The Indianapolis journal., 1898-09-26
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emporium in Yokohama. He widened this
out into wholesale establishment and be-
gan shipping Japanese curioS to England,
America and other big markets for japanese
products or art. Babcock hasn't made any
effort to have the tattooed compasses and
stars removed from his big horny hands.
Americans living in Japan. He makes fire.
quent tours of his branch wholesale
Japanese curio emporiums at Kobe. Ma
gaSakf and Hak0date, and he enjoys life
prodigiously in a quiet sort of way.
Living opulently in the Burgundy dis
trict OF France is an ex-American man-o'-
wars man, who put in nearly twenty years
on the Mediterranean station as a chief
bo'Sun'S mate, without ever once returning
to the land of his birth He met a pretty
millinery girl in Nice that he grew very
fond of, and he married her The chief
bo'sun'S mate saved his money. and after
a few years he set bis wife up in the milli-
from the start and 1t was not long before
she was making five times the amount of
him to quit the navy. but he liked the navy
and he was an Independent man besides.
His wife, thoroughly. devoted to her good
looking American sailor husband, continued
on in the business, and the pair began 10
grow wealthy. BY this time there was a
half a dozen. young ones in the family. The
chief bosun's mate continued to save his
own money, and after while he went into
the wine-dealing business in Nice as side
issue to his naval sailorizing. His business
prospered from the jump and he began
to make money rapidly. Still he stuck TO
the navy A few years ago the idea finally
did soak into his mind that it was absurd
for him to remain in the service when he
already had more money than he knew
what to do with, and gave up his bo' sun 5
mates billet, to the general regret OF his
officers. He hung on to his Nice wine busi-
ness, and went to the Burgundy district
and started to growing grapes. This also
was a. conspicuous success. and after a, few
years of it closed up his business in Nice.
as his wife did hers, and they settled down
with their children on one of the prettiest
estates in the wine district. The son of
rich Lyons silk merchant made eyes at the
eldest daughter and married her, and a
while later a young French noblemaE, who
was decidedly not impecunious, married an
other of his daughters. His wife, still pref
ty. pokes fun at him down & TO Il the Pre- present ,,,s
French speaking, and the establishment Is
surely a happy one.
MULVIHILL WAS SMART.
An Irishman named Mulvihil. who had
been a cook in Irish and English restau-
rants, wound up, after a jamboree in Liv-
erpool about ten years ago, on an American
man-of-war that was shy a galley cook,
with saucepan for a rating badge on his
watch arm. and he made one of the best
cooks in the American navy, too. He saved
his money during the three years that he
put in, chiefly on the Mediterranean sta
ton, and his ship. the old Pensacola, hap
pened to be lying in the port of Marseilles
when the day came for Mulvihill to be paid
off and decide, ashore, if he wanted any
more OF the navy in his. He went ashore
in Marseilles, and the idea struck him that
that big port ought not to be lacking in a
restaurant where travelling Americans and
Englishmen could get a chop and a steak
cooked and served in the right Anglo-Saxon
style. Mulvihill opened a little steak AMI
chop place on one of the side streets of
Marseiles, considerably out of the way of
the big thoroughfares, but touring Ameri-
cans and Englishmen have a nose for places
of this sort: and it did not take them long
out and opened a big place on one of the
main thoroughfares of Marseilles, and he
has been making money hand over fist ever
since, to the deep disgust OF the French
proprietors of tables dhote in Marseilles
A few years ago a cavalryman named
Black was bob-tailed, from his troop out
at the Preside of San Francisco for general
wildness. The officers of his troop hated TO
see him go, for he was by long odds the
very best horseman in his regiment, an ut
terly unbeatable and daring acrobat on his
mount. Black didn't have a sou-marque
when he was escorted to the Presidio's main
gate by detail of the guard, but he walked
down to a San Francisco riding academy
and got a job as instructor for 500 a month
in wages. He taught the prettiest girls in
San Francisco how to ride horseback, and
some of them became so interested in the
young ex-soldier that they got their papas
to unite and set him up with riding acad-
emy of his own. Blacks riding academy
cisco for some years, and then Black gave
It up upon, making money marriage.
ne DtHdVeu HlIusciI ike d little man from
the day he left the army and arrived
A cavalry sergeant named Forsythe. sta
toned at Walla Walla long before the boom
in the State of Washington saved his pay
and added to it by engaging in little profit
able deals around the town. and at the con-
clusion of one of his enlistments he took
a furlough and had look around the coun-
try. He thought Seattle would one day be
a pretty warm site for city. and he laid
down his savings in investments by the
acre in and around the site where Seattle
now is. When the boom began Forsythe
simply woke up to find himself rich and
he bought his discharge from the army by
telegraph.