The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-04-05
AT 70 GOES HOME
To START AGAIN
Ex-senator Stewart, Many Times
a Millionaire, Is Poor Man
in His Old Age.
in CONGRESS FORTY YEARS
IL Robust and Hearty and Be-
lievcs He Can Regain
Fortune.

Especial to The rimes-Dispat ch)
WASHINGTON, April 4.--Forner sena-
tor William NJ. Stewart, OF Nevada, who
retired from the Senate March 4th, after
an almost continuous service in tho
upper brance OF Congress for forty years,
has gone back to Nevada to open a law
office and start life anew.
Seventy-cight years old. and looking
like a patriarch, Stewart has gone forth
q hopeful and in good spirits. believing that
ne may regain at feast one OF the for
tunes he has lost since he first came TO
Washington.
Politics seldom develop such figure
as Stewart has been, and few careers OF
such apparent brlll!nncy have ended IS
4 his appears to have done.
For more than thirty years OF his ac-
Il tive political lifo Stewart wastn1any times
q millionaire. lie was an extensive mine
owner, not only in Nevada. but IN other
u Western States, and Nevada was looked
upon politically MS Stewards pocket Dor y
y ough.r8uscd by him TO keep MIN IN Inc .
4 United States Senate for purposes of5
ties offered.
Big Losses in Real Estate.
twenty years ago Stewart was one OF
The very rich men OF the Senate. He
built the first OF the palatiil residences,
in the West End OF Washington. n a
locality now occupied entirely BY the
Castle, as the house wa 5 ca He'd, was for
a long time one or the show places Of
q About this time he began Investing
very sheavily In Washington rea acstate.s
and nsftha profits from that form 2 &
Il investment had been very high, ms the
8 city developed. Stewart conceived the
giden4 OF forcing development in the direc-s
ton OF his own property. The scheme.
did not work well. and his Losses were
heavy. Ia 3s4s Z sl Y. li3 II h v N
Unfortunate mining speculation fol
Il lowed, and d few years go II was ru-
mored about Washington that ste Wart
was in e1nbarras sed circumstances .
IS About this time. as a member OF. the
r Senate Committee on the District OF CO.
3flumbia, he became Interested in the asu O.
iect OF pure milk. He decided to go into
the milk business. and bought farm
in Virginia, which he tried to make
y model dairy farm.
Sold Milk az a Loss.
He also established milk depots in this
city and bought wagons and horses 10
"a deliver the product OF MS aI1IE.
Ostensbly he did splendid business
hit the milk he sold cost him more than
he could Sell 1t for. With the collapse 81
the dairy business the last%of stewa TT 8
enormous 1fort,ine disappeared
That lis why he lis now going back t
Nevada to prlcuye law. He Is mn aii-
thority upon mining law. and IT IS not
improbabe that he will make money.
~ n spite OF his advanced age. he Is still
robust and hearty. and has preserved
great deal OF the strength with WHICH he
started lie more than half a century ago
with pick and shovel in the Western
naines.
During his forty years. residence IN
washington stewart has lived luxurious
N, and his friends are wondering how he
will stand the prlvattons OF life In the
a FAR West. At his age the spectacle nc
now presents is one OF the most striking
In the politics OF the last half century