MEN OF MEANS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3608, 9 December 1905, Page 4

MEN OF MEANS.

Thomas A. Walker, a wealthy BartJin county, lowa, stockman, landed in New York city in 1838 with but 24> cenfis, and still posseses the identical S 4 cents , which he will retain as a valuable heir* loom 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 bn an Oil City, Pa., 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 filled 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 then 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 money and can afford the expenditure. It is the duty of every rich man to spend as much as he can afford, and that is ray way of helping those le« fortunate than myself. Belter fife employment than give aim#.”