Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-04-26
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be read with interest
Major w. 7. Sutherlin is president of
the Virginia Board ofAgriculture. His
home is in the outskirts of Danville
Major Sutherlin tells a story which
carries revelation of southern charac-
ter.
'I came down to Richmond once" he
said, ito see a business man who had
sent for me. he had extensive inter-
ests, but had become so tied up through
partners operations that he didn't
know what to do. He said to me:
II have made up my mind that there
is nothing for me to DO but to assign. |
am broken up There isn't any way
out But want your advice before
act.
"'Dccs any one know how you are
fixed 2 asked.
"'No one but you, he replied. !
haven't told soul bat YOU Every body
else thinks Pm all right
How about the banks 2 asked.
"'They don't know lie answered.
"Then had him go over the whole
situation until l knew as much of his
affairs as he did. He was involved
badly, but | could see the way out for
him. He couldn't see anything but
ruin ahead. felt perfectly certain that
if he could maintain the existing conf
dence in him for q few months he would
be all right. / could see that his bust
ness would carry him if he could only
get out of the entanglements. After |
had learned everything l made him
promise that he would do exactly as
told him. He was ready for that and
he did it blindly.
"'Can you borrow 5000 cash from
the bank p asked.
!" 'Oh, yes he said. 4 can do that
easy enough
"'Go and get it, 1 said. "Give your
wife 81 900, and send her to New York
and Philadelphia to buy the finest car
riage and team which the money will
get. Tell her to bring back something
that will outshine anything Richmond
! has seen.
al went away. Some days after |
was in New York on business and met
the wife of my business friend. She
said she was up there to buy carriage
and horses. She wanted me to go and
look at carriages.
Ono said. you have taste. Go
ahead and get the most attractive and
stylish carriage you can find in New
York. Then go down to Philadelphia
and huy ypIIr. horses
"When l returned to Richmend l
saw my friend.
"'When your wife gets back with the
outfit, said ], you give her the other
81 COO. Tell her to put it in her pocket
and so shopping. She needn't buy a
great deal, but she can look at things,
buy occasionally, and always pay,
showing her pocketbook full of money
and explaining that you have insisted
that you want no bills run, but prefer
to pay cash. Meantime youkeep away
from that carriage. Don't you be seen
in or near it. Wear your old clothes
and stick to your business just as if
you couldn't afford to be away long
enough to sleep and eat,
Then | went off about my own busi-
ness. was walking down Broad street
several weeks afterward, when | saw
the most splendid establishment on
wheels that Richmond ever knew, l
expect. Great Scott! how that car
riage did shine. And the horses And
the gold-mounted harness Whcw 1t
was gorgeous, tell you. met some
body knew. and asked:
"'What rig is that p
"'Why, was the answer, that's Jim
Blanks. He brought it in New York
for his wife. Blanks making more
money than he knows what to do
with
Il walked down on Main street and
went into one of the banks. After
some conversation / asked the presi-
dent of the concern how Blank was DO
ing.
Making more money than any
man in this town. was the reply.
II made n few moro inquiries. The
answers were all the same. Every
body was impressed with the idea that
Blank was coining money, and ne and
l alone knew that he was as near bank
ruptcy as man ever gets without 60
ing down. But it wasn't six months
until he was doing what everybody
thought he had been doing all the time
making money. Blank kept right
along, as I told him, too busy to talk.
He cleared away all the entanglements
and went on without the world ever
knowing, To-day he is worth n mil
lion and half. lie had a possibility
when he was just ready 10 give up.
That possibility and the 600 borrow,
ed investment in carriage, horses and
pocket money did the whole thing"
The Major leaned back and shook
with laughter as he recalled how the
biggest business bluff ever played in
the city on the James won out.
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