Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-05
A Visit From Sir Thomas LiDtDD|
is NEARLY U ERE WITI1 H IS YACHT IN WHICH HE INTENDS
TO TAKE BACK THE AMERICAS CUP.

Thomas Upton paid a visit to this
country when he was 10 years old. He
lived in South Carolina and worked his
way north, living long enough in the
south and working long enough in the
north to absorb and acquire everything
of great merit in the new world.
Then he went home to begin l.fe in
Scotland with the $500 which he had made
in America.
That was 80 years ago. But, in the
time thai has elapsed, the $500 and its
owner have done such great work that
today India claims Sir Thomas because
it gives him its plants. Nor is India the
only country that owns him, for Ireland
loudly cries, He was born here Scot
land vallantly asserts che made his mon
ey on my SOIL England. not backward,
declares Il kn!ghted him. and ever Chi
cage is a claimant for ownership, since
his immense packing interests lie here.
New York is the financial home OF Sir
Thomas and he owns mines in the west.
SO it is this MANIFESTED man who will
soon be here with his yacht to take home
with him Americas cup.
In ali the previous cup contests extend
ing over 80 years the contestants have
been handicapped in ways in which Sir
Thomas Upton is not. Either they were
over-confident or over-timid; or, they re-
lied upon the yacht entirely. or else too
much upon the men, as Lord DunraVen
did. Or they We're hasty or they were m
experienced. But in Sir Thomas there IS
a business man who weighs all things in
a scale and balances them. He looks
ahead not backward, trusts to nothing
but skill. and realizes that a boat can do
only lust so much unless handled by men
who agree.
And his is the sort of man and the
kind of proposition which the Columbia
is up against And no one featlzes IL
like c. Oliver Iselin.
After Thomas Upton had saved his
American dollars he went back to Eng
land and settled in Glasgow to go in Dusl-
ness. He decided to deal in a pubic ne
cessity and chose a beverage as dear to
the English heart as soda to the Amer
lean.
AS soon as he had reached a decision
he expended part Of his $500 in stock and
with the remainder he purchased two i'm
mense Irish hogs. These he labeled with
his name. and then he led them up and
doWn the streets. 1t was a cheap adVef-
tisement, but it brought in money.
That was the beginning of a business
which in 20 years yielded twenty millions
clear!
AS money came the honors were added.
The Liptons of IRELAND were as good as
the Roseberys Of England, and the hand
some young bachelor was feted when he
came to town. Soon he had 400 shops of
his own in England, 60 Of which were n
London, and he decided to settle down in
the shadow Of the home Of the prince.
He became acquainted with the prin-
cess. and dug Town in his pocket for all
of her charitable schemes, until n 1893,
our Worlds fair year, there was no more
popular name in London than that of Sir
Thomas Upton.
1897 was Jubilee year in England and
the princess of Wales decided to give a
dinner TO the poor of London. All were
invite to attend on a public invitation,
which the princess published in the pa
pers.
London is a big town, and it suddenly
seemed as though its 1000, 900 Of people
were afflicted with ~pauperism for over a
million signihed through the local bu-
reaus that they would attend, and a mill
ion more applied later. Almost in tears
the princess appealed to Sir Thomas Lip
ton. and Immediately she had a check for
S125 600.
Her gratitude for this act was shown
on Jubilee week, when she caused nm to
be knighted. 1t is said that the honor
costs Sir Thomas a cool million a year.
which he expends upon London charities.
Nor is this his only charitable act. He
gave 5000 to a Minnesota regiment for its
sick and wounded; and in a room in his
S%outhgate house he cherlshes a hand
some souvenir presented to him by the
regiment.