Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1913-11-15

small time to gossip IN business hourA
Out Of Business hours, Il is to be cor.
fessed pnce in a while there was dig
cussion as to the salary of Miss Vlr-
ginia Delaware, which was reported a
wholly Unstable affair. 1t was ~
mored in stenographic circles that sha
had taken to wearing very stunning
evening gowns. Yet not the most cap
tious-though willingness did not lack
could raise voice against her, or
couple her name Win any other Rawn
and she were never seen together ex.
cepting during business hours; he new
er mentioned her name in any COM
pany. Once or twice a laughing voice
at the National Union where rich men
met in numbers, tried to create some
sort of discussion over Rawn's beau
, tifui private secretary, but it was so
suddenly stopped by Rawn himself
that it never was resumed.
Upon the other hand, few could
speak in definite knowledge regarding
the domestic matters of John Rawn.
He was a man of mystery, though one
held what he gained; and, as there
must have been accorded to him
strength of soul, grasp, readiness,
courage, he began to be accepted as
one OF the large figures of his day
alike in industry and finance. He had
by this time fully arrived in the
prominent citizen class in his chosen
metropolis. Did firemen perish. John
Rawn joined the list of those who aid
ed the widows. Was some neighbor-
ing city swept by flames, again he
joircd-On the front page Of the pa
| pers--those who gave succor for the
needy. Did a famine in India or China
sweep off a million souls. John Rawn
on the front page-aided the sur
viyors. He vas a member of the lead
ing clubs of the city, a director of the
board of the art institute He bought
| If he did not occupy box at the opera
had allowed his name to be mentioned
at the banquets offered by eager souls
70 celebrities of one sort or another
! who proved themselves amenable TO
receptions, banquets, addresses OF
welcome. and Whatnot, anything TO
bring lesser names into print on any
page. tails to any kite. In short, John
Rawn comported himself as a promi-
nent citizen should Ever he was the
| kite. never the tail He doomed d large
and growing figure in his little world.
Above all, there seemed something
uncanny III the unvarying facility with
which Rawn made money There is
no real explanation of the difference
in money-making power. except that
some men make money and some do
not Rawn did, without any doubt or
question. Not lacking ability and calm
ness in judgment, and not lacking full
| information such as is accorded those
said TO be upon the sacred inside of
the market. he was in and out OF Rub
Der, Coppers, Steel at precisely the
right time His oil investments in
/ California, played up and down in
proper symphony, had made him more
than million dollars, smoothly.
easily, simply The railways market
was an open book to him. and public
utilities seemed something he could
gage while others stood and wondered.
There are times when some men win.
| Rawn could not lose, whether he dealt
IN Ontario Silvers. Arizona Coppers,
anything he liked. He was In with
the pack when, in these last fierce
days of individual and corporate greed
It finished pulling down republic
and battened, guZZled at the bowels
of the quarry. He partooE with these
of a broad knowledge of the narrow
ing raw resources of the country. and
was in with them at the death He
was one of those to get hold OF large
acreages OF the passing timber lands.
he was counted with those who sought
the great coal fields for their own; ran
true to scent, with these the trail Of
monopoly in any commodity which
the people more and more must need
In the one matter of his relations with
certain transcontinental railway
Rawu made a quarter million as his
share OF the three. quarters OF billion
taken in sales of mineral lands from
the railways land grant holdings That
the grants had covered only agricul-
,ural lands mattered little. for when
the sleepy government at Washington
reluctantly took the trail, it was
shown a law. cunningly passed few
years earlier, which barred the repub-
lie, by virtue of a six-year statute OF
| limitations, from recovering any Of its
own property John Rawn often
/ laughed over that He laughed also
/ when the suckers as they called
them bit just as eagerly at irrigation
as they had at mines. lie often laughed
lit was all so ridicalously easy to
/ pull down a country. when the run.
ming was in good company He was .
/ prominent citizen.
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