The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-08-28
.COTTONKINC BROWN
A MIGHTY MANS He

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Cotton High Is a Daring
SOutherner.
New Orleans special to the Phtla-
delphia Press reads as follows:
Ia who's Brown"
Within recent times cotton prices nave
been pushed to figure not known IN
MANY a year, and when one mans Skill
fuI Management OF the bull campaign re-
suited in the engineering OF the oiggest
single deal in the history Of that particu-
lar commodity. and the issuance OF no.
tees for the delivery OF 10000 bales, ne
naturally won for himself the ute or
cornered tho market. His genius domi-
mates the entire trade to such an extent
that he Is known to every firm IN the
country. Yet within very brief time
past he was unknown at all. When 1t
comes to cotton this man is 1T.
We'll, that's Brown.
A SMALL BEGINNING.
william Perry Brown Is his full name.
and he was born in the Caledonia neigh
borhood,,, a prosperous old settlement
in Lowndes county, Miss. only forty-one
years ago. Ills father was q well-to-do
man. a Confederate soldier, but early IN
his youth he was LETT an orphan and
thrown on his own resources. 4
He was willing to work at anything
that was ''straight business" First he
was clerk in Wholesale supply store In
the nearby town Of Columbus, and, rls-
Ing to the place Of salesman, saved and
invested his earnings until he could en-
ter business for himself.
Naturally he had to start 1t on small
scale. He opened a grocery store and
| prospered so we'll that after several years
OF close attention to that concern he was
enabled to remove to New Orleans.
| Then Cotton first came into the life
of ". P. Brown, and 1t was as a cotton
| factor that he set up in the Crescent City.
| From that moment 1t was evident that
| he had found himself. Success was not at
first rapid, but It was always substantial.
steady, progressive. In a word, the
mans career became determined. and
| that now famous coup d'etnt. with its
| 10000 bales, was the logical outcome.
| 1t was the inevitable result Of the dealer
who was made for the field In which he
was engaged.
But-"Jvho's Brown ~
1t is all very well to tell tho bare
chronological details Of his outer life.
| but these are only the outward and visi-
| BILE sign of the real man, and So when
you have heard when this man was born,
where he has lived, and what he has
done, the question still remains unan-
| swered-
WHO'S Brown p
Brown is q type OF the ,self-made Amer.
lean who Is an honor to his sec
ton and to his country He Is a man
| who made his own start and succeeded
through merit. His triumph In his par
ticular line has been the result of study
| ing the cotton situation rs the student
| studies books.
A SQUARE FIGHTER.
| hos pot ,u,o,, fortune fot ba nrica
of widows and orphans He has not
| taken from the poor to enrich himself.
He owes his rating in financial circles to
no political tricks and no shady trans
actions, He has met more ups than
| downs, perhaps. but he Is familiar with
the hard side Of life as we'll as with It's
softer phases.
| His youth was spent upon we'll
regulated farm. where 1t fell to his lot to
| perform the duties about the place which
| every boy Is called upon to do who, stlfce
| the war, has been brought up In the
| country. The very fact that, In his
youth, he was, through any cause, denied
a Harvard or Yale course, even one at
his own State University, rebounds to his
credit. He Is man who holds the con-
fdence of tho South's most influential
financers, who loves his friends, and Is
In turn loved by them.
w. P. Brown has been bull since '9s,
when the market was at 4 81 cents. which
is evidence that he has taken no MANS
place, but that he has remained steadily
true to his own convictions, In 1890 he
ran one Of the most successful corners
In the market at New Orleans that wa2
ever run--when September cotton went
to II cents. From time to time since he
has bulled the market until last August
he started the present campaign.
Brown Is the man who, as far back as
May, 1901, was written about in the Ger
man papers at Lelpslc as follows: "The
textile Industry suffered tremendous
losses by decline OF wool forty per cent,
ESTIMATED at 100 million marks to the
German wool business), by the artificial
rise OF cotton by the American cotton
king, Brown, who, In September, 1900,
owned the whole available provisions In
America and England
Brown Is the man who last year con-
celved the idea Of merging the Union Ma
tional Bank into the Southern Trust and
Banking Company and later consolidated
the EIibernia National with the Southern
Trust Company, and organized the HI
hernia and Southern Trust Company, and
finally consolidated these banking lnsti-
buttons into the Hlbernla Bank and Trust
Company.
Brown Is the man through whose efforts
New Orleans boasts the largest bank
and trust company IN Inc South, Win
100000 capital. 100000 surplus and
$40, 900, 900 deposits.
'rWho's Brown"
He Is n MissssIppnn, who by dlnt or
pluck, energy and integrity withstood
the buffetlng of adversely, steadily pur-
suing the goal of al honorable ambition
and is now recognized leader Of the bull
campaign for better prices for cotton
and has managed 1t so successfully that
while adding countless thousands to the
income OF the toiling masses, the pro-
ducers, Is reputed to have made millions
for himself and associates,
He is southern man whose lato
achievements are the admiration OF ono
section Of the country, and the astonish-
ment of the other-the first and only
southernsr to engineer successful corr