The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-04-07
MILLION DOLLAR SOUVENIRS
Loekhsrrs life Was Full Of Fairy Tale
Freak Actions.

Ioekhsrt's Life Was Full Of Fairy Tale
Freak Actions.
Il am not surprised that the late
Charles Lockhart cut of one Of his
daughters with a measly s300.OOG be-
cause she didn't name the baby after
him." said a Philadelphia man. HE
was always doing things which rich
men are supposed to do only In nov
els
For instance. about ten years ago,
he gave a family dinner. All his Ave
children were there. After grace was
said Lockhart was a strict Scotch
Presbyterian. you know-they turned
over their plates in the good old fam
lily style. Under each plate was a check
for s10OO,OoO
"A little dinrer souvenir" said Lock.
hart
zone Of his tricks would make plot
for a Sunday school book, if the same
plot hadn't happened so often in Sun
1ay school books that it is getting
trite.
There was a new silverware and
Jewelry establishment struggling
along. Not small shop you under
stand, but big concern, but a big con
Germ which was not yet recognized as
a leader in fashionable trade One very
hot summer afternoon q tall, sad and
rather i'll dressed old man entered the
shop and said that he wanted TO buy
wedding preseR:.
Now It was a hot day, the clerks
we're tired and irritated, and the
stranger looked like a visitor from the
remote farming district with S1.49 to
spend. He passed from counter to
counter. pricing things
"The clerks were not all cordial. At
last, down at the end OF the silverware
department, he bumped into a young
fellow a new man in the shop. This
clerk was trying to make good. Also
to do the situation justice. he hadn't
teen there long enough to know the
difference between promising Gus
on. Ell and an unpromising one.
THE old man went higher and high
er in his examination of silverware.
Ec got to pricing full Gets Of silver
plate. After the young clerk had run
Though the list, he said:
"Is that the best you've got?"
1.-THE young clerk remembered then
that specially designed extra heavy.
set Of plate for rich New York family.
The order had been cancelled, but some
of the pieces had been finished to
show. He trotted out that set.
The old man figured out on the
hack of an envelope every frill which
could be added to a set OF silver plate,
showed his list at the clerk, asked how
much it would cost The clerk CON
suited the manager. and answered that
II would be hfty thousand and some
odd dollars and cents.
IAN right, have it made for me-
said the old man.
"How much do you want to depos.
it?" asked the clerk.
"Oh," said the customer. ''I'll pay the
whole thing and get It on my mind.
So he drew a check far the amount.
'9The clerk never recognized the sig
nature. He'd never heard OF Charles
Lockhart. so he took It TO the manager
Good for a Thousand times $4,000
SAID the manager.
"Lockhart came back to that store
in the Christmas season that year The
clerks knew him that time, for the
$50. 900 purchase had become tradi-
tion Of the store. He went past them
all though. and usked for the clerk
who had sold him the silver plate
When he found his man. Lockhart
bought $4,000 worth Of Christmas
presents.
This story ends the way 1t ought
10 end for the Sunday School library.
The clerk with an $4,000 a year Gus
toner on his string attracted the at
tention of the frm and now he's big
man in the silverware business.
Sounds like a chapter from "Thrifr'
hv Samuel Smiles. doesn't it?"--F