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= Belletonte, Pa, November 15, 1942. |
Financier Made $19.000 Stock Deal for
Samue! Ward. Whe Hada Cared
for Him When He
Was li
Sy E. 4. EDWARDS
The «te Samue Ward, by marrtage
a mem: or of the Astor family. uncle of
the inte ¢ Marion Crawford and the
mspiration which led Crawicrd to
write ni first novel, “Mr Isancs.” was
aman of the world in the best sense of |
the term Probab no other man in |
the United States im nis day numbered
among fis personal irfends =o many
distinguished men of affairs. politieat
and business
One 1esult of this extensive and con
fidential acqualntanceship was that
Mr. Wara had manv exciting and truly
sensational experiences from time to
time: out what he declared to me was |
his strangest, most unexpectes and’
happiest experience befell him one
day when | was with him. it is a story
that involves and sheds an interesting
light os a wellknown man ot to-day,
and, so tar a» 1+ know. it has never’
been ola a print until) now
The day alter James R Keene sup-|
ported. single-hanued and sphins-like,
the stock murket against the terrific
asasnits that were made upon it in the
panic days ot 1877, and supported it
trim phantly, the paysical reaction n-
cident io the great strain under which |
Mr Keene nad lajred was so swift |
and overwhelming that he sank into a
state m collapse. His family was in!
Europe, tor it was midsummer. and he |
was living in apartments in one of the
uptown rotels of New York. He was!
perilousiy near brain fever and he had |
no companions except those whose
services were professional Mr Ward |
found him ir that isolation and at onee
took entire charge or him, watching |
over him, looking alter his business |
matters, and at last accompanying him |
to Long Hranch, whither he was sent |
by his pnysician to recuperate
It became my duty to go to long |
Branch, to ob.uain from Mr. Keene tor |
publication his views upon business |
and mcrey conditions Still in bed, |
and well supjortes. by pillows, he
spent some five nours dictating and |
then revising his statement, Mr Ward |
meanwhne passing in and out of the |
room many times He was to go to |
New York on the iate afternoon hoat |
the one which | planned taking to ex-
ecute some conmissions for Mr |
Keene As he was leaving the room |
for the ast time Mr Keen handed |
him an envelope which was addressed |
to Mr. Ward himse... “Sam,” he said, !
“dont open that urtil you ger upon the '
boat.”
Soon atte) the steamboat had start |
ed trom the Sandy took pier Mr. Ward |
took the envelope from his pocket. |
“You wil excuse me it | oper this let- |
ter,” ae said “Mr. Keene, | presume, |
bas some n:essage or commission for |
me wo undertake.”
Mr. Ward unfolded the inclosure,
gave «. nasty glance at it and held it
out to me with a hand whose steadi- |
ness was ciearly upset by the sreat
surprise that showed in his face
| touk the paper it was a statement |
from a certain firm of brokers showing
that some weeks previously Mr Ward |
bad tought of them a large block of '
railroad stock that the stock had been
sold a day or twe before the statement
was nailed, that commissions and in-
terest were charged, and that there re.
mained a balance to Mr. Ward's
credit v1 $19,000, for which a check
was ‘neiwsed.
It was my turn to be puzzied Why
should Mr. Ward show so great sur
prise over » matter that he knew
about? He saw my perplexity
“Here 1s the check all right—§19.000
~—and | never dreamed of it,” he ex
claimed. ‘I thought that | knew every
detail of Mr. Keene's business since he
has beer sick, but | realize now that
1 didn’t This is what he has done for
me, unknown to me. He ordered his
brokers 0 buy and carry for me this
block o1 stock when the price of it per
share was much lower than it is now.
and then at the proper time he ordered
them to sell the stock and send me a
statement and a check for the bal
ance.’
“Weil, that's Mr. Keene's way of do-
ing -nings, ne added. “I suppose he
felt grateful to me for doing what any
friend would have done for him under
like cacumstances, without a thought
of remuneration of any sort But—
whew! tha: $19,000 is a good bit of
money.” Anau slowly and thoughtfully
paper safely away in an inside pocket.
I gave often wondered what passed
between Mr. Ward and Mr. Keene
when they were together again But,
as Kipling would say, that 's another
story
(Copyright, 190, by E. J. Edwards.)
Anecdote of Andrew Johnson.
Andrew Johnson's Democracy—his
political cleverness—appears in an
anecdote narrated in Harper's by Mrs.
H. C. Turner, the daughter of old
friends of the Tennessee governor.
About a year before the civil war
Judge Pepper, who had been a black:
smith before he became a lawyer, sent
Johnson a set of fire irons, which he
bad made himself, and the governor
presently sent the judge a coat which
he had made himself. When he told
my mother the incident she said:
“Did you really make the coat, gov-
ernor?”
“1 put some stitches In it,” be said;
“Pepper shouldn't get ahead of me
with the people When | was a tailor |
wns u good one.
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Deputy Prosecutor Fred McCallister
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tures to his purpose. He was making
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the case of the state against two young
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ing: “At Jeffersonville there are
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pared a place for these young men
there. If it were not so I would have
told you.” The young men were sent
to the reformatory~Indianapolis
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