The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1901-07-17
ANECDOTES OF ROGERS.
Odd Personality OF the Wealthy
Locomotive Builder.
4 GREAT LOVER OF ANIMALS


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Pictures-Ii"w lie Treated He"'
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ropolitnn Museum ot Art ia New >"iN
was q bachelor aud tcclusc lie sep
arntcd himself from thr world ~ mucl
as IL was pos.ihlc for a man with lnrg,
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he spchi ~ h'S IVY '"''I'h nome ''
Paterson. y j., where hr h'rh alone
with his housckcrpor
The park surrounding the house wa
aIIcd with red dcrr. for which Mir
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turos bv obs,pr, artists of talent -tb,t
no had nicl.d mn an ovcr rur,rc uc
had pot a slpgln l,pJs,,r, All of bIs
pictures are miniatures Paintings of
Tho bcods ,f v,rpg Urls scep,cJ to n,
onc of his foJs Thorn is mot , sipgl,
one thar il moro tbn,, % ,prh,s LONG
nv n wide uc ncvcr dc,tt diroctiv
with the Now York nrt picuirc sellcrs
He wns orroI1 trnt t,cv v,uId lnov
him and tbnt they would overch,rge
him IL thrv knew his wealth lie wa.
always rcprcscnted by some ono else
When he was I'm Paris tho Inst timc
20 years ago. he saw n picturc i'm Tho
Louvre Arr gallery for which no ~.
fcrcd n fortune but no could no. buv
n lie seemed IN tal.o his discor,gture
80 much to hcart thai ne lcft tho citv
,hourb bc Lent rooms M a botei rs
served for him nm the dov Of his dcn,h
No one I'm Paterson think, that no lert
money I, tho ort museum hnc,use of
amy renl love he had for II but In doing
40 he wns ns consistent os In all his nc.
tions lie never had anything IN do
with his relatives IL, was ,lcterninad
10 disnnnoint them
In his hom, tbere orc trrnsurcs eva,
moro valuable than some of his mic.
turcs-bis hooks Tbcs, M ono was
permltteI IN sre
George Brown r,oI estote man
who had known Afr nogcrs fror hov.
hood. went 10 SEQ him IN urge him IN
conccdc something whom thc Iocomo.
tivn works wrr, shpt down ybc,
Brown left. MIR norcrs stood I'm the
door ana watched his dogs worry him
and throw him 10 tho ground Tbey
torc Rro,vn's cI,th,s to sbr,Is lint tho
rcol estate man fortunately esc,nod
without harm. lie wrote TO MIR Rog.
ers next day telling him of the damage
done Mr. Rorers SOM him a cbccl.
with the follo,yinr note. "Flnl cbeck
for So for a now suit of clothes h,it 1
riyc this conditionolly Tho dors bovn
not token sick vet nftcr hitting vou but
~ tbcy do win sue van
When CcucrnI Grant was in p,ter.