Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-15
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IN THE banking center, with its
constant outpouring and incoming
Of hundreds of clerks and messen-
gers, where millions are won and lost
and where millions are loaned before
the transaction can be noted by the
stock ticker lin word, in Wall street,
O white haired man sits each day
looking beyond his money bags at his
fellows in his distress until he some
times goes hungry.
While the busy men about him are
fighting life struggle for the control
Of vast properties he sits thinking.
When darkness of a winters day draws
down upon the street and he has seen
the reports from the army of clerks
he folds his hands across his lap, his
eyes close for a minute as he specu-
lates on what shall be done for those
less fortunate than himself. 1t is an
uncommon picture, this Wall street
millionaire, fighting the battles he is
compelled to fight and more severe
than on that awful day before Spott-
svlvania when he picked half eaten
lambs bones from the ground ana
snawed them ravenously. In this
money mart what right has one man
to think of others when all of his vi
tality is necessary for the struggle to
Keep what years of toll have given
him!
Yet there is such man who for
thirty years, screened by a cloak or
modesty, has developed an agency for
the succor of the poor and the unfort-
unate. Were his name to be mentioned
It would be known for the part he
played IN many a titanic struggle for
the mastery of properties. And were 1t
known that it is he who is deVoting
50 much of his great wealth each day
to the relief of his fellow men his
time, now so valuable, would be the
prey of the unscrupulous who look to
the philanthropist upon whom to visit
their schemes. And that is why his
name is not printed. But the philoso-
ply of the man, the philosophy which
may do some good, is chronicled.
A Practical Philanthropst
To see him at his desk or in the
retirement of his home at night is to
look upon a man who has endured
sorrows. His hair is silvery. There are
lires at the corners of his mouth and
crows feet show at his eyes, but the
head is upon the shoulders of sturdy
stalwart figure. Mysterious man of
Wall street. indeed! He is mysterious
but he is sane, sane in his charities
with the spirit that makes him fight
ing man when he grapples with prop
osition at the end of which men are
pulling to separate him from his
money.
He raised a hand deprecatingly when
an interviewer the other day explained
his mission. What could he do? He
had been found out. twinkle came to
his eye. He had been charitable. why
should he not be charitable to the in
terviewer?
why do you devote your wealth to
making people happy?" was asked OF
him. He looked at a painting by
Corot upon the opposite wall and puffed
his cigar.
why. / am used to it, You know
you get into the habit Of doing things,
and you just cannot help it," lie
was laughing now. A man who leaves
his comfortable home to visit some
filthy tenement. to wrap his fur lined
coat about him and climb rickety
stairs to the entrance Of a squalld
room, in which sick child might lie,
and in that semi-darkened room to
administer the comfort which his
wealth made possible. perhaps cannot
help 1t. but many can.
Embarrassing Popularity
do you know that II you We're TO
nrblish my name my mail. which /