The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-13
MR.. MoRToN's STOCK FARM.
It Was a Weakness With the Vice
President-F abilities About Fads.
From the New York Press.


President-Fa taIities About Fads.
From the New York Press.
Guernsey cattle and model stock farm
were to ex-Vice President Levi p. Nor
ton what a swift-sailing steam yacht is to
Piermont Morgan and a successful stable
to James r. Keene. Mr.. Morton knew
that he was putting money into his stock
farm that would never be returned to
him, and when his friends gently re-
preached him for such expenditure he
was accustomed to reply in his manner
of charming dignity: "We1 l enjoy it,
and il doesn't hurt the cattle" If his
herd was insured, as is reported, for $685.
600 he will receive when the insurance is
paid good deal more money for those
Guernseys, choice as they were, than
they would ever have returned to him in
in any other way.
"Mr. Morton is about the last of the
gentleman farmers of Wall street." said
one of his warm friends. in speaking of
the fire which destroyed the ex-yice-
presidents 100000 barn and roasted his
Guernseys to death. II think he has
put more money into fancy herds than
any of US. Some of MIR. Tilden's cattle
were quite as costly as those of Mr.. Nor
ton, but he did not have so many of them.
Senator EvartS has small herd of a
dozen or more whose milk, he says, is as
exhilarating as champagne and costs
quite as much. Ex-Mayor Grace has
herd of from twenty to twenty-five choice
Jerseys, and l suspect he comes out about
even on them. Mr. Morton, like Mr..
Tilden, derived exquisite pleasure from
leaning over fence and watching herd
of fancy cattle as they grazed upon the
meadows, and he became quite as learned
when discussing their fine points as Au-
gust Belmont used to be when he spoke
of the racing qualities of the best horses
in his stable A Guernsey COW or bull
whose points were all perfect gave Mr.
Morton as great delight to look upon as
the contemplation of Maud S. in repose
and on the track gives Robert Bonner,
and Mr. MOrtoH's friends will be sur
prised if he does not pocket his loss, draw
his insurance, and restock his farm"
FATALITIES ABOUT FADs.
Some of Mr.. Mortons friends are sud-
erstitious enough to suggest that there is
a fatality which attends extensive and
expensive poultry fancying, and they
point to some recent experiences which
they feel assured justify their belief
Cyrus w. Field did not begin to meet
with his great misfortunes until after he
uhN puJup HIS GAUGtlolN6 IGuuGIy upon MS
place in Tarrytown, and it actuallysemed
as though every time he added to this
structure and was successful in bringing
out a large number of chicks from the in
cubator, he had some financial or domes-
tic misfortune. When the corner in
Manhattan occurred he had just triumphed
in an attempt to develop new breed of
handsome and profitable fowls by some
scientific crossing.
Mr.. Charles A. Dana when Just in the
height of happiness as an experimental
poultry fancier met with the only misfor-
tune that has befallen him since he pur-
chased Dosoris, for chicken thieves en-
tered and plundered his splendid nennery,
and it was just about this time that Mr.
Dana's newspapers met with the exper-
fence which followed the nomination of
Cleveland in 1884.
William K. Vanderbilt developed a
costly hennery on Long Island, and it
was just after a visit to it which furnish
ed him a days delightful recreation that
his yacht, the Alva, was sunk in the dan
gerous channels off Buzzard's Bay Mr..
Tilden liked game fowls and had few of
them, but he never would permit an ex-
tensive hennery to be built upon his
country place near YOnkers