Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-08-28
HOW THEY GO BROKE.
SOME INTERESTING STORIES OF lNPECUNIOUS
STATESMEN.
Il Is Not Unusual for Congressman to Mortgage
Their Salaries Year in Advancs-Prssidsnts
Who Have Been Hard Up-StatsSmsn
Who Were Tramp Printers
Special Correspondents ora. REGISTER.

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membe OF Congress. a man OF National
reputation, who said to me yesterday:
AZ am broke and can't get home. That
is the reason l am staying In Washing
ton through the hot season" but
why don't you discount your salary a
few months in advance?" l asked.
Have already done that" was the re-
ply; "have drawn my account up to
November /, and then will have to draw
it till the end Of my term in order to
raise enough money TO pay my cam
paign expenses.
$50 you see I am practically mort
gagged till the 4th Of next March. To
maintain myself and family in Wash
ington In the style which my position
| demands and my wife insists upon l
have been compelled to sepnd not only
my salary as representative, but my
| income as q member OF law arm In my
town and considerable money besides.
| wish | had never been elected 10 Con-
gress, but being in l can't afford TO let
20 without one or two more terms. Here
| am broke, busted fiat, unable 10 go TO
| seashore or mountains and afraid 10 go
! home, because the very moment / ar
| rive there the campaign striker will be
after me with both hands"
The statesman who is broke we know
very well In Washington. IL Is no dis
grace TO be without q bank account,
though decidedly inconvenient. Gen
eral Garfield, during his long term In
Congress, was nearly always out OF
money. He had an unfortunate habit
| Of borrowing from his friends. He
never failed 10 pay back, but was always
in a state of perturbation lest he might
fail to meet some obligation OF this sort.
1t is not generally known that while
| he was I'm the presidential chair General
Arthur was nearly always hard up for
! cash. His expenses were very heavy,
and ran right up with his salary. 1t
often happened that tradesmen had TO
wait for their pay. They were willing
10 do this, for the President was good
customer. and his obligations were as
| good as gold.
Greneral Grant was often "broke" be-
! fore the war, and he saw some pretty
hard times after he left the Presiden-
tial chair. Abraham Lincoln knew very
well what it was not 10 have cent in
the world. There were days in the life
of Grover Cleveland, not so very many
years ago, when he found IL necessary
| TO let his board bill run week or two
for lack OF ready cash, and when the
| proprietor Of the Buffalo restaurant in
which the future Governor and Presi-
dent played his favorits game OF peno-
chile used TO be asked TO put 1t on the
slate for Grover"
Mention of Mr.. Cleveland recalls a
good story OF one Of his most famous
friends, ex-Mayor W. Il. Grace, OF New
York. Grace is now a very rich man
how rich nobody knows. There are four
brothers Grace in the firm OF w. X.
Grace 81 Co., add their house is worth
from so, 600, 900 to $50, 100000. One OF
the brothers is in Australia, where he
is power in political rs well as In com
mercial circles. Another brother is ia
South America, where he is power be-
hind governments and marplot In
revolutions. A third Grace is In Lon
don, where he Is very influential mer-
chant and member OF parliament. The
fourth and chief of this remarkable
quartet OF brothers Is the ex-Mayor,
who is an extraordinary genius ia poll
tics.and commerce.
With all his genius, Grace was once
"broke." Some years ago he arrived in
ST.. Louis without dollar. Casting
about for some means of raising the
wind" he remembered that n man
named Ryan lived In that town. He
did not know Ryan, but Ryan bad mar
ried woman named Mary Moore, who
had been a friend OF Grace's In a New
Orleans boarding house. The future
mayor and millionaire merchant
thought II he could find Ryan and Mary
he could borrow enough money to get
out OF town with. He didn't know
Ryan's first name, and there were about
a hundred Ryans ia the city directory.
But one OF these Ryans kept a saloon
on the levee, and grace OWNED that
this was the man because he had kept a
similar place In New Orleans. Entering
the levee saloon Grace found tough
ioint-sawdust on the floor, greasy Ia
bles, plug ugly behind the rude bar.
"Are you Mr.. Ryan," inquired Grace,
with his sweetest amile. Nav; ont.
What yer want?" 81 want TO see Mr.
RYAN" ''Ef amt good enough fer ye,
sit down over thar and wait" when
do you expect Mr.. Ryan IMP" "Me6be
| FIVE minutes; mebbe not Tor week. "
| This was not encouraging, but Grace
was desperate aud SO he sat down. In
an hour, as luck would have It, Mr..
RYAN came In. There's a bloke as
wants ter see yer" said the barkeeper
as the proprietor entered. Ryan was a
pretty tough looking customer himself,
but his heart was In the right place, Tor
az soon as Grace mentioned his former
acauaintance with the girl who had be-
come the divekeeper's wife Ryan took
his hand and said:
"Anny man that was = friend Of
Mary's kin have all the money ne wants
from me. See?'
And he was a. good as his word. The
hundred dollar loan which be made to
Grace may have been the foundation Of
the fortune Of w. Il. Grace d Co.
Senator Cullom IL often dead broke. -"
| 7 have known him TO borrow luncheon
money of his committee clerk. Cullom
ia hard up all the time, In which be is
! like many other Senators. Carlisle Is as
often hard pressed for bit Of ready
money as any other careless wage
worker in the land. Ed Wocott runs
out OF cash pretty often. but he has the
great advantage Of always being able 70
get more by simply telegraphing 70 his
good brother Henry.
| am told that Mr.. Brlce's "liying ex-
ponses" exceed $1,000 a week the year
through. Besides his villa at Newport
he has a house in New York, another 10
Lima, O., and he soon will have afourth
in Washington. where one Of the finest
and most famous houses Of the city is
being fitted up for him at enormsus
cost. Il il the residence OF the late w.