Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-12-06

A AYR. JACOB RENWYCK, mul- ~ timillionaire New Yorker, had gone to Texas in order to straighten out several busi- ness complications. Besides his north ern interests, he was connected with many new enterprises in the southwest, mines in Arizona, cattle and cattle lands in the Lone Star State and projected railroads through the cotton belt For time his vast schemes had prospered until his ideas as to their conduct began to clash with those of old Bill Williams, the great Texan land speculator and cattle king, with whom Renwyck had for many years joined forces, the one controlling the east, the other the west. Correspond ence had proved unsatisfactory; there fore the New Yorker determined to set tie the business personally by flying trip to San Antonio, Tex, where he intended to beard the lion in his den. Miss Harriet Renwyck, the only daughter of the capitalist, had induced her father to take her with him on the trip. She was beautiful and high l spirited girl of twenty years, the idol of fhe old mans heart, and the one person on earth who could manage him even when his arrogant temper reached the outbreaking point. On their ar rival at San Antonio they learned that MT. Williams had departed the week before for his cattle ranch, which lay about POO miles to the westward. He was not expected to return for some time, so Mir. Renwyck determined to follow him without delay.
 The two travellers took branch road which carried them to point twenty miles distant from the ranch, and here they engaged horses, a camping outfit and a guide for the balance of the trip. Both were used to the saddle, and to Miss Renwyck this long free gallop across the plains was a new and exhilarating experience. It was spring time, when the prairies are at their best rolling away like some vast green sea as far as the eye can reach. The sun, which in another month would parch the grass to a dry and crackly stubble, now sent out lazy, comfort able warmth which was further tenn pered by an intermittent breeze.
 They passed great herds of browsing cattle that munched the grass or lifted their heads in bovine languor as the riders cantered on. Once they thread ed their way through the very center of "bunch," and the girl, with a wo- mans inborn dread of COWS. grew alarmed at the proximity of the sur rounding longhorns, but the guide assured her tRat there was not the least danger "unlest she projicked with the mavericks" This, being inter- preted, was a warning against molest- ing the young calves, a sport which was not to Miss Renwyck's taste for various reasons, and she soon lost all fear of the sad eyed brutes before her.
 Toward sunset they came in sight Of Bill Williams ranch, and, having skirt ed a wire fence for several miles, they entered at last and dismOunted before the mud matched palace of the Texan cattle king, where the jovial despot himself came out to welcome them.
 The two .financiers, each approaching pr. OsIer's line of uselessness, formed a complete antithesis. The New York CT was a typical financial potentate, educated, cultivated. cold, deliberate In speech, calm in demeanor, composed in method, faultless in every detail of his dress. His features were promi- nent and severe, the ruddy hue of his face relieved by a gray mustache and side whIskers. In every step and movement he showed the unmistaka- ble hallmarIs of birth, breeding and prosperity. Yet there was not a bold CT. more daring operator on the eX- change than Renwyck. Old Bill W.T. Hams was a man of giant stature, in- different as to dress. careless as to language. His education had been gained in the saddle and smaeked of the leather. He read few books, but he knew cattle and men. and there  was not a better judge of land values and the merits or demerits of a scheme in the west. His shrewd and kindly face wss clean shaven- round and joy full. lit by s pair Of steel gray eyes that twinkle5 continually in harmony ufth the genial smile Ehich sometimes caused the careless to Ease sight of the frmness of the clean cut lips and the square. resolate java man who was knovn and ko1Ored Ia seven states and loved by every rznchman within a radius Of a thousand niles. Ken vyck vas Ice, wIIIizns fire. so that au fond there was not a great deal of difference between their methods. for beat ard cod both burn
 Nr. wTIIians. rho. Ike all Tersas. vas the soul of hospitality. c1ersd his ns