Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1904-04-27
FICKELNESS
OF FORTUNE
Money Kings Feasted and Flattered
in Times Of AftIuence and Kicked
When They Are Down.
SulLY LIKE ALL THE REST
A Mighty Power When on the Crest
Of Wave Of Adulation and Noto-
riety-oblivion Soon.

""'l pressure III tue spectacle OF a
plunger in Wall street being pushed
to the wall and broken in a thousand
fragments than does New York. Not
as a feeling of personal rancor. but
simply as a manifestation of that
elemental human instinct, which ex.
tracts acute delight in contemplation
of the fallen mighty.
Now that Daniel Sully has walked
the plank" the Il told you so" people
are having a gorgeous time of IL. For
haven't they ~asseverated time and
again during the last six months that
he would surely be separated from
his coin? Didn't they predict it long
before Daniel had nudged cotton to
the II cent figure? Didn't they know
il all the time?
Jump on Him." Gotham's Maxim.
This Is the kind of talk that has
been heard all over New York since
Sully went to the mat for the count"
as the more sporty brokers express
II. Less than a month ago the papers
of New York were illustrating for the
delectation of their readers the angle
at which Sully wore his hats. the kind
of cigars he smoked and how he
smoked them. when he ate and how
he ate II, and so on. Now these same
papers are dilating on the imperti-
hence of the gambler in business with
an enthusiasm that fairly illustrates
the New York maxim. Never hit a
man when he is down-jump on him."
But Sully has been sadly remiss in
his duty to these cheerful individuals.
He hasn't pawned his overcoat vet.
which really takes a lot of fun out
OF the Sully failure for New Workers.
It's a great town for dramatic effect,
Is New York; and in not providing a
suitable tableau IL feels that Daniel
has not treated ii Just right.
How Schwab Fell From Grace.
About this time last year Charles
Schwab fell in the estimation of the
Gothamites from a manly. independ.
ent boy of the people who had won
out after having no beginning at all
to speak of to a charlatan and day
light burglar. Less than a year ago
he was n of the favorite SONS, for
he had given Pittsburg the glad fare
well and was building a palace on
Riverside drive. Then came the
bursting of the shipbuilding bubble.
Though Schwab lost a good many
millions through the puncture, he was
portrayed as so crooked that he had
to sleep in an S-shaped bed. From
an example to be followed by the ris-
ing generation he took the toboggan
and was pilloried as the robber of the
widow and orphan. Here, too. was
New York's cup of joy dashed from
its hands before il was drained, and
she was sad because he had not been
reduced to the necessity OF asking for
a job with the white wings. for Goth
am does thoroughly enjoy the plight
of a plucked %plunger.
Wild Over Ives Success.
Ii has always been thus on Man
haitian isle. Fifteen or sixteen years
ago a 16-year-old office boy was en-
gagged by a Wall street brokerage
house. BY the time he was 20 he had
cleaned up S5,O00,000 and New York
coined the term Napoleon of finance
for Henry Ives. 1t couldn't be satl'
ated with talk of the marvellous finan
cial intellect of the slender, frank
faced boy.
The newspapers We're cluttered
with stories OF his amiable extrava'
gances-how he lived on a whole
floor of New York's most expensive
hotel. how the fruits and flowers on
the tables OF his living rooms were
removed every hour and replaced by
other lots, because he got tired Of
looking at the same things for as long
as an hour; how he matched quarters
with George Law, the devil-may-cart
street railway young fellow, for $50.
900 a throw for a couple Of hours a
a stretch, and so on. They clamoret
; to get him to write them his recipe
for becoming rich while you wait, an,
hats and cigars, and shoes, and era
watts and things were named afteI
him.
Just a year after that, when Ives
! wasn't much more than q, he haC
/ wrecked two or three important west
[ ern railroads and was In LUDLOW
r street Jail. Then the storm broke w
on him. He had just fallen acciden
tally into the path OF fortune. II,
had never really known enough t
come in out of the rain, and hi
wealth had been thrust upon him.
Equally Bitter in Failure.
5 They yelled to have a special retro
K active bill passed by the legislator
/ that would permit of Ives receiving
sentence OF several hundred years i
3 Sing Sing and the hope was fervent
~ expressed that Ives would sc
some mean kind OF work when he al
n rived at Sing Sing-in the laundry
for example. The hats, and cigars
and shoes. and cravats, and thing
8 were hurriedly renamed. Hit hir
n again. he has no friends" believe
@ New York, and even when II was al
v nounced that Young Ives was a cei
tain victim of consumption the vow
against him vent on.
Whe he died in obscurity. SOM
where down south, a few years late
they printed short obituary notices
a. him, pointing him out as a sorrowft
d example of a brainless young fellow
d of reprehensible instincts and met
v DDS, who had too much luck early !
:, life. That was the finish of the oriI
d inal Napoleon of finance.
st Typhoon Hit Mitkiewicz.
Harking back a little further, Ne
e York made a tremendous ado over tn
urbane Count Mitkiewicz of the Ru