St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-07

The careers of these men have
been somewhat alike, but their per-
SonalitieS are quite diSSimilar, says
the New York Press. Sutro is one
of California'S most picturesque
characters. His eyes are black and
cleaning and his snow white hair
and whiskers and swarthy complex
ion would suggest an Arab sheik
If only he did not shave his chin.
He has always been a fighter and he
has been a noted figure ever since
he succeeded in his stupendous tun-
mel scheme, some twenty years ago.
He is apt to be bit theatrical in
whatever he does
Claus Spreckels is a much less
distinguished looking man than Su
tro. In fact, the Sugar King would
hardly attract attention in a crowd.
He is of medium height, dresses
neatly but unobtrusively, and has a
typical German face. His curly hair
and beard, once blonde, are now
white, but his eye is still clear and
his skin remarkably smooth for a.
man of his age.
Adolph Sutro came into being six
ty-hVe years ago at Aix-la-ChapelIe
near the River Wurm, in Rhenish
Prussia, where his father was a.
maker of cloths. There were eleven
children in the family, and AdoIph.
peihg the eldest, was early set to
work assisting his father. After the
revolution of 1S4S, the father having
oled IN the meantime, the lads
mother decided to come to the new
world with her numerous brood
Ihey landed in Baltimore, and an
attempt was made by the Young
man, then nineteen years old. to eet
INTO some occupation that would en-
dple MIN to support the family.
There is no record as to how much
OF success he made in the East
out 1t was not enough to suit him. for
before he had been long in the coun-
try ne determined to -join the tide
OF gold seekers then settling in Cal
ifornia.
When he reached the Golden Gate
ne soon decided that, though he
wanted gold quite as much as he
ala When he left the Atlantic coast
the actual digging of the yellow
metal was not at all to his taste.
BESIDES, as he ShreWdly observed
comparatively few of those who dug
gold Kept 1t, even if they were
measurably successful. Those who
bought and sold, however. were max
ing money rapidly and keeping it.
ana so he concluded to buy and sell
sUTRO A ToBACCoNIsT
But as his available canita1 woo
next TO nothing he could not go into
trade on an extensive scale nor
IN line in which credit of any con-
sequence would have to be eiven
80 ne opened retail tobacco store
Inc store he attended himself and
he mas more than once told his in
innate friends how joyfully he tool.
IN little gold dust from a b,,rlv
miner, just returned from the wash
hss' LOT the first lot of tobacco he
sofa over the counter, and how care
Iuiiy ne counted and weighed the
proceeds of the first days business
Before Sutro left Europe and while
still boy, he. became greatly inter
ested In geology and metallurgv
ana made a careful study, for one
SO young, of these kindred sciences
This was lucky.
AS soon as his little tobacco store
was in good working order he pot
out MS OLD books again, and began
his studies anew, Selling every on.
portunity that afforded itself be-
tween customers to pore over the
volumes.
At the same time he listened eager.
~ for every bit of information he
could get regarding the geology an6
mlneralogy Of California, and lone
before the gold seekers had learned
how profitable it would be to turr
from surface digging to delying fo,
the treasures that were quartz en-.
Veloped IN the bowels of the earth
he mad decided that quartz MINING
was TO be the mining of the future
Had lie been in possession of tho