Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1913-08-01
From the Washington Times.

career when 10 years old. Ever since
his name has been one feared through
out the street.
His Operation Legal.
Yet today he can smile at his career
and at his juggling with the. ann OF
men high In the councils of the national
legislature, n feel that, whatever he
has done. he is within the pale of the
law. And ne knows that New York,
and financial circles throughout his life
have been charging him with this
manipulation n that crime, yet he
smiles and says naught.
He plans to carry to his grave the
secret of his real identity.
Why he assumed the name of La
mar, Lewis, Palmer and half a hundred
other aliases at various times Is guard
ed except that he has admitted that
he did 1t for convenience sake, or to
put one across" on j. p. Morgan &
Co. for his friend Lauterbach.
Wonderful Man.
He is a handsome and remarkable
man," his wife once said OF him after
he had darted out of their home hat
less after a quarrel in which the name
make a stock do anything. He can
make 1T go up or down as he wants 1t
to- He's wonderful"
And he is wonderful.
For five months OF every year he is
a gentleman farmer in Lanesboro.
Mass, In the heart of the famous
Berkshire hills. He gets out and does
real farm work. and he was engaged
in haying when tho to appear
before the Senate called him away
from the countryplace on the shores OF
an Indian named lake-Pentoosuc.
Every day of his five months rustica-
ton he goes down to the city-Pitts-
t.ah. Mass whoro fnv a fovn hoa,rc no
keeps his hand on the market pulse in
the little brokerage branch Offices
and then walks away with big killings.
Then seven months he is in New
York city. or cruising in his yacht to
Nova Scotia. or in the sound. 1t is
in New York that the operators know
n ear him. They know the relent-
less side Of this strange man. who to
l'outward seeming Is a quiet Efenchman
of polished manner, but underneath a
daring operator, going to great lengths
to accomplish his purposes. \
Some say his real name is Simon
Wolf and that he Is a Hebrew.
He says he is not a Hebrew-that
he is an American and a Methodist.
He admits that he has operated in
Denver under the name of Lewis. He
admits. too, that he has Used SO or
ings.
He talks OF millions as a street
urchin would speak of dimes.
And why should he not, for he has
Isdealt in milliOns-in bold coups that
meant a fortune one day and compare
counted a very wealthy man. )
Here la the story OF his life-1 story
of II eareersthat reads like a tale frsin
q fanciful romance.
stxrtsd carssr at Is.
He was born near New York city,
and started in the market gam at
the age of 18 years. Continuously
| since then he has been h center OF
some escapade that startledkthe street,
AS a youth he managed to gain the
acauaintance Of Henry Hart, then the
Rsiiroad company. He had dropped
his real name, just az DIR. Jekyll
dropped his identity. It vanished for
everror at least Lamar thinks-for-
ever.
Hart owned about $4,000, 900. Lamar
was his confidential man. Hart be-
came the. center OF q long litigation,
and when the final accounting came,
his IS, 900. 900 fortune had dwindled to
100000 Who's got the money? This
IL q secret that has eve bee solved.
David Lamar lived in Omaha as
David n. Lewis for hve years. but left
there about 1892. He conducted a
novelty advertising business. One Of
his schemes was to furnish large
blotters to banks for use on their
counters. "A fresh blotter q deltv-
cred every day. Lewis" obtaining his
profit from advertisements printed ON
the blotters.
The banks finally Cancelled their
contracts, alleging It would b an cas-
thing for anyone In possession Of the
blotters to get copies Of signatures
from them. Thereup6n sIewis's brought
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