The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-02-15
MILLIONAIRE
N A JUMPER
Rich Mans Son Who Works
as a Day Laborer.
Is LEADER OF SOCIETY
Dances With Pretty Southern
Girls Yet Rises Early.
Is LEADER OF SOCIETY

New York, Feb. 1.-THE New York
World prints the following:
BY day Henry K. Mcharg, Jr., million
sire. works as q common Iaborer, per-
forming the hardest kind Of manual toll
amid the dust and CRIME of an iron fur
mace in a Virginia mine. By night he
dances with the Queen of Love and
Beauty and other famous bellies of south
western Virginia.
Young Mr.. McRarg works twelve hours
day and seven days a week for daily
wage OF $40
1t sounds parodoxicaI for laborer earn
ing $40 4 day to be received into fine
homes in Virginia, where the lines of
caste are firmly fixed. 1t is even stranger
for a comon laborer to give cotillcns
and entertain in splendid style. but, as
a matter of fact the really remarkap ole
part of the story Of this laborer is, not
that he should play so prominent part in
social affairs, but that he should work
at all.
For the youth is the son of a man who
Is a millionaire twenty or thirty times
over and who is perfectly willing to give
him every luxury great wealth can pur-
chase. Nevertheless. he is delighted be-
yond measure by the boys spirit in 60
ing to work and his pluck in sticking to
IL.
Henry K McHarg is pretty well known
In New York as a captain of industry"
His achievements his great interests and
wealth have made him so. He is presi-
dent of the Virginia Iron, Coal and Coke
company, a twenty million dollar concern
in whose iron furnace in Radford, Va,
his son is employed. The company owns
most of the coal lands and iron furnaces
in southwestern Virginia, eastern Tennes-
see and Kentucky. Mr.. McHarg also has
q controlling interest in few railroads.
Until a few months ago the son who
bears his name was q student at Cornell,
having been fitted by private tutors. The
youth was more interested in securing
technical education than an academic one.
1t is said that a love affair turned young
Henry McHarg to the serious business Of
life. which may or may not be true.
Strong, wholesome, natural, normal boys
of nineteen have fallen deeply in love
before, and the experience has charged
the whole course of their lives. X is
more likely that a love of machinery, an
ambition to help make the wheels go
round, influenced the son of the mil
lionaire.
At any rate. he left Cornell to go to
Texas, where he worked on a railroad in
which his father is interested. He even
got a job as fireman on an engine and
delighted in it. Young McHarg has amaz-
inc physical strength and endurance for
one of his age. Incidentally it may be
remarked that he is a tall and handsome
youth.
His father decided that IL the boy was
determined to become a practical business
man he wcrli better learl the iron bust
ness So, about two months ago young
Henry appeared in iiad.oro wearing the
fine raiment to which he had been always
accustomed. He didn't waste any time
In thinking matters over or deciding il
he would like the work or could stand
It. He bought half dozen pairs Of blue
overalls, dinner pail, some heavy shoes.
blue flannel shirts, put a SLOUGH hat on
his head. knotted a handkerchief about
his neck and announced that he was
ready TO begin.
When some one remarked to him that
ne was beginning at the bottom OF the
ladder. he explained that he was starting
so INV Gown that he couldn't even reach
:he first rung, which isn't much of an
exaggeration. During the day time there
is nothing to distinguish him from any
other laborer who earns sl.40 and sup
ports himself and his family on it. but
when the whistle blows at night Henry
l,l,x .,,I h.-
comes a millionaires son with a great
fondness for social pleasures
He never misses a ball and he has been
elected one of the officers Of the Cotllon
club. He gave a cotillon himself not long
ago and Il was immensely successful. 1t
WAS a very grand affair. indeed, quite
In keeping with the wealth to which he
has been accustomed. His choice as q
partner was Miss Mary MacIngles, one
of the bellies of southwestern Virginia
She has soft. brown eyes and golden hair.
a pretty. well-rounded figure and a low
able disposition. She is particularly grace
full dancer Miss MacIngles has been
recognized as the Queen of Love and
Beauty" have been crowned by Tru
man Billiard. knight of the Golden
in Radford in connection with the dis
trict fair two years ago. The coronation
speech was made by Gov. ]. Hodge Tyler.
OF Virginia. whose daughters We're among
the guests at young McHarg's coullon-
Miss MacIngles was honored a second
time last fall. the crown being placed
upon her brow by Hampton Chumbley.
Knight Of Blue Thistle
She belongs TO one of the eldest fami-
lies in southwestern Virginia, being i de-
scendant of that famous Mary MacIngles
who was captured by the Indians and
carried into captivity. She escaped and
returned 20 her home. after enduring
frightful hardships. TO become the first
white bride Of the AlleEhanies. The lit
tie log cabin in which she lived is stiu
standing near Miss Maclngles home.
In view Of Miss AIacIngle's position, it
was fitting and proper that the young
millionaire laboTer should select her as
his partner in the cotillon he gave but
he has chosen a different one for each
dance.
Only young man OF great strength
and physical endurance could work all
day as does young McHarg and then
dance in the evening His daily life is a
constant marvel TO the young men who
kave lived in Virginia all their lives. and
II will astonish many people in the north.
where hard. manual work is more COM
mon.
. When the whistle blows at c O'Clock In
the morning the mirionaire's son is at
the furnace ready 10 go TO work. From
that time until o'clock at night he is
common laborer. lie works at hard and
conscientiousiy as any OF them. lie fills
the place OF any manual toiler who han