The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-05-11
INSULTS SPIRIT APPEARS
UNBROkEN BY TROUBLES
ENERGY SHOWS
E-MACNATE Is
NOT FINISHED
BY JOHN LLOYD

Of the Rome Bureau of The As.
sociated Press. who accompanied
Samuel Insull, across the Atlantic
NEW YORK, May 11.Age
and his recent experiences have
not robbed Samuel insult of his
vigor.
A few minutes, talk with the
former utilities magnate brings
decided alteration in the impress
sion given BY his snowy white
hair and mustache Alert mental
faculties and 4 keen memory show
in his conversation. Bursts of en-
ergy make 1t apparent that he does
not regard himself as finished. =
He can shift quickly from calm
amiability to stormy anger. The
cloak of age seems to drop COM
pletely from him in such moments
and a spirited fighting character
is revealed.
Then. as quickly, the easy, tran
quill manner that has ripened with
his "a years returns. Often the
person against whom he has vent
ed his wrath finds suddenly that
they are again on the friendliest
of terms.
Borrowed Time
Although he says a man of his
age is living on Borrowed time.
insult with scarcely a change of
breath launches into discussions of
new business enterprises and
speaks Of places he hopes to visit
and things he hopes to do in years
to come.
He il intolerant of any infer
ence that he may have held his
own well being above thatyof his
investors in the management of his
enterprises In America. All the
property left to him in the world,
he insists, is contained in the lug
gage he brought with him on the
:Exilona.
In 4 physical sense the former
magnate shows certain definite
marks of time. but his condition
seems to be we'll above average for
a man of his years. He lost %
pounds in weight during the 90
months between his departure
from Chicago and his exit from
Greece aboard the Maiotis last
March.
Sill A Non-Drinker
Periodical medical examinations
and constant caution, he says. have
saved him from the grave conse-
.quences that might have resulted
from d persistent heart ailment.
while he was once q collector of
rare wines he prides himself upon
never having tasted alcoholic
drink. The collecting was a hob
by and he grew to be an expert
Judge Of vintages BY the power of
smell.
He INDUCES heavily in cigars.
eats heartily and enjoys sitting up
late at night discussing world af-
fairs.
His are did not deter him while
in Athens from laying plans for
development on q large scale of
the ignite business. He says that
lie his personal situation had been
settled he would have carried the
plans into operation and that it
would have emaneipated Greece
from its dependence on q foreign
coal supply.
Aaaking Gsseee Independent
This he would have achieved
through exploitation of immense
Ignite deposits, he told newspa-
|permen. He said friends were
ready to advance capital for the
purpose.
The effect upon Greece's manu-
featuring industry and conse-
auensiy her foreign trade, he con-
tended, would have been enor-
nous. The Ignite, properly treat
ed. Was to be an economical sub
stitute for the coal now imported
in great quantities.
Despite the Greeks withdrawal
IL their hospitality after he had
been in Athens . year and half
the former magnate speaks fond
u Of them. He says he would