A WEALTHY TALLYMAN.
» ■ ■■ ■ ■ The death Is announced of one of the wealthiest men among the nouveaux eririchia of Paris— Orespin, the tallyman. He was the brother of the rich mhnufao* turer who has figured m the Wilson oase. Crespin almost ranked m point of wealth with Madame Boucicaut. He had a staff of a couple hundred of clerks and a permanent one of 400 messengers and money collectors. He was for many yeara the life and soul of the mercenary Carnivals of Mardi-Gras and the Mi- Car erne. . Hia were the gorgeous cavalcades which used to sweep along the boulevards with triumphal ca-p, mediaeval knights on horseback, thin-legged troubadours, sylphs m ppangles, dandies of the Directorie, and the fat oxen tricked out m gay ribands. All these wore engaged diligently m advertising M. Crespin's big universal provision establishment for the working classes on the Boulevard Barbeß. Crespin was a philanthropist, who had risen to wealth from toil to poverty. He enabled working men to furnish their own rooms on the email payment system. When he became wealthy he uaed to delight m showing his friends the little box m which he c irried cheap jewellery and gimcracks when he tramped about Paris as a poor hawker. He caught cold on his way to Algiers, whither his dootors had sent him for rest and sunshine.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1830, 2 May 1888, Page 2
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224A WEALTHY TALLYMAN. Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1830, 2 May 1888, Page 2
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