The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-09-24
HOW THOMAS III. RYAN, PLAINS
HIS BIG FINANCIAL CAMPAIGNS
This Prominent Figure III the
World 81 Finance q Believer
Ii, the Simple Life.
EXERCISE e AND SOUND SLEEP
Trained Like An Athlete and
Retires Early--I1is Home If
a 81, 4, and How He Lives.
Especial Correspondence OF The Times
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NEW YORK, 4 ~ ii ~, September 23.--
When Pastor Wagner departed frUlG
America without it1ooting Thomas r.
Ryan. he missed the i1,ost luminous nfd
convincing Illustration this country con-
taInA OF the effective commercial value
OF the simple life. The big men OF Wall
street are supposed by the work-a.d
rest {of the world 10 i've In u gold tinted
erlpyrean fdr beyond Tho comprehension
Of tho poor II, purse. III the cases Of
many, who figure n,ost In public Vision,
this is true or the majority II liz also
true that between the closing Of the Tx
change In Sthelsnfterioon and It's opening
In tho morning THEIR minds are seldom
at rest from the strategy of the street,
and nature forces Tnin6 out Of ten OF
them, BY way of tdiversbn. into the most
exciting forms Of pastina. Al.
Z 10 The average Wall Street broker the
simpler ntnisemcnts are sheer stupidity
His brain and nerves are eternally get
Tor 10 o'clodk next morning, no cannot
ifford--or thinks he can't--to allow his
steam pressure 10 decline over night.
a. high power automobile Is the most sat t.
calls s"reaxatIon from business" Is
Once IN a while there is found swim
ming strongly In the vortex OF finance a
man 81 different mould. OF normal nerves.
below rather than ruinously far above
concert pitch, with an appetite. mental
as Rell az physical, that Is not jaded, a.
man whose houra away from business
are passed & In & as dulet RATIONAL. fric-
tlon1ess a fashion az those OF d! country
store-keeper. OF this sort perhaps no
more noteworthy example has been re-
-,
who AS climax to d most tomba tive ca
sreer. hab bought from James Hnzen
Hyde the control Of Equitable Life. Peo-3
pie are Just beginning to find out some
Of tho extraordinary traits Of Ryan, for
It was only after his purchnse OF the
Equitable that he emerged i from the
,inlhrageous background In which during
4 hisE thirty five years i 81 I financial doing
he has chosen to abide.
From that background, the world OF
average people has discovered since the
launched a whole fleet OF enormous pro-
1ectH. none OF which has yet come to
grief In Its obscuri,y he has Devised.
and managed Z a multitude OF gigantic
undertakings. Tho reading public Is
amazed--a good part OF 4l IT. alarmed-toe
learn the number and monetary magni-,
tudc of his holdings, sa Now the first
III 10 ny b WshJ
4 in tho space OF a few weeks to y the
more pcrplexing one, Hon1 has he done
It :" q Il 5s& y.
In view OF the tension under which
all great4r1ovemcnts In the money world
are conqycted. ioti the price III nervous
tissue a1dneM that q man must nay for
victory IN any great financial battle, IT
seems incrcdlb!c that one man HI with.
only one brain. one get OF nerves and
one stomach should have waged this
sort or warfare for nearly two decades
and come out whole and sound, 4
Trains Like an Athlete.
In these days OF nervous breakdowns,
3prostrations, ncurosis. paresis. and what
not. tho sagacity5 and strength Of Ryan
are notSshown more vividlys by the big
nghts he has won. the big interests he
has built and consolidated, the great
wealth he has 4 ama4sed than blythe
simple fact that. from tho beginning.
through all the strain and hurly- bury.
In ALL sorts OF associations and With
many and diverse interests pulling and
hauling at him. all crying for line and
concentrated attention. he has maintains.
ed regimen as regular and almost
, as abstemious as that OF an oarsmar,;
in training for q race. Ia
3 Huge figure as he is In the financial and