The Savannah morning news., 1903-10-25
NEW YORK TOPICS
ss,p AND CURRENT COMMENT
FROM THE METROPOLIS.


natru, the Revelations About Ger
toin Big Corporations and the
TroubIes of Sam Parks, the Big
Tovxn Has been Much Amused the
p.st Week over the Moving of
u,oIa and Auntie Sa6e-Enter-
taiainE Personality of This Well
xnovvn millionaire COuple-He
lacks for All the World Like a
Country Deacon Retired from the
Farm and Living Gin the village"
while she Is the Ideal Rural Dea-
cons Wife.
New York, Oct. 24.-Dowie, local pol
..;cs sensational testimony regarding
.bs financing of big corporations, the
troubles of Sam Parks, walking dele
oote-these have been among New
works chief interests in the past week.
Vet despite the Importance Of all
these topics, the town has found plenty
- time TO be amused over the troubles
81 certain wealthy couple, because
.ha wife has insisted upon moving
from their old house to a new one.
This old couple, as you have perhaps
noticed in the dispatches, is Mr.. and
Mrs. Russell Sage.
In appearance the great financier and
his wife are about as unpretentious as
thew well could be. Mrs. Sage looks ex-
octlv like a weI-fed, kindly disposed
wife of some country deacon, and her
husband has a thousand doubles
among the rural church dignitaries of
the land. Seen togetehr they remind
Won irresstibly of a farmer and his
wife Who having become we'll to do,
have deserted the field and the dairy
10 live in the village" for the re-
mainder of their earthly sojourn.
Some time ago, when Sage was
Younger than he is now by ten or a
dozen years, a reporter was asked by
q newspaper editor to call at his office
and put half dozen questions to the
fnancier.
He was out when the reporter called,
and the latter was told by some one in
the Office that it would be best to
wait in the corridor and buttonhole
him as he came IN.
But | don't know Mr.. Sage" pro-
tested the reporter.
Don't know Uncle Russell?" quer-
led the other, well, I'll tell you; when
a thin, scrawny old farmer-looklng
Young man comes dumping along the
hall. carrying a ten-cent cane, that's
probably Sage. If he thumps the door
twice before he opens it you may be
certain of it"
Mr.. Sage talks as much like a farm
er as he looks like one. He interlards
his remarks, or at least he always has
when talking with a reporter who call
ed upon him that day, with Scrlptural
illusions and quotations.
Like most farmers. too. he is very
fond of talking about horses and their
ailments He will stop the discussion
of a $5,0OO-and maybe a $5O.000-loan
at any time to learn the details OF a
new cure for ringbone or SPAWN.
On one occasion a reporter who wish
ed very much TO get the millionaire's
attention for a few minutes, but feared
he couldn't, owing to the bad condition
Of the market, went to one of Sage's
lifelong friends and stated the case.
Young man." said Sage's friend,
you go straight to Sage's Office and
send in word that you have with YOU
receipt for my SPAWN cure, which
will give you. Begin on him by hand
ing over the receipt and then talk for
while about horses, but be sure not
TO make break. After a while bring
up the matter you are really interested
in, and I'm sure you'll get what you
newspaper chaps call a SCOOP"
When the reporter arrived at the
Sage headquarters the outer Office was
iull OF men waiting to see the money
lender. There were half dozen bust
ness men and as many reporters. one
Of thS latter assured the newcomer
mat r. would be useless to try to see
cage; he had been waiting two hours
lot an audience. but in vain.
Nevertheless, when Sage's clerk stuck
ms head out of the little barred win
uoW that was established just after
ue Norcross explosion, the newcomer
s'd'ed his errand, and in a moment
received word that Sage would see him
d once. This mystified the other re-
porlers NIGHTLY as they hadn't heard
ue message the newcomer had sent in.
once inside the latter remained
|Iy Two hours, and loaded himself up
WIN copy for half a dozen specials, be-
cues getting the specific piece of news
!or which he had been sent. When he
Questioned Mr.. Sage about it the lat
ler shook his head at first. but later
reented
any man that can tell me what you
e. IOlu me ABOUT hOrSeS, he SAID
SS'aiy can have whatever news l
lave to give out. You're fond of
nv, uses Know from your talk, and any,
S S Who is fond of horses has sense
JIuush to know what to print and
what not to.
men he told STORY that made the
pa ssest kind of a scoop, and before the
neA morning was wired to every big
co.mspaper outside New York on two
continents.
h. Ohess Mr.. Sage feels it necessary to
~ Jautous with the man he is talking
N lAs ms conversation is naive and art
liz III the extreme. His philosophy of
fro - elemental to a degree. 1t is clear
n Of Onm ms conversation that the getting
wor utIIley seems to him about all that is
enI,t,m! iiVlng for, except his home and
IT, aung the acquaintance of horses.
are thlnks most dogs and few men
belioO,'oylh intelligent and honest, but he
he ba es nrmly that some of the horses
homes owned know more and were
bo Leer imam almost any dog or man
ana 20 - ever met. His story of the life
wac oedCh OF little black mare that
har &c sreat favorite with him during
deatb rs Is really an affecting one. Her
ana ~ Sdiie as the result of an accident,
b1rioS5N e mad to be shot. Mr.. Sage
self ~ uer as carefully as he will him
grave buried 9led some day, and over her
was A. htung monument of marble
husbsrSS page is the counterpart Of her
This bas al the simplicity of her talk.
I'll.