Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-09-15
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One may almost close the interesting
chapters of a mans life with the ter
mination Of Bis mistortunes and strug,
giles From the day he left the hospital
Allan Penton's star was in the ascend
ant. He obtained through Mr.. Cayler
a lucrative and easy position, which
left him leisure to work rapidly upon
his invention, and in due course il was
perfected. patented and put upon the
market
A company was formed to manufac-
ture it, for which Mr. Cayler, mainly,
furnished the capital One of the great
Trunk railway lines, which had tested
the invention before the formation of
the company, gave an order sufficient
to keep the factory going for months,
and their example was promptly fol-
lowed by others, until three fourths of
the English and American railway sys-
TENS had adopted it. Every one almost
knows the story of the great patent to-
day, and many have been enriched by
it; whilst the travelling public have to
thank its inventor for the additional
safety they enjoy owing to its intro.
duction.
The poor, aimless vagrant of a few
wears ago is president Of u company
worth many millions of dollars, with
sumptuous Offices in one of the great
sky-scrapers which are Chicago's espe-
cial pride and glory. He has not
rested on the laurels won by his great
invention, but has patented many more
devices of a similarly useful character,
and his name has become world famous.
After his success was assured he built
handsome residence on Michigan ave-
nue.; and having sought and won the
heart of Lucille Cayler, whom he had
already linked to himself so strongly
by his heroic deed of the fatal October
night, there was grand wedding one
day which made quite stir in the So
cial atmosphere of the Lake Shore drive.
Engrossed as Allan Penton is in in
Vulnerable schemes of personal and
public interest, in the great lake city,
his handsome home is nevertheless
scene of busy hospitality; and the gra-
cious woman who presides over it looks
as young and lovely as she did before
the night when, in wild terror, she fell
into the arms of the husband she will
always consider in the light of hero.
Among the guests selected on account
of their social prominence to meet the
royal visitors from Europe, recently,
were the famous inventor and his wife,
whose lives are as full of usefulness as
of the pleasures that accrue therefrom.
They are typical example of the class
who, sharing the misfortunes OF the
city, have in later days grown with its
prosperity to afiuence and renown-
Sometimes, as Allan Penton's car
riage rolls by, tired-looking woman,
who seems dissatisfied with her lot, and
has to work hard to help along a shift
less husband, looks out of a window on
State street, and sends her memory
back nearly a quarter Of a century, to
the time when she dropped the ac-
quaintance Of young man because he
had lost his grip for little while; but
no one knows what she feels, or how
she envies the other one who stepped
into her place. But, then, who could
have foretold the success that was in
store for an unknown inventor?-Leslie
Kane, in Demorest's Magazine.