The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-02-15
FI8BNER Nl
R8E IS DEAD
ON The COAST
Man Remem tered Here Has
An lntefes ing and Long
Career

y oiloW4nS IS q \ intel ting sketch
appearing in N Les Angeles sun.
day Times OF gent emah, well
kaown here al Al resident OF
oiatksbuIg shor after the civil
Sar. whose des occurred in Los
Angeles recently
Captain OF industry, Industrial and
commercial solder Of fcftline, p:-
lonser in the heYing of civic and POI
,3tical history In ahalf a dozen vest
ern states, founder OF cities and Of
great indu4tri g, far-geeiag prophey
iof The Properly 10 Follow The traif
to the great sS1tamet, there are
few, even OF his business associates.
who realize all the loss means by the
death in Los Angeles, q few days.
ago, Of Samuel Wilson Little.
Up to the very end OF his 90 years
of life his career was crowded to It's.
limit with variety and y!clssitudes
such as seldom fall to the lot even
OF wanderers. His own influence
and that of his assoc ates was one.
that made itself felt in; a dozen.
states and in territory most potentl-
ally rich in possibilities Of any in.
the country. The fortune that he
left, large as IT was, is ihconsider-
able in comparison to that which, att
one time and another, he turned
into channels OF usefulness.
Rich and Poor Often.
A dozen times IN his life Little
knew attiuence and poverty to fol-
low close upon each others heels.
He made fortunes rapidly and spent
them with no less speed in the dos
yelopment of great enterprises, OF
a large perspective himself, he ha-
Tbstually dealt in big things. When.
a journeyman t;nsmith on a knocked
together raft on the Mississippi, he
was dreaming in terms Of town
1ites. Stranded and nat broke in
Cincinnati, with the wreck OF his
glass manufacturing plant tumbling
about his ears, he merely chuckeled
at his less optimistic partner in the,
enterprise and told him to come on
to another place.
With that PARTNER, the late d. B.
Alexander, also of this city, Little
spent practically all his life. A
stranger pair could scarcely be inn
agined. Diametrtcally opposed in.
everyihin that makes up termpera-
nent and constitution, they were
nevertheless 50 essential to one an
other that neither could make
success of an enterprise without the
other. They did not ''get on to-
gether, but so much more congpicu-
Gus was their failure to ge: on
separately that they were never
apart for any length of time during
their business careers. Time and
again they separated, one or the
other buying out the interests OF the
other in some enterprise and, as
often, their individual failures would
drive them together again.
Ill-AIatched Partners.
Little was bod, Alexander eau
tious. Little was aggressive, Alex
ander conservative. Little smashed
things, Alexander picked up the
pieces. Little upset the apple cart If
1t was in his way. Alexander would
walk far around to avoid 1t. Little
would rove and wander in search Of
the dollar, Alexander would insist on
staying in one place. Alone, Little
failed because of his advantageous
methods. and Alexander because of
his too great conservatism. To-
/ gether they succeeded chiefly, ep-
lparently, because each was check
on the other and Complementary to
Thin.
Perhaps the greatest Individual
stroke of their careers was that by
which they founded city and, in
cidentally, went broke doing 1t.
Letter. when their predictions as to
their pet townsite came true, they
reaped the reward of their foresight
-or rather, Titles foresight-sbut
there was a long time between.
They were running little tin
shop at Greencastle, Ind. at the
time. Alexander generally stayed al
home and minded the shop, Little
was usually out drumming up bust
ness and keeping his ears and eyes
open. A good deal Of his time wa
spent at the little hotel taking witt
people from the outside world look
ring out for bigger chances.
One day he overheard a few scrap
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