The Irish standard., 1908-03-14


in another small dry goods house,
much involved and backed by another
strong and gone-away citizen Of Butte,
Marcus Daily. From here. he went up
as manager of the great general store
called by his own nanle-The Hen
messy Mercantile Company-owned by
the Analgamated Copper Company.
But just here the law stepped in and
declared 1t unconstitutional and illegal
for a corporation to force it's en-
ployees to trade at any store owned
by it for this purpose; and by clever
ness. credit and courage, MFR. Hen
messy assumed the ownership of this
business. and became a rich man.
Mr.. Hennessy's position in Butte
was unique. 1t seems almost incredi
bic that man so active and so i'm
portant in all affairs concerning the
tumultuous life of the famous camp.
could be at the same time so incon
spicuous. No one here can remember
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speech, for instance; yet they are full
Of amusing anecdotes Of Heinze's pub
lie appearances. But upon Mr.. Hen
Iessy's death, from Shutdown" min
ing camp ten thousand mon and wo-
men walked for miles in escort to his
lifeless form with a bitter. cutting
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the Thermometer twenty degrees below
zero.
What there was in his own expert
ence that filled him with a madness
to alleviate distress, no one knows. He
not only had a genius for living for
mankind, but passion for It, The
demands upon the strength, the SYM
pathy and money OF this man are be-
You'd belief. He was approached by
individuals of every grade of society
and his aid asked in every undertake
ing of every nature and size. A per-
fectly strange woman walked into his
once one day, at time when his
banks we're threatening that they
could not carry him any more in JUS
tico to the public, q time when his own
worries were greater than most peo-
pie can stand: and this woman told
him she had furnished a large room
ing-house and had made some pay
ments on her things. but that owing
TO the panic, people had left rooms
vacant on her hands, and to meet the
payments was impossible and her
creditors were about to crush her. She
had never traded with Mr.. Hennessy,
her furniture and all else having been
bought of a. rival house; and further
more, Mr.. Hennessy was not enlarging
his social acquaintance Intentionally,
nor was he making himself dear to the
public for any reason, such as want
ing to hold public office. He never
tried for an office but once, and then
he resigned his state scnatorship be-
fore his term was out. But hero was
a woman who, on a. small scale. was
suffering the same possibilities he was
himself, and she needed help. In the
first place. he told her he wished any
business transacted with him to be
regarded confldcntially (shc did not tell
until after tho man diod), and said
for her to bring him the papers in her
case. Looking them over. he wrote
her Il check for the full amount to tho
rival furniture company, and said,
Nov. madam, you owe this money To
me- Pay it II you can, and II you
can't, it is all right. Above all things,
don't worry over it. Worry is a great
mistake. Good morning!"
1t was said before Mr.. Hennessy
stopped his life work, he was the
mainstay of two hundred and twenty
families OF the poverty stricken people
thrown out of employment by the
closing of the mines, but he laughing
ly denied the report Within one week
after his death. the men in charge Of
his affairs discovered that there were
four hundred and sixty families that
Mr.. Hennessy was giving what coal,
food. medical attention they had. and
for whom he was paying rent to in
sure them against being put into the
wretched streets in which their cabins
stand. This was not done by a Rookie
Teller. 1t was done by a man who
listened patiently to the recital of in
dividual sorrows, a man who was
carrying stocks on n margin like all
the rest Of this stock-crazy population
of Butte, a man who had no market
at present for his supply of fine gowns
and laces. and who was forced by tho
present conditions to sell the nccessi-
ties Of existence much less than their
Value-a man who did not own his
business clear, anyway.
During the days recently that the