Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1895-09-14
PEN SKETCH OF BRICE
How He Made Money I'm His Railroad
vcnturcs-A Man with Many Irons In
the Fire-Might Become = second Jsy
Gould.

tho Fire-Migbt become Second JAY
Gould.
"Senator Brice." said Columbus Comfy
Of Lima, "has always pined for railroad
90 Cincinnati as ono of the arms OF his
Lake Eric and Western system. He bid for
tho Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton, but
his bid WAS some $500, 900 short Of his
competitor. Mr.. Taylor Of New York CON
trolls the property and II has leased tho
Cincinnati Southern.
"Brico IL two things espocially-a topog-
rapher and reader. Ho IL also II cool
gamester. To few persons he IL intel
ligiblo and internal or affectionate. To all
others no IL external, regarding them as SO
much topography or mere personal land
soape.
lyon see, Brice has wonderful proper
ty In that Lake Erie and Western. Gam
blers' luck attended It, Who ever saw any
other railroad, almost as soon as II was
built, develop for all It's central length oil,
natural gas and mineral matter every
whereP Well, the road built up with ele-
CANT towns. As picoe Of town pride
Brioe brought 1t to Lima, formerly q slow,
swamp bordered town, now city Of large
interests, and 1t was Lima whIch made
Brioe senator for making Lima
"The Lake Erie and Western scoops valu-
able parts of Indiana and Illinois away on
70 Danville. Its bonds sell at 105 with
regularity because the road easily earns
the interest With these bonds Brioe al
ways commands money. Besides he and
Samuel Thomas arc the chief skirInishers
of Wall street now. Their Office Is very
active Thomas Is the richer, but Brioe
has temper golden as his hair. When he
losos money, Thomas looks Like Vulcan,
whose hammer had como of It's helve, and
scowls war. Brice cocks back his chair
after being ruined and goes to sleep. he
Is q comic fatalist. These qualities are
what attach few people who know him
to Our CAL
"You note that his Ptttsburg Western
by Akron went down several points after
II became Brices property. That's because
Brico waters his stocks. He is, however,
protective quantity. He likes to try any
thing. Ho got his knowledge from obser-
walton and his ambition from books. A
mere boy In the camps Of tho war and half
the time back at school In his war togs,
Brice learned poker In tho tent and Caesar
In the schoolhouse. He would have made
fine lawyer but for his being called from
railroad cases to railroading. SEQ how his
country parsonage experiences have ex-
panded. Ee was first known In New York
as one of tho Nickel Plate builders. That
handicapped him as much as IL set him
up. 1t naturally got him the i'll will Of the
old fogies no paralleled. And yet Is not
Brice q finished pupil Of Wall street nowf
So in politics. As a rich and vealish anna
teur no became Cleveland's chairman of
the presidential election. But recently he
carried the Ohio convention, and his views
on gold, which he had years ago and never
concealed, are also the conventions. call
that progress. Don't your
"If Brice had fewer irons In the fire, he
might become the next Jay Gould. He is
rather too good fellow for that. He
beats Thomas, his partner, in possessing a
more princoly soul. Thomas plays to keep;
Brico plays to SEQ. He Is the magnificent
prodigal son Of Wall street. Look at his
houses--Corcoran's ut Washington; AS
tors, at Newport; one on Fifth avenue
ono in Ohio. Brice sent his oldest son
around the world when he was only IA.
Another boy has gone to machine working
and bids fair to be scholar mechanic
One of the girls took fad in Paris TO go
to "a convent-the Sacred Heart--and
Archbishop Corrigan tolegraphed her in.
Carolus Duran paints the family. Brice
spent more money than 80 senators last
year In Washington. He grows flrmer in
purpose every year. His capacity to win
ut speculation Is a wondrous gift. Since
the senate adjourned he has made money
oil the time. "-George Alfred Townsend In
New York Journal.