Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1895-04-10


flee of private banking house near
Wall street, and he was supposed to be
silent partner of the bankers them
selves. He belonged to two or three
clubs and spent much time in each OF
them, which is not the way of city
men of brisk business manner, such as
Mr.. Bruno possessed; and scores of
strangers, brought into ono or other
of the clubs by city acquaintances who
did not know what else to do with
them, gratefully remembered Mr..
Brune as one of the evenings chief
sources of enjoyment. He had a way
of becoming acquainted quickly and
of making new acquaintance feel en-
tirely at ease with him. and he also
had way of remembering a call or
two he had to make, and in which he
would invite new acquaintance-of
the proper sort-to join, which was so
unlike the custom of New Workers in
general that mon from other cities
and without New York connections
were likely to feel under obligations
to him and also to believe that they
had made the entree of metropolitan
,ociety.
As time went on, it was remarked at
the clubs that Brune himself intro
duced many men from out of town,
but as all of these were anxious to re-
pay all courtesies they received, and
were fairly able to do it, the members
who took most notice of Brune's hos
pitality made no objection, for they
were the professional club loungers-a
class OF men who never fail to enjoy
entertainments for which other men
pay. There pours into the great city
steady stream OF men and fsmilie.
who have made money elsewhere and
want to spend it wherethe most pleasure
can be bought To oil these who fell
in his way Bruno was as hearty as il
they had been old friends. He did
not introduce them to members of the
"Four Hundred" but he explained to
them, confdentally, that his own
friends were not of that particular sci
because they did not care to be in it,
and that they were quite as good and
refined as most of the people whose
names appeared oftenest in the fash
ionable news of the daily papers-s
statement which nobody could deny.
He would take unwearied pains, too,
with families who desired to make the
city their home ; he would take them
to real estate agents who could be
trusted to deal fairly with them, and
he knew the best decorators and up
holsterers, and dealers in furniture
and pictures and bric-a-brac, and be
would introduce newcomers in q man
ner which would make them truly
grateful He would also introduce
them to Holden f Trust, the bankers
with whom he had his Office, taking
care first to assure them that there wa
great difference between banks in
great city the bigger institutions wer'
mere machines, while Holden & Trus
was concern modelled after the Eng
lish banks, where the accounts wer,
few but large. and where any customer
was made to feel as much at homo a!
ii he were in friends parlor which,
indeed the business Office OF the firm
greatly resembled in its appointment:
and quiet.
No one ever seemed to find reason
to complain of Bruno; he never took
his male acquaintances to gambling
houses or got them drunk, and h,
never made love to the young ladies O
their families that came to the city
Indeed, to his newer acquaintance
this seemed his only fault; for a mum
ber of young women who had broker
with their original cavaliers, as be
came damsels who aspired to becom,
r:tv bellies. found Brune much more t,
their liking than most of the cit.
youths with whom, through his kin
offices, they became acquainted. H
had SO much of what women cal
'style," and he knew how to say mic
things, and to suggest new ways Q
killing time, and to occasionally Pre-
vide pleasant surprises that cos
money! faculty which is quite q
rare among city youths, in proportio
to their numbers, as in any countr
village. To be the wife of such ma
would be to become a social queen
SO thought some pretty young wome
whose knowledge came principal
from their day-dreams.
But Grune seemed provohingly bin
- au intimations that there WEI
hearts at his feet, waiting only to b
picked up; even when rallied on b.
ing bachelor he would escape b
laughing and saying that he wasreall
too poor to marry and do justice to
wife. This appeared strange to man
who saw how freely he spent none
when he wished to entertain party
bat he was siways abba to say trul
thst . bachelors personal expens'
wers comparatively tifiing. while
maintain home in good style in tt
city cost . great lot of money
s.rtemenf which heads of faniGe.