. Parks Sultana
have all been riding in the harbor
together within a few days. On board
one OF the yachts breakfast was given
: day or two ago, which was the .prettiest
festivity as yet This season. Decked from
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Among
Our Own
People.

Joshua wiibour of Wilbour, Jackson &
Co. is on pleasure tour through Europe.
Word was received from him on Wednes-
day that the voyage over was an un-
usually quick one. He will probably be
absent about two months.
Mrs. Edward M. Clarke invited a few
friends Thursday evening. to meet her
cousin, Mrs. Joyce, of Boston.
Earl G. Anthony took the 5:45 train this
morning for Boston to see his brother aud
family of for Europe on the Cephalonia.
Among the cottagers at Buttonwoods
are Edward Mason and family, Mr.. and
Mrs. III. Il. Maine. DIR. Ames and family,
Mr.. Warren. Of Warren, Salisbury a.
Co., with his family, Mr.. Davol and
family, Jessie II. Sweet and family,
family, G. Il. Godfrey and family, Mr.
and Mrs Louis NJ. Jackson, Mr.. and
Mrs George +. Holroyd, j. Edward and
family, Mr.. and Mrs. Burgess, Miss
Annie Burgess, Mr.. and Mrs. Edward
Hough, p. III. Rose and family aud Mr..
and Mrs. Bowen.
Joseph NJ. Mann and family have taken
rooms at the Hotel Buttonwoods for the
season. They will go down on Saturday.
Joshua NJ. Alderman, treasurer of the
Industrial Trust Company, will sail for
Europe Monday next. Mr.. Alderman
will be absent about two months.
Robert L. Lippitt i'm his yacht Chinook
arrived at Newport late last evening. He
will cruise along the coast to-day with a
party of friends.
The children's garden party for the
Lend Hand Club, which was to have
taken place at the rear OF l64 Prospect
street this afternoon, has been postponed
until Monday on account of the rain.
The hours are to aud the admission 10
cents.
Mr.. and Mrs Ira I. England of PRovI-
DENCE are at Rest Farm Cottage, Block
Island, for the season.