The sun., 1898-11-27
Personal and Public side Of The
Man Known The l'Ountry Over
as ''1he ia. Man"
GREAT SUCCESS IN BUSINESS
His Entrance Into the Politics of This
state Marked by q Fight That Will
Live in History % Long % Della.
ware...AbilIty to Maintain
Organization. -

ID JONI E@p S'u >uss 20 ~ S".H' ."
dicks, Claymont, Delawsrs. The world
over it IL 'Addicks," and latter sd-
dressed to him q Boston, New York
Philadelphia, Wilmington, Dover, Carr.
cr,jt, or CIaymont would surely resch
him, and the result Of tire recent election
in Delaware suggests . strong probability
that Washington, D. c., will be added
to bis list Of correct addresses.
This remarkable man, faF =. Edward
Addicks ID, . remarkable person, was
born in Philadelphia Novemher n, lS4l.
His father was Health O6iCpr Of the city
Tor SOME years and slwavs On actiye man
in the affairs of the city. "Ned" Ad.
dicks attended the Public Schools and 10
proud of it. He was prolnsted FROM the
Grammar School TO the Hith School q
tho head of his class and. stayed there.
Hs graduated with honofs. md, unlike
most men, he retains 70 this day .
mastsrful knowledgr Of tho subjects then
Taught in the Boys High School. HE
memory 10 phenomenal, 3
In the lives of all men who amount
to anything the inevitable "6rst job
turns up. The first employment secured
by Ned" Addicks was with the old
time Dry Goods concern Of, Sieger, Lamb
L Co., u M. Al North Third street. He
was 'the boy" and oil that "the boy"
means, but his eye WAS ever on the main
chance. l,,. ..,Gts ..tl,.,.
A l9 Addicks Wis 4 Honr salesman
for Levi Knowles, then in business At No.
1918 Market street. Al 81 Mr.. Knowles
admitted lin to tull psrtnsrship, and
two years later J. Edward Addicks went
into the -four market himself at No.
1870 Market street and soon attained 4
commanding place in the local trade.
In this venture he was materially as
sisted BY the capital Of bis father.in-
Jaw, the late Washington Butcher, two
Of whose daughters he married later
On. .4
At 80 Addicks had 100000 of his
own, over and above every debt. lie
had earned and saved over $4,000 a
year. Money seemed to grow on him
and cling to him until 1873 when he
met his first reverse.
He had bccome q plunger in Philadel-
phia real estate. His holdings were ener-
NOUS. and, by the by, he il to-day heavy
holder in Philadelphia realty. The Jay
Cooke panic Of 1879 caught ,Addicks, a.
we'll as every body else who had anything
to lose. and promptly wiped out the sell
ing value Of all his real estate. The era
nf dry rot which followed did the rest.
Addicks resolutely Strengthened out his
affairs, met his losses, and began new
deal.
1t was in 1880 that he took up with the
enterprise that has nade his name known
throughout the world-water gas. H.
has been published everywhere as 'the
,ias man." His Gas interests, amounting
to many millions of money, include such
properties az the Bay State Gas Company
with $50, 900, OOO capital, the Queen City
panies scattered all over the United States.
There is report current that h- controls
the gas situation il Washington and that
lie has been the "silent man" in the sew
eraI big gas deals just c"nsun,nated ia
New Jersey, New York and Ohio.
In politics Addicks has demonstrated
his fighting qualities, his determinati,n
and his aDinty u establish and maintain
anization. He comes from fighting
stock. His ancestors were of the Irish
nobility and each generation has shown
Vt least one man who would fight and
when whipped still tigh.-that's Ad-
dicks Of Delaware.
He bought his Delaware home in 1877,
and, iftlle Irnth must be told, he had
lived on the place month before he
knew that it was MT in Pennsylv vallia.
The spot is just over Il e state lines that
the mistake was natural. He never
thought OF a p 'Iitical future Tor himself
anti the campaign of 1889 had been
won in Delaware by the Republicans.
With characteristic promptness and en-
ptasis he proclaimed himself a candidate
for the United States Senate. His an.
nouncement dazed the people of Della.
ware. They did not know the man; they
had never heard of him. He began at
once to reorganize the Republican party
in Delaware. He enfranchised every
voter in the State who had been dis
fanclised by law or poverty.
He canvassed the State from end to
end with competent organizers and lo
there was a new power in the land
Addicks of Delaware. That fight will
live in History as long as Delaware.
Addicks joined IN electing Anthony Hig.
gins tO the United States Senate, and tile
subsequent attitude of Mr.. Hivpjnt
: towards Mr.. Addicks brought on ii
Addlcks. Higgins feud, which mean.
political exterminatinn for one or the
, other Of them. Notwithstanding the en-
dorsement Of the Administration, the
Federal patronage and the corporate sup
port given the Higgins faction, Addick.
seems to be master of he situation 0-day
and Mr.. Higgins may yet have to ben,
he knee to the man he hates above al
other men on earth-Addlcks Of Della
ware.
, 1t must be kept in mind, all the while
that Addcks conducted his own cam
paigns, independent of the national ant
| The State organiza, ions, and that he ha
. on three occasions elected a majority O
| the Delaware Legislature, rs proved b,
the C Durt records Of tie State.
At the St. LOUIS Convention, wher,
William Mckinley was nominated f.,
President Of the United States, Addick
and his followers were repudiated ant
ID dragged in the dirt by the friends o
Higgins. Addicks was for Quay AMI
against Mckinley. The Higgins DpIega
tion was for Mckinley and agains
} everybody else. Mr.. Hanna saw tha
/ the Higgins Mckinley lnen were seated
a The indignties heaped upon Mr.. Ad
3 dicks and his friends on that occasion