The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-07-28
LONE man WAGES
WAR ON RICH men
Jim, the Carpenter, Amt Got No
Respect for Millionaires-Many
Humorous Incidents.

/ WIN the mliiiondtItS VI thS ouaAA4~'
colony. They're having one Win
Jim, too.
Jim Is ahead since he built the spite
fence around his bungalow. Jim
revolutionary and sociaiistic senti'
ments, painted In big letters on the
fence arc Haunted right before the
front windows OF George J. Gould 8
cottage across the way.
The automobile complexion OF the
millionaires passing by Jims house
Is fine deep apoplectic purple.
These words--in Jim's biggest let
ters-greet the eyes of those in the
Gould cottage when they arise each
morning.
THE poor who steal go to prison;
while the rich go TO Europe.
This isn't a pleasant sign, for the
Goulds go 10 Europe, so do the fam
lilies OF Jacob Schiff. Louis Wolff (of
Kuhn, oLeb Il Coz, Isaac Seligman,
Kingdom Gould, H. H. Rogers, Ru-
dolph Erbsloeh, Edw. McVicker, Sam
Riker, Col John j. McCook, z. ID.
Adams, Chas. ID. Halsey and others
who dwell in Rumson and read Jim
sign and yacht up the coast 10 Wall
st. every weekday morning.
Jim Can Weld the Brush.
The l0-foot fence that mars the en-
trance of Rumson-rd carries another
motto, done In Jim's best sign paint
ing style:
THE time has come when all poor
men should be socialists
| This quip, reading like 4 typewriter
exercise, has proven deadly insulting
ltc the Rumson-rd. milllonaires.
! Jlm's ,us' plain carpenter, and
he-goes- about-his- war-so- earnestly
that he worries the rich folks. "Bill.
one Of Rumson's manicured. patent
lea,hered cops, said OF Jim, as he idly
ficked at the trimmed box hedge
with the slender walking stick he Is
required to carry while on duty, Jim
Allgor Amt got no more respect fer
millionaire than he has fer daug.
Whereat Bill turned to shoe of
from Rumson's sacred precincts an
Armenian peddler who was crossing
the Shrewsbury river draw bridge
the only entrance to exclusive Rum
son.
| Jim Is Seabright's Oldest settler,
and years ago he purchased a piece
! OF property just across Shrewsbury
| briage-fAat- was long before Gould
or II. M. Alexander (of the Equitable
Life). or c. G. Huyler, Stanley Fargo.
Ogden Mills Reid. or any OF them had
thought OF building on Rumson-rd and
making II a millionaire drive.
His Ice Cream Business Booms.
Then the cottages" were built and
! Jim. always on the lookout for a way
! TO turn an honest penny, built bum
galow on his property and opened 1t
as a public ice cream parlor. Think
OF Il, Vulgar trade invading exclu-
| sive Rumson. But the bungalow
made a fine goal for the footman to
take the upstairs girl for an evening
walk, and Jim began to do thrfv-
| ing business with the Rumson SER
wants.
1t was dreadfully annoying. Each
evening the Rumson millionaire would
land from his yacht at his waiting
auto, at the bridge. He'd see the
| flashing green water of the Shrews-
bury below, the great Gould mansion
to Their light, the trim hedges and long
arches OF trees In the distance, and
Jim's big ice cream sign messing up
the entire foreground.
| So way was devised to prune Jim
from the scenery. When the carpen-
ter began building a bowling alley in
the rear OF his premises Mayor Frank
Mcmahon Of Rumson appeared in
great wrath and told Jim he might as
we'll stop work, for Rumson would
never grant bowling alley permit.
At the same time word was sent info
the several servants halls of the road
that dish OF Ice cream at Jim's would
thereafter be equivalent TO discharge.
After that a great silence fell upon
the Bungalow Ice Cream parlor.
Lives for Red Revenge.
| But, from that moment, Jim Allgor
lived for red revenge. He hired a
band OF gypsies to camp in his back
yard, and Rumson burned with indig-
nation. He drove a big post into his
front yard and tackled on a huge sign,
advertising the place for rent to a
large family Of Negroes. none others
need apply; and a delicate shudder
ran up Rumson's spine for fear Jim
would find tenant.
Came the day when st. Georges-by-
tle-Sea was to be dedicated The
night before Jim went up and down
the ocean beach, collecting soiled un-
der-clothing from the fishermen. He
placarded each article with the name
OF Rumson millionaire and then pur
up sign Offering souvenirs OF
Rumson-rd. for sale. But the million.
aires cut down the clothing.
Jim had them all arrested. and they
had Jim arrested. The cases are
hanging fire yet. Then Jim got out
a lot of posters offering $25 reward
for information leading 10 the arrest
of any Rumson-rd. millionaire for any.
thing. He would stop autos on the
road and hand I'm the posters to be
read by the occupants. They had Jim
arrested for this, and also for libel,
and then Jim waited 40 longer. He
moved away from the bungalow and
put up his fence.
u He surrounded his lot on three
sides with the fence slanting IL in like
"a fort. Being a carpenter, he did a
good job. Then he painted the story
i OF the clothesline episode. He named
names. He concluded this account
with this exclamation, In big letters:
Great God, can this be In the home
of the brave and the land of the
i freei"
He built q bench in the shade OF
the fence for weary pedestrians 10
rest on. This spite fence Is a far
uglier blot on the landscape than the
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