The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-03-19
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ONE RoaD. TO FORTUNE
By Luke Sharp.

suppose that most newspaper men
have been approached at one time or
another by people with tremendous
schemes for making fortunes. Some
times these schemes require publicity,
ana SO the owner of a world rev olu-
tionizing patent selects newspaper
man in the hope Of getting that pub
Lefty which the inventor thinks is all
that is really needed to bring it to
success
London has always been the happy
hunting ground for men who wish
TO get capital for their projects. The
smoklng-rooms in the big hotels on
northumberland avenue are usually
very full of Americans who have come
over here with great money making
schemes which require small fortunes
TO set them going. There was u time
when almost anything American could
D. hoated on the London market. but
That time is past, and I doubt if it
Will ever return.
There is q general belief that most
company promoters are swindlers but
as Tar as my own experience goes I
lind generally that the men believe
IN the schemes they have come across
the Atlantic to promote. The invest
ing part of the British public have
been so duped by the wholesale rail
way sWlndles OF America, and other
transatlantic schemes for robbing
them, that, for the past few years,
1t mas become increasingly difficult to
inn f,,c, / I, L.
States. The present crisis between the
two countries has etfectually killed any
remnant Of confidence that the British
capitalist had in American invest
ments, and now if the man with a
business to sell is wise he will en-
ueavor to sell it at home, and not spend
MS time and substance upon london
hotels. = : d.
sometimes these schemes are NOT
what they appear to be on the sur
race, Some years ago three young men
from Chicago called upon me wanting
some information about the ways and
the haunts of the British capitalist.
although why they thought 1 knew
anything about him is more than T
can tell. They We're all lawyers, and
as far as [ could see had not vet sue
Ceeded in building a remuneratiye Drac-
tlce for themselves in the well-knoWn
city OF Chicago. They had a plan.
however, of making a fortune for
themselves in a short time, and when
this laudable ambition had been at
tanned, they intended to go in for name
and fame in the law business. They
claimed that there was a great deal
OF money to be made in seal fishing
Ihey therefore came over to England
for the purpose of raising money
enough to fit out ten small vessels and
send them from British Columbia to
engage in the sealing trade.
l pointed out to the young men that
1t was rather strange for three citi-
zens of the United States to come to
foreign country for the purpose of
getting money together with the OBJ
Iect OF disobeying the mandate of their
own government; but the young men
replied that they had gone deeply into
International law; that the United
States was wrong in it's contention that
sealers could be driven from the Ber
ing sea; that the United States would
undoubtedly lose it's case if it went to
arDltratlon, and that when the de-
c!slon or the international court was
given against the United States, there
would be a tremendous rush into the
SeannS business, and so they wanted
I'd get organized thoroughly before the
traffic began, and before the cream of
the business was divided among too
many. The young men said they had
heyoted much time to the law on the
subject, and they We're certain that the
case OF the United States could not