The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-11-05
HE WANTS THE TOGA.
Laundryman Munger Would be a
United States Senator.
Inc Pioneer Clothes Washer of Chicago
Declares His Ambitions.

George NJ. Munger, the pioneer laundry
man OF Chicago, wishes TO go TO the Unit
eo States senate from Kansas as the suc.
cessor OF Senator PETER. The Kansas leo.
isiature meets next January, but Mr..
munger, now resident of that utate. Is
ALREADY out with an announcement of his
candidacy. He Is Populst 60 is PETER.
how Mr.. Munger, who washes more
linen for tho residents Of Chicago. Kansas
City, st. Louis and Des Moines than anv
other man living, reached Populism and
the aspiration for seat in the national
senateis an interesting story. He was horn
oi years ago in Bergen, n. ". and Is tho
| Oldest of three brothers who control tho
laundry business Of tho central west His
prothers-P. f. Munger and O. /. Mum
ger--are residents of Chicago and activo
conductors OF the laundry business estab-
| hshed oy him shortly after the close of the
war.
Ills father now So years Of age. is n resi-.
uene OF Denver. He was an abolition Re-
puDhcan In New York before the outbreak
Oh the war He had the personal friend
snip or wendell Phillips and one OF the
Underground railroads for the escape of
slaves from the south terminated in his
New York home HIS three bows wero
n
ISM, and two of them remain there, George
III. being the only one to seek new Marty
and new cause
Mr Munger received an academic ednco-
tion In New York state, but at rho out.
break OF the war found himself in Cincip-
natl Ho responded TO the first call for
W day men and subsequently was mus
sereu into the Eighty-.fth New York in |
iahtry, Casey's division. He fou0ht |
snrough the peninsular campaign under |
McoleIlan and was wounded In the arm at |
She pattie or Seven Pines. He left the
service a first lieutenant
ne came to Chicago in 1867 and opencd
small laundry in Washington street in
the basement Of the old St James boteI
Which stood on the property Of the stewart
estate, where q skyscraping block &c now
being erected. From the first ho r-,sporad
he was exact In his business dealings
scrupuious as To tho keeping of contracts
ana while Other spectators had.preccded
MIN In the laundry business with sonc
success, no outlived them all He was the
only laundryman i'm Chicago before the
Dig IRE who survived 10 and romans In
business today. He continued for 90 vcars
from the time of his arriving I'm Chicago
70 put tho name OF Munger and MunRor's
"ashines before the public and then
no round that ho had enough money with
which to crafty any whim cherished I'm
nis earlier days. Ho has Travelled cxton-
'iVeiy and spent ono year in tho Central
american statos He IL a mathematician
ma bard student. Ho crossed Kansas
'everai times, and developed great faith
n the future of that state.
In 1856 ho purchased I'm Greo,rood
ounty, near Eureka, Kan, a LARGO tract
u iand. dc owns there now noarly Q 600
cres, oil under somo kind of cultiyation
'or decade nc has made his home therc
M having for an environment populistic
eighbors who believe the alleged plunder. :
ng OF the state by tho railroads has kent 9
ack its growth, he has driftcd away from !
until he has become n q
lcogniIed lender Of the conservative and y
road thinking Populists Of the state IIe | q
located In the eastern portion of tho / y
Hte, but during the last month bns been u
laking Bryan speeches through tho west.
m portion.
when MI. Munger brought 60 Kansas a
ew York blood, stirred 10 nctiyitv bv n ~
hichgo education, he tried some expcrl. y
ents which have I'm their result ipspired "
IS Popu'istic neighbors with Qreat 70 %
oct for him. Hc put GOO acre, OF bis "
nd Into an apple orchard, spd has Gus VI
Na II