Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-02-01

;One of the wealthiest little boys in
America is down among the pine hills
at Lakewood, N. j. He is Master
Marshall Field, the twelve-year-oid
grandson of the great Chicago mer-
chant, who died in New York recently,
leaving a fortune of $150,000,000, ac-
cumulated through a long life of in
dustry and enterprise.
Almost S50,000,000 of this fortune
will go to the little lad, who is the last
male member of the Fields bearing
the family name.
At the age of this boy the grand
father was ploughing and reaping and
toiling on farm, and planning in his
mind how to win the fortune which
he subsequently acquired.
And now without the preliminaries
of ploughing and reaping and planning,
and without manual labor of any Kind,
Marshall Field the third will have the
wonderful fortune piled up by his
grandfather ready to hand to use as
he may see fit.
But is it better to inherit riches than
to acquire them? Will not this enor-
nous fortune kill all ambition and
spoil all noble purposes in life? Is it
not damper on industry and clog
on laudable impulses?
The present life OF Marshall Field
tends to refute such a theory. OF
course there are many persons who
would gladly relieve the boy of the
damper and the clog, but from present
his fortune in a manner that will re,
fleet credit upon the clean record OF
his grandfather's career.
Known by Every One.
Almost everybody in Lakewood
knows the Field boy by sight; but very
few of them know how thoroughly his
life is filled with constant and arduous
effort He must know how to handle
those millions. He must be trained
and equipped and fitted for a task that
has even palled upon John ID. Rookie
Teller and Andrew Carnegie.
Rockefeller offered salary of mil
lion dollars year to any one who
could lift from his back the burden
of his inrolling millions. Carnegie
wearied with the constant turning
over of his wealth, relinguished the
task and fell back in his easy chair
with a sigh of relief.
Yet this twelve-year-old boy must be
fitted to follow in the footsteps of
these two czars of finance lest some
wiser boy step in and take from him
that which he has acquired without an
effort
Most of the small boys in Lakewood
envy young Master Field, because
they only see him when he goes driv-
ing or riding ON his little gray pony,
or when he goes walking down the
Ions wooded street with his fine dog.
But how these boys would grumble If
they had to work as Master Field
works between times.
Young Marshall Field is a well-built
little chap, having inherited from his
father and grandfather the broad
shoulders and erect carriage of the
Fields.
At present he is dressed in deep
mourning. He is gentle, unaffected
and frank in manner, like dozens OF
other boys you have met, and he likes
pretty much the same things such as
tops and kites and marbles and guns,
and all sorts of boyish sports.
Some time ago ne was attacked with
rheumatism at his home in Chicago.
and he was brought TO Lakewood at
the request of his grandfather, who
thought that the bracing air of that
locality would tend to win back his
health.
The Field cottage in Lakewood is
large, rambling structure of brick and
white stucco built in the Colonial
fashion
On the upper floor in a secluded
room, with tutor from the University
of Chicago, Master Field undergoes
daily a hard siege of study to fit him
for some preparatory school and event
Eally for college.
At 7 o'clock in the morning he is up
and about. whistling in boy fashion, or
froiicking with his dog. There is APP
parently nothing heavier on his mind
at this time than healthy hunger for
breakfast.
His mother having gone to Chicago,
he is the only member of the family
in the house. Consequently he eats
his meals in solitary state, which he
does not like overmuch.
After breakfast he puts on his riding
togs and telephones to the groom at
the stables to bring around his pony
A .ew minutes later he is cantering
over the smooth roads around Lake
wood.
This exercise he likes best of all.
1t plays havoc with his rheumatism
and brings a glow to his somewhat
raIo chaakc