The sun., 1901-03-14
HENRY N. SMITH IS DEAD.
WAS JAY GOrLDS PARTNER AND OWNER
or FASHION SIGD FARM.
Died on Tuesday In a sapitarium at Stamford.
Conn. His Career From Poor Bank Clerk
TO Great Hear" Of wall Street He Was
. Great breeder Of American Horses.


toa Great Hear" OF wall Street He Was
Great Breeder Of American Horses.
Henry ~ Smith, in his day one OF the great
bears of Wall Street partner OF Jay Gould
owner of the Fashion stud Farm at Trenton.
and OF Goldsmith Maid. died on Tuesday at
stanford. Conn. Hi, body was brought
home TO Trenton yesterday and the funeral
Will take place this evening from the Fashion
Stud Farm.
Mr., Smith had been in constantly failing
health for some years and in August. ises,
suffered from stroke Of paralysis from which
II was then believed he would not recover.
The remarkable vitality which was charac-
teristc OF his earlier days came to his rescue.
however. and he partially regalned his
strength. Latterlv his mind failed and
three months ago he was taken to the san-
tarium In Stamford, in which he died. lie
leaves two sons and two daughters. the latter
unmarried. and all living al the Fashion Stud
Farm Mrs Smith died some years ago
Henry y Smith wa~ one Of the dashing
spectators or the Ctyil War epoch and by
no means an Insignificant factor in the opera
tons which made Gould and Fisk noted
throughout the country. Speculative fever
was in the very air. In the early COS and
during the Ave or six years prior to the out
Smith when hc WAS a clerk IN his fathers
country store at Tiog1, Pa. a. far back as
1883 He went to Buffalo where he got a clerk
ship in the banking house of Sanford 4 CO..
AT a beggarly salary ont Of which he lived,
however. and I'm the course Of two years
saved silS. with which he set up business for
himself as a cNrh-touc broker. In another
two years he had saved t2,2oO With this
and S. tOO moro which no borrowed he ca
tended his Operations and In n not very long
time had saved sltu"o IN addition to paying
all hl- debts
In is6j he came to New York At the
Clarendon Hotel he met and became ac-
quainted with Gould and the two were At
tached 10 each other Smith had already
ostablis she'd "A Wall street connection with
"a man named Martin aud finally the broker
age firm Of smith Could Martin vas formed
This was ia lNdi. aud could was thsn re-
million Two v"ir- after ~" e-tahli~ H.
ment Of this iirg I l,G' there cane thr
crash of Black lridv crash mat was
brought about by the corner in gold which
the firm Of Smith Gould \ Martin engineered
with the assistance Of james Fisk JT
GuuId ana ti-N disappeared when u"
crash came. bat Smith remained aud raced
To" music. and very h"i-i"rpue di~'ordaht'
nerve irving music II Vu~ II was the be
lief IN the street Ht the tim" that smith was
'hc oNccutv" head that engineered the great
"rh",nG WINE .'"',h d, ,i'ht'l 10 th. ue'auN 'rL
AMI lIii IN" pil"- i.' ~" nT"p1ratorv WORK
NOBODY knows or ever will know how much
o." urm mad" "' tl' uE>d"'ipn. but az tn"
'tlur Of UE iI..'lrtIuu, Aug !. l''n. smith,
who Wa tl"u hIIf q F.,l-- u age. WIS counted
one Of the W'dlt.i,,t -"lf-Wad" Young men
ta Sow h9rE il~ i.ruuc was hen yariou.,I,,
-t mated at from q .tyuf fuu tu siun, 900 Al
inu. Gh he Nd- mo- longer Couu"cted with
any rm b." continued sp"cu!atug IN the
heavily lii. but a't"rvard hv careful and
IudIciui.- operations recovered somewhat