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minister both to Persia and japan and
now is ambassador to Italy.
But reverting to soldering as means
for these millionaires' sons to work OH
their potential energy, there Is young
H. H. Rogers, jr.. who is captain In
the aristocratic 10Th Regiment. N. G. N
Y, as is also Cornelius Vanderbilt. Both
volunteered in the war with Spain
Two Vanderbilt Methods.
Commodore Vanderbilt did not believe
in more than an academic education for
his son, and that son held to the same
view, but the fourth generation was sent
to college.
In starting their sons the Vanderbilts-
Cornelius IL and William K.-exerted diff
ferent methods. Those OF the former
Cornelius III, Alfred Gwynne and Regi-
nald C.-were made to rise early, wear
simple clothes. go regularly to church
and Sunday school, read informing books
and follow regime of alternate study
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and wholesome recreation. William KS
sons--Wiliam K, jr., and Harold Son
the other hand were allowed to enter the
limelight almost from infancy. Cornelius
III was sent through Yale, where he took
a postgraduate course in marine engi-
neering. He was then put into the shops
of the New York Central, where he
donned overalls and worked at the me-
chanical side of railroading from the
bottom up. Since then he has spent his
spare moments working out inventions,
three of which-a truck, locomotive tank
and firebox-being of importance. After
his father ''cut him off, with S1.5OOOUO.
because he married against the paternal
So COO, 600 of their. share He is said to
have. so successfully handled this small
fortune that he is today richer than his
brother Reginald. Alfred G. was made
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to the public. His young son. William
Vincent Astor-the boy now at Eton-is
said to show the same bent. Had these
three sons of millionaire fathers been
born poor. perhaps they could have
made names for themselves through this
genius. But. like princes. they have been
born to their calling.
F. II. Hartman has his boy. Averell.
at Groton. Mass, in the school which,
especially since the Presidents sons COM
menced there, has become the Eton of
America.
George Gould had tutors for his boys,
Kingdom and Jay. and before going to
college they said their lessons in spe-
cial schooroom at home and. like their
sisters, speak French and German flu
emily. Kingdom. who is just about Of age.
is said to show much of the financial
genius of his grandfather. He and his
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diplomacy for while. being minister TO
Italy under Arthur.
One more young scion of a millionaire
family who has chosen this calling
one which requires more common sense
tact and shrewdness than ,the public APP
preciates-is Lloyd Griscorn son of Glenn
ent A Griscom, the Philadelphia shipping
magnate. His father put him through
the University of Pennsylvania, where he
proved a prodigy. getting his Ph.B de-
gree when only nineteen. Next he was
sent through the law school. and when
just twenty-one was appranticed as pri-
vate secretary to that astute statesman
and publicist, Thomas F. Bayard, our first
toria. Then he went to the Spanish war
as a captain and re-entered the dplo
matte service as secretary al CONSTANT
nople. While still in his twenties he was
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tious sum coming to those who stick
through for the full course.
They're truly a bright lot, are election
officers, especially the election clerks.
who are the lads with abrupt faces and
the sudden foreheads, that take down
your name and ask you If you spell
Xerxes with a Q or an Fl. and assign
you an address In the book where there s
been a vacant lot for going on forty
years, and then quarrel violently with
each other over your middle initial,
whether you've got one or not. There's
also an impressive row of box stalls made
out of some light washable material,
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Spanish war and equipped the soldiers
completely: also gave himself and was a
colonel and a good soldier. Before that
he had been q militia colonel on Gov.
Mortons staff 1t is said that neither
John Jacob v nor his elder brother.
Waldorf has renowned his American
citizenship Young Waldorf, now twenty
nine. two years ago proved his loyalty to
American womanhood by marrying Mrs.
Shaw. one of the three beautiful Lang
horne sisters of Virginia.
Astors in Politics and Diplomacy.
Politics has been the choice of two
other great-great-grandsons of the first
John Jacob Aston. These are Lewis Stuy-
vesant Chanler, lieutenant governor of
New York, who has just run against Mr..
Hughes for the governorship of the En-
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You inscribe one cross mark about
where you think your ticket ought to be.
or two of them in case you don't care for
the nominee-hence the phrase. double
crcss-and then you come out of your coy
corner and hand the symbol of your SUI
frage to gentleman who asks you pleas
antly why in Ellen Damb Nation (no re-
lation to Carrie of that name, although
similar in disposition) you don't fold 1t up
first, and then he drops it with an almost
careless gesture through crack in the lid
of a wooden box. And that's about all
there is to it, Larry, so far as you're con-
cerned, for either your man wins or he
doesn't. but generally doesn't; and in any
event you make up your mind that the
United States, as at present constituted,
will probably be able to survive for an
other four years. because while our Presi-
dents are not invariably healthy, our Vice
Presidents always are, that being, in all
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Copyright by Buck.

veins can fail to experience q thrill Of
qualification in coming to this great coun-
try where so much of Sweden's best has
been expended in the upbuilding of this
splendid new race. Then 1 see with
what reverence the memory Of many of
Sweden's grand men and women are cher
ished. There is Ericsson. who built the
Monitor which turned the tide of VIC
tory during your civil war. whose name
is honored in so many signal ways Our
sweetest singers. Jenny Lind and Nils
son, are embalmed in the hearts Of your
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80 1 would suggest. Larry, that you
turn your attention away from your con-
temptation of the melancholy elimination
of a lachrymose campaign and join With
me in discussing some subject that's
really got little gimp to it.
..Wot, for example?" asked the House
Detective.
WELL said the Hotel Clerk, Il can't
think of anything more absorbing than
the dispute regarding the true function OF
our best society, which is now engaging
so many minds on both sides OF the At
lantic that heretofore didn't have any
heavier burdens to carry in their heads
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tempt to prevent the use. but the abuse,
of liquor.
Il have been cordially interested in the
work of the Salvation Army in this coun-
try. especially in New York, Philadelphia
and Chicago. / visited Chicago last spring
and had the pleasure of meeting Jane
Adams and of inspecting the Hull House
movement. 1t is a great work and one
which draws us closer together in the
bonds which mean the universal effort to
cure the universal ills.
mo one who has Swedish blood in her
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X/OUNG Roosevelt's Start
/ at SIS Per Week-Young
Reid Begins as Emergency
Reporter. ]. Hill, Have
meyer and Vanderbilt Start
Their Boys in Overalls-Mil-
lionaires' Sons Start at Sol
diering; Others in Diplo-
macy-Two Scions of Astor
Family in Politics-Two
Methods of Discipline in
Vanderbilt Family - Two
Millionaires With Mechani-
cal Genius-George Gould
Brings His Boys Up Spartan
like-None of Jays Sons
Drinks or Plays the Races
Morgan's, Armour's and Het-
ty Green's Methods.
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Copyright, 1905. by John Elfreth Watkins,


or have been put through courses of
sprouts by their illustrious dads.
Just the other week-since the leaves
began TO turn-Ogden Mills Reid. only
son of Whitelaw Reid. our millionaire am
bassador to the Court of st. James, start
ed in as emergency in the Office of his
fathers newspaper, the New York
Tribune. This means that he is on the
bottom rung of the journalistic ladder
must hold himself in readiness to run to
fires and riots and murders. and all that
sort of thing in the wee sma' hours of the
morning. But this beginning was not
made until his distinguished father had
put him through Yale where he made a
speciality of economics and political science,
and where he got his sheepskin four years
ago. Since then he has been grinding
away at the Yale Law School. So while
his recently welded sister has been dane
ing with dukes and princes. and shining
Al the court of Edward VII. young Reid
has been content to shine In the gre n
light of the students lamp rather than
rIe imelight that beats upon a courtier,
such as he might have been.
These are wise dads but when the
praise is handed around these sons deserve
a share for not kicking over the traces
and heading up the fatal but alluring
path Of leasy iesistance. The President
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You find said temple and bulwark tenn
porarily confided to the keeping of four
gentlemen who are clustered together
with their heads pointing toward a COM
mon center like the Nut City Male Quar-
tet getting ready to render the opening
lines of Way Down Yonder In the Gavin
Field These are the patriots who have
been led to accept the sacred trust by an
inherent love for the most cherished in
stitution of their country, and also be-
cause there's $11.SJ or some such nutri-
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ELL, she'll soon be
over" remarked
the House Detec
tive of the ST.
Reckless, as ne
contemplated n
campaign button
about the size of
d butter plate
that had suddenly
blossOmed out in
his buttonhole.
wv h ic h sh e
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than the part in their bair. Mrs. Astor
started 1t on. You know of the Astors,
Of course; the great family from whom
we have derived the Aston House. the
Astor Hotel. the Waldorf salad.
the Aston battery. the Aston cigar and
William Waldorf Astor. So you see Mrs.
Aston is qualified to speak with the voice
OF authority, and everybody sat up and
listened when she came out In an inter
view stating that American society was
entirely too frivolous and sensational. 1t
didn't do enough for art and genius. 1t
couldn't seem to have a simple wedding
breakfast without introducing some prom
inent resident Of the monkey cage. 1t
couldn't pull off a small informal dinner
without bringing in the Nashville students
between the soup and the fish to present:
their native cakewalks and plantation
glees direct from Nashville. III. 1t was
Mrs. Astor's idea that If a rising mu-
sician reached the point where he could
bid successful defiance to the Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Pianos. or a
young poet turned a great epic poem out
of his system. unassisted. the leaders Of
society ought to throw open the trades
mems entrance to him and take him right
into their homes and give him a square
meal and make him feel in every way that
merit was being properly rewarded.
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Great excitement Immediately ensued.
1t was all right for Frederick Townsend
Martin to become overheated because he's
already engaged in reforming society from
the inside. the same way a skipper re-
forms a cheese. but couldn't understand
why Uncle Joe Cannon Of Danville-I
almost said Damville-should have burst
from his cell the way he did. 1t would
seem he resented an insinuation on the
part of the lady that he belonged to a
school Of statesmen that wouldn't shine
out in society. So he INDUCED In few
characteristic remarks, which, IL properly
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sentative form Of government for the time
being.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1908-10-29
EASTERN MARKETS
NEW YORK STOCK MARKET

2S-The downward of OF stocks
today commonly efforts OF the professional element
stocks supplied
demand developed They progressed to
believed the financial
the 1t
similar procedure
demand stocks
r ar
upposions financial district of the d the
holdings which waiting opportunity liquidation reach
formidable the sueny the
this and
quarterly OF the United States steel corporation
the
proved larger
100000 end while moderate
distinctly beterment III the trade
December 81 1900
The showing fairly be claimed therefore, fully and rather
exceeding
sold off good
the political favorable which
the United
inclined
them favorable Comparisons OF the present price
Q
Of
1875 while the high
the high tide OF the trades reached only SOS
amounting 84898 which maximum
untitled orders September 80 last stood
December 81 1906, reached
exceeded the
ended reached
found III these for the feeling
prices possibly fully the
tonth in feeling
although United States steel stock itself moved
sluggislly the downward movement
ndual although
local metal exchange markets
cheerful the peaceab expressed by the emperor OF
a
sales $3lS0 United
bonds unchanged on call
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THE STOCK MARKET
Local Securities strong and More Ac-
tfve-COntinued Dizziness In Min
Ing stocks


Dizziness still prevailed on the mining stock
board yesterday. The COmst0eks showed no
changes worthy OF note and the only notable
huctuation in the southern Nevadas was a gain
OF 10 cents for the day in GOldheld Con.
There was more activity In local securities.
especially in bonds. which sold to the amount
OF $50. 000 OF which $4,000 was in the United
Railroads As which advanced to STD so The
sugar stocks were stronger. with Hawaiian sell
ing up to $685., the others being slightly
higher q rule.
Another bullion shipment valued at about
$f2. 900 and the product OF 100 tons Of from
the upper levels OF the Mazuma Hills mine
made few days ago.
The gross output Of the Engineers lease the
its production in the neighborhood OF 81 POO.
600, OF which the parent company. the Florence
in Goldheld. received better than $500. 600 in
royalties. or about enough for the payment OF
two OF its quarterly dividends. The operating
expenses were something like $4,000. leaving,
with bullion tax and other incidentas deducted.
about $500. 900 profit OF this sum. $4,000 has
already been distributed in dividends. together
with the reimbursement OF the initial purchasers
Of treasury stock! Two more dividends. IL Is re-
ported. Will shortly be declared.
The ore shipments the Tonopah and
Godield railroad for the last week to the West
ern ore purchasing company consisted OF IS tons
from the Tonopah Extension The Tonopah
company sent 5000 tons, the Belmont company
$50 tons. the Montana OnOpah $50 tons. the
Midway 100 TONS the MacNamara $50 tons. West
End 100 tons and Jim Butler go tons to the
mills. making the total shipments for the week
the Tonopah mines 5.315 tons. Of an
timated value 1.-THE shipping ore being valued az
$50 ton and the milling ore az SIS a toni OF
$134, 450.
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Hides. TaIIov. wool anal Hon.

No more business in hops is expected until
after the election. Choice are reported pretty
we'll exhausted Growers firm as a rule
and some holding for Toe
Hides-Culls and brands sell about 1sGafc IN
der quotations Heavy sailed steers. 12c: me-
dium, lie; light, &c: cowbides I0c for heavy. Sc
for light; stags SIC: sailed kip. Zoe: sailed
veal, lie; salted calf, 14i5c dry hides. lie: drv
kip, 15c; dry calf zoe; dry stays, lie; dry veal
1Sc Mexican dry hides, 161ac; Mexican drv
sailed do. 13c; Mexican picked do 15c: sheen
skins, shearlings, 20Q3Oc each; short wool. 35a
soc each: medium, 556SOc each: long wool
SJc6$1-25; lambs. 15645c: horse hides. salt
$250@2.75 for large and s1.T5@2 for medium
75c@$1-2 5 for small and .256J0c for colts: horse
hides, dry, $2@2.25 for large and 81 25a2 FOR
medium. 50c@$1 for small and 2565Oc for colts.
deerskins, dry Mexican, 2S030c; dry sailed 10
24G26c: picked do zoe: dry Central American
26@30c; goat skins. prime angora. 75cGsf.
large hair goats. 35c; medium. zoe; small. 5
@15c.
Tallow-No- / rendered, 505hc; No. 2. s15@
412c: grease. 2Q21ac-
Wool-Spring clip (frce) Humboldt. years sta
pie, 15M 1Sc; northern Humboldt and Nendocino
nominal, none here; San joaquin. 7d0c: southern
coast, 69Se; Nevada, 9@12c per ID. Fall elm
northern mountain (free). 6H7e: defective. an
Sc oregon wools-Eastern, S613c; valley H.
G161ac per h.
Hops-Prces to growers are from &c to Sc
per Id. with an advance occasionally paid and
some growers holding for loo
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Potatoes, Onions and Vegetables

Receipts of tomatoes from both the bay and
river sections continued to decrease and as the
heavy accumulation of old stock that had pre-
viously incumbered the market had disappeared
prices were frmer and there was very little
stock unsold at the close of the day. String
beans did better and summer squash made a
sharp advance on extremely light supplies while
egg plant and green peppers were inclined to
weakness, owing to the presence of much frost
bitten stock. The situation in the market for
potatoes and onions remained exactly the same
as at the first of the week. potatoes being mod
eratively active and merely steady, while spec
ulative buying held onions firm.
Potatoes (per ct1)-River whites, 756S5c for
fancy and 55@65c for common; Salinas Bur
banks, $125@1.60; Oregon Burbanks $1.25@
1.35; sweet potatoes, $1.50@1 80
Onions-70@7Jc per ctl
Vegetables-Tomatoes. 356160c per box: GU
cumbers, 60@S5c per box; green peas 6nSc per
lb; string and wax beans, 6@Sc per Id: lima
beans; 4@5c per Id; summer SQUASH, Sl.25@1.5O
for bell and 5o@6oc for chile; garlic. Sc per
lb; cabbage, 60@75c per ctl; caulihower, 75c0
81 per dozen; turnips. 75c per sack; carrots.
50@I5c per sack: green okra, 75@s5c per box !:
egg plant coarse per box; marrowfat squash
$10@15 per ton
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Deciduous- and Citrus Fruits

The fruit market was running along in the
same old rut. business in all lines being of
humdrum. routine character with only few
descriptions showing any marked activity. There
We're more than enough table grapes hand
10 balance requirements. and while the muscat
and Corniehon varieties were still quoted up to
81 for lug boxes. sales at that figure were rare
T ryc Deing the ruling price for general offerings
WINE grapes were in burdensOme supply, slow
of sale and decidedly weak. with sellers willing
to accept any fair offer for round lots Nut
meg melons were mostly of poor quality. and
the general run of supplies went at weak rates.
though favored brands sold In a small way at
a premium. In the orchard line fine peaches
from Oregon were firm 81 box. and some
times brought little more. while local cold
storage lots were weak at 5Od65c. What few
ngs came In found prompt sale at good prices.
and there was continued activity in apples. with
bellfowers the best selling variety. The orchard
fruits were in fair request at about previous
prices There were no further arrivals of new
crop citrus fruits. but the navel oranges re-
ceived from Tulare county the preceding
day were in good request at So JO63.5O a box
aud grape fruit brought from 81 to 81 as TO
size and variety. New tangerines in quarter
boxes were Offering at zoe but found few
Standardization per chest.
Raspberres- per chest
Huckleberries-15c per ID.
Cranberries-Cape Cod, $40 .50913 per Dbl !:
Coos bay, 81 per box
Apples (per box)-Faney belInower. 65@s5e;
40@75c.
-Bartletts. slai5o per box: winter
Quinces-50G75e.
Plums- q SOC per box and GOA T5c per crate
Peaches-5Ocn$1 per box: carriers d
Figs-Black. $1.2JG1 so for large and Goa T5c
for small boxes; white. 60c per box.
Pomegrana tes-5o@75c for small and s1.25Q
1.J0 for large boxes.
Persimmons-50@S5c per box.
Nutmeg Melons-356l1J Toe per box
Grapes (crates and small boxes)-Seedless IS
@eOc; muscat, 40M6Jc; verdel. 5O66Oc; queen
65@75c; tokay. 40@65c; Isabella. S1Q1 %: Cor
niehon. 6o@s5e. Large boxes-Muscst. 75c6$I:
Cornichon, s5cq$i; tokay. 50Q75e: black. son
Toe. SeedloSS. Sl.15. Wine Zfnfnp Al
$1O912 per ton; mission. $S@10.
Citrus Fruits (per box)-Valencia oranges
$3-50M4: grapefruit. s2N4 per box: lemons s.
$3.50 for fancy, $2G2.50 for choice and 81 $50
1.50 for standards: lines. S4d5.
Tropical Fruits-Bananas. $ld1.5O per bunch
for Hawaiian and s.. 50Q3 for Central American;
pineapples, S1.2502.5O
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CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE
Future Grain and Provisions

CHICAGO, Oct. 2S.-Trade in the wheat pit
today lacked the activity which characterized
yesterday session. and sentiment during the
greater part of the day bearish. At the
opening prices were A@$sc lower than the
previous close. and after huctuating over a
range OF barely half cent throughout the day
they We're at the close almost at the exact
point where they were when trading began. The
Argentine situation was a puzzle to local traders
ana news from that country was conflicting. One
report claimed that the damage to the wheat
crop by frost covered of 81, 100000 acres.
or about % per cent of the total wheat area Of
the country. The extent of the damage. how
ever. was not stated. Other dispatches placed
the injury all the way from . to 20 per cent
or the total crop. More rain was reported in
sections OF the southwest and although some
reports were received stating that the sown
crop IN many places still lacked sufficient
moisture for proper growth, the majority of
traders here were inclined TO be bearish. Set
Elements for cash wheat in the northwest were
generally active and Duluth reported considerable
wheat worked for export.
Inc corn market closed firm, displaying mod
crate weakness early in the day. Final quota
tons were unchanged to &c higher compared
with yesterdays close. December closed at
63s4 M63tsc and May at 63lsc.
oats were easy the entire session. December
closed ar 49c and May at 1913 d50c
Provisions were inclined TO weakness owing
10 liberal receipts of live hogs at western pack
ing centers AT the close prices shade
to 212c lower.
The leading futures ranged as follows:
Articles Open. High Low. Close.
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A Year Ago and Today

y. -. q
says:
These are the anniversary days of the panic a
year ago. and casual glance at conditions
shows quick and substantial recovery. When it
is considered that still under the hating
influences of n presidential election the progress
seems even more impressive. OF the Is New
York institutions which closed under the stress
Of last year IA have resumed or paid in full and
the fifteenth has paid 90 per cent and viii
probably pay the balance. The stock market
which few days later broke to its lowest has
recovered through long series Of declines and
advances and today industrials average about 80
points above the lowest figures and railroads
about 40 points. Credit was almost unobtain-
able a. year ago and currency at a premium
Today money is loaning at unpro6tabIy low
rates in the middle of the crop moving season
Industrial conditions are steadily mending
throughout the country and railroad earnings are
slowly drawing up 10 normal. The farming
community viii be further enriched this year
with the proceeds of a great crop and the entire
west and south. which at first in touch
with crop money and prospects, is feeling in
business the stimulating effects of new wealth
distribution.
stock market prices. interpreted broadly and
eliminating current influences Of narrow sign6
canoe. show which way capital turns. whether
toward confidence in the future or back TO wait
ing inactivity. There is evidence in the trend