The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-29
RUSSELL sAeE's TEmPrATIoN.
Fascinated by SI2 Suit of Summer
Clothes, He Bid $1o.75 and Stopped

~ SoG11. SVEmPIAGlOH..
Fascinated by S12 Suit of Summer
Clothes, he Bid $1o.75 and Stopped.
From the New York Herald
Perhaps it was that he has not forgotten
the illdisguised glee with which MIR
Choate gamboled in his well nigh empty
clothes press during the Laidlaw sub
that, by the way, was a $50, 600 sutton
perhaps he had in mind some strategic
move TO affect the pulse of Wall street.
put II IS fact, anyway, that Russell
sage, few days ago, was just upon the
verge OF "plunging' $l2 on a suit of "hand-
me-dOwns.'
The deal didn't come off, and Mr.. Sage
is still wearing his every days" to BUSH
ness, and saving his ''blacks," as Novel
ist Barrie says, for the Sunday dress pa
rade in the avenue,
But he was near it, within IS cents of
it. in fact, and those who stood by will
remember for a. long time TO come the
tense feeling they had while he stood be-
tween love and duty as it were un-
til his firm adherence to principle con-
quered
Then Mr. Sage dropped that seventy
five down into the pocket of the old jeans
IN which he carries a mint or two, shut
out the glare of the dazzling "hand-me-
downs with one appraised hand, that
they should not tempt him a second time,
| and went his way.
CAUGHT THE FINANCIER's EYE.
The S12 suit in question is one of many
that make up noisy array in the win
dow of dealer who recently began bust
| ness beneath Mr.. Sage's office in the Ar
| cade building, No. II Broadway. They
are show clothes, and with them hangs
| a sign which says:
"Any of these suits S12."
1t was that sign which caught the eye
of the great and frugal fnancier as he
passed out on his way from his Office over
head.
Twelve" he murmured to himself
twelve" He glanced over each suit in
turn. The gray one of severely respec-
table type; the blue one, that was too
! blue TO be matter for serious considera-
ton; The yellowish one, that smacked of
sporty" tendencies; the blaCk-he had
| black suit at home that had long stood
him in good stead, and he mentally
tagged" the yellow and the blue as dan
gerously apt to give the impression that
| the wearer had too much money.
But the gray ones, the gray ones for
twelve, the gray one with the pants
| these were not trousers severely
| creased, these were not 50 easily disposed
| OF. Mr.. Sage hesitated before the win
dow like man who knows his weakness
| for finery, and who fears to court tempta-
ton which may hurry him into some soul
soaring extravaganza.
A breeze stirred the "pantsn while he
watched them. They waved there for a
| second, like a new banner flung to the
| wind. Mr.. Sage looked away from them
| for moment, but he had already waited
! too long. A moment later he entered the
shop. The financler had decided to daily
with the gray ones.
He had not decided to give up S12 in
bulk-subsequeut events proved thai
mueh-but he had made up his mind to
see them at close quarters. He had faith
! in his own steadfastness to principle.
BATHS OVER THE GRAYs.
A salesman on whose head there was a
| little bald spot and whose lower law be-
spoke tirmness, stepped forward to give
battle over the grays. He knew MIR.
| Sage and in measure was forearmed
| Mr.. Sage, on the other hand, did not
know that this young man had sold louder
clothes than these in the wilds Of Ari-
IONA, whore his customers were Apaches,
| "Greasers" and cowboys, nor did he
| know that 1t was gossip in the shop that
he had been seen looking at the S12 sign,
| and was thought TO be waiting for a lower
! quotation
| lney SJOOu Juere Tor moment, the
| great financier and the salesman from the
| frontier, as if taking each others meas
ures In the background the gray suit
swung proudly in the breeze from the
! open door. Mr.. Sage could see it over
the salesman's head, but he steeled him
self against its influence, and when the
clerk said in a business-like way, "What
can I do for you, Mr.. SageI" the man
who might be at will The man who
! broke the brokers down in Wall street"
| answered with a carelessness which
might well have been worth million in
some transactions on Change: II wish
to look at some Of those suits in the win
dow"
! The salesman complied with alacrity,
| and in a moment he had handed down six
| or seven suits. MIR. Sage examined each
with care He did not say a word about
/ his prediction for the grays, but he put
the others aside when a suit of that, color
was placed before him, and ran his hand
! over the cloth
| TALK OF DOLLARS.
1t was pretty good warm weather value
| apparently. The cloth was smooth. There
wasn't a loud note in the piece. Repose
nestled in the pants" The coat was
| discretion itself. The vest was trile
narrow. He fondled sleeve absently for
/ a moment, but recovered himself at once