Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-12-11


AZ elevator nan, II. YIN - ais
charged Il once. sirat once NY roomS
n that building cost me $7,oco ysar.
and no employe must daro to talk that
way to a. good tenant a. am. he
must either be discharged or WIN move
across into my own building. can't
understand the mans attitude Here YOU
see bankers and brokers and Capitalists
taking on their hats to me as they pass.
and yet an employee at so per month
dares to forbid me the elevator to reach
my own offices! I can't make il out, sir.'s
"Yeu-you do not need money!
Only that tribe, sir-that half million
I must have that for three new canal
locks which were left out Of the original
estimate by accident. It's nero trifis-a
mere trife. I have but to raise my hand
TO bring me q certified check You must
be moving. sir. If you would go into my
scheme"
II am still little timid.'.
Then let us call It on at once. have
never dealt with ti1nid men. sirl I want
as partners men who wiz sing and whis-
tie as the ticker tells them they are
down to their last dollar. Timid over the
hal hal Why sir, when had $4,000 900
locked Up In a wheat corner and one
hours slump made mo 100000 the
poorer. raised the salaries of all my
clerks and took an option on q business
block at saS0oooi 7 never enjoyed my
dinner moro than on that day. And how
was 1t, sir. when I found my Western
Union going down and my ready money
locked up In tho Zoe businessl I had to
raise a million and half In two hours,
with the street against me. They ssid
they had old Reynard' In a hole. but
laughed and smiled and raised the ready
and beat 'em. made s2eao.oco on that
deal, but I never bought an extra cigar
over 1t. Lose OF win, It was all the game.
And you won't so into my schemoSs
II think not. I'm afraid OF IT."
Very WE'LL sir. was simply trying to
do you favor. I took you for man Of
courage. Things must have undergone a
mighty change when q man can be found
who hesitates to so in with the prince OF
finances and make a hundred per cent
profit on his money. Afraid! Half MILL
ion--humphr'
But you may be over-enthusiastio."
T protested.
l stood and watched him maiang his
| way until the crowd swallowed him up.
Then the tanitor of the building behind
me touched my arm and said:
TOO bad, isn't itf" IL
"What-the old man7"
yes, old Blank He owned the street
| once. This was one of his buildings.
and he first gave mo place. Two seen
the time when no had t20ooo.ooo In the
safe on the second floor. 1t kept ono
elevator busy to carry up ana down
men who wanted to SO Into his schemes"
| And he was succesyfulf'
'For time-like all the rest. He was
| the man of the street for a few years.
and men almost crawled before him."
And then?'
''He struck ID wrong and went to the
| wall. and to-day no one knows him and
he could not borrow fifty cents OF men
who made hundreds of thousands through
his Sharpness
but he seems to be of IN the head"
| said.
'$of course; it's that way with most
of 'em who go DOWN believe brother
takes care OF him financially, but almost
every day he roams UP and down tho
| street and talks of his schemes and be-
lieves he is still prince OF finance. It's
hard lines, sir. TO como down from king
to pauper-fron. millions to nothing
YES hard lines, whispered as
went down tho ste2 and jostled with
the crowd and Ypndsred h~x 1oa121fu fa6Sd(
of~''tho street. had such faS
| for them
Copyright, 1898, by John Hrisben