The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-05

flowers. box parties and all sorts of fash
ionabe whatnots.
Beatty. by the way, has salary of S1O-
600 year. and he earns it, For the pur-
poses of fashionable splurge Beatty is well
worth 100000 a year. Justice would sew
another cipher on Beattys $4,000.
Il am perfectly serious" continued my
irlends when tell you that no one has a
better social position in Washington than
Beatty. The Brices deal with him on a
plan of perfect equality Personally his
residence Is the Arlington, where he has
one OF the finest suites of apartments in
the hotel, with all those adjuncts of bath
and parlor. reception room and boudoir,
which only the very rich and luxurious af-
rect Practically, he resides at the Brices,
and viii be oftener at their dinner table
than at the Arlington table d'hote Every
invitation which other grandees Of fashion
make to the Brices invariably includes
Beatty; nor would the Brices accept any
on any terms which eliminated
Beatty. At the Letter wedding which was
about as exclusive as any, there was a
seat for Beatty. And If there hadn't been,
there would have been long line of va
cant chairs where IN the ground plan of the
wedding the architects thereof proposed
to place the Brice household They
wouldn't have moved a peg without
Beatty
1T was in Gov. Fosters time as chief
magistrate of Ohio when Brice then a
poor, hard-up lawyer, managed TO get
into Fosters debt to the extent Of about
5000. On day Brice came to Foster and
told him the law business didn't pay, and
asked him to appoint him to a position
where he might make a living.
Can't said Foster. You're a demo-
craft
" But you'll never get your $1,000 said
Brice. You might as well ask me to make
a star as to make that 5000 with my law
practice.
I'm tell you what I'll do, said Foster.
L am all tangled up with Hooking Valley
on the New York Stock Exchange. and
want somebody to go there and look after
things. III send you, II you'n CO.
"Brice jumped at the chance. Foster
gave him $500 and a lot of directions, and
impressed on him solemnly the necessity
of doing just what he was told Now,
Brice wtll not do what he is told, and
never would If Brice had been a waiter,
he would have taken your order and then
brought you anything he pleased. That's
what he did with Fosters Hooking Valley
deal, but he made a $4,000 profit whereas
If he had done as Foster told him he would
have lost all. Foster was delighted, and,
like the good old man in the story book,
he gave the young hero $4,000 Then Brice
went back TO Wall street and plunged
"Brices greatest play was building the
Nickel Plate. lie put in every dollar he
could get, and from any source. There
came a time. too. when, to save himself
from utter ruin. If not something worse.
he had to sell. He went TO
Vanderbilt. whose road the Nickel
Plate paralleed. Vanderbilt wouldn't buy
the Nickel Plate. He said he could afford
to walt the first mortgage foreclosure and
buy 1t from a sheriff.
" If you don't buy it, Jay Gould WILL"
said Brice.
"Oh, no, he won't said Vanderbilt.
"Brice then went TO Gould. He knew
that he didn't want the Nickel Plate, but
he had beautiful scheme to propose. He
knew Vanderbilt would buy the road be-
fore he would allow Gould to get in. Here
came Brtce's strategy. He told Gould that
if he would sit silent and not contradict,
neither affirm nor deny, any newspaper
articles to the effect that he was going to
buy the Nickel Plate, and after this clam
like silence had continued for a week, If
he would then ride slowly over the Nickel
Plate in an observation car Vanderbilt
would buy the road, and he would give
Gould 100000.
Gould didn't care for the $500, co., but
he was jocose Spectator, and II struck
him that the whole thing would be a ma
jestic joke on Vanderbilt. The papers said
that Gould was going to buy the Nickel
Plate. Gould, when questioned, looked
wise At the end of a week he mean
dered, snail-like, over the Nickel Plate in
the rear end of an observation car, and
had all the air of a man who was looking
at piece of property. Stories were wired
about Gould's trip from every water tank
and way station along the line, and before
Gould had reached Chicago Vanderbilt in
a fit of Mysteries. wired Brice that he would
take the Nickel Plate. Vanderbilt took
the Nickel Plate and Brice was saved"