The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-19
THE WEEKS TALK IN NEW YORK CITY John W. Gates May Be Back in
 Wall Street Soon COREY NEGLECTS HISTORY Didn't Tell Reporters at Just What Hour lie Wed-Boss Murphy Not Going to Get Out Just
 Yet.
COREY NEGLECTS HISTORY
BY sEwELL HAeeARp.


 soon back in the game and the bulletin Gates is buying" will so forth as fre- quently as ever. But for confirmation of this one will have to go farther than MT. Gates, for MT. Gates keeps his own counsel. If you know the man you will understand this assertion and since so much has been written about his deals perhaps something about his personality will be of interest.
 The most human picture of him Is that caught by his friends and the newspaper men who saw him in the hot summer days when he was leading his forces against the Belmont people in tho battle for the big Louisville and Nashville rail- road system.
 Tn his shirt sleeves, with a soft linen handkerchief performing the double ser- vice of collar and neckoloth, he sat, day after day, in the open customers room of his Wall street offices, perspiring but patient in the din of the tireless tickers and shouting clerks and office boys. A wave of a pudgy hand, for he is frankly far overweight, a throaty command, mon osyllabic, or a sweep of the clear gray eyes-they were orders which, when trans- lated Into acts on the floor of the big exchange, brought forth roars of rage or cheers which made the initial impulse absurd and grotesque.
 In a crowd this overtowering speculator, who has drawn out from financial critics invective worthy of Cicero, might pass and repass a thousand times without gaining the tribute of momentary glance unless, indeed, from some one deeply in- terested in sleek, well-kept butchers, for of that class he seems a member. Of medium height, heavy jowls, a placid face, smooth but for the mustache, the gray in which betrays middle age, there Is nothing about him to attract notice. The eyes are the conspicuous thing about the man, but this Is commonplace, and away from the street they lose their fire.
 His pastimes are numerous. and all in some way bring him out into the open, which he loves as one bred In the spacious west should. A familiar figure at race courses, here and abroad, he picks win- ners with the same ease and certainly that so long marked his deftness at stocks. He knows horses as he knows men, and tells you frankly that he likes them better
 Among trap shooters he stands near the top, excelled only by a few profess sionals and one or two great amateurs. Fair days used to find him incased in a heavy sweater, with hls check resting lovingly along the stock, bringing down birds up In Westchester or over on Long Island, rolling up scores that filled his apartments to overflowing with trophies All of which eNplans the new hunting preserve just taken by him in France. He is equally skillful at billiards, and 1t is a faetfzthat 1t was while stretching far out across the table in a Broadway billiard "parlor" years ago that he held his cue long enough to predict to his op- ponent the formation of the first billion dollar trust-the Steel corporation And he was well laughed at for the prophecy, too. Golf is still another accomplishment of this patient player of the game, and the links from one side of the continent to the other know him for master player for pleasure only.
 It is his peculiar fame that he owns, so far as Is known, the most singular pleasure craft possessed by a million aire. It is a sidewheel yacht. of un- certain age. but steady as the proverbial church, and fitted out in manner that puts to shame it's more pretentious rivals of the propeller variety With his wife he has spent much time on this distinctly family sea-going craft, which pleases him to the point where he tolerates good naturedly the qulps of his friends on its packing-case proportions.
 Small wonder Is 1t that his liking for pictures has taken him into the school
  favorlte Is Messonier and of the red and blue clad soldiers, courtiehs, and ladies who troop through that artists canvasses he has a goodly company in his Waldorf rooms. And he finds amending delight In the bright oolors and clear-cut figures. Of the horde of newly created million aires borne Into Wall street on the wave of industrial combinations which over whelmed the country from 1898 to 1901 Gates was the most picturesque. He has | added to that distinction the further honor of lasting the longest and of retiring not without laurels. One may not wonder If 1t might not be said of him now what he once said of himself on another ques- ton, that he Is mot broke, but badly bent"
 It would be interesting to know just what hour Mabelle Gilman. the former actress, was married to William E. Corey the president of the Steel trust. Every newspaper in town put the ceremony at a different hour. Some had it between ,12 and 12;30 o. m., and others had 1t as late as 1;S0. It Is a pity for the sake of his- | tory that the exact hour of such a cele- | brated affair could not be obtained. In any event they were married some time after midnight of the 18th, the reason | for which is obvious. Mir. and Mrs. Corey | are not members of the Thirteen club | and therefore did not care to trifle with | the fatal number. As usual with such l affairs, the newspapers made 1t nauseat- | ing. MT. Corey and Miss Gilman put on | an air of great secrecy and, of course, | it was up to the newspapers to get the news somehow. Mir Hearst's leading ex- | ponent of yellow journalism put a lady | reporter In the suite next to the one occu- pied by the brde-to-be at the Hotel Go- | tham and every time Miss Gilman sneezed | the Americans readers were duly in- | formed Then in order to furnish sensa- | tions for the waitresses and scrub ladies | the yellow mathematicians were busy | every day figuring out just what it cost 1 Mir. Corey to bring his romance to a cul- imitation. The highest figure was s500,0o0 The amount must be~correct for l the mathematicians plucked the figures 1 out of their fertile brains and figures | do not lie if we are to believe the old saw.
 MT. Corey and his fancee, while outward | ly appearing to spurn publicity, did not seem to be very much pained by the overdose that they got. Friends of theirs were kept pretty busy handing out hith- | orto unpublished pictures of the bride and on the evening preceding the we'd ! ding the bridegroom-to-be, disdaining the | services of friends, personally, placed i them in the hands of the yellow journal commissioners. The officiating minister ! not to be cheated out of his share of the good things going around in the | way of press notices, submitted to ar 1 interview after the bridal couple had | sailed. The gist of his remarks was that 1 he parfprnaI tha ,premopy bpRa1iSa if