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Newport daily independent., 1904-12-14
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Newport daily independent., 1904-12-14

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Newport daily independent., 1904-12-14
HOLIDAY RATES.

The Rock Island System will sell round trip tickets to all points in the southeast at one fare plus $2.00. Dates of sale, Dec. 20, 21, P and 26; return limit 30 days from date of sale. Direct connection to and from Newport.
 W. R. THotPsoN, Agent.
 Read the TndeAendant
Newport daily independent., 1904-12-14
HOLIDAY EXCURSION RATES

To the Southeastern states via the Iron Mountain Route. Rate one regular standard fare plus S2 for the round trip. Dates of sale December 21, 22. B and 26, with final return limit of 30 days from date of sale.
 btd THOS. H. REAMEY, Agt.
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handsome profit, and in time the wisdomI

handsome profit, and in time the wisdom
of his actions was demonstrated.
Though the Letter realty holdings may
be found on every street in the business
district of the city, they contain but few
architectural ornaments. The majority
OF his buildings are to-day rated as mere
tax payers; fire-trap structures wedged
in here and there between massive and
towering sky-scrapers, making them ap-
pear all the more diminutive by CON i
parison. Space in them brings but a.
1.-THE Of what is paid for offices in their
more impressive neighbors.
At the time of Joe Letters attemI ted
corner of the wheat market. his father,
to save the family reputation. sacrificed
much of the best of his realty holdings,
and the majority of that which was, well
improved. Then it was that he dis posed
of the Isabella building one of the hand
soonest structures on State street to
Marshall Field, who is said to have pur-
chased $7.500,000 of the Letter estate at
sacrifice prices. The deal made between
the two former business partners at that
time marked the heaviest real estate
transfer in the history of the city.
Though so vitality interested in the flu
ture of the city he is said to have con-
tributed but sparingly to it's public in
situations, and leaves no lasting monu
ment to perpetuate his name.
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must QoOucC GER
tain percentage for depreciation, and
this depreciation represented in figures
reads like this: $121, 4O321 Deducting
this from the S124 of earnings, leaves
a deficit of $121 ,40197 y
The West Chicago street railway
financial situation is as bad or worse.
and such figures give an idea of the
white elephant that Charles T. Yerkes
unloaded onto an unsuspecting lot of
capitalists when he had drained the
properties of their vitality.
The city is contending for a percent
age Of gross receipts for the renewal of
franchises. The street car companies
contend the business will not warrant
the payment of such an expense for the
privilege of operation. If the figures
presented to the courts by the receiv-
ers are to be relied upon it would seem
that the companies were right, and that
the city should be paying bounty in
stead of asking for a percentage of the
receipts. But back of it all is long
story of watered stocks, of corporations
within corporations, and of seemingly
deliberate financial wrecking unparal-
leled in the street railway history of this
country. The one little ray of light rep
resented by $1.24 is so weak that 1t ID
valueless as a guiding beacon
WRIGHT A PATTERSON.
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oroOn adventures, Mrs Elias, who
vas said to have f1eeced him for so
many years.
When the veteran and venerable An
1rew H. Green, Father of Greater
New York" was shot dead in the street
ay negro lunatic, the district attor-
ley, after an investigation, publicly
stated that 1.-The lunatic, who acted
through jealousy, had mistaken his
nan. But the truth never overlook
he error.
Green had been for many years one
IT New York's most distinguished cit
zens. He was close friend and po-
itical adviser of Samuel j. Tilden. with
whom he lived for six years He, more
han any other man, caused the con-
soljdation of the city of New York as
t is now known. He was a most use
.ul citizen, but even his great name
:ould not stand the imputation-which
endured in spite of Jerome's statement
that he had been the dupe of col
bred adventures A movement that
mad been begun to erect a statue for
him was quietly dropped. Then peo-
pie forgot
Until the other day, John R. Platt,
/ man "a years old, brought suit
against the Elias woman to recover as
much as possible Of $685., 900 that he
claimed to have given ner In eight
years, under threats of exposure. Last
year the connection, made years ago in
The usual way, cost him, he said, 1885,
700.
The suit unveiled an amazing series
IF condolences. The house in which
the Elias woman lived stood beside one
hat was its double in appearance
where Mr.. Green used sometimes to
FALL upon nephew. Green, like Plat,
was old and feeble and wore a short
white beard. The crazy negro mistook.
That was all.
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a young mar

most any other newspaper man i'm
America, and all the boys who have
watched with interest his tumultuous
career will hope that he has struck it
right this time. OF course there is the
usual search for the hacker" with a
general agreement that a Tammany
syndicate put up the money At any
rate the first copy of the paper under
Mr.. Quinn's management contained a
strong editorial endorsement of Mayor
McClellan's candidacy for the presi-
dency-that was for Murphy-and an
article upon the rival claims of useful
ness of the physical force and parlia-
mentary parties in twisting the British
lions tail for old Erin. That was for
Mr.. Quinn himself, for he was raised
under Boyle O'Reilly. and has never
forgotten the '98.
The Mcclellan candidacy. by the
way, is not taken very seriously in
New York, least of all by the young
mayor, who refuses to permit his head
to be turned by the attention the idea
has attracted outside.
AS a matter of fact Boss Murphy
cares little more who is president of
the United States than Croker or Kelly
did before him. But he does care for
two things:
First, he wants to extend the Tam
many machine into Brooklyn, and, sec
ond, he wants to oblige the great Met
ropolitan Street Railroad company,
which has always been on the closest
terms with Tammany, and which wants
to provide Tammany aldermen with an
excuse for denying franchise favors to
rivals, if any should be desired. Either
motive seems pitiably small to tangle
up a presidential canvass
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Washington and one of the most
efficient. When he was made as
sistant secretary he was the
youngest man who ever held the Office.
Close following him was William E.
Chandler, who was assistant secretary
under Andrew Johnson, and who was
little under 80, but few months the
senior of Armstrong at his appoint
ment. Chandler, who is to-day the
youngest man of his years in public life,
called on Armstrong for the first time
few days ago, and the two compared
birthdays with friendly rivalry.
When Armstrong came to Washing
ton as the private secretary to Secretary
Shaw, three years ago, he was a Chi
cago newspaper man who had probably
never given the treasury an hours seri-
GUS thought in his life But it didn't
take him long to catch on to the game
and before anybody realized it he was
shaking up the dry bones and making
revolutions in the administration of the
department that made the old standbys
rub their eyes in amazement.
1t was Armstrong who ordered the
scrubbing of the treasury pillars and
fixed an intelligent system for number
ing the rooms in the building, besides
improving immensely the administra-
tive effectiveness of the treasury force.
When, on the secretary's recommends
ton, he was promoted to the position of
assistant secretary the old fellows
opened their eyes still wider; but he
has made good in the one place as
in the other, and is held in high
esteem.
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ness leaders. Just half century ago
l.. q. Letter arrived in Chicago with
nothing. A clerkship in one of the whole
sale houses of the growing western Will
age was all that offered in the way of en-
ployment, and he accepted it. During
the IL years he remained with the firm
That hrst engaged his services he rose
to a junior partnership, and at the end
Of that time he sold his interests to en-
er upon business career for himself
as wholesale dry goods merchant
That he prospered is evidenced by the
;ortune which he leaves, estimated at
about $15,00O,000.
His success was not due to chance, bu4
to hard conscientious work. He organ
lzed and conducted that important part
I wholesale concern, the credit de-
partment, and there are but few mer-
chants in the west who have been in bust
ness for quarter Of century who do
not know him in that capacity. When,
In 1881, the partnership of Field, Letter
& Co. was dissolved it was Letters in
tent1on to seek retirement, and while he
never again engaged in the management
Of merchandising establishment, he
was kept busy handling his real estate
holdings, and his fortune, large at that
time, has more than doubled since.
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ueTlui beauty, is
favorite in the most exclusive social
circles of London and Paris.
In this country the family have been
social leaders at Washington, and have
held high place in the estimation of
the elite of New York. At Washington,
particularly, their entertainments have
been Of most lavish kind, the official
position of Lady Curzon making posi-
BILE an intimate association with the
titled representatives of European pow
ers stationed there.
The escapade of young Joe Letter in
the Chicago wheat market will be one
that will be remembered for many
year. His disasterous attempt to cor
ner the market is said to have cost his
father round $4,000 600 In selecting
a vocation the young man choose the
speculative market, and with his ia
theirs millions behind him began opera
tions as a plunger. The lesson learned
at that time seemed to have been last
ing one for he has not figured in specu-
latiOn since.
To replenish the family fortune after
that affair the head of the house is said
to have decreed a heavy cut in the eX-
travagant living expenses of the family
This and the advance in thevalue of real
estate and fortunate industrial invest
ments are supposed to have added again
about one-half what was lost to the bears
in wheat
The thing that Chicago is wondering
over now is what will young Joe do with
his share of the family fortune when he
receives it?
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him. He was one of the first public men
in Washington to acquire it, and he il
as devoted to it now as he was at tho
beginning
1t was Harlan who responded grimly
to somebody's question as to what the
game of golf was like: 1T isn't game.
1t is a disease That was years ago,
when not everybody was innocuIated
with the virus; but he is no better now
than then. At the beginning of every
summer, after the conclusion of the
spring term of court, the justice grave
ly packs in his trunk a lot of cases
which he determines to examine during
the vacation at his leisure, and he ships
the trunk with his other baggage up to
his place at Murray Bay Every fall,
regularly, he expresses the trunk back
to Washington, with the straps still
unloosened and the catch still sprung.
He devotes himself assiduously and con-
tinuously to golf from the time he lands
at his summer home until the cold
weather calls him back to realization
Of the seriousness of life
Harlan is not the only golf player on
the court. Justice McKenna is almost
equally enthusiastic, though not equal
ly skilled, and several of the other mem
bers occasionally join in the game at
Chevy Chase
There is nothing more delightful than
to see the dignified justices unbend as
they. do with eagerness and dispatch
when once they have descended from the
bench and cast aside their robes of
black.
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Senator Aldrich himself, and because
extreme cruelty" was charged
Senator Aldrich breaks in his inter
esting family relations several prece
dents. In the first place, he has a very
large family, and in. the second place,
he was not until recently rich or any
thing more than fairly well-to-do. Ten
years ago he seriously considered re-
firing from the senate to devote his
time to earning money for his family,
but was persuaded by more powerful
political interests in Rhode Island to
go back for lone term more;" and later
for still another term. The young Aid
riches lived very plainly in house by
no means large on street by nc
means swell
Meanwhile Senator Aldrich's fortunes
have prospered until he is now a finan-
cial power in a state that holds more
multimillionaires than any other in the
union, after Illinois. New York, Mas
sachusetts and Pennsylvania are
named The Dorrances are of the old
Rhode Island aristocracy and no drum
mer that enters Providence, but knows
OF the Dorrance House that perpetuates
their name. The Dorrances rank with
the Dyers. the Goddards. the Hazards.
and other great families of the state
Socially. the Aldriches are newer.
though now great power.
Thus Newport begins the season
quite in character, with divorce suit
to talk about, along with the recent
dsquieting disclosures as to the effect
of Newport Charities and reckless ex-
travagance in spelling the "peasantry
Of that once self-respecting city, and
putting its Inhabitants ont of tune
with work. OWEN LANGDos.
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90 c,h,o, The modern Ii
brarian has devel-
oped somewhat along the same lines
as the modern college president. He
must be first of all a fine executive with
q capacity for organization. And in the
case of the congressional library the
executive quality is more strikingly
In evidence than in any other American
library.
Under the old regime when the library
occupied cramped quarters in the cap
itol building it was like walking into a
secondhand book shop to enter Great
piles of books were scattered around,
filing odd corners and blocking the pas
sageS. 1t was always a miracle that any
given volume was ever found when it
was in demand. But somehow by in
SUTTON, perhaps, or by the exercise of a
marvellous memory. the venerable Ii
brarian, Spofford. who had thumbed the
volumes as they came in for 40 years
could almost instantly put his hand on
any given book. He stood immersed
IN an ocean of books ready to answer
any question that was put to him and
to give all sorts of information to all
sorts of people
But when the new building came a
different order of talent was required.
and that talent was not fully obtained
until Mr. Putnam became librarian.
The development of the library in five
years under his supervision is some
thing marvellous. Where before there
was chaos, there is now the system and
precision of great mercantile or manu-
featuring establishment.
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~ w IhO PoPClo, duU
to save endless labor. those banks in
which Mrs. Elias was known to have
money were coupled with others in
which she might possibly have it. AS
matter of fact, most of them had
never heard of her. She really did
have about ten substantial accounts.
the house she lived in and other valu-
able real estate. She spent money like
a princess, apparently crazed by the
fever of buying.
A favorite delusion of the woman.
who passed for a Cuban or Spaniard.
was that she could by cosmetics and
massage whiten her skin and wipe
away forever the dash of the tar
brush" That was, in its way, rather
pathetic
Bankers discuss the question of car
rying what they call "blackmail ac-
counts" Probably there were few large
banks in the city that do not frequently
refuse profitable accounts because
these are accumulated in ways obvious
ly queer and are likely to lead to awk-
ward exposures. When such an account
Is started in spite of the care of the
officials to insist upon identifcations.
they sometimes resort to the device of
insulting the depositor so that he. or
she. gets mad and withdraws the
account. There is, however, one bank
uptown that asks no questions and is
supposed to carry quite a profitable
inc of business that would read rather
spicily in print.
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this country. VI the
t h T e e daughters
Lady Curzon, Of
Kedleston, vicer-
enc of India, a
leader of European
society, is seeming
ly but little better
known to England
and the continent
than her sister
Marguerite, whose
name Dame Rumor
has connected with
the nobility of Eu-
rope, and who, be-
cause of her won
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Palmer, who, though having a some
what better financial start, in time
Joined the firm of Field, Palmer
& Letter, in which he added to his wealth
materially. Harlow N. Higginbotham,
president of the Worlds Columbian eX-
position, is another of Chicago's mil
lionaries intimately associated with
Letter in business. He, like the others
mentioned, began his business career as
a clerk in the wholesale dry goods bust
ness Of the city, and eventually reached
a partnership. John " Farwell is yet
another country boy who has grown to
aff1uence through earnest attention to
the dry goods business of the city.
The foundation of the fortunes of all
Of these men may be said to have been
laid in the jumper Jackets of the western
pioneers. Silks, laces, expensive fabrics
Of all kinds to-day from a goodly pro-
portion of the stocks carried by the
great wholesale houses of the city but
they but represent the evolution of The
west. When Letter. and Field, and
Higginbotham, and Farwell and Palmer
secured their business start the business
was limited to the sale of calicos, coarse
woolens, blue jeans and other staple ar
ticles that appealed to the economy nee
cessary in the pioneers household.
Phil Armour and George M. Pullman
were among others that found opportu-
nifty and fortune awaiting them in the
west, though in somewhat different
lines, and were typical of that race of
financial giants which Chicago has pro-
dnnnd
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Way. ~
a thousand men Joined in the trib-
ute, which was all the more
striking because, aside from his
newspaper activity. Mr.. Noyes has never
occupied public position and has con-
fined himself to the seclusion of the
editorial room of the Star.
If anybody can be called the first cit
izen of Washington, Crosby Moves is the
one. He has become so identified with
the local life of the town that there is
nothing of local interest with which he
may not be said to have some associa-
ton either through his newspaper or
through his personal promotion. He
has been identified with every charity
and with every prominent work; vet in
community where Office holding may
be called universal habit it has never
occurred to him to seek official position
or to mingle in politics. He has seen
the city grow from the mud hole of the
fifties to the splendid capital of to-day.
and he has been one of the prime fac
| tors in advancing its beauty and aiding
| its development.
He came here from Maine poor boy.
walking most of the way. partly be-
cause he had no money and partly be-
| cause he was in feeble health and need
ed exercise Now he is one of the
wealthiest men in Washington as he Is
the best known
J LOUIS A. COOLIDGE.
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coterie of self
made millionaires
who have collec-
lively made this
city great.
From a clerk in
a country store to a
multi = millionaire
seems a long step,
yet it tells the story
of Letters life, and
i t S Z counterpart
may be found in
n u m e Gus in
stances in the lives
-
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nished with luxury and completeness
Upon vessel of such size there Is mo-
complaint of the cramping quarters
that are Objectionable on smaller ones.
Her proprietor crosses the Atlantic in.
her in perfect comfort.
Beside the Lysistrata the two yachts
that are to contend for the cups are
tiny. Yet both are more than 200 feet
long, the Kanawha, holding the cup,
is Of $50 tons displacement; the chal-
longing Kauoli, is of $50 tons. The
winner must make nearly 20 knots an.
hour, speed which is exceeded by sew,
eral of the fast ocean liners, by a mum,
Der OF torpedo boats and by a whole
fleet of the little ''auto boats" that are
the rich mans fad of the moment.
The reason is manifest; the big boat
must be seaworthy; must carry coal
for an eight-day cruise; provisions,
stores, men, ice, water The owner of
the auto boat does not care how often
she Goals up-when he is not on her.
What he wants is to go like sixty for
few hours and then get out, with a
nervous Americans Impotence, to do
something else.
Bennett has acquired something re-
sembling the continental calm. Though
a practical newspaper man-how prac-
teal those know best who have worked
for him-he gets plenty of time OF.
never lets business Interfere with
pleasure, and at Ga years of age people
are justified by his erect appearance in
thinking him, as most people do, still
young man.
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Against Principle.

A Scottish singer named Wilson was
being trained for professional singing.
One day he sang a love song with ex-
quisite quality of voice, but with insult
fcient passion and expression. His
teacher told him he must put more feel
ing into it and sing as If he were really
in love. Eth. man" he replied, hoo
can do that and me marriet man ?'
Chicago Daily News
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him to rank per-
haps at the head
of his profession
in the world. He is
certainly the finest
example in the
United States of
the educated libra
rian versed in all
the latest wrinkles
and at the same
time imbued with
the az essential at
tribute of a libra
rian. the love of
books for their
own sake.