The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-06-20
TEXANS MAKE COLOHELS HERE
TITLES FOR THE HOSTS or THE
VISITING BANKERS

who Are All Colonies and Wanted 10 MAX
Tenderfeet Feel Easier -Facts About
Col. HeynOlds, Who owns Counties
and Col. Lufnpkin, who's . Republican
The Texas bankers who are doing New
York we're not pressed very hard yesterday
Some big downtown concerns kept oper
house with telescopes on the roof for the
better coming Of the neighborhood. Ont
Texas banker ran across a New York banker
who placed too 900 OF the Texans cash
at Ia per cent. In last falls call money
ascension.
Which was sure going some. We thought,
the grateful visitor, told his correspondent,
Most Of the party. though. put in the
daytime Just loafng around the Imperial
Hotel headquarters, resting up from Coney
Island and for last nights theatre party
at the Kniokerbooker and q feed later at
the Cafe des Ambassadors. The National
City Bank was host all the evening.
Up TO yesterday the town had been made
richer by twenty Colonels as a result Of the
advent Of the tourists from the mesquite
belt. The hundred odd men in the party
are all Colonels, Of course, but among the
bankers who have been entertaining them
titles have been painfully scarce and the
fact got TO be right embarrassing. But
j. W. Butler. vioe-preeident Of the Texas
Bankers Association, who is herding the
travellers. 10 long on nifty ideas, and some
where along the line he doped out a good
one. Every official OF every bank that
4extsnded the usual c~ourtesies" should
be mad q Colonel. In order that the deed
might be more than merely ipso facto.
Col. Butler got up a badge made Of good
old Texas rawhide. On q Ave pointed
star IL reads: Texas, the Lone Star State, "
ana underneath: BY special dispensation
epell that 'Saxet' backward" says Col.
Butlerl you are created. exalted and dubbed
Prince Of Good Fellows. with rank OF
Colonel"
-Four o~ficials each Of the National Park.
National banks got the badges and became
Colonels yesterday. Last night four from
the National City Bank were similarly
invested.
.'The boys are sure to feelIa lot easier
when these New Workers are around Il
they know they're Colonies, too explained
Col. Butler.
Yesterday afternoon a grammar school
boy came into the Imperial and announced
he wanted to see the man who owns
more'n a whole State, Col. Butler trotted
OuI SOI. nOlOb- w. ~, " y VI
Fort Worth. Col. Reynolds owns three
banks and has an interest in six or eight
or ten more, maybe, but he is essentially
O c~attleman-is a whole lot prouder Of his
cattle on a thousand prairies than OF his
mere banking assets.
lad.
RaicFon I can't answer that
"More'n in Central Park?'
Col. Reynolds thought so. Col. Butler
Reynolds has 5000 acres Of grazing land. |
With what he has leased at three cents an
acre he's got 100 full sections-640 acres
section-al contiguous inJeferson Davis,
n Ell Paso counties: His calf
trop lie $4,000 head annually. His land is
bis fence RIDERS and oownen get three
days %ratione from the chuck wagons and
ride of 10 FL Paso to vote straight Democrat.
Every year also Col. Reynolds goes bear
right up in the mountains on his
ranch. Last year he had eighty,,seven
guests along and they got more than a
black bears. He was neiehbor to
Theodore Roosevelt when Roosevelt was
-anching In North Dakota, knows the Presi-
lent, and although a Demoorat. can't see
where anybody else would come OF in a
bird term campaign. which he says Texas
wants.
The boy learned all this and more from
Col. Butler before he staggered away. He
ust missed seeing Col. J. II. Lumpkin, who
8 esteemed a close second to Davy Crockett
Town that way because he's the only Re
who ever dared TO run for Congress
n the Dallas district. Col. Lumpkih is a
He owns only two or three banks
nd says he cant see why the blazes Col.
3utler let him come along,
At 10 O'Clock this morning the Texans
ire TO be breakfasted at the Waldorf by the
'hanix National Bank. At 545 they're TO
at at Shanley'e. with F. Augustus Heinze
8 toastmaster and the Mercantile National
putting up for II. The theatre again
.ioA4 and "a NJ ntnrA far phlla dnlhhin