The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-12
4 sLEEPLgss MILLIONAIRE.
Elaborate Daily Routine Fostered the Mall
ady of Insomnia for Fifteen Years.

AaiaDOfate Da1ly lfOuGlne II OsteTeu the MAI
| ady of Insomnia for Fifteen Years.
| For Is years Edward Bain the mill
| ionaire wagon manufacturer of Keno
| sha, Wis, who died on Sunday at Pasa-
| dena, Cal, never occupied a bed or
wooed sleep by assuming reclining
| posture. Sitting bolt upright in high
| backed chair, or lying back in chair
which titled at a slight angle, he let
his head fall upon his breast and dozed
away for the few minutes of half SUM
| Der which it seemed his body was gem
| orally content with having.
| Sometimes he did not sleep more than
| so minutes in the course of a night, di-
viding this into snatches of five, seven
| or ten minutes, and rising in the fire.
| quent intervals to take long walks about
| Kenosha. There was, however, nights
when he secured nearly the average
| quota of sleep, possibly an hour at
| time. rising at the end of that time Tor
relaxation before returning to the la
| borious endeavor to entice forgetful-
| ness.
| Four times millionaire, by the esti-
| mate of his friends, he did not use ms
| Golfers to help him in the contest ne
waged against the hour glass He dld
| not seek variety; instead he assigned
to every part of the day a particular
| routine, schedule which he never
| broke 1t was this popularity OF
method, the result Of a merciless self
| discipline, that brought on in the first
instance, says his physician, DR.. G. IL.
Ripley, the malady which was destined
| to be his constant companion. by
method, also, he in all probability fos-
tered the disease. Always a nervous
man, he found after 60 years of hard
labor that he could not sleep. Previous
| to that time he had never tried to
sleep.
Then suddenly he found himself a
man of leisure. The Balm Wagon COM
I pany became in 1882 a corporation and
he it's president AS Edward Balm, the
proprietor, there had been reverend
ing employment for him; as Edward
Balm, president, he had nothing to Go
but attend an occasional meeting OF the
board of directors and draw his divi-
dends.
DR.. Ripley asserts that insomnia was
not the result of any discern1ble physl-
cal i'll. The mechanism of the mans
| brain appears simply to have undergone
| a subtle change that made it an ex-
ample of continuous motion.
! Mr.. Balm constituted himself his own
doctor, and seems to have reasoned that
system might again restore him to a
normal state. He did not care to re-
turn to work, but he set about elaborat-
| ing daily time card. For six months
OF tHe year., TIE peIlUu he SptflL az IAt-
| nosha, there was no shifting OF the
programme for any cause whatever.
Awaking from his nap with the ap-
| pearance of the first light in the east,
he was hurried by his attendant to a
bath, then rubbed vigorously and
dressed in fresh garments. In matters
of attire he was scrupulous to the last
| detail. After light breakfast he
| walked from the house short distance
| 70 hl1g2V
awaited him.
On the outskirts of KenoSha Mr.. Balm
owned large tracts of land, fenced into
| farms, and for the most part culti-
waited. The gates opening from one
field to another We're of the sort a man
in carriage or wagon can open with
out alighting. For nearly four hours
Mr.. Balm drove from farm to farm.
looking at every object, but never
speaking to his tenants. a
At 10 o'clock every morning he was
set down on the platform at the Chi
cago & Northwestern depot. An en-
ploye took the rig home and Mr.. Balm
and the attendant came into Chicago.
From 1870 O'clock the time of the
trains arrival at the Wells street sta
ton, until 3 o'clock in the afternoon,
he was on board a street car. He rode
for one hour and As minutes in one di-
rection, timing himself, and then re-
turned by the same route to the depot
to step upon the train which bore him
back to Kenosha.
During his street car rides Mr.. Balm
sat always on the right side of the car.
At the halfway point he secured mis-
lunch, a glass of some mild beverage
and a sandwich. When he reached Ke-
nosha at about 4:S0 o'clock in the after
noon the buggy was awaiting him at
the platform. He climbed into it and
made the same round of the farms he
had made in the morning. He took dim
ner with his family in the evening and
after the meal came downtown, going
either to the Grant house or to one of
the saloons. He did not drink, but took
a seat and talked with his friends and
eighbors.-Chicago Tribune