MEN OF MEANS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3549, 20 July 1905, Page 4

MEN OF MEANS.

Thomas A. Walker, a wealthy Hardin county, town, stockman, landed in New York city in IB.W with but 24- cents, and -till r-.:-scses the identical 24 cents, which he will retain as a valuable heirloom for his children's children. Alexander .McDowell, clerk of the house of representatives at Washington. although at present a banker and capitalist, was at one time a poor compositor on an Oil City, I’a., weekly. He is fond of telling how he laid the foundation of his fortune.

Senator Warren, although at present surrounded by all the luxury of the prosperous man, delights in telling stories of the days when his bed was a pine box tilled with hay in an attic and when he had to get up every morning at three o’clock, feed the cows, split a lot of wood before breakfast and (hen walk three miles to school. A friend of William C. Whitney the other day spoke of the latter gentleman’s lavish style of entertainment. Mr. Whitney said in reply; “I have the mom y and can afford the expenditure. It is the duty of every rich man to spend as much as he can afford, and that is my way of helping those less fortunate than myself. Better give employment than give alms.”