The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1895-03-28
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Ne sens uRsAhs
II Is fun 70 hear ous milAoussiss teh .
story of another millionaire. and bare IA
ono of that kind, sAys tbs BOW York Wosld.
Some time ago hs heard talAt NJ. Hsutilg-
ton Ind ooupie Of very handsome cobs Cor
sale, and being In want Of ,,ist t>as sort Of
thing tho millionaire communicated With
Mr.. Huntington and ASKED his price. laro-
Spouse 70 the nots Mr.. Huntlhgtoo Appeared
next day In tho ONCE Of The wouid.bs par
chaser. He explained thas the ooba were
particularly nne animals, and thsA no would
not part with Thorn except for the reason
that they were rat1scr ssAsai, SiaAeed TOO
small for himself and wife, who wore
rather largo people. fAs parcAssiag
millionaire and bis vito NOT beang largo
people, this Of courss was no ooJsetaca. AAd
Mr.. Huntington wss AshHA hc' sssth HE
price. He said he waAted ot,000. .Weti,
tho millionaire had ssea No e0bs aSA ~ bAd
pretty long price. He ssprpesSA aAAS opAa'
lon TO Mr.. Huntngtou. ed tsid Nm tdss "
no could got down 70 yreaAoasbas Afure
they mighttalk business. Mr. Huntington
asked what his idea of . rAasoaabae hguro
was, and the would.be purchaser said ho
would give him $500 for tho pair. Mr.
Huntington scofRed a. he ofIsr, end baid
that he wouldn't entertain b for , InsmeSt.
and the millionairss pested ~ pattsrs
were left In this shapn. 10
The merit day Mr.. Ksatinesoa rsap1sassdl
and said that he had tkonSAS ~ mStisr.
over, and that hs was Wiling - SAtS pinc'
hundred dollars, hut Ne othar parV 70
the negotiation was not willing thet he
should have nine hundred dollars Of bis,
In this transactloa ct least, and stuck 70 bis
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the cobs. Mr.. Huntngton talked for some
time and expatiatcd on tho equine ex-
cellencies which Justified tho nine hcndred
dollar price, but tho millionaire purchaser
wasn't at sll impressed. Mr.. Huntington
was quite ne eloquent ~ any auctioneer
who ever held forth at Bun's Hssd or any
that Mr.. Van Tassel had ever employed,
but the eloquence failed OF any eject, and
Mr.. Huntington again departed He ap--
peared again, however, aud appeared and
disappeared for all tho days OF the week
and several days Of the following week, and
altogether spent perhaps twelveor fourteen
hours In striving 70 convince his customer
that nine hundred dollars was not too much
for what he had 10 sell, but failing utterly
In this philanthropio desire, he finally said
that he would take the eight hundred dollars
which was offered II tho purchaser would
pay MS cOacnmhn tWoay-uNo uoilhfs
"But," said tho other millionaire party,
81 have nothing to do with your coach
man"
"But,p aaid Millionaire Huntingdon, ',my
coachman expects something, and IL seems
TO me that II / give you tho horses Mt your
orice you ought 10 pay him"
Well, the purchasing millionaire didn't
look mt 1t In that way. He didn't
think that coachmxn on wHgcs, land
he presumed that kr. Huntin Gton paid
| nis wages regularly was entitled TO
commissions, and he Thought they had a
demoralizing and corrupting inhpence on
the stable or unstable morals Of this coach
man, and he thought also inst II there was
any corruption or damorainati6n 70 60
forward II would have 70 DO done with Mr..
Huntingtons money. These Arguments
were, Of course, unanswerabtc, and Mr.,
Huntington, having spent q sufnber OF
valuable holcs-oecsnse millianaAres' hours
must be vslusblA--in attempting 70 induce
the other party IN usgetiAAion 70 pay one
hundred dollars. moro than he w<1sod to
pay, and having tailed uaserly accepted the
check for eight hundred dollars. aud the
horses were duty transferred