The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-05

store of the cheapest variety down neal
the Battery. This for an ex-magnate AZ
the Chicago board Of trade!
Charles T Yerkes is of New York
1 and again not of 1t. To explain this
| seeming paradox, his greatest inter
ests are yet In the street car. lines of
/ Chicago. Nevertheless his home IS
here, and he is figure in metropolitan
| finance. No other New Yorker has a
house that is more of palace. 1t is on
Fifth avenue. at the corner of Sixty
eighth street, and has a square hall of
marble with a stained glass dome, a
conservatory two stories high, shelter
| ing a Famous collection of orchids, an
| India room, a ball room and a theater,
| and a suite of apartments for Mrs.
| Yerkes that alone cost $4,000. Yerlkas
Is SAID to have expended an even mil
non dollars on this house. What this
| mllllonaire's wealth figures to-day no
one knows, but it certainly has not di-
mlniShed since he took up his abode
here
Brice is dead, Calvin S. Brice of Nick
Ell Plate, Lake Erie, Ohio and Wash
ington fame, but his memory will live
III New York very long while. Years
before Brice ever came to the metro
polls permanently. he was ngure here,
a man of mark for Wall street, one
known as a shrewd handler. A few
stocks made his money for him, how
ever. His game was to get control Ct a
railroad, to play only for very high
stakes and to take long chances. The
financial world will never forget how.
nip and tuck, he sold the Vanderbilts
the Nickel Plate.
Though dead this man is incontesta-
bly, in this list of great financierS of the
west who have stormed New York. To
make proper distinction, the street"
never knew Brice, though finance did.
He was never a specula tor, this man
who died where it was his ambition to
die-in house on Fifth avenue.
Other names may be recalled, Gen.
Sam Thomas of Ohio in with the Payne
interests, William R. Hearst. who with
a portion of his fathers millions has
become marked factor in New York
journalism, sinking nearly two millions
in his New York Journal before it be-
came success, operating on Wall
street meanwhile, clearing very nearly
million there, it has been said. II. G.
We'll of st. Louis, who, inheriting close
to two millions, has for several years
plunged fast and furiously in the stock
market, notably on Sugar (the rumor is
that he has come out about even so
far), Anthony Brady of Troy. N. Y, in
with Roswell p. Flower Che has made
close to six millions the past two years,
NbSS say IISIIEIt Leslie lGIIell, VINO
was the Standard OILS attorney in
Cleveland. nowadays a millionaire sew
eral times over, and David Moffat of
Denver. who spends very nearly half
his time in the Fifth avenue hotel.
There remains but Roswell P. Flower
OF WATERFOWL, N Y, to speak of. For
some years figure in Haute Finance,
ex-governor of New York state, Mr..
Flower has of late become a master
He came to New York with an ample
fortune, now he Is the posseesor of not
far from % millions. The Flower
stocks" are those most talked of to-
day. Chief among these are what are
known as the Trust" stocks, Federal
Steel, Brooklyn Rapid Transit { a huge
amalgamation of street railways. In
ternational Paper and Rock Island.
Flower lives at 597 Fifth avenue, New
York. 1t is a fine mansion on the out
side, but plain within. The man him
self is that.
CROMWELL CHILDE.