“WHEAT KING” AND SHARPERS.
MR PATTEN IMPERVIOUS TO TEMPTATION. Mr James A. Patten, who made a private fortune estimated at ,£5,000,000 through his speculations in the wheat and cotton markets, has just returned to New York from a six weeks’ holiday in Europe. Evidently thinking that a man who has so often been denounced as a gambler in the markets would be unable to resist the temptation of other forms of gambling, a company of cardsharpers invested in a passage aboard the Adriatic to New York in the hope of inducing Mr Patten to play. They suffered a bitter disappointment, for Mr Patten is a deacon of his church and proved impervious to all suggestions. The stewards, learning of the presence of the sharpers, issued special warnings against gambling. The ‘‘ex-wheat king” declared on landing that his decision to retire into private life is irrevocable. “I have enough,” he said, “and I intend, when not travelling to live at home in Evanston, Illinois, where I shall devote myself to plans for the improvement of the local university.” Turning to the crop outlook, Mr Patten predicted a large wheat shortage the world over for 1910.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 903, 11 October 1910, Page 4
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194“WHEAT KING” AND SHARPERS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 903, 11 October 1910, Page 4
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