Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1894-10-18

mana en- MIN tnat ne closed nis once Hnd
called for police protection. Al this mo-
ment Jay Gould came TO his once and told
him not TO be a fool but 10 open his once
ard face the music. which be did. He is
now reckoned worth from $50. .000. 900 to
500 900. 900. mostly In ready cash.
Sage has all his life been the target for
eranks. but his life was never attempted
but nnce. On Dec. 4, 1891. Henry w. Nor
cross. a Boston frank. tried to blow him up
with dynamite because he refused 10 loan
him 81. .15O.O 900 TO build an ele-ated railway
In Boston. Sage was uninjured. but the
dynamiter was blown 10 atoms. and Sage'a
9tfice At No. II Broadway wrecked.
Russell Sage Is most bucolic in appear
ance, wearing cheap 'hand-me-doN a" clothes
and Is readily taken for a farmer. Time
and again he has been ''toted' all over town
by "bunco gents" dined and treated hand
some'y under the impression that he was q
lay" When they learned who their In
tended victim was the ''bunco steerers''
would drop him like hot poker and quietly
Kick themselves In private.
In benefactions to public or private char
tiles Russell Sage has never been very gen.
erous. He once gave 5000 toward clearing
DR.. Hepworth's church Of debt and for q
long time held the mortgage on Talmage's
church. II Is declared, however, that hs
aids his relatives with a lavish hand. II ID
said that he once aided his brother-lp-law. q
mar named Whine. to secure cell In {
lunatic asylum; but his other relatives ar,
not only able. but most Of them do helV
themselves. and do not need his aid.
Elisha Sage, his father, ,died on the old
homestead at Durhamville on April %. 1854
His mother. Prudence Risley. died on Sept
26, 1855, at the residence OF his sister, Mrs
Fanny Chaplin, wife Of Samuel Chaplin, In
Oneida, N. Y. Henry Risley Sage, the
brother for whom he first worked In Troy, d
also dead. He left two sons, one of whom
was known as Russell Sage, Jr.. and who
was the adopted son Of Russell Sage, bui
who died about three years ago Henry
Sage also left daughter. Elisha Montague
Sage. the brother, who was Russell's part
ner In Troy, and his wife. Jemima Wey
William Sage. another brother, and wife
Lucretia Jones, all died In Troy. ElizuI
Sage, the fourth brother, died In Joliet, Ill.
where his second wife survives him. A sis
ter. the only one besides Mrs. Fanny Chaplin
who still lives in Oneida, died very young
Russell Sage's parents, his brothers and theil
wives lie buried In the Durhamville Gene
terry, their graves being marked by a suit
able monument. Russell Is credited with
having recently given $40 to clear the brlel
bushes off their graves. large number oi
the relatives. nephews and nieces live In
Troy.
Russell Sage has been married twice
His first wife was a Miss Whine OF Troy
to whom he was welded in 1841. She died
at 506 Fifth avenue, New York, in 1867
Two years later Mr.. Sage married Miss
Olivia Slocum Of Syracuse, a schoolmatE
Of his first wife at the Emma Willard
Seminary in Troy. The present Mrs. Sage
Is a sister Of ex-Mayor Royal Slocum OIL
Troy, asd relative Of the Jermain fam.
lily of that city. She presides over the
home Of the great millionaire at 506 Fifth
avenue, and in the summer at his hand.
some summer home at the Isle of Wight
near Lawrence, Long Island.
AS Russell Sage is now an old man, rs
years Of age, and with but few more years
before him. there Is much curiosity ex.
pressed as to what he will do with his i'm.
mense fortune. Being childless, he cannot
dispose Of it like Gould did with his. Al
yet he has made conf1dant of no one, vel
he has in all probability decided what he
will do with his money. Those who know
him best believe that he will leave the
bulk OF It to his relatives, and, from words
dropped by him, that he will leave the re.
mainder to endow some institution or col.
lege, and that the Presbyterian Divinity
School at Princeton College will get q
good slice. He Is q member and pew holder
In the West Presbyterian Church in West
Forty-second street. New York. Every
Sunday finds him in his pew an interested
| listener to the sermon, and calmly waiting
for the end. Mr. Sage has a magnificent
mausoleum in oakwood Cemetery In Troy
where he expects to rest his bones after
death. and where "squeezes," puts and
call" fiurries and slumps will not bother
him. HENRY BALCH INGRAHAAl.