Bisbee daily review., 1909-03-19
LOMBARD Is SEEKING HIGH
 APPOINTMENT
Man Who Came to This Coun- try As a Fiddler Would Rep resent Ii As An Ambassa- dor

WASHINGTON March 1S.-One Of the most unique and interesting per sons among the thousands who have driftod into Washington with the l change of admin stration Is Louis Lombard, whom a writer once de | scribed as a real. live, uninsuiated human wire. Mir. Lombard wants to go as ambassador to Spain, China or some other important mission and hopes the president will sec his way clear to give him the appo ntment. The life story of Louis Lombard reads like a far-fetehed romance. Born in France about fifty years ago, he camo to the United States at the age of fourteen, a penniless orphan Today he is reputed to be worth at least $5o.00O.000. He owns the mag niiicent Chateau de Treyano, at Ln- gano, in Switzerland, where he has spent the most of hrs time the past few years. He is the leading stock holder n the Italo-Argentine Society of Buenos Ayres, which controls the leading opera houses of South Amer lea. He owns the Costanzi opera house in Rome. He is the owner of zinc. iron and lead mines in the Unit ed States and in other countries. He is the owner Of vast quantities of "a lway stock. In fact he is interest ed fin so many projects all over the world that he himself admits it would be hard for him to enumeratc them without consulting his records.
 Mir. Lombard is passionately fond of music. He has a private opera house in his palace in Switzerland. and he has an orchestra that he man. tains there the year round. And there is good reason why he should love music, for 1t was his fiddle. as he fondly calls it. that laid the founda- tion for his fortune.
 When he landed a penniless youth at Castle Garden he had nothing but his fiddle. He went ,to Utica, where he had some acauaintaRces, and got a position as vOiinist In an orchestra. In few years he organized the Utica Conservatory of Music and LaB- guages. His persistence made it a success. Then he decided to study law and in the course of time he grad uated with high hoBors from the law school of Columbia university. And about the same t'me came another important change in his fortunes. He married the beautiful daughter of
 Tom" Allen of St Louis, who built the Missouri Pacific railway and then sold It to Jay Gould at an enormous profit
 Mir. Lombard showed that, musician and dreamer though he might be, hGl was able to cope successfully with the 'hard-headed financiers of Wall street. When he made his appear ance among the bulls and bears he was totally unknown. But in a very short time it came to be known tha the little dynamic man amounted to something and that he was beating the old heads at their own game. Louis Lombard came out of Wall street with millions, no one knows how many.
 With his fortune made he proceed ed to indulge h's love for music, lit erature, painting and travel. He tray eled the world over aBd over and as a result he mastered no fewer than | eleven languages. He has written several successful books and has com posed three comic operas. And now he would like to round out his mar. vicious career by becoming the repre- sentative Of his adopted country at some foreign court