The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1897-07-22
FAMOUS M0NEY-MAKER.
WONDERFUL CAREER OF AN AMERi-
CAN WHO GOT GAIT ON HIM."

| How Young Man,Who Failed at Various
Occupations in Central New York, Went
to Colorado and Texas and Grew I'm
mensely Rich in Real Estate Operations.
H. B. Chamberlin of Denver, Colo
tado, who was killed bya fall from his
bicycle near Staines, England, re-
Gently, was an instance of what an
American who "gets a gait on him"
can do in a money making way. He
had the brain to perceive opportuni-
ties and the energy to seize them. He
was sober and of cleanly mode of
life. That was all there was to it.
Many years ago in central New York
an old man travelled about the country
in one horse shay that Holmes must
have seen. His name was Packard.
Under the seat of the shay were hume
rous bottles of "Packard's Scrofula
Remedy" which he sold. His hands
and bo9v were scanned by the disease
W. 5h he said had been cured by his
medicine. He sold enough Of it to pay
expenses and lay by little. More
than once spectators palavered with
with him desiring to form stock COM
pany to manufacture the stuff in
quantities, but such schemes always
fell through. So old man Packard
boiled it at home in an old iron pot
and went ON the even tenor of his way.
By and by rumors went about the
country neighborhoods that he had
boarded much money.
He had one child, daughter, and
she was unwarrantably plain. So
homely was she that, as Twain would
say, she could not smile after 10
o'clock on Saturday night without
breaking the Sabbath. To her came
lanky, gawky, cadaverous youth with
love in his looks. This was Chamber
lin. He married her, and Packard
paid the license clerk and the preacher
with dozen bottles of his kings evil
annihilator. At that time Chamberlin
was an ideal "Rube" of tender years.
He had failed in everything
teaching, clerkingS fence building,
book canvassing. He had run the
gamut of employments open to rural
male in those days. Learning that his
father in-law's treasure consisted OF
$75 stuffed into an old sock, which in
turn was stuffed into a strong box and
locked up, he went to live with the
old man and contentedly boiled the
medicine. Later on, having amassed
$50, he opened drug store. He had
no clerk, and the people looked
askance at his sign prescriptions
Carefully Compounded. Nocustom-
ers came near, and pharmacy was his
thirty-sixth failure. He lost conf
dence in himself, and those who knew
him never had any confidence in him
to lose.
At that time the local Y. NJ. G. A.
determined to branch out. 1t wanted
to hire secretary at salary, and
Chamberlin got the job. He was an
instantaneous success. He threw
himself into the work heart and soul.
He doomed the organization as it had
never been doomed He metaphors
cally dragged in members by the coat
tails. He advanced rapidly in the
Methodist church. He was central
figure in all church sociables,' church
fairs, and those meetings known as
s'gift parties, where the frenzied par
son receives twelve pairs of lowered
slippers, not any one of which fits, and
twenty-three ''tidies" to go over the
back of his single rocking-chair. The
members of the Y. M. G.. A. raised
Chamberlain pay to $1,000 a year.
He worked at this awhile and then
went West.
When his friends next heard from
him he was worth 81, 200, 900. The
man was q miniature John Law, whose
genius for finance of the risky sort
had been cabined, cribbed, confined
within the narrow limits of an agricul-
tural neighborhood for many years.
He saw that the time for real estate
boom in Denver was at hand, and he
doomed. The Chamberlin Investment
company was formed, and corner lots
took an upward shoot. The company,
which was really Humphrey B. Cham
berlin, handled hundreds o thousands
of dollars every month. 1t got about
all the Methodist money in Colorado.
Its head built an observatory-the
fourth largest in this country-and
many churches. He gave SIS, 600 In
cash to Trinity Methodist church. He
founded Chamberlin, S. D., and other
towns. He taught class in Sunday
school and taught it well.
Not content with being the biggest
biped in Colorado and contiguous
states, he invaded Texas. 1t took him
just ten days to set the town OF Fort
Worth raving crazy on real estate. In
two weeks he had the staid, semi
Mexican town of San Antonio waltz
ing around ON its ear. He bought an
evening paper in this town and i'm
ported editors from Denver, mainly
distinguished by their wealth OF ad-
jectives, and doomed and doomed. He
bought largely on time payments and
sold largely for money down. One
| German was so happy over selling a
| 5000 lot for $4,000 that he made prepa-
rations to go back to the Fatherland