The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-21
BOSTON MERCHANT GOES CRAZY
Has n scheme whereby President
Cleveland Will Make n Fortune.

tHEA - &1W1r
Has a scheme whereby President
Cleveland Will Make n Fortune.
BosToN, July 81, 1S94.-The Journal says:
President Cleveland will miss Il call from a
Bostonian who intended to present him with
sl0,ooo,oOO.
Mr.. Cleveland's guest instead of sleeping
in Washington, spent Frid ay night in the
Mclean Asylum at Someryille.
The unfortunate man is a well known Bos-
ton business man, with Offices not far from
the Custom House. He is about forty years
| old, a graduate of Amherst College ana OF
the University of Gottingen. The lrm does
a large business and is supposed to have
made money rapidly of late. Its success Is
| said to nave been largely due to the new
process which the unfortunate man recently
| discovered. Overwork Inc an undue
interest in political and tariff matters
| turned his brain, and for several weeks he
has been formulating a wonderful scheme.
When the Mckinley bill was being drafted,
| he was called upon TO testify as an expert be
fore the Committee on Ways and Means, anu
his delusion drew in such prominent mem
bers of Congress as Senator Aldrlch OF hhoae
| Island. Representative WIN. L. Wilson of
West Virginia and Congressman Moses b.
| Stevens of Massachusetts,. His plan, in brief,
was to start an immense corporation for
| the production of his discovery. 1t was to
be called stTne Grover Cleveland Free Trade
| Oil Company and his object i'll going TO
Washington was to induce Mr.. Cleveland
to become prominent at an annual saiary u
$10.0 200.
He had selected Mr.. Wilson for Vice Presi-
dent, and the other officers were mostly to
be congressman.
Mr.. Stevens, whom he knows, was to be
| General Manager, if he would accept the
place. He had gone SO far as to consider
several sites in Boston for q great stu, and
had written persons in nine OF the largest
cities with a view to establishing similar
works in as many places. Besides he had
arranged oil worksi in fifteen European cities,
making twenty-four plants in all.
Every detail Of his plan had been care
fully elaborated, until he had figured out a
net profit the first year of over Sl37 ,0O0,00U.
He had everything completed in the way of
preliminaries except the acceptance of the
officials he had chosen.
He had decided to start Friday morning
for. Washington. Before going. however, he
determined to unfold his plans to the press,
and sent for a reporter, whom he Kept three
hours explaining his scheme.
The details of his plan were in kee ping
with its general framework. He was going
to employ only Cinnamon at the various
stills, because they never strike and seldom
commit murder. He had settled that he
could afford TO pay every nun sIW 10 leave
the country. For some reason the school
teachers and newspaper men in Boston held
the first place in his heart and he was ar
ranging to pay Them each 500 a month out
of his bank account.
He said his partner showed only a luke
warm interest in the scheme, SO he would be
cut off with only 100000.
Then he explained how he would build
little cities for the workers in his factories.
He would nave no rum sold in them, but
there would be a lager beer aqueduct.
Then his doctor came in. The physician
was alarmed to find him preparing for a
trip to Washington, and it was with difficulty
that he was restrained Friday morning from
boarding the train.
The physicians who nave ATTENDED him
since his insanity took such a peculiar form
a few days ago do not give much hope of
his recovery. He has not been quite him
self for six months.