Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-01-06

give you i've thousand dollars year
hereafter and you may consider your
self In my employ at that salary"
There was no way for James to wig
! gle out of il, and he accepted the Situa-
ton with apparent good grace, whatever
his internal emotions may have been at
the time.
William II. Vanderbilt inherited from
his father. the Commodore, S75, 000 900
at the latter's death in 1878, and when
William II died OF December 8, 1851
was found that he had nearly trebled
that sum. In other words. he had made
three times as much in seven years as
his father had made in seventy years.
but IL must not be overlooked that he
had all his fathers machiner, which he
acquired by inheritance. and S75, 900, 600
besides TO work with
William II. Vanderbilt always claimed
to be an investor and not Spectator.
His investments at each time when
made certainly had an effervescent eff
feet upon the general stock market, and
a reverse result when he sold out some
of the so-caIled investments. Although
a very close calculator in business mat
ters-a habit TO which he adhered even
to the precision of striking out sup
posed overcharged Items in his lunch
bill-Mr. Vanderbilt was otherwise nat
urally generous to fault.
SEEMING IMPOssIBInITY.
OF famous American money kings the
late jay Gould was probably the best
known after Mr.. Vanderbilt and Mr..
Astor. He was dapper little man with
small, dark and brilliant eyes, whom no
reader of fiction would would for mo-
ment accept as possibility if he encOun-
tered him In novel. First q clerk in a
country store, and then successfully the
inventor OF mouse trap. a surveyor, a
writer and pedler OF book, tanner, a
buyer and seller of railroads, and finally
a railroad maguate worth million OF
dollars. OF all our selfmade men,
Gould had probably the greatest diff
Guilty in amassing the first $1,000 OF the
immense pile he controlled at the ii me
| of his death.
A WALL STREET SAGE.
II in walk through Wall street we
meat plainly dressed countryman OF
tall stature, medium complexion and
long face frnged around with border
of scraggy, iron-grey whiskers, gazing
about him with his keen grey eyes as
| though anxious TO take In all the
strange sights our great American
metropolis affords, you will be much
surprised when | tell you that this gen.
| tleman is not a countryman, but one OF
| the largest capitalists In New York.
! He keeps on hand probably the largest
| cash baance-su large, in fact that IL
runs far up into the millions, which
| balance gives him ready resource with
which TO carry out any project he may
| deem ii advisable TO engage 10. De-
! spite the fact that when the market
broke so badly in the summer Of 1884
| Mr.. Russell Sage lost several millions,
he is still In possession OF several more
millions.
HE CoRNERED PORK.
In a plain house on Prairie avenue,
Chicago, there lives a powerfully built
mao with broad shoulders, large head,
firm, square features and light gray
eyes that never seem excited or dis
turoed. even during their owners visits
to Wall street. Few people would sup
| abilities of one OF the recognized imam
! cia leaders of this country. A man
who is aggressive as a Wellington at
the proper time aud cautious as Fab
ius when caution is the watchword OF
wisdom.
This man is Philip d. Armour, who
| In 1S49 drove a six mule team across the
plains to California, but whose fortne is
now estimated at fifteen million dollars
| The little capital he accumulated in the
California gold fields he invested in the
grain and warehouse business in Mil
wsukee in 1855.
He subsequently, bought an interest
in pork packing establishment. His
! first great success was made during the
! closing scenes OF the civil war. He saw
! that the high prices of provisions must
| fall with the Confederacy. He came at
once TO New York aud began TO sell
pork short at $40 per barrel. He Gov
cred at SIS and Melted, 1t is said, very
nearly 81, OO0 600.
Since that time he has cornered pork
three times and has made millions in
successful grain operations besides.
OF late years California, in addition
| TO giant vegetables, giant trees and
other things on giant scale, has pro.
duced remarkable crop of financial
Craftsmen who began life with moth
! ing and are now milionaires. Nothing
that the fertile imagination OF Dumas
or a Victor Hugo has ever evolved can
surpass in wild improbabllty the seem
| lngly fabulous lives OF some o. these
men which abound in strong dramatic
interest and.situatsons add would afford
abundant incidents for hundred
novels.
A PACIFIC MAGNATE.
One of tho most noteworthy OF these
is Coils p. Huntington, man now over
seventy years old, but with a step as
light and quick as that of man OF
thirty. although he is giant in dimen-
siops. He came TO New York with
scarcely a cent in his pocket. Now he
is worth $50, 200, 0OO If you met him
YOU would see tall, solidly built man,
wl,h a full beard tinged with gray,
square, rosulute jaw and keen, blush
gray eyes. In his Office be wears
black scul cap pushed back on his head,
and has such ajo'ly air that you hardly
take him for money king. His fortune
has bsen principally acquired in rail-
way terprises.
HENRY CLEws.
DIED OF HYDRoPhOBIA.