The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-09-11

proud persons worth not 1O0th part
of this mans colossal fortune might learn a
lesson from his quiet, unpretending manners
and genuine affability. he is a bull on
Erie stock and is a power at the stock
exchange when he wishes to be. He Is very
popular in Wall street
The Earl of Beaconsfsld said that the re-
latiOns between public man and his pri-
vate secretary were the finest that could
exist between man and man. This IN
doubted fact is illustrated in the case of
Col Daniel s. Lamont in his relations with
Grover Cleveland. No man has rendered
that statesman higher service than the
former newspaper reporter. Mr.. Cleve-
land has said: II told Dan Lamont that l
wouldn't go to Washington unless he went
with me-
The salary of the private secretary to the
President is 5000 year. Col. Lamont
could not afford to give his time for that
amount and DIR. Cleveland accordingly paid
him IS, 600 year in addition from his own
salary. Col Lamont is now at Aix-les-Bains,
France, recovering from the effects OF hard
work and insomnia. To get rid of his sleepless-
ness he got into the habit of taking
bromide of potassium and he is now suffer
ing from the effects of bromide poisoning.
He is SO years of age, feet inches in
hight, of a rather slight build and has
thick, reddish-br brown and bushY mustache
and retreatiug forehead. His tempera-
ment is eminently diplomatic, Self control
is his one great law. Tennyson's Injunction
Is: "Self-knowledRe, self-reverence, self
control, and this hard-headed young poll
tIcian lives up to it vigorously. He is the
incarnation of shire wdness and discretion,
There is not a better informed man in
the United States on state and national
politics than Col. Lamont He is a prac-
tIcal student Of politics not only in this
state but in many other states. While in
Washington William G. Whitney singled
him out as man of unusual ability, and
after Mr.. Clevelaud's defeat he induced
Col. Lamont to become identified with the
metropolitan Traction Company, which
owns or controls numerous street railroads
in New York and other cities of this ooun-
try, and he is now president Of the Houston,
West Street. and Pavonia Railroad Com
pany, and director in two other street
railroad companies. His income is proba-
bly, not far from 100000 year. He neither
smokes nor drinks, and his only amusement
Is fishing. He has tished in every trout
stream Of the Adiroudacks. No man lives
who CO I'D hav0 his services as private sec
rotary again, not even at the white house.
MEN OF NOTE
A. II. Combs, the Little Giant" of the
stock exchange, weighs 100 pounds, is a
broker for Addison Cammack and other
OpCAo1O lie SuLu6blulGS bTdU0b III OU,bOU
to A. 900 shares in day. He mas been in
VIII street nearly thirty years and a MEM
Der of the boHrd for twenty-five years. He
was In the mining board with power of at
torney for big operator when be was only
Is years old.
John Pondir, on the fifth floor, is one of
the old-time celebrities of Wall street. In
former days he was great friend of James
X. keene. In features he is considered the
plainest man In Wall street He was lunoh-
lug at Delmonico's, on Broad street, one
day with a company Of gay spirits, when
one of them said: John, you are the home
lest man | ever saw. You beat anything
in New York"
10, no." said Mr. Pondir, with his never
failing good nature, there is u man in this
city who is homelier than l am"
"I'll bet bottle on it," said his friend.
"Send for my son Rufe," said MIR. Pondlr
to a waiter.
W hen Rufus Hatch Pondir appeared in
the doorway of the famous retaurant a few
momen later the sceptic at once threw up
the sponge. Mr.. POndir enjoyed few ad-
vantages of education in his youth. but he
Is man Of great natural ability. He is
Que of the rest co 7noisSeurs of pictures in
the city. He used to like games of chance
and Is said to have broken several faro
banks in former aad perhaps happier days,
i he 81 ry Is told that on one occasion he
went into Barclay street gaming place
and remained all day. Along toward mid
night the employees began to turn out the
gas. 1t was sign that the place was broken.
Mr. Pondlr had won $50, 900.
Coils +. huntington, tall, we'll built,
with closely cropped iron gray beard,
Prince Albert coat, and a slouched hat,
ahRhts from carriage. cAle in hand, aud
presents keen palrof gray eyes and strong
features TO the 1eIOider as he moves
EHFnFNr EtF , VvlI TMe
history. IS part Of the history of
the far west He is connected
with some Of this country's greatest
corporations. He is q natural ruler of men,
not excepting Leland Stanford whom ne
forbade to use the Southern Pacific Rail-
road Company any further as a political
machine. He is worth fifty millions.
CLEVELAND AS LAWYER.
Grover Cleveland is a member of the law
firm Of Bangs, Stetson, Tracy 81 MacVeagh,
on the fourth floor. He Is a good lawyer
in consultations. His work in this firm Ia
what is known in the profession as office
work" He never WAS a pleader in the
courts, yet his state papers are considered
sound and often, in some respects, brilliant.
His share in the profits of the firm Is about
$4,000 year. All Of his admirers In BUSH
ness circles send him cases whenever op-
portuntty arises. He has acted as referee
in three cases, and 1T so happened that the
courts set aside his decisions. Some of the
best Of lawyers meet with this at times. In
one case the New York state court of APP
peals reversed the verdict won on Mr.,
Cleyeland's preparation of the case.
When case is presented to him he il
careful and even laborious in hunting up all
the authorities bearing on the matter. He
is naturally hard worker. This fact was
illustrated when he was mayor of Buffalo,
governor Of New York and President of the
United States He comes down to his office
at about 10 O'Clock in the morning on the
Third avenue elevated road and is always
the object of curious attention. Men and
women stare hard at the ex-President. He
stops work at about 5 O'Clock and usually
walks up Broadway as far as thirteenth
street to James Lidgsrw FANCY grocery.
Mr.. Lidgerwood furnished the white house
with supplies during Mr., Cleveland's admin
istration, and on the return of Mr.. Cleveland
from Washington he used TO diue with the
eK-President.
Mr.. Cleveland spends his evenings at
home, at the theater or at the opera. as
well as at private dinners. He does not
like the opera, partly because of a defective
ear for music and partly owing to the long,
and as they seem to him, wearisome acts.
In the spring and fall he often goes TO Long.
wood, aud in the summer he usually takes a
trip to the Adiropdacks, where he pratifies
his love for iShiuU