Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-04

the Broadway phrase And l had eaten nothing
many hours He does not know saw him
s sf as may TAKE 4z sfER"s Let
himself before he. too, becomes a dereIcI
After that first failure 1 went out to the
Coast again l had funds but plenty -
of credit and backing. And l was young r-1-r
l met there Rebecca McMullin, the most \AW((
beautiful of the three McMullin sisters. IMAMN
noted for their beauty throughout the West. <N\N
| started in with railroad propositions N>~N
again became President of the San Fran, =
cisco and Eastern, built hundred and -;
sixty miles of road and sold out to the ~
Southern Pacific. We made $1,8OO,0OO
profit out of the deal, of which my share
was 100000 With this money l went to II
England and formed banking house
1t was the hey-day of my fortune. and Il,
my wife and I lived at the rate of from nm
$4,000 to $4,000 year. Mrs Belvin had MIHN
been the belle of the Pacific Coast; she WITH
became the belle Of Europe. When she 7 III
was presented to the English Court. in L Nj
1892, her presentation gown of point lace N III
costS25,000 1t made in Brussels and HI II
took six months to complete. But that nv IL | \
only item We entertained avishly wv
and associated with royalty and nobility. Il
travelled back and forth between H n
America and England half dozen times NJ
a year, and always in princey style II
OF course the crash bound to come IN
My vision was all distorted had II \
seen money matters straight since boyhood ~ y
Big money and big deals had given me -
mental astigmatsm. Things began to go ,,or
wrong When they got out of my range OF 80 -,
couldn't stop them. And l couldn't anything lne
of few millions from my nose That's as pao do Il
being able to see than dollar away from yo
nose We returned to America in 1895 with
fortune sadly depleted.
Now here's a thing to think Money is
mighty dangerous thing TO get too familiar and cal
less with Money nowadays is power. There's SON
thing in II beyond gold itself Money has a wei
dangerous life of its own. There's something in it
be afraid Of You understand Maybe the though
of man have dwelt it long = evil though
capricious thoughts. life and death thoughts all kin
of ambitions and desres-that all this has created
spirit We can call The Money Devil" At any ra
it's bad to get toe careless about the you ire
it Careessness there seems to bring in other axide
The character changes ideals and ambitions chang
Look at the way many people change when tn
get rich suddenly. Sweetness turns to gall simplici
to garishness, kindness to indifference and suspcic
There comes a weakening OF the moral fibre alo
other directions
And that is when begin to fall. When I
turned made in seven years another fortune out
gold mines had been living extravagantly as usu
I had by various actions killed my wife's love- did
realize it until too late When lost it lost the OF
thing that at that time could have kept me baanc
/ fought it. because l wanted her. I lost.
began to speculate heavily l won and lost TIM
fortunes in wheat in 1896 and 1897 l formed the b
tsh. American Finance Company. It was a solid conce
with good men back of it 1t prospered l was pre-
dent of it and owned the controlling interest 1t fa
in 1906 because l still couldn't anything less tn
d million.