The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-08-09
RUSSELL SAGE
Continued from page SIX

S warped unwholcsome view of money
There happy between the oehstedness OF Russell Sage
and the loose living other rich and their The
who leave the deepest the records those who find
mold to this medium They enter more fully into the lives Of those
about them They ympahze with the msfounes OF the 1t
said OF Sage that he could comprehend why with dol
in his pocket should remain in poverty.
every had the faculty for getting rich for holding fast
every penny and making work stntng himself pinch
lag and SAVING and keeping an eye exclusively upon the MAN chance
and forgetting the claims of the less fortunate generosity and
charity there would be poverty But there would be
riches Society would be one dead level OF mdocy respect to
wealth
Russell Sage righteousness which he justified by the hard and
fast rules of property and the unyedng justice of his rigid CODE led
him into many actions which earned him the scorn OF the watching
world One incident his life in particular aenaed public sympathy
from him. When dropped bomb his feet after Sage
had refused to hand the millionaire swung
who CHANGED be his office Ladlaw
by This terribly wounded His health shattered
lie Sage ground that
injuries no concern vast fortune
law sued and given verdict of 100000 damages but Sage APP
pead and fought the to stands For this failure to assist
the man who broken by the bomb meant for him Russell Sage has
always been condemned by the public and OF the case will
dominate all reflections aroused by his DEATH typical of the
man and his methods and.h outlook upon life.
There have been years the past
sell Sage death would have brought disturbances into the Street
simply the Old school OF investors, SPECTATORS
manpuators Mr. Sage has survived the who with him He
t Of farreain mower He had spnn into thin canter the dr
Of dollars which was his career In the latest estimate Of the
worlds fortunes Mr. Sage set down the twentieth
lin Where MIR Sage
He secreive he sefreant All that the world knows
that his chase busy dollar has been and had occupied
st o. c 5s aIe e P %asnson ms st nne years
the above QuestionRuse Sage, Chauncey Depew Cyrus
W. Field Peter Cooper and Others called day and asked Rus
sell Sage about this matter He difficult get than
he was before the dynamite crank sought to effect loan without ecu
" He worth good deal of money and had recovered the mil
lions which he lost in that scramble in Wall morning
five years ago He worth probably the time OF call fifty
CT sixty mlIons-t isn't worth while to be too exact
Ii was dayas today He had his coat off,
wiped the recdng front Of his business occpu with red silk
handkerchief he handled the marked envelopes OF puts and calls
little table before him and replied: Yes No to the clerk
who came in minute or SO and asked him for options IN figures
and symbols which all Greek
you work hard to keep ahead of the boys Mr. Sage
At ALL"
He uttered significant but
approval upper part his arynx-a kind OF chue
anything this earth Everybody cuchng every minute
You have enough haven't you? asked AS much
Yes much believe, he answered turning and
looking "YesI have much as today suppose
boldly continued IF have money enough get
ting any wages Why don you stop work? You haven't child in
eighty ninety million dollas-one million every
He interrupted with the old sound OF dissent
Alter minute he added why don't stop work.
I'll do it, you will answer question: What other job
go that will do much good and give much satisfaction
He paused in distributing puts and calls long enough to
"We you can't answer it Nobody can't answer myself
have thought This my trade One other thing every
likes Every likes to be worth much folks
lie is worth Hardly sold out suddenly would measure
as boys in running and climbing trees don't believe
should be happy left the street. and there thousands Of
down yonde who depending for work What would they
the old gentleman and said NO to the
offer OF caller to purchase privilege It then occurred to me
that Mr. Sage face had not taken wrinkle in ten and that
his clothes had impovedte latter fact perhaps indicating weak
ching his financial ability Uncle Russell always far better and
than the reputation gwen nm by newspapers Sixty
he member of Congress He prob
ably not worth $1,000 buced bravy the
through Congress of the bill to purchase Mt Vernon He lived
worth of monshow nobody knoWshe
spent hundredh of the interest it. He his
money had it. excepting bare pance for of
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