Evening journal., 1902-06-12

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When the cooling winds of the fall
montns began to get in their work in
dampening the arden lovers from
meeting weekly, through September
anu October to that night when
church yards yawn and boys delight
In carrying loads and doing real baT,,1
work for pure deviltry, that Won
couldn't hire them to do any othe.
time" Halloween. which tlhen occur-
req on Sunday night, the pair 'cama
up missing" and it was at once said
the boys had locked them IN some
"nene- He had gone back to his worl,
at wilmington but where was she for
she was gone too. The town was alive
with excitement just like it used IN ha
wnen a show comes to town and thew
put the elephant in Registers stables
10 Keep the people from seeing him IN
I'll ready in the show ring.
How. by the way. things have
changed The more free elephant
nowadays, the less the printers' hills
an t4le more plethoric the purse of
the followers OF BaInum. But after
ell IL was only one of those mine dav
wonders soon forgotten. An old Ier-
seyman in search of help shipped all
the family and their worldly possess
sions in an oyster craft over the Della
ware to near Pennsgrove, n. j.. "ex-
cept that gal. and the people of New
Castle were again seeking new news
but not of the gall with the unpro-
nounceable prefix
We heard no more of her nor her fell
Ter until some few years after we
called on Major Trimble. the superin-
tendent Of the old p, w. & B. r. r..
when we espied the "feller" at work in
the old roundhouse, known as
'"rrimbles folly" which he built to
carry of the smoke from engines with
out the use Of a stack. le Hpt
AS soon as we laid eyes on the man
we knew him although he had culti-
waited whiskers since his younger years.
After seeing Major Trimble, we made
ourselI acquainted with the "maohin-
ist' as we called him, but of which
he was as innocent as a babe unless
playing "hostler" to the locomotivo-
when brought in for care. He told
us he had never married, but was
saving for that event. and so was the
girl. About two years afterward while
we were an apprentice to Hollings-
worth and Leas. and we had begun to
go around with the girls, we went ON
a Sunday school excursion with one of
Wilmington's loveliest young ladies,
and while doing the gallant in our
highest style of the art, TO keep any
other fellow from cutting us out, We
happened to look up on the upper
deck OF the old "BalloOn"-one OF
Captain Wilmer Weldon's boats-and
saw the "machinist" and his girl, as
pretty as a pink and as lady-lil1e as a
princess. but still covered with colors.
We saw much of the pair that day and
were astonished to hear from him that
he was not married yet. We had only
an occasional glimpse of him, and
her twice before until after | went to
Chicago where one evening went into
Calvert and Barstows (both Whining
tonians) hat store and there the pair
stood. / learned from him the next
day THAT they were not married until
they reached Chicago nearly two years
before that. We saw him frequently
after that and no home looked neater
or more spacious than his. Going to
Chicago had revolutionized the whole
life Of Stephen G.. Tn as he now
writes his name to a check worth
thousands as easy as he could write
| it on the old payroll of the p, W. &
b. -. r. as a roustabout. ,fe ~
How did he make his money? Well
try to answer the question. Both
were saving in Wilmington, and the
ulrI.f ..F H.. lr,,. L. ..rtIT e1I1
YOU that he drew out 2,10O, and she
did the same for $1,142 when they
| started for Chicago. When they
Preached that city in 1851 the very day
that old DR.. Egan opened his first sale
of lots near what is now the crossing
of Madison and Ashland avenue, he
went just to see what was what and
there met Isaac Preston, the boiler
maker. and he told him to buy. He
bought five lots on Thursday and was
to pay one-third down. the balance in
one. two and three years. He paid
leash S165. and had three years to pay
the rest. He followed this sale TO one
on the south side on the next Tuesday
and bought three lots for 5000 each,
paid one-third down and had three
Years 20 pay lne bdlduCe. fdDuiDub as
it may appear, before he had held
| these purchases a month he had sold
his bargain for $4,000 and invested
that in the same way until he was
, worth at the end of the year over &c.,
b 600 and neat home. With his good
fortune. he went TO night school at a
business college and | am informed
uy an old friend familiar with his busi-
ness that he is voted among the mil
lionaires Of that city. met him about
two years ago in st. Louis and he told
me his wife had bought and placed
her father on a farm near Cape May
and secured good positions for her
brothers and sisters.
This story is based on facts, which
occurred during the years the writer
/ has spent on earth, and only proves
to his own mind as he hopes it will
4 the mind of the readers of the Even
i ing Journal. that truth is stranger
. than fiction" and that however hum