The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-26

same day at tho Mare Island Navy yard. Thor
had about $4,000 In savings among them, az
5000 DOWN ON aS 3 g 5000 SSsG schooner SsSssss: they aaSef found
In san Francisco harbor. and devoted the re,
i% osalneF b 5000 1P,b to o SHitilttisS sst The s SSSSo9 sSis sSa
end sSS the rb IKE for a trading cruise II tho South ,nr
The 6hsrSofi s a%a S SIVido sps sSSu ahS'i tho p net profits o&iS
OF me cruise $50, COZ. made mostly In conens
IN and LS Sso Aseo 2no Of is. thS men : ,o SisS siy Up y SsSo. S sSS
TO be fought over by relatives he had probably
never heard Of in life. Tho other, four OK;
In South sea trading, and they are all very
wealthy men.
ward Iimmons, took their discharges at Cape
Town from one Of the old American warships q
dozen years ago. They invested their joint saw
country 10 Engage in the business of fieighters.
They made money at the business, and they
OF Ofpp EPoId cr 90 I'D a oSt IN W tbe T%r ShS nrst 'S They
located clains side by side, and struck II rich.
Both OF them have, nov, got more money than
estate for his folks in Ireland, and a couple OF
years ago. no, ran over to this country to see
sHmD OF a. at Il The 1 BrPooRiyn y Navy yard. There
ship while ShuErhue remained in New York.
engrayer named Kenwood, who d Lifted into the
United States Navy as q landsnIan because he
had not acquired the art of behaving himself
wood was an expert at bis business. and he had
no trouble, In getting a job in Buenos Ayres at
gained the confidence Of tho people he mot by
sticking to business and keeping out Of tho
lasi ii rome Ro%Ai ABOUT ssS nights light 'a a Year rim IN
Buenos Ayrcs, and when the Government in
vited bids for paper money and stamps. Rem.
wood got the contract q couple of years after
he had quit the naval service. He made a lot
Of money out of the contract, and now he has
q large engraving establishment of his own.
A Young New Yorker who klinDe0 in thu navy
he grew sick Of his job, as a S7.a.weeEs clerk in
the. time he was paid Of In Honolulu. In Hon.
olulu he got Q Job as q %shipping clerk with the
Inte Of srsTe,li stes On thap. Eiin ne pi BOATS nc and az Sns q
most Of the Sl25 a month he received, for his
services. and at the end OF two years he bought,
on time, q hundred acres of jungle land on the
island Of Hawaii. This mountain jungle land
on Hawaii is A. good coffee land as there is in
got his hundred acres for $40 an acre. He stuck
e his shipping clerk Job, a and S1 employed E few
plant coffee on II. Every acre of it has now
been in full bearing for some years, aud this
something like $50 an acre from NIT Il every q y asi'
Instances might be multiplied almost indef-
nitely OF ex-msn-o'. wars men who, to the
in civil life in many parts of the world. Nothing
is better calculated to bring the sense out Of a
NAYS Ex.so aSfa se e tho e ' Unisod II s tss sa Army by tho
hundreds are. doing well in business for them.
selves In this country. One of the leading
tailors in San Francisco is an x.artilleryman
who served five years at the Presidio. One of
the wealthy men of Seattle did his ten-year bit
in the United States cavalry. He invested his
wages as q soldier in Seattle real estate when
1t was cheap, and when the boom came he was a
rich man. There IL no large city in the United
Sta es that 10 contiguous to q military post In
which cannot be found any number OF ex-sol-
diers making monev hand over fist in all sorts
of businesses and deals.
The ex-soldier Of the regular army who
struck 1t richest, however. Is probably Joe
three years ago at one Of the posts In San Fran
cisco harbor. Wheeler had been q old pros
pector before he entered the army, and he was
one Of the first men in the country TO receive a
strong tip as to the extent Of the find in the
klondike. In the spring Of 1894 he took his
dischar Q from the army under the threeyear
enlistment law. spent the most Of the 81 1000
he had saved for an outfit. and started for the
Northwest Territory. He was one of the first
men to strike q God claim on Bonanza Creek,
and II few months ago he returned to San Fran
cisco for the winter, fetching along with him
$4,000 in dust and nuggets; In the spring
work on his three rich claims.