Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-02-01
{ MILLIONAIRE D. HERBERT nos.


&Vt TETTER OF Pittsburgh, held as
clear and definite ideas abou, the
bringing up OF children as he did obout
the bringing up to full efficiency of those
famous bistcrs from which the wealth of
the family Is mainly derived. Mr.. Hos.
letter knew that with just so much OF this
and 50 much OF that. prepared I'm lust this
way and in just that way, and put in at
exactly the proper time the bitters-once
besides their purely medicinal asnact.
an ihcidental part OF the court OF the late
John Barlcycorn-w would always be lust
so. But II one put in another Ingredient
OF put IN an ingredient too soon, one did
not know what reactions might follow
Mr.. Hostettcr was much concerned over
the future OF his children He felt that
great deal OF the trouble In the world
came from too early or wilful romances
liomance was the chemco-emotional re-
action OF youth and a girl Therefore
II one kept boy always with boys and
away from the girls, and II one kept a girl
always With girls and away from the boys
loves disturbing element could not enter
into their lives any more than a disturb.
Ing influence could enter into the bitters.
and had always been kept with him away
rom Eve, ana II Eve had had a sister and
had always been kept with her away from
Adam manifestly there would have been
no scandal in the Garden OF Eden!
II was all very simple Mr.. Hostc,tcr
determined to keep. together with an.
other son and daughter. his older son, d.
Herbert, Jr, away from the GIRLS. He de.
iermined similarly to keep his older
daughter Miriam away from the boys.
let. alas for Papa Hostetters precau-
lions. and douhly alas for his logic He
has had a bitter establishment!
The news that Miss Miriam has eloped
with an entirely unknown young man
named Smith, flying with him from an
exclusive girls seminary and its safe.
guards, has just leaked out
And most extraordinarily, son D. Her
bert Jr. as thoroughly warned. guarded
and instructed by his careful father as
daughter, did that very same thing few
years ago!
What is wrong with Papa Hostetter's
theory Students OF psychological science
will unQucstionably deduce that while love
is as the poets sing. n tonic; made up-as
science has detcrmined-ot fixed ingredi-
ents. It cannot be handled In exactly the
same way as a more material tonic can
be; cannot certainly be watched with that
1neticulous care necessary to produce the
standardized result
The Hostetters Of Pittsburgh belong to
ono OF the earliest OF that spectacular
city's wealthiest families. The original
founder. David. was the son OF dis
Eel Nod NJ, TT oY
Pennsylvania where he was born back in
1910. Adventurous. ambitious. he was one
OF the Argonauts who sought for gold in
California in the rush Of 40. But he was
unsuccessful. Returning to Pennsylvania,
he devoted some years and much labor to
the development of formula for stomach
bitters beQueathed 10 him by his father.
by him the financial foundations of the
family were laid, and by him they were
ampliied by banking, railroad enterprises
and oil and natural gas developments.
From this sturdy and indomitable sire
the sons inherited forceful and determined
characters and the strongest tendency to
aggression both in the forming OF ideas
and in carrying them out 1t Is interesting
10 note that with Mr.. d. Herbert Hostetter
this temperamcntal inheritance took the
form Of conservatism-the same conser-
vatsm that caused him to prescribe the
isolation for his children until they had
reached certain age. But with his
brother. Theodore Hickey Hostetter-the
original David IIostetter had married
Miss Rosetta Rickey-it took the reverse
OF what may be called conservative.
Among those early Pittsburgh multi-mil-
llonalres who cut such wide swathe along
broadway in its hey.day, or. perhaps, bet.
ter still, hey-nlght. he was a leader. A
million dollars year for amusement was
his minimum record. and this included flip
ping pennies for thousand-dollar bills in
the Waldorf bar with various sporting
lights Of the time.
T. r. iostetter's somewhat lurid career
ended in l9O2-and there was in It no fac.
tor calculated to turn his sober brother
from his conservatism.
1t may be also that the strictness with
which he insisted upon his children being
brought up was revolt against the ely
travagance for which, in the first days OF
the great steel merger, Pittsburgh beca me
notorious. ca
But despite all precautions. one Novem
her morning in 1912 Mr.. Hostetter, SIR,
awoke to find that he had a daughter.n
law! Ills son, D. Herbert Jr.. had run