Evening star., 1899-02-04

| Keene brought on east twenty years ago.
He never intended to stop In New York;
| he was actually on his way to Europe when
| the fever of Wall street seizEd him. There
was not an instant's resistance on the part
| of the man from the Pacific slope. He
sprang full armed into everything the stock
| market offered. Prodigious success came
| to him at once. His four millions swelled
to fifteen. All, this was a game worth
| the playingl What was California in com
parison?
And then, of sudden, capricious fortune
turned. The Slb,Oo.o0 began to melt. This
famous Gould-keene war came on. There
| is a story that at the height of his fortunes
keene swore that he would make Jay
Gould wheel a hand organ about the streets
| of New York. Instead of that II was
| Gould that trfumphed. Keene was carry
| ing too many things. The bottom dropped
out Of a score, all at once, and wheat In
| to which he had gone heavily. administered
but bankrupt.
| How fortune changes, however, Today
James r. keene is back again. a central
| figure of the street" with all his old mill
ions-or very nearly all-in his pockets
Everything has been golden for him Of re-
cent years. His old policy of being in
everything has now been successful. No
body knows all he has handled. People
Fave employed him to manipulate this and
that and they have found him the very
| man. No ono operated to greater extent
in the "industrials" He is supposed to
nave been the power behind Chicago gas.
In short, every great speculation has been
Keene.
ENORMOUS Wealth.
The late seventies witnessed one other
entry of western capitalists into New York
the Rockefellers, John D. and William
Ohio was not proving itself large enough
The Standard OH Company, now rapidly
developing, needed elbow room. 1t needed
too. the eastern refiners in it's body polite
New York gave it both of these and has
mounted the combined Rockefeller fortunes
up to, 1t is calculated. $500. 900. 600 John d
Rockefeller's wealth is close TO 5000 OOo coo
the brothers never speculate; they
Quietly invest. Nor do they invest sinely
The standard Oil pool is well known
buying factor In Wall street these davs
1t is made up of the Standard Oil nrinc{-
pals, the Rockefellers, Colonel Oliver II
Payne, Henry NJ. Fla gler, H H Rogers
John ID: Archbold. There is more than
one pool. to be exact. but these men huv
together. They are now planning to CON
troll the Alton, the railroad link between
st Louis and Chicago. All are western
men whose success has been brilliant be-
yond comparison.
Are All Plain Men
And success for success sake-the con-
quering OF New York-has been their one
object Only one of the group. Col Oliver
Payne. has social position. The Others
live in superb mansions, but have no real
part in any of New Yorks life save the
business world. John D. Rockefeller does
not even live on 9Th avenue though he has
a very beautiful home just of of II. al 4
west oath street. William is a 9Th aN-enua
haghate, however. All these triumphant
examples of Haute Finance are the plainest
of men.
In Col. Oliver H. Payne. New York has
gained personality. OF the fine old Ohio
ianly OF Paynes. Col. Payne. once resi-
cent or cleveland. has become a man of
mark in New YoTk's financial circles He
ilVes handsomely at So 9TH avenue. and is
oulihlng what will be the largest private
yacht in America
Yet longer grows the list of men who
nave found their way from the smaller
cities to New York to play a part in great
moneyed affairs. Some have failed. The
Wheel OF fortune does not always point to
success There was Erastus Wiman. for
example, the man of Toronto, who coming
to New York with a large competence
made the practical head of a great com
thought he knew New York and its fiuan-
cal ways. Here was cleverness and brains
over1natched by the grinding Juggernaut of
the metropolis. In brief, Wiman, confident
of his powers, tried to carry too many en-
terprises on his shoulders.
Met the Same Fate
Out Of Chicago and out OF Denver sew
erai years ago came two men who met
with much the same fate. The Denver
man was Henry NJ. Tabor, once governor
Of Colorado and United States senator
Rumor credited him with being the pos
SCISSOR Of a 5000 nightshirt. Whether this
was true or not, Tabor certainly came on
to New York with three or four million
dollars, made in the west in silver and
gold mines. This was in 1881 BY the time
1880 had rolled around Wall street had
broken" him.
In Chicago there died quite lately Nat
Jones, who in 1SSS graduated from the
beard of trade, and with a fortune of
million dollars started IN to show how a
Westerner could vanquish New York Jones
was one of the Chicago Big Four of
those times, the others being Jack Cuddy
Norman K. Ream and Charles Singer. The
firm he founded-Jones, Mccormick & Ken
nett-did well for time. II was supposed
they were very prosperous Addison Cam
mack, the great bear of the street, had an
account there. But the demon of maninu-
lating seized Nat Jones. He left his firm,
he plunged again and again. only to be
finally swept down, with Reading and Atch-
ison dealing the final blow. Extreme pow
erty was the fate of his later years.
On the Other Side.
Here are few Of the pathetic romances
of the "otker side" of the shield To them
should be added word about "Old Hutch"
B. p. Hutchinson, who speculated here in
Wall street for a year or two, though only
in a small way. This was. however. after
this eccentric man had lost the bulk Of his
fortune on the board of trade, Chicago.
His career here was picturesque in the ex-
treme. He slept on & sofa in a bankers Of
flee, and finally in the intervals of his spec
ulating kept a little grocery store of the
cheapest variety down near the Battery.
This for an eX-ma gnate of the Chicago
board Of trade,
Turn back again to the men that have
succeeded. There are John W. Mackay,
Haggin and Marcus DAILY. Haggin is the
only one of these who lives permanently in
New York. His home is at 5S7 9th avenue,
a remarkable mansion. DAILY fits back and
forth from east to west. Mackay, spending
much of his time here, has his real head
quarters in London, where Mrs. Mackay
lives. The two have added largely to their
fortunes. DAILY and Haggin have found
nothing better than the Anaconda, which
still produces copper fabulously. Both
have, however, agreed that New York and