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Entered at the Postoffice in Galveston as
Second-Class Mali Matter.
BADLY MIXED UP.
Abraham Brown of Winterton, N. Y„
had a very remarkable experience. He
says: “Doctors ,ot badly mixed up over
me. One said heart disease; two called
it kidney trouble.; the fourth blood
poison, and the fifth stomach and liver
trouble. But none of them helped me,
so my wife advised trying Electric Bit-
ters, Which are restoring me to perfect
health. One bottle did me more good
than all thfc five doctors' prescribed.”
Guaranteed to cure blood poison, weak-
ness and all stomach, liver and kidney
comnlainiK by J. J. Schott, druggist. &0cg
in the public schools
clerk in a dry goo&s store, finally go-
ing into business for his own account
on a large scale. He was elected to
the legislature, where his ability as an
organizer soon gained the friendship
of the men in /power, and later was
sent to congress, where he was quickly
initiated in the game of corrupt poli-
tics. In 1S85 he entered the United
States senate. He soon became the
acknowledged leader of a considerable
majority of the Republican senators,
and from then on he was a figure to
be reckoned with. A very ambitious
man, with a great love of power and
few scruples, it is little wonder that
only the practical or dishonest side of
politics appeal *1 to him. He was in
politics for all there was in it, and he
saw in his lofty position only a splen-
did opportunity for easy graft.
He did not hesitate to make such
alliances with corporate interests seek-
ing influence at Washington as would
enable him to accomplish this purpose,
and in this way he had met and form-
ed a strong friendship with John Bur-
kett Ryder. Each, being a master in
his own field, was useful to the other.
Neither was troubled with qualms of
conscience, so they never quarreled. If
Ryder interests needed anything in the
senate. Roberts and his followers were
there to attend to it. Just now the
cohort was marshaled in defense of
the railroads against the attacks of
the new rebate bill. In fact, Ryder
managed to keep the senate busy all
the tfrne. When, on the other hand,
the senators wanted anything—and
It was John Burkett Ryder, the Colossus.
action could have no apologist, and he
could see nd difference between the
crime of the hungry wretch who stole
a loaf of bread and the coal baron who
systematically robbed both his employ-
ees and the public. In fact, had he
been, on the bench he would probably
have acquitted the human derelict who
in despair had appropriated the prime
necessary of life and sent the overfed,
conscienceless coal baron to jail.
The hands of the large clock in the
outer room pointed to 3. An active,
dapper little man with glasses and
with books under his arm passed hur-
riedly from another office into the di-
rectors’ room.
“There goes Mr. Lane with the min-
utes. The meeting is called. Where’s
Mr. Ryder?” asked one of the directors.
There was a general move of the
scattered groups of directors toward
the committee room. The clock over-
head began to strike. The last stroke
had not quite died away when the big
swinging doors from the street were
thrown open and there entered a tall,
thin man, gray headed and with a
slight stoop, but keen eyed and alert.
He was carefully dressed in a well fit-
ting frock coat, white waistcoat, black
tie and silk hat.
It was John Burkett Ryder, the Colos-
sus.
CHAPTER II.
T fifty-six John Burkett Ryder
was surprisingly well preserv-
$ ed. With the exception of
the slight stoop already noted
and the rapidly thinning snow white
hair, his step was as light and elastic
and his brain as vigorous and alert as
in a man of forty. Of old English
stock, his physical makeup presented
all those strongly marked character-
istics of our race which sprung from
Anglo-Saxon ancestry, but modified by
nearly 300 years of different climate
and customs has gradually produced
the distinct and true American type,
as easily recognizable among the fam-
ily of nations as any other of the
earth’s children.
Tall and distinguished looking,Ryder
would have attracted attention •any-
where. Men who have accomplished
much in life usually bear plainly upon
their persons the indefinable stamp of
acnievement, whether-of good or evil,
which renders them conspicuous
among their fellows. We turn after a
road. That was the situation.
Several directors spoke, the
ments of each one Jfeing merely
iteration of those already heard,
der did not listen to what was bein-
said. Why should lie? Was he no,
familiar with every possible phase o'
the game? Better than these men w'.k
merely talked, he was planning hov
the railroad and all his other interest
could get rid of the troublesome judge
Rossmore.
He who controlled legislatures and
dictated to supreme court judges had
found himself powerless when each
turn of the legal machinery bad
brought him face to face with Judge
Rossmore. Suit alter suit naa ..
decided against him and the interests
he represented, and each time It was
Judge Rossmore who had handed down
the decision. So for Tears these two
CHAPTER I.
UF^HERE was unwonted bustle in
|| ,f the usually sleepy and digui-
., JU fied New York offices of the
Southern and Transcontinent-
al Railroad company in lower Broad-
way.
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and Transcontinental Railroad compa-
ny, but it was something more than
mere routine that had called out a
quorum of such strength and which
made today’s gathering one of extraor-
dinary importance in the history of
the road. That the business on hand
was of the greatest significance was
easily to be Inferred from the con-
cerned and anxious expression on the
directors’ faces and the eagerness of
the employees as they plied each other
with questions.
“Suppose the Injunction is sustain-
ed?” asked a clerk in a whisper. “Is
not the road rich enough to bear the
loss?”
The man he addressed turned impa-
tiently to the questioner.
“That’s all you know about railroad-
ing. Don’t you understand that this
suit we have lost will be the'1 entering
wedge for hundreds of mothers? The
very existence of the ;r<xa<Lymay be at
stake. And between you and me,” he
added in a lower key, “with Judge
Rossmore on the bench we never stood
much show. It’s Judge Rossmore that
scares ’em, not-the injunction. They’ve
found it easy to corrupt most of the
supreme court judges, but Judge Ross-
more is one too many for them. You
could no more bribe him than you
could have bribed Abraham Lincoln.”
“But the newspapers say that he,
toOj has been caught accepting $50,000
worth of stock for that decision he
rendered in the Great Northwestern
case.”
“Lies! All those stories are lies,”
replied the other emphatically. Then,
looking cautiously around to make
sure no one overheard, he added con-
temptuously: “The big interests fear
him, and they-re inventing these lies
to try and injure him. They might as
well try to blow up Gibraltar. The
fact is the public is seriously aroused
this time, and the railroads are in a
panic.”
It was true. The railroad, which
heretofore had considered itself supe-
rior to law, had found itself checked in
its career of outlawry and oppression.
The railroad, this modern octopus of
steam and steel which stretches its
greedy tentacles out over the land, had
at last been brought to book.
John Burkett Ryder, the richest man
in the world—the man whose name had
spread to the farthest corners of the
earth because of his wealth, and whoso
money, instead of being a blessing,
promised to become not only a curse
to himself, but a source of dire peril
to all mankind—was a genius born of
the railroad age. No other age could
have brought him forth. His peculiar
talents fitted exactly the conditions of
his. time. Attracted early in life to
the newly discovered oil fields of Penn-
sylvania, he. became a dealer in the
raw product and later a refiner, ac-
quiring with capital, laboriously saYed,
first one refinery, then another. The
railroads were cutting each other’s
throats to secure the freight business
of the oil men, and John Burkett Ry-
der saw his opportunity. He made
secret overtures to the road, guaran-
teeing a vast amount of business if he
could get exceptionally low rates, and
the illegal compact was made. His
competitors, undersold in the market,
stood no chance, and one by one they
were crushed out of existence. Ryder
called these maneuvers “business.” The
world called them brigandage. But the
Colossus prospered and slowly built up
the foundations of the extraordinary
fortune which is the talk and the won-
ier of the world today. Master now
»f the oil situation, Rj’der succeeded
in his ambition of organ zing the Em-
pire Trading company, the most pow-
erful, the most secretive and the moat
wealthy business institution the coiio-
mercial world has yet known.
Yet with all this success John Bun
men had fought a silent but bitter duel
in which principle on the one side and
attempted corruption on the oti^r
were the gage of battle. Judge Ross-
more fought with the weapons which
his oath and the law directed him to
use, Ryder with the only weapons he
Understood—bribery and trickery. And
each time it had been Rossmore who
had emerged triumphant. Despite ev-
ery maneuver Ryder’s experience could
suggest, notwithstanding every card
that could be played to undermine his
credit and reputation, Judge Rossmore
stood higher in the country’s confi-
dence than when he was first appoint-
ed.
So when Ryder found he could not
corrupt this honest judge with gold
he decided to destroy him with calum-
ny. No scruples embarrassed Ryder
in arriving at this determination.
From his point of view he was fully
justified. “Business is business. He
hurts my interests; therefore I remove
him.” So lie argued, and he consid-
ered it no more wrong to wreck the
happiness of this honorable man than
he would to have shot a burglar in
self defense. So having thus tran-
quillized his conscience he had gone to
work in his usually thorough manner,
and his success had surpassed the
most sanguine’ expectations.
This is what he had done.
Like many of our public, servants
whose labors are compensated only in
niggardly fashion by an inconsiderate
country, Judge Rossmore was a man
of but moderate means. His income
as justice of the supreme court was
$12,000 a- year, but for a man in his
position, having a certain appearance
to keep up, it little more than kept the
wolf from the door. He lived quietly,
but comfortably, in New York with his
wife and his daughter Shirley, an at-
tractive young woman who had grad-
uated from Vassar and had shown a
marked taste for literature. The daugh- --
ter’s education had cost a good deal of
money, and this, together with life in-
surance and other incidentals of keep-
ing house iti New York, had about tak-
en all he had. Yet he had managed to
save a little, and those years when hp
could put by a fifth of his salary the_
judge considered himself lucky. Se-
cretly he was proud of his compara-
tive poverty. At least the world could,
never ask him “where he got it.”
Ryder was well acquainted
Judge Rossmore’s private means,
two men had met at a dinner, and, al-
though Ryder bad tried to cultivate
the acquaintance, he never received
much encouragement. Ryder’s son
Jefferson, too, had met Miss Shirley
Rossmore and been much attracted to
her, but the father having more am-
bitious plans for his heir quickly dis-
couraged all attentions in that direc-
tion. He himself, however; continued
to meet the judge casually, and one
evening he contrived to broach the
subject of profitable investments. The
judge admitted that by careful hoard-
ing and much stinting he had managed,
tc^save a few thousand dollars which
he was anxious to invest in something
good.
Quick as the keen eyed vulture
swoops down on its prey the wily
financier seized the opportunity thus
presented. And he took so much trou-
ble in answering the judge’s inexperi-
enced questions and generally made
himself so agreeable that the judge
found himself regretting that he and
Ryder had by force of circumstances
been opposed to each other in public
life so long. Ryder strongly recom-
mended the purchase of Alaskan Min-
ing stock, a new and booming enter-
prise which had lately become very
active in the market. Ryder said be
had reasons to believe that the stock
would soon advance, and now there
was an opportunity to get it cheap.
A few days after he had. made the
Investment the judge wag surprised to
receive certificates of stock for double
the amount he had paid for. At the
same time he received a letter from
the secretary of the company explain-
ing that the additional stock was pool
stock and not to be marketed at the
present time. It was in the nature of
a bonus to which be was entitled as
one of the early shareholders. The let-
ter was full of verbiage and technical
details of which the judge understood:
nothing, but he thought it very liberal
of the company and, putting the stock
away in his safe, soon forgot all about
it. Had he been a business man he
would have scented peril. He would
have realized that he had now in his
possession $50,000 worth of stock for
which he had not paid a cent and fur-
thermore had deposited it when a reor-
ganization came.
But the judge was sincerely grateful
for Ryder’s apparently disinterested
advice and wrote two letters to him,
one in which he thanked him for the
trouble he had taken and another in
which he asked him if he was sure the
company was financially sound, as the
investment he contemplated making
represented all his savings. He added
in the second letter that he had re-
ceived stock for double the amount of
his investment and that, being a per-
fect child in business transactions, he
had been unable to account for the ex-
tra $50,009 worth until the secretary tof
the company had written him assuring
him that everything was in order.
These letto-’ Rvfler kent.
(To Be Continued.)
If you court one temptation you are sun
to win a score.
they often did—Ryder saw that they
got it, lower rates for this one, a fat
job for that one. not forgetting them-
selves. Senator Roberts was already
a very rich man. and, although the
world often wondered where he got it,
no one had 1he courage to ask him.
But the Republican leader was stir-
red vrith an ambition greater than that
Of controlling a majority in the senate.
He had a daughter, a marriageable
young woman who, at least in her fa-
ther's opinion, would make a desirable
wife for any man. His friend Ryder
had a son, and this son was the only
heir to the greatest\ fortune ever
amassed by one man, a fortune which
at its present rate of increase by the
time the father died and the young
couple were ready to inherit would
probably amount to over $0,000,000,090.
Could the human mind grasp the possi-
bilities of such a colossal fortune? It
staggered the imagination. Its owner
or the man who controlled, it would be
master of the world! Was not this a
prize any man might well set himself
out to win? The senator was thinking
of it now as he stood exchanging banal
remarks with the men who accosted
him. If he could only bring off that
marriage, he would be content. The
ambition of his life would be attained.
There was no difficulty as far as John
Ryder was concerned. He favored the
match and had often spoken of it. In-
deed, Ryder desired it, for such an
alliance would naturally further his
business interests in every way. Rob-
erts knew that his daughter Kate had
more than a liking for Ryder’s hand-
some young son. Moreover, Kate was
practical, like her father, and had
sense enough to realize what it would
mean to be the mistress of the Ryder
fortune. No, Kate was all right, but
there was young Ryder to reckon with.
It would take two in this case to make
a bargain.
Jefferson Ryder was, in truth, an en-
tirely different man from his father.
It was difficult to realize that both had
sprung from the same stock. A col-
lege bred boy, with all the advantages
his father’s wealth could give him, he
had Inherited from the parent only
those characteristics which would have
made him successful even if born poor
—activity, pluck, application, dogged
obstinacy, alert mentality. To these
qualities he added what his father
sorely lacked—a high notion of honor,
a keen sense of right and wrong. He
had the honest man’s contempt for
meanness of any description, and he
had little patience with the lax, so
called business morals of the day.
For him a dishonorable or dishonest
. It is said that prison life has been
highly beneficial to Harry Thaw. If so
it is a pity he did not try- it years ago.
Cut this story out and keep it.
“The Lion and the Mouse,”
novelized from Charles Klein’s
great play, is an American story
of the hour dealing with the
billionaire. Ils leading charac-
ter ss the richest man in the
world. In the thinly veiled John
Ryder the reader will immedi-
ately recognize another John of
worldwide fame. John Ryder’s
unscrupulous methods are re-
vealed in the conspiracy to ruin
an incorruptible judge who rules
adversely to the interests of or-
ganized capital. The judge’s
daughter determines to save him.
Her heroic struggles in conflict
with the money octopus make a
story of absorbing interest and
great drarhatic power. In his
willingness to renounce his fa-
ther’s fortune for the girl of his
choice, Ryder’s son displays a
nobility which wins the reader’s
warmest admiration.
man m trie street and ask, Who is he?
And nine times out of ten the object of
our curiosity is a man who has made
his mark—a successful soldier, a fa-
mous sailor, a celebrated author, a dis-
tinguished lawyer, or even a notorious
crcok.
There was certainly nothing in John
Ryder’s outward appearance to justify
Lombroso’s sensational description of
him: “A social and physiological freak,
a degenerate and a prodigy of turpi-
tude who, in the pursuit of money,
crushes with the insensibility of a
steel machine every one who stands
in his way.” On the contrary, Ryder,
outwardly at least, was a prepossess-
ing looking man. His head was well
shaped, and he had an intellectual
brow, while power was expressed in
every gesture of his bands and body.
Every inch of him suggested strength
and resourcefulness. His face, when
in good humor, frequently expanded
in a pleasant smile, and be had even
been known to laugh boisterously
usually at his own stories. - which In
rightly considered very droll, and o.
which lie possessed a goodly stock
But in repose his face grew stern and
forbidding, and when his prognathous
jaw, indicative of will power and bull-
dog tenacity, snapped to with a click-
like sound, those who heard it knew
that squalls were coining.
But it was John Ryder’s eyes that
were regarded, as the most reliable
barometer of his mental condition.
Wonderful eyes they were, strangely
eloquent and expressive, and their most
singular feature was that they pos-
sessed the uncanny power of changing
color like a cat's. When their owner
was at peace with the world, and had
temporarily shaken off the cares of
business, his eyes were of the most
restful, beautiful blue, like the sky
after sunrise on a spring morning, and
looking into their serene depths it
seemed absurd to think that this man
could ever harm a fly. His face, while
under the spell of this kindly mood,
was so benevolent and gentle, so frank
and honest that you felt there was
nothing in the world—purse, honor,
wife, child—that, if needs be. you
would not intrust to his keeping.
When the period of truce was ended,
when the plutocrat was once more ab-
sorbed in controlling the political as
well as the commercial machinery of
the nation, then his eyes took on a
snakish, greenish hue, and one could
plainly read in them the cunning, the
avariciousness, the meanness, the in-
satiable thirst for gain that had made
this man the most unscrupulous mon-
ey getter of his time, but his eyes had.
still another color, and when this last
transformation took place those de-
pendent upon him and even his friends
quaked with fear, for they were his
ejes of anger. On these dreaded occa-
sions his eyes grew black as darkest
night and flashed fire as lightning
rends the thundercloud. Almost ungov-
ernable fury was indeed the weakest
spot in John Ryder’s armor, for in
these moments of appalling wrath he
was reckless of what he said or did,
friendship, self interest, prudence, all
were sacrificed.
Such was the Colossus on whom all
eyes were turned as he entered. In-
stantly the conversation stopped as by
magic. The directors nudged each oth-
er and whispered.. Instinctively Ryder
singled out his crony, Senator Roberts,
who advanced with effusive gesture.
“Hello, senator!”
“You're punctual, as usual, Mr. Ry-
der. I never knew you to be late.”
Ryder passed op and into the direct-
ors’ room, followed by Senator Roberts
and the other directors, the procession
being brought up by the dapper little
secretary bearing the minutes.
With a. nod. here and there Ryder
took his place in the chairman’s seat
and rapped for order. Then at a sign
from the chair the dapper little secre-
tary began in a monotonous voice to
read the minutes of the previous meet-
ing.
Quickly they were approved, and the
chairman proceeded as rapidly as pos-
sible with the regular business routine.
That disposed of. the meeting was
ready for the chief business of the day.
Ryder then calmly proceeded to present
the facts in the case.
Some years back the road had ac-
quired as an investment some thou-
sands of acres of land located in the
outskirts of Auburndale, on the line
of their road. The land was bought
cheap, and there had been some talk
of laying part of it out as a public
park. This promise had been made at
the time in good faith, but it was no
condition of the sale. If afterward,
owing to the rise in the value of real
estate, the road found it impossible to
carry out the original idea, surely they
were masters of their own property!
The people of Auburndale thought dif-
ferently and. goaded on by the local
newspapers, had begun action in the
courts to restrain the road from divert-
ing the land from its alleged original
purpose. They had succeeded in get-
ting the injunction, but the road had
fought it tooth and nail and finally
carried it t< the supreme court, where
Judge Rossmore after reserving his
opinion had finally sustained the in-
junction and decided against the rail-
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road are being depended upon by the
(Tribune to supply for its young lady
guests one of the most palatial Pullman
Bleepers that was ever brought to aGl-
yeston. In this car they will be rolled
across Texas and Louisiana to New Or-
leans over the smooth rails of this great
railroad, crossing the “Father of Wa-
ters” en route at its widest and most im-
portant section. From Galveston to New
Orleans and back the party will have at
their disposal a thoroughly competent and
reliable representative of the Tribune to
attend to all details of the trip and see
that it is made as enjoyable a one as
possible for every participant.
While in New Orleans throughout the
great Mardi Gras festivities the entire
party will be domiciled al the hotel
“Grunewald,” where apartments with
baths—communicating if desired—have al-
ready beer, engaged for them by the
Tribune. The management of this greatest
hostelry of New Orleans, that has just
completed a fine white terra cotta annex
of 400 rooms, pledges itself to secure for
the Tribune’s party all of the necessary
, information concerning the many points
of interest in and about the historic
®zwascent City and to endeavor to secure
Corpus Christi Sun.
Here’s to laughter, the sunshine of the
soul, the happiness of the heart, the
leven of youth, the privilege of purity,
the echo of innocence, the pleasure of
the humble, the wealth of the poor, the
bead of the cup of pleasure; it dispels
dejection, banishes blues, and mangles
melancholy, for it’s the foe of woe, the
destroyer of depression, the enemy of
grief; it is what kings envy the peasants,
plutocrats envy the poor, the guilty envy
the innocent; it’s the sheen on the silver
of smiles; the ripple on the waters of de-
light, the glint on the gold of gladness;
without.it humor would be dumb, with
would wither, dimples would, disappear
and smiles would shirye.Q , for it’s the
glow of a clean conscience, the voice of
a pure soul, the birth cry of mirth, the
swslu sons of sadness.
for all the necessary 'invitations to num.
bers of the various enteretainments in-
cident to the Mardi Gras festival- season.
Both of the .excellent jihodgrp restau-
rants of "The Grunewald;” which is con-
ducted on the European plan strictly,
will be open to the Tribune's guests for
their meals, and there will also be abun-
dant opportunity to try the different
quaint and interesting restaurants for
which this old city is so noted. No
pains will be spared by the management
of this celebrated hotel or the representa-
tive of the Tribune accompanying the
party to see that the entertainment dur-
ing the stay in New Orleans all that
could possibly be desired. To this both the
management of the hotel and this
are pledged.
From 'New Orleans to Havana, across
the Gulf of Mexico, the young lady whose
popularity is attested by the largest num-
ber of votes during the entire contest
will go, accompanied by a chaperon of
her own selection, in one of the Southern
Pacific’s most palatial steamers. These
floating palaces are excelled in grandeur
only by the great trans-Atlantic grey-
hounds, and the most fortunte young lady
who is delegated for this' grand trip, ac-
companied by her chosen friend; as the
guests of the Tribune, will have an oppor-
tunity of selecting the stateroom accom-
modations herself. The necessary /ar-
rangements for hotel accommodations in
the city of Havana are now pending and
will soon be announced, > but the high
standard that will characterize them can
be judged by the other arrangements for
this tour that have been detailed above.
The excellence^ of the “period” prizes
that will be distributed according to the
standing of the various candidates at the
close of voting next Saturday night is
fully attested by the high standing of the
several jewelry houses of this city from
which they have been purchased. The
first and fourth prizes were secured from
Salzmann’s, the second and fifth from
M. O. Nobbe & Co. and the third from
Migel’s. The name of either of these
houses is a sufficient guarantee of the
true value of the prizes furnished by ing of the directors of the Southern
, i ' ' f 1 «■* . -w '^2 —- —— X.! __ J. . f t
them.
The public has been kept fully advised
as to the rules for this portion of tha
contest that means so much to many of
the popular young ladies of this city.
While these period prizes are very val-
uable in themselves and would undoubt-
edly prove ample rewards were they of-
fered as the final prizes to the successful
contestants, they are but midway appe-
tisers for the great final award of the
grand trips that will be determined upon,
a month later.
1 906, BY
Chicago has discovered that 1100 labor-
ers hired to remove snow have been kept
on the pay rolls all summer. Not sur-
prised at that, it always feels like it is
going to snow in Chicago.
You will want to read it later if not now.
kett Ryuer lie
w^as now a rich man, r^>her by many
millions than he had dreamed he could •
ever be, but still he was unsatisfied.
He became money mad. He wanted
to be richer still, to bd the richest man
in the world, the richest man the world
had ever known. And the richer he got
the stronger the idea grew upon him
with all the force of a morbid obses-
sion.
Yet this commercial pirate, this Na-
poleon of finance, was not a w'hoily
bad man. He had his redeeming quali-
ties, like most bad men. His most pro-
nounced weakness, and the one that
had made him the most conspicuous
man of his time, was an entire lack of
moral principle. No honest or honor-
able man could have amassed such stu-
penclous^wealth. In other words, John
Ryder had not been equipped by na-
ture with a conscience. He, had no
sense of right or wrong or justice
where his own interests were concern-
ed. He was the prince of egoists. On
the other hand, he possessed qualities
which, with some people, count as
virtues. He was pious and regular in
his attendance at church, and, while he
had done but Little for charity, he
was known to have encouraged, the giv-
ing of alms-by members of his family,
which consisted of a wife,whose timid
voice was rarely heard, and a son Jef-
ferson, who was ths destined successor
of his gigantic estate.
Such was the man who was the real
power behind the Southern and Trans-
continental railroad. More, than any
one else Ryder had been aroused by
the present legal action, not so much
for the money interest at stake as that
any one should dare to, thwart his will.
It had l?een a pet scheme of his, this
purchase for a sang when the land was
cheap of some thousand acres along the
line, and it is true that at the*time of
the purchase there had been some idea
of laying the laud out as a park, but
real estate values had increased in as-
tonishing fashion, the road could no
longer afford to carry out the original
scheme and had attempted to dispose
of the property for building purposes,
including a right of way for a branch
road. The news, made public in the
newspapers, had, raised a storm of. pro-
■ test. The people in the vicinity claim-
ed that the railroad secured the land
on the express condition of a park be-
ing laid out, and in order to make a
legal test they had secured an injunc-
tion, which had. been sustained by
Judge Rossmore of the United States
circuit court.
These details were hastily tola ana
retold by one clerk to another as the
babel of voices in the inner room grew
louder and more diregtors kept arriv-
ing from the ever busy elevators. The
meeting was called for 3 o’clock. An-
other five minutes and the chairman
would rap for order. A tall, strongly
built man with white mustache and
kindly smile emerged from the direc-
tors’ room and, addressing one of the
clerks, asked:
“Has Mr. Ryder arrived yet?”
The alacrity with which the em-
ployee hastened forward to reply would
indicate that his interlocutor was a
person of more than ordinary impor-
tance.
“No, senator, not yet. We expect
him any minute.” Then with a defer-
ential smile he added, “Mr. Ryder usu-
ally arrives on the stroke, sir.”
The senator gave a nod of acquies-
cence and, turning on his heel, greeted
with a grasp of the hand and affable
smile his fellow directors as they pass-
ed in by twos and threes.
Senator Roberts was in the world of
politics what his friend John Burkett
Ryder was in the world of finance—a
leader of men. He started life'in Wis-
consin as an errand boy, was educated
and later became
G. W. DILLINGHAM
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