The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-09-18

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ra44<@' %4S -ult ~ a. American -
Me-SlEs. who constructed also u.aas -.
Fosi1S "a Zero. MeiSEs came frst "a ~
from California. His partner thur. -
ri'-ae3 am fst-a rcisliy. and De IA wa.
AVOID arrest. owing seree ST. sssa -.
rived II Peru ai,nast rean8less. As,t ~.
contract Tor tbis road - offering IA b.,ss
so- absut half the amount asAas ~ -
English engineers. Tie made nssn-x 40 y
Il, and froEl saas time be aaca-3a ana - Al
greatest contractors so1ta q rs So
He l}9iit other reads ara made so-,vrex I.
- taem. lie theg went 10 t,s,il.. a-i -
contracted fer works whica css len. !
millions q dollars. He built ira -
oroya read up The Andes. AaeS ~ -
which IS the Stespe<:- and I s9os,he ~ =. |
c0s1hest, road ever built, and was7 ). s.,
he was putting . tunnel into tha ,-gu,,.,s
Of Cefro 6s Pasco 10 strike and sr.ir :.
great silver dgg>osit there. NesESs was =.
Gol5atelly ass able man. but whether H. =.
an honest man or not have not hsaas -,
10 determine. HIS friends say he wss ~
they state that out OF his first saralrss |
Chile he sent hack - California ssa =
19 for which ne was indebted Orss.
say he was tricky, and n this esgnsvss.
/ Vas told today OF lottery sehsn,s xaYs
II Is asserted he worked 20 his pssa, q.
were walking along The Alameda ard Al
,niring the great palaces III which Ia :.
hobs OF this city live. wnen my fs.saa III. |
DO you ss-a that house there Gu IL a..
ner?'
Yes" said I. 1T must have CO a *.
tune to build it?''
1T did, was the reply. That BON h.
longed 10 Henry Meisgs. He built I've "a.
nisicent palaces in Santiago. and III So
So spent, / venture. mare thas ha,: i.
lion dollars. He sold them, hewessr. va |
times were hard for mora than sAss- sss.
How did he DO st7"
''He d.d IL by q lottery schems in VIA
there were 7oo.0o0 tickets offered .as Sa
a. a dollar aple,ce- The only prizes sss
that house and the other. which e nlra~
down the street. Wen, cnly sNlM tiexaI
were sold. ard when the drawing US
made IL was found that the rum,x1
the prizes were left ameng tbs H. a .
sold blanks. So. you see, Mesggs gss ID
s6elt go and held on 10 his lioases n
people were mad, but nothing VAS 4oA
FRANK @. CARPENTER