Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-10-08

then When Just rising to the zenith Of
fame as Statesman Sage deserted the leglA-
latvc halls for Wall street A
IN 1887 he refused a denomination on nc-
count Of his business Interests II was th3
year OF the great panic, aud only his IN
uNlaual attention to the minutest details
o. business saved nm. whore his neshbdrs
were ruined. In 1850 while still a resi-
dent Of Troy he was delegate to the Ra-
publican convention Which Nominated Lin.
In 1865 Sage disposed Of his Grocery
business ara removed 10 New York. swnera
no immediately became a figure on wall
street HIS iira, venture OF any moment
was the reorganization OF the old Larrosse
Railroad into the Chicago Milwaukee and
81 PAU, Of which he became president In
lNS. ISIS ventures since then have boon
mostly m Connection with tho Goulds, and
II Is SAID that he furnished the ready caep
WITH which Jay Gould wrestcd the oontro;
biit
The only time Sage has ever been badly
plnched was when Graut and Ward failed Ia
iest he Is credited on that fnemurahis day
with losing sS,00Oeoo SO great was the do
mand On him that he closed his office and
called Tor police protection, AZ this me.
meat lny Gould came to his oiiico and toll
him not 70 be a fool but to open his otiic,
and face the muslc which be ala. He Il
100000 eco. mostly IN ready cash.
sage has all his life been the target foi
eFanks, hut his life was never attempted
but once, On Dec. 4. 1891, Henry W. Nor.
crogs, a hoiion crank, tried TO blow him up
With dynamite hccause he refused to loan
him u.a00 600 to build an elevated railway
10 BOSTON saee was unniured, but the
dyuamiter vas blown to atoms. and sage's
olhcc at No. n broadway wrecked.
Russell sage ia most bueolle in appear
anco. wearing cheap rhaud-me-dnwn" clothes
and Ia readily taken for farmer Time
and again no has been "totol" an over town
by "huaeo gents" dned and treated hand
somo,y under the Impression that 10 was a
Jay" When thoy learned who their IN
tended victim was tho "huuco steerers"
would drop him like hot poker and quietly
Kick themselves IN private.
In henefacuona % public or private char.
tiles Russell Sage has never been very Een-
eyous, lie once gave $1,000 toward clearing
NJ, HepwQrth's church OF debt, and for a
long time held the mortgage on Talmhgo's
church u lg declared. however, that he
alda bis relatives with a lavish hand. II ia
said that he once aided his brothor-ln-law,
man named Whine. to secure a cell In a
lunatic aayluu; but his other relatives arc
not only able. but most OF them do help
themselves, and do not need his aid.
Elisha sage his father, died on the old
homestead at Durhamvlfe on April 90 1854
Ills mother, Prudence Rlsloy, died on Sept
81, 1865, At the residonee OF his sister, Mrs.
Fanny Chaplin, wife OF Samuel Chaplin, 10
Oneida. N. Y. Henry RlNey Sage. the
brother Tor whom he drst worked In Troy. IL
also dead lie left two sons. one OF whom
was known as Russell SAGE, Jr., and who
waa the adopted son Of Russell Sage, but
who died about three years ago. Henry
SAGE also left a daughter Elisha Montague
Sage, the brother. who was Rutnet's par.
YER In Troy. and his wife. Jemlma Wey
2 N,..
Luoreta Jones' oh died In Troy. lsll1ur
Sage. tho fourth brother. died In Joliet. M
where his srcoud wilo survives him. ss-
ter, tho only one hoaldes Mrs, Fanny Chapln