Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1906-08-02

tablespoonful of brandy in half u glass of
water twice or thrice a week.
He was n religious mana pillar of the
West Presbyterian church.
He lent Taimage $4,000 to rebuild tho
Brooklyn tabernaclc-at 8 per cent. in
tercSt.
Russell Sage was director in innumerable
companies. In health he was never known
to miss a directors meeting of any one of
them. He was never known to refuse the
bonus.
Indeed. he derived. annually, a hand
som" income from these fees. If three
such meetings were set for the same day.
another man. Picrpont Morgan, for cX-
ample. went to the most important. Rus
sell Sage went to all three and pocketed
all three fees. But he was Il fine direct
or. He was as precise, as eXacting about
the company affairs as he was about his
own.
SO vast was the volume of his business
that he sworc he could not tell without
consulting his books within s2Vo,ooO OF the
amount his largest debtor owed him.
When Russell Sage was an alderman in
Troy way. They threw stones through
windows. Destruction of property was al
ways abhorrent to Mr.. Sage. SO. as an
officer Of the peace, he marched down to
the riot. coliare.l the ringleader and locked
him up. When the mob threatened to res
cue the prisoner. SAG said 10 them,
grabbed the ringlcader. The same fear
lessncss was apparent when he grabbed
Norcross when the would-bc Slayer threat
coed him with a bomb.
Russell Sage's participation in political
affairs extended over several years, and
his interest in current political events was
considerable for a man whose mind was
so closely occupied with financial affairs.
In 1si1. while still living in Troy. he was
appointed with TN" recorder. Mr.. Oliver, to
20 10 New York to meet General JOIN a.
Wool, upon the %latterS return from the
Mexican war. In isiS No entered the ma
tional convention of the Wing party. OF
the thirty-two delegates from New York
state, twenty-eight were for Mr.. Clay. Mr..
Sage held strongly for Mr.. Clay until Cen
cral Taylor secured "A majority of the
votes. when the full strength of the dele
CATION was brought to General Taylor,
elected. 1t was MIR. Sayo's motion which
made Mir. Taylor's nomination N the con-
vcntion unanimous. 1t was his promi-
nence in this matter and in others during
President Taylor's administration that
gave him considerable influence at the
White house.
In 1870 NJ. Sage was nominated by the
Wings for congress, but he was defeated.
In So be was elected by a small ma
jority and two years later iy Il majority of
trict. II" served on the ways and means
and other important committees, and la
bored faithfully for all the important whig
measures then under discussion, MIR. Sage
;iiVoca led Ire homestead law, the effort
to organize Kansas ana Nebraska as free
territories, opposed the repeal of the Mis-
sour compromise, making a speech of
some not" on the subject in August. 1886.
! and Was active in All tho exciting struggles
of the four historic years which led TO the
disruption of The whig and the organiza-
ton OF the republican PARTY. The incident
of his congicssiona. carce- which brought
! him the most fame was NE appointment
to his efforts. which rerort"d upon tho
condition If sh'rpton's oll estate at
Mount Vernon in Virgil. out Of this ac-
ton the A..unt Nrrnou It. : cation Wa or.
ga DlZt.l. followed nv the rlrrNrSn q.