The Washington herald., 1907-04-07
Ways Men Seek Position
Sudden Growth Love for Which Sometimes Comes to the Newly Rich

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the biggest club in the world. This is
true since It's membership includes near
| ~ I0.000 of the East Side boys, who by
and by viii be voters.
Harriman's push for social recognition
is not being made along lines similar to
those adopted by any OF the other big
railroad men with a laundering for So
eiety. George J. Gould. Il may be reTnefa-
| bered, found il inconvenient TO win his
social fight on American soil, and so
fought it out in foreign waters. sailing
yacht races with the Prince OF Wales.
now King Edward VII Jay Could knew
he could not win social place and never
tried; neither did any Of the Vanderbllts
until William X. and Cornelius, grandsons
Of the commodore, were big figures on
the stage
The Roekefeliers. Carnegie. John W
Gates, II. II. Rogers. and many others
who have become abnormally rich in the
last two score years or less have not yet
made any effort whatever for social
prominence. Washington Is a bigger bat
tie ground for that sort of recognition
than New York nowadays
Although J. j. Hill never has made
move for social recognition-once, indeed
his wife administered a decided snub 70
some society women Of St. Paul who tried
TO COnCiliate her-he has made a strong
effort TO get his name up as an art con
nOisseur by the lavish purchase OF paint
ings, and. being better judge of pictures
than most millionaires. has won his point
decisively.
Morgan, Hill's great ally in the financial
transportation games in which Hartman
and the Rockefellers have played for
years on opposite sides, has striven harder
for recognition as an art patron than
Hin. having assumed about the same at
titude toward the Metropolitan Museum
of Art that Jesup has toward the Museum
of Natural History. MOrgan's invest
ments in pictures, vases, statuary, Won
derful wood carvings, and almost every
other form of art have cost him millions
more. perhaps, than has been expended
along similar lines by any other living
man. Both he and John d. Rockefeller
have made big bids for recognition abroad
by spectacular travelling. but apparently
not with Interior society motives.
Thomas F. Ryan's chief efforts for rec
ognitiOn. outside his business Of gathering
in all the traction and insurance interests
In sight have been in the way OF cathe-
dral building
The most astounding move made by an
exalted parsonage" for social recognition
was made by Napoleon when he divorced
his wife Josephine, whom he had married
Tor love. TO marry the daughter of
HaDsburg.
Napoleon had supposed that the winning
Of place and power as Emperor Of the
French and the conquering Of a lot Of
other kingdoms would also win social
equality with other mOnarchs. He found
to his chagrin. that these things were not
effective in that direction. In fact, the
monarchs OF Europe have always been
remarkably like the present-day million
aires OF America; they VIII not take "a
reiguing new family into their lofty cir
Gle for two or three generations unless
there is an intermaTriage or tie Of
blood
A remarkable case Of an exalted per-
.sonages" completely in a bid for social
and business recognition occurred in Lon
don a year or two before Queen Victoria
died when an American wished 10 be
seen driving with the then Prince Of
Wales in an automobile, and offered Cora
urquhart Potter. the actress. $1,000 TO
help him
The prince knew Mrs. Potter. as he
knew most prominent actresses then, and
she told him about il.
do YOU need the money!" asked the
prince.
Indeed, ! do. your highness," was her
reply, and the prince agreed. He kept his
word. too. although not until after he had
made sure that the money was paid over.
There was some hitch about that which
made the prince angry and the whole
story came out; this did the aspiring
American good deal more harm than he
had received benefit from being seen in
the princes company.
No end OF young millionaires now before
the public viii work harder to get their
names up as sDortsmen than they viii in
any other way. Last year Kingdom Gould
won the lawn tennis championship Of
America and nearly killed himself trying
to win the championship Of Great Britain
This year Clarence Mackay, head of the
Postal Telegraph system, rival of the
Goulds' Western Union. gave more
thought and effort 70 winning the Ameri-
can championship at rackets than 10
any other occupation for days al a time.
Big men who go into literature" 10 get
their names up are rarer in this country
than in the Old World, where the rich
and noble author. for the sake OF seeing
his name on a title page. is common
enough When John Wanamaker's cOuu-
try house was burned down near PhiIadel-
phia it was discovered, however, that he
had been preparing 10 write a life OF
Martin Luther, by which, of course, he
hoped to win recognition as a student of
history and literary man. Andrew Car
negie began 10 write books for recogni-
ton before he began TO give away
Libraries John Jacob Ast0r's books
brought recognition of a sort. but their
sale was not big enough to double his in
come. and ne gave I'D writing.
Men DESTROYS of winning fame from au-
thorship after acquiring wealth have been
known 10 hire men who make their living
by writing to do the work. but the results /
in such cases have not often been very
satisfactory either to the writer or to the /
man whose name has been printed on the
title page.
Copyright 1907. by Dexter Marshalll
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