The Atlanta constitution., 1894-03-13
NEW YORK GOSSIP.
INTERESTING NEWS GATHERED
HERE IND THERE.
A MILLIONAlRES' UPS AND DOWNS.
The X ind of Men lie Preferred as Employees.
Greshans var Record-Talk About
the ialI l:uildings-Other Items.


dence 1T was quite "a surprise to many
southerners, the other day, when The
World called attention to the fact that Mr.
C. Is. Rouss, the millionaire Broadway Jop-
ber, had served in the confederate army
III der Stonewau Jackson. and had made his
start in New York after the war without
dollar.
The story is literally true. After the col
lapse of the confederacy Rouss lett MS
native state Virginia, and drfted to New
York. He was Lenniless and friendless
and slept in the parks anu
lived on free lunches for weeks. FINAL
ly he got Job and his energy and thIllt
soon enabled him to start an auction dry
goods jobbing house. He was very success
full but branched out too extensively anu
failed in 1879 He had nothing left and had
to begin life again. with heaVy load oA
debt on his shoulders.
The plucky young confederate soon got
on his feet and resumed his old business.
He prospered and today is worth apout
$4 00O,000 He lives in a fine mansion win
his wife and daughter, has no pleasures,
and works from in the morning uhtt
at night He surrounds himself IN MS
store with about twenty-five or thlfty
pretty typewriteTs, and spends his leisure
moments studying their faces
He makes it a rule not to pay sales
man over q dollar a day, and prefers
bright men who occasionally get on spree
and cannot get a jo anywhere else. lie
locks these fellows up i'll his store When
they are recover ng from their disslpatlon'
and when they recover gives them thelr ND
erty and their dollar a day.
NJ. Rouss we,.rs a $l2 suit of clothes ana
lives very simply. He gives literally to
worthy objects. and has given great
deal Of money to Winchester, Va. his ma
tive town OF course he is eccentric ana
sometimes gets into trouble once pref
ty servant girl in his house sued MIN lot
A,J.GQ0 DANA 2es. He compromised the SUIT
and still speaks kindly Of the glll, s2Eln i
that somebody must have persuaded itl
to sue him. and that she was not alloSetheI
to blame.
There is not a stronger figure in the bus
mess world He buys and sells for cash,
and is not recognized by trade circles As
he expresses it, he is commercial outeaSt
Dangerous }'uila3na-S
The foundations o. our tan Buildings are
supposed 10 oe perfectly safe. bot reports
from CHICAGO make some timid people
SLIGHTLY nervous. The Chicago postotice is
absolutely unsafe. 1t has been settling
down in the mud for some years, and Its
floors are uneven and the walls are crack
ing The board of trade building now mas
its 3o5 feet granite tower leaning badly to
one side. and threatening to fail over ana
smash the entire structure As soon as pos
sible the tower VIII pe ldhcl uo"4 'iit
finished level with the roof of the main
building.
only a few days ago the east wing OF the
city nall was badly damaged by the tall
ing in of the ceiling. The walls are padly
cracked and extensive repairs VIII De net
es.arv The settlement of the auditorium
and the Masonic bul.uing IS eXclunS grave
apprehension, and people are wondering
what viii be tie fate Of the skE-scra ping
buiIdings The trouble is that the fouA-
Gqtf0ns practically float in the mud. Be
meath ten seet Of sand is bed of clay ABOUT
ten feet deep, and under this is a soft mass
of CLAW I;u..t. .ers drive down iron piles and
mi in with concrete. but the uneven setting
of the BUILDINGS SHOWS that TINS method
does not insure safety. The oNldlZatlon OF
the steel frames Di these tail buLdlnSS is
also feared The dIsinteSration may be
SLOW but some day the big structures viii
crumble unless they first sink in the mud
Yhe D:nbury News Man.
Twenty years ago the most popular hu
nlorist in the country was James Montgom-
cry Bailey The Danbury News Man who
died the other day at the age of hfty-three.
Baileys homely hunor tickled the fancy
of the public and made his weekly famous
Giving it a larger circulation than any 9th
er county paper ever had. He wrote sever
al humorous books, visited Europe and lee
1ured in many Of our cities
During recent years he has done no III
erary work, and his paper has gTaouaHy
dropped out Of sight. He was bright Sc
rial man but a little odd in MS ways
He dislizes necktes and never wore one Al
his life. ..,
When he was at the height Of his popu-
lari+v he was offered fine engagement i'll
rcaIv work He promptly declined it,, say
ING: Il know the metropolis. IL seilu9 ~ 40
bright n,en, sQueezes them dry IKE d lti1 leli1
on. and then casts thcla as'"9'
SUI rs IL 9rst introductlon to the public vas
through Editor Medili, ol ms S.'l0,lfo - ri,s
bune Bailey climbed twelve hlsIlts - I''ti, tl,3
in The Tribune building, ana reacnet ~
ton floor out of breath and ready 70 4'IIllli i
Peeping into the sanctum ne SJ4Lll,letI,, , 49,,
ont: "Is God in?' old man AeulII "a I4i
noint and roared with laughter. ilS vuiti- -
r.,d Tho D1nburv man and told nm 70
send him his paper. ana th@h ~ 49, 49,
every week The Tribune cHli,eQ Da!IsS ~,
hast naraaraphs ana stories and gave t(eit
a GOOD place Othrc newspapers COPIED
tban9 and in a short time the country week
Iy was quoted all over the lahd'
Grcxhnn,'s War Record.
General Fred Kueffer, Of Indianapolis, still
insists that Secretary Gresham was not
wounded in battle and was never IN one.
He writes to The ST. Louis Globe Demo-
crat:
1ish proof from the war records That | have
been guilty OF lying in charging that Cen
era1 Gresham was not in the battle OF At
lanta and that he was not present in any
of the well-known battles fought by the
ARMY of Tennessee from Shiloh to the 2oth
of July 1861 near Atlanta II you shalt
succeed in doing so, | will plead guilty to
being a slanderer and confess myself pub
licly liar"
The ex-confederates will contribute to the
controversy. Major Charles S. Hill, who
was on General Cleburne's staff at the time
General Gresham was wounded publishes
n statement in which he says: General
Gresham came nearer to entering Atlanta
before the surrender than any one else, and
had it not been that he was shot down he
might have succeeded AS | was on the
ground on that occasion, | can speak with
knowledge of the forces engaged, the posi-
tious of each army and the results. July
goth Cleburne advanced his division, which
consisted of four brigades, commanded by
General D. C. Govan, of Arkansas; General
II. b. Cranbury, of Texas; General Lowry,
of Mississippi, and General Lucius Polk, of
Arkansas. From early morning there was
continual firing between the two armies,
and we found that the point had not been
ap11 of VIC sud-