The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-10-19

mere ; cneck Tor nalI mIl1On,
he said
For what?" queried the coffee man.
why, for the bag packing machine,
of course was the reply.
"Oh, I'd forgot answered Mr.. Ar
buckle, your people have been so long
making up their minds. Now, 1 tell
you what you do. Y GU go back to them
and tell them that they can't have the
machine for a million, or at any price.
I'm going to keep it and use it my
self.
In vain the trusts confidential man
begged Mr.. Arbucl<le to close the deal;
he had to return to New York and re-
port failure.
A few days later the Havemeyers
notified the Arbucl<les that they no
longer could buy sugar at discrmin at
ing rates, and the war, now in a state
of truce. was on.
Ike friend says that Mr.. Arbuck le
declares that, if the trust had not pro
crastinated and dil1y-dallied over the
first price set on the machine, the now
historic conflict would not have re-
suited.
This incident serves to call up the
fact that New York is now the resi-
dence of many men who formerly
claimed Pittsburg as their home and
who made their millions there. John
Pittsburg millionaires to change his
residence to the metropolis. Andrew
Carnegie and Henry Phipps, the life
long partner of the man of count less
libraries, are two New Workers from
Pittsburg, and Charles M. Schwab Is
planning to join his old employers lust
as soon as his new mansion on River
side Drive is completed. Albert C.
| Case who is one of the earn gle
group of millionaires, which mum bers
about forty, made this city his field
of commercial endeavor several years
ago. A A. Gillespie is another for
mer prominent resident of the Sna oky
| City, and like all the others he lives
/ in a house that is one of the show
/ places of this town. Mr.. Gillespi
! wealth was made in oil and contra ct
| ing.
Ihen there are numerous PittsbI1 rg-
| ers who spend as much and often m ore
! of their time in this city than in their
native town. Many of them main I ain
| palatial apartments here the year
through. The list includes the
| Thaws, whose real estate holdings are
| away up in the millions, and of win ON
Harry *, by reason of his costly and
bizarre banquets given a year or two
! ago in Paris, is the most heard of. The
/ Hostetters and the Vandergrifs, the
latter heavy holders of Standard Oil
stock, and F. T. F. Lovejoy, who Iin-
til he took side with H C. Prick in his
| nght with Mr.. Carnegie, was secre-
| tary OF the Carnegie Steel Compa nv.
are others prominent on the list.
Mr.. Phlpps regrets that he has to live
! in New York. Not that I don't like
| New York, he said recently, but my
| heart is wrapped UP in dear old Pf it's.
burg, where I can't stay. Ny bad
health and my doctor forbid. But II
ever I get out of their clutches Tn
going to make straight for the town al
thousand smokestacks, draw in d eep
| deep breath of the fragrant smoke-Iad
en- air and then proceed to settle dowr
there for the rest of my natural days
Mr.. Phipps has q, nephew, Lawrence
4 who lives in PittSburg, and who hal
just erected one of the finest residences
west of the Alleg1h anies Despite tn,
fact that he has a rich and nfuerat tia
uncle, Lawrence Phipps. when he en-
| tered the employ Of the Carnegie Stee
Company, had to begin at the bot tom
wheeling iron and doing similar la Dor
| and work up like the rest of the en-
ployes who finally gained Mr. Carne
gie's favor. and as a direct result, lib
eral portions of his millions.
Among the younger newspaper Tner
along Park Row there is one who has
| q WARM IeSdIu LOT NIeHerdI InOmaS M
| Stewart, the new communicative HE
of the CT. A. R. The story of why thi.
newspa per man swears by Tom
! Stewart, as he is Familiarity known the
length and breadth of Pennsylvania
| aptly illustrates the new command er's
| kindness of heart.
When the Pennsylvania National
! Guard was mobolized in 1898 for the
express purpose of mastering it into
thn
with Spain, the newspaper man In