The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-10-14
NILUONAIRES HELPLESS
New York Puts a Prison Near
PierpOnt MOrgan'S Mansion.
VERY PECULIAR LOVE MATCH

Nu1tis MIIiIOHdlHO 10 Ao"CHACoS 20
prevent 1t. RockefeIler's Wealth
VIII Not Make His Hair Grow.
steaJ or Starve Was the Woman's
Excuse. Were Stealing Pianos.
NEW YORK.-What is the use of
,o;,g multi-millionaire nowadays,
anyway? With all his kerosene
tainted millions John D. Rockefeller
could not make the hair grow on his
laid head and had to resort to the
common vulgar expedient of a wig,
and !. Pierpont Morgan, in spite of
his gigantic wealth, could not stop
tho state of New York from selecting
> site in the immediate neighborhood
sf his beautiful country seat near
highland Falls for the new Sing
sing prison 1t is simply cruel to
liant a penitentiary, of all things, in
fuII view of an American high-finan-
siers summer home. When he goes
to that place of rest he wants to
forget everything, even remotely
connected with his business, and does
not wish to be reminded of prisons.
# is too uncomfortably suggestive,
like the "Momenta Mort" on the
walls of feasting hall. Yet the
state of New York would neither be
persuaded nor bought off by Mr..
Morgan to cease its inhuman cruel
ty. There is no other alternative for
the great finanoier than so sell his
some locality where he may be rea-
sonaby safe from being confronted
with so unpleasant a reminder as a
state prison is to a great many Amer
lean multi-milliOnaires.
Two Stories Contrasted.
The world is full of contrasts, and
those presented by the differences in
economic conditions are probably
more striking than most others. On
the same day on which a cable from
Paris reported that Robert w. Goelet
had bought the Chateau Sandricourt
with its fine shooting preserve for
100000 the local papers printed
the story of a woman who went steal
ing with her two small children be-
cause she could not make both ends
meet on the SIS a month which she
received as janitress of a house on
West Fourteenth street. Her hus-
band was out of work and the whole
family Of four depended for sub
sistence upon the woman's income
Of SIS month. 1t was a question
of stealing or starving, the woman
said to the magistrate before whom
she was arraigned after she had been
caught shOplifting in a department
store on Sixth avenue.
Hardly a Love Match.
The Northumberland insurance
broker who married Mrs. Anna G.
Ross de Peyster, an enormously
wealthy and twice widowed lady of
seventy years, must have considered
it good risk, or perhaps the insur-
ance business is not very brisk just
now At all events he will find it a
rather difficult task to convince his
friends and the world in general that
1t was a love match"
We're Stealing the Piano.
1t is quite likely that when he
retires hereafter Mr.. James Burnell,
New York business man, living in
Bayonne, will chain his piano, or at
tach to it burglar alarm. Burglars
visited his house a few nights ago
and, after selecting all the money
they could find and the choicest sill
YerWare and clothing, rolled the piano
70 window and were preparing to
IoWer it to the ground when Mr..
burnell was awakened by the noise
lney made. He armed himself and
chased the burglars some distance,
Out they escaped. 1t has been re-
corded before this that burglars have
stolen safes and other heavy articles.
put red-hot stoves or furnaces and
panos have always been considered
SAFE from burglars. Thus another
.1nd illusion has been destroyed by
inc enterprising New York crooks.