The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-07-06

tdIklng. ugntlng, dreaming ABOUT the
sweetest thing in the world ever since"
Your brother Henry's career has been
just the same:''
Just the same
Did you care for the sugar business st
first? Was it eongenials''
Couldn't help ii. A fish born in the
water, you know, is bound TO swim"
Are you a college mani"
''No; there was no time I was pre-
pared for college in private school up
town, but the sugar business had TO be
learned
You went right into the refinery, over
alls and alls''
Yes. went in as boy; did everything
from firing the furnace TO tho most delicate
part of the process Yes, and 1 lifted
many "a barrel on 10 the truck when it was
necessary. Ny brother was there at
the same time, but don't make Us out
bigger heroes than We really are. You see,
we fitted up house on the South Fourth
street corner opposite the refinery, and
there we changed our clothing, had chef,
good lunches, a nap when we wanted il,
and so on
Horses were mentioned YES" he
acknowledged, ''horses, 1 suppose, are a
hobby of mine When I'm riding my
horse I'm riding my hobby, and my
horses are hobby horses. Now" he went
on, 1.-The peculiar thing is 1 can ride
my horse only when l choose, but I'm
supposed, along with Others with hobbies,
10 ride my hobby eternally." and the sug
ar magnate laughed heartily and played
with silver backed blotter.
You are announced as president of the
Newport Coaching club" said.
a mistake. I'm president of the Golf
club. Fond Of it? Yes, of anything
that includes horse. We play on horse
back, you know"
Then he talked modestly about his
horses at Newport, with their noble names,
and of his bulls at his mountain side home
in New Jersey, with their pompous pedi-
grecs, and of his $50 head of milk cows.
THE milk from these cows, - he said, sis
tested every week, and if an animal falls
below the standard it is at once killed or
sold'
''What is the future of the sugar indus
try, Mr.. Havemeyeri" asked as rose 10
60.
He toyed with the silver backed blotter
a moment, then said:
So some one must make il. -
Hsvemeyer characteristics.
Personally and socially the Havemeyer
brothers are charming men. At their
homes hospitality, refinement and good
living reign, and the latchstring hangs
conspicuously outside.
Among their employees Theodore is the
more popular. During the time he spent
in the refinery he would talk with any
and all of the men. Henry was always
reserved and rather exclusive. 1t is not an
assertion of superiority on his part, but
simply a natural reticence. Probably no
man in this country has a more profound
knowledge of the sugar question than this
sugar king, yet few men talk less on the
subject than he.
Speaking of the difference in their char
acters, one who knows them both said: In
business Theodore is inclined TO be moody
and changeable, but II. o. is always the
same-brusque and sort of bulldoggish yet
If had difference to
settle, would rather leave it TO the justice
of II. o. than to any other man in the
trust"
Again, Theodore and his wife are fond
of society, while II. O. and his family care
nothing for it. Theodore likes horses, din
ners and balls. Henry O. loves art and
music and the fireside. He belongs to the
Riding club, the Grolier club and the
Metropolitan museum only. Theodore is
an active and popular member of dozen
clubs, including the Union League, the
New York, the Tuxedo, the New York
Yacht club the Coaching club, the Rock
away Hunt club and the Millionaires' club.
Rivaling Monte Cristo.
OF all the rich Havemeyers, Theodore is
the richest. BY actual computation he is
30 times millionaire, and he may lap
over. OF these millions three or four are
by his homes at Mahwah,
Newport, Wheatley and New York. 4
of millions are part and parcel of
the Sugar trust. He pays taxes on prop
erty in New York city alone valued at Sl2,-
800, 600. OF this amount 50, 500, 900 is in
the big Havemeyer building, corner Of
Church and Cortland streets, while the
other $4,000, 600 are scattered here and
there, the largest lump being in buildings
In Wall street. He owns the entire block
on the street between Front and Water
streets, on which property he Is even now
planning 10 put up skyscraping office
building.
1t is commonly supposed that the sugar
kings inherited most of their wealth On
the contrary, they have amassed it by
their own efforts. When they assumed
control of the trust in'lss7, they had been
only silent partners in the Havemeyer &
Elder company. They had already become
when in 1891 their IA
Their, Frederic c., died. He left 50, 600 600, .
put of which the present sugar kings re-
,eived only about $500, 600.
Theodore is said 70 spend $500 600 a 4
year for living, but Henry o. spends less .
han half that amount. And then the I
Iiayemeyers all together own a solid two 1
miles of water front over in Brooklyn be 4
.ween the Broadway ferries and Green /
point
Their Homes and Hobbies
The country house Of Henry o. Have
meyer, where he is now living, is just out j
# Stamford. Conn. Here, in a great ram
bling colonial style house amid his 90 acres
If rolling lawns, he loves 70 live eight or
line months in the year. To old Green
vich, not far distant, the sugar king has
given big Jumps Of his sub
lance. He gave the town $50, 600 for
lew schoolhouse. Then he has given
lew parsonage and a new organ TO the
-illage church.
Neither H O. nor his wife cares for New
'Urt or other fashionable summer resorts.
ut both prefer 70 spend their summers in
l. o. : Connecticut home. The sugar king
: passionatelT fend Of music. Heplays the
iano like one with real music IA bis soul.
5ut the violin IS his fondes5 Iore,eand al
yho have heard him declare nc plays su-
'orbly, though be j. 20 modest be VIII
peak with i only 10 few az time.
Any summer evening. however, up there
Z stanford. y-u can hear the sweet strains