Omaha daily bee., 1905-09-16
SEEKING NEW FORTUNE AT 10
senator stewart Begins Again Mt the
Foot of Fortunes Ladder
in Nevada.

Broken in fortune at an age when most
men are preparing to die, Senator William
M. Stewart, the indomitable veteran OF
the senate has just completed house In
the modest town OF Rhyolite, New, where
he says he will begin life all over again.
He has won and lost several fortunes and
was at one tins accounted among the rich
est men in Washington.
A correspondent of the Philadelphia
North American writes about the change:
Since his retirement from public life last
March, after a service in the upper branch
OF congress covering more than forty
years, the world has heard little of Sen
ator Stewart. The newspapers published
dispatches TO the effect that he was once
more a poor man and that he would make
his residence in the west Then they for
got all about him.
To lose q fortune is a serious enough
misfortune at any period OF life, and at
Senator Stewards age 79 II is almost
without exception a crushing blow. The
fact that It has not proved so In his case
| may be because he is used to losing for
! tunes and making them, or 1t may be be-
cause he Is not like other men.
Senator Stewart the title will always
stick 10 him-eNpects to move into his new
home in a few days When he started to
| Dullu IT, uO"n IN lHe bullITOB ulslTlett the
! townspeople. who knew his record for
gaiety in the east, said:
We're glad to have you with U.S. Sen
ator; but what are you doing way down
here in this lonely placer
"Oh, I'm just going TO get back among
| the boys for a while" answered the old
man, Strengthening his six feet OF stature
| and throwing back his broad shoulders
| This air makes me feel like a 4-year-old
! There's no place like Nevada, ] tell you
and l figure that I'll be doing a big Law
business here before long, Better TO veal
out than TO rust out, you know"
| His new house cost SO, 900. That is more
| than he was believed to have saved out OF
| the wreck when the model dairy farm II
| Virginia put the last touches on a fnan
ciaI ruin that was begun when he tried
to force real estate boom in the direc
| ton OF Stewards Palace" the gorgeous
structure he put up in Washington at 4
time when he was one OF the wealthies
| men there.
| When you see him laughing, boisterou
and boyish, taking the keenest pleasur,
in all his poor possessions, and seemingl!
giving never a thought to those that h,
has lost in his old age, you have TO rul
your eyes and say to yourself:
Can this really be Senator William NJ
Stewart, who has had the world at hi
feet time and again. the man who a
leading counsel for the Fair7Flood- Macka
syndicate on the famous Comstock lode
received In one fee $4,000, then the larges
fee ever received by any lawyer In tn
world in a single fee; the man who wa
in his prime when President Lincoln wa
assassinated, and who is the only livin
person who saw the oath administered Z
Andrew Jackson in the KirkwoOd house
the man who will always be remembers
In New York cafes as the gRyest old SAINT
Claus that ever liYed; the man who's
political career has had more crooks an
turns than a Boston street; the man VIII
controlled the state OF Nevada absolutely
the man who has not even great piety c
overscrupulous integrity 70 cheer him /
misfortune and to enable him TO look bac
over a pathway Of good deeds and nobl
endeavors-can It be that this happy. vigoi
ous,> hopeful septuagenarian is actual
Senator Stewart
The inhabitants Of Rhyolite have accepte
him at face value and. knowing his cou
age as they do. they see nothing anomalol
in his declaration that he is now ready
begin all over again.