The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-29


Minneapolis, April -Millionaires in
Minnesota are thicker than mosquitoes in
New Jersey. You can't throw a stone On
the streets of St. Paul or Minneapolis
without hitting a Croesus. There are
humber millionaires, milling kings, real
estate magnates and railroad bugs galore
This is the greatest lumber center of the
,nion. J. Newton Mind, the editor of the
ZIMMERMAN here, tells me that Minneap-
ais will sell more lumber than any city
in the country in 1898, Weyerhauser, the
Iumher king, makes this his
home. No man in the world repre-
sents so much lumber as Weyerhauser.
He owns timber all over the country.
and he buys by the millions. Just
the other day he paid over s., 900, 900 for
5OOOOO. 900 feet of the standing pine in
Northern Minnesota, and the syndicate
of which he is the head will l am told
within four years control all the white
nine of Wisconsin and Minnesota 1t has
a capital of $60,0O0,000 1t has great saw
mills which turn out hundreds of millions
of feet of lumber annually, and whose
product is worth close to $4,000 600 a
year. 1t buys new lumber regions right
along, and it is looking out for new fields
in the SOuJl ana northwest.
FROM BEER TO BULLION.
The syndicate includes a small number
of rich men, but Frederick Weyerhauser
is the richest and brainiest of them. He
is German and began life in a brewery.
He came to this country without cent
and worked for 81 day After leaving
the brewery he piled slabs in a saw-mill
for time at 81 25 a day and gradually
worked his way up in lumber until he is
worth millions. He is as plain to-day at
80 as he was when he worked in his first
saw-mill, and he labors just as hard He
is wrapped up in his business and goes at
times from lumber camp to lum-
Der camp, taking pot luck
with his men and having thorough
knowledge of every detail of his
business. He is a man of great ability.
full of common sense, and his four sons,
who are all in the lumber business, take
after him. The boys have been well edu-
Gated, and his youngest son is now in Yale
College Weyerhauser gives a great deal
to charity, and his oldest daughter. who
lately married a Dutch Reformed preacher
OF Syracuse, spent a year some time before
her marriage in going about among the
lower classes of New York city doing
charitable work
7. B. Walker of Minneapolis is another
lumber king. He is said to be worth
$l0000000 and his house here contains
some Of the finest paintings you will find
in the United States.
SOME MINNESOTA MANSIONS.
wish | could take you into the houses
Of these rich men of the northwest. They
are as fine as those of the money kings of
New York or Boston, and many of them
will rank with the oldest houses of Eu-
rope in their artistic furnishing There
Is to-day more art displayed in the big
Business blocks and in the fine residences
Of St. Paul and Minneapolis than you will
find in those of Boston, Cleveland or Gin
cinnati. The finest Young Mems Chris
tan Association building in the world is
here. The Minneapolis Club has finer
quarters than any club in Washington
CITY, and there are number of 81, 000, 900
business blocks here which have more
fine marbles and Roman mosaic work than
the cathedral of st. Marks at Venice.
These men have made their money
quickly and they spend it freely. Their
homes are full of beautiful things from
all over the world. Take, for instance.
that of Thomas Lowry, the street railway
millionaire of Minneapolis. II is a big
od-fashiOned mansard house of about
twenty rooms, which are packed with art
treasures
Every one calls Mr. Lowry Tom here.
and he is every ones friend He is still
IN his 4Os, but he controls a capital of
Sl20OONO, and his income is probably
something like 500, 900 year. He came
here from Logan county, Illinois. as
Young lawyer. His father was friend
OF Abraham Lincoln. He was poor when
he came here, but he at once Jumped into
olg practice, and he was soon engaged
II nearly every speculation of the town.
Along back in the '7Os the horse car
street railway line of Minneapolis was in
pad way, and Tom Lowry borrowed
elo,OOO OF the Security Bank and bought
IT, lie improved it, extended the lines
ana so managed it that he was soon able
TO get hold of the st. Paul street car
mes OF the two cities. He has made his
system the best, it is said, in the United
oidleS, and his credit is such that at the
Iine OF the Barring failure he was able to
RAISE $1,000, 900 in New York at a low rate
VI interest. His street car lines were
ChdnGed from horse cars to electricity in
track u
Tom Lowry is man of strong friend
Sllps, He is as well known in New York
anu washington as he is here. He was
one OF the few men who had access to |
paine al all times, and he largely aided |
senator Wa5hburn in tiding over the |
financial troubles in which he was in |
vowed at the time of his election to the |
!. AIS Is gOOd story teller, and it |
Is Sdlo the knows Shakespeare by heart |
anu can repeat Paradise LOST from be-
ginning to end, He has a beautiful wife |
SlSq d very bright family. l am told that |
ne mad fiery red head as a boy. though |
Ii9 udlr Is now beautiful brown and his |
r wnlshers are almost black Two of his |
sIilS nave red hair. The Youngest of |
S Lnese was only years old when her little |
SSopy brother was born. She saw the |
sSl- baby and that night they saw
Que closed her prayer as follows:
l.. tease, God, bless baby brother. but |
o oou let him have red hair We have |
'' q oyugh red heads in this family already" |
senator senator Washburn's residence here is |
%orth fortune. 1t is an immense white |
ovone' surrounded by ten acres of ground. |
CcoeeIy loot of which is valuable. He has |
s so;h out of financial troubles and is |
again rich. "A-A -
JIM HILLS MANSION.
,n me residence of James ]. Hill. the |
fIodv northern railway magnate. is one of
w IIg5'aiiily nne homes of the world. George
w. w. Chllds when he visited IT, said ii sur
Ta,ot mat of the Vanderbilts in MANY |
o, rS >, and that he liked it better than his
nm, nome IlL'e at Wooten. l visited it in COM
ply raSS, WIN Mr.. Hills friend, George A. |
blachett and like it far better than the
san SAL? Oh North, the nitrate king, which |
hi England last summer. 1t is more
ST 'lT IKE and less gaudy. 1t is located in
~ raul on Summit avenue opd its