Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-12-31

money is In business enterprises Wnlcn
are said to bring him in an income, OF
something like half million dollars
a year The most of Foraker's funds
come, am told. from his law practice.
A Cincinnati man told me the other
day that he received not long ago SlOO,-
900 as his fee in single case and that
he makes enormous amounts out of his
practice. Hnnna's investments cover
the United States. He has line of
steamers on the lakes. lie own iron
mines in Wisconsin. Michigd and Min
nesota. He is director OF the Globe
iron works. one of the biggest ship
building institutions of the United
States. He has railroad interests and
street car lines, and he Is at the same
time largely interested in coal mnes.
He has thousands OF mon In his en-
ploy. and his pay rolls during the last
year have aggregated about S25O.OOn
month, or very nearly $4,000 day The
most Of his employees are strong sup
porters of his. They say he Is n good
man to work for and eminently fair
and honest As to just what Hanna is
worth no one knows. | doubt whether
he knows himself. The other day a
newspaper friend OF mine asked him
point blank how much money he had.
Hanna looked up with surprise, and,
raising his hands. exclaimed;
MY God, man. That's n thing l
never tell even to my own Wife
CHARITABLE. BUT MODEST.
Both Hanna and Foraker are chart
table men. Mrs Foraker is very ac
tive member of the Methodist church,
and she is interested in all things con-
nected with 1t. Hanna gives a good
deal TO the churches, but l don't think
he ia over-regular in his attendance.
He is always giving in some way or
another, but he does not let his
right hand know what his
left hand does, but he never
gives Extensively Ben Butter
worth tells number of stories of
Hanna's charity. Says he: zone day
just after the panic had struck u.s. and
times were hard, / was in Mark
Hanna's office. ! had a friend who was
about to lose his home. He had Dor
rowed money on 1t when he was flush.
and the Indebtedness was nothing like
the value of the property. But the
shrinkage caused by the panic was
such that If 1t was sold II would hard
~ bring the amount of the debt.
tried TO get some of my rich friends, to
help him, and could not until | men
toned the matter to Mark Hanna. /
did not ask Mr.. Hanna for money. but
just told him the story. As / was going
away, however, he handed me n paper
saying:
Perhaps your friend can use that,
Ben
"Just then some one else came In and
/ had to hurry to make my train.
When ] got in the car | looked at the
paper. 1t was a check for $500, the
amount of my friends Indebtedness.
II saved the home and made him an
everlasting friend of Mark Hanna.
Mark Hanna did that without a re-
ceipt and without hope that he
would get anything from 1t, and l can
tell you that it takes pretty charita-
bile soul to act SO in these money
grubhnE days.
81 know of number of other cases"
Major Butterworth continued. II
once heard man ask Mr.. Hanna for
money to aid him in defending a suit
which an INSCRIPTIONS man had
brought against him. Equltahly the
nun had no right to the property, but
legally the papers We're so drawn that
he could get 1t, and the right owner
would lose all he had. 1t was the
owner who asked Mark Hanna for a
thousand dollars to defray the expenses
of defending his property. / heard the
n an tell the story. Mark Hanna looked
like craven image as he listened, and
and you would have thought that he
was unimpressed by 1t. At the close
he told the man he would look into the
matter, and little later | know the
man received n check for n thousand
dollars, accompanied only by o note.
which said: Il think your cause is just.
If IT is so, and You are honest, as
am sure YOU are, you will ray this back
when You can
AT another time" Major Butter
worth went on, II was walking with
Mark Hanna along Pennsylvania ave-
rue in Washington. A poor old woman
came up and begged us for some PEN
mics. ] put my hand In my pocket and
found that | was strapped. Before |
could sneak, however, Mark had
handed the old woman dollar, say
ing: i am afraid you will find bread
alone rather dry eating. You had bet
ter take this and so saying he con-
tinued his conversation about the mat
ter on which we were talking"
FRANK G. CARPENTER.