FORTUNE-MAKING IDEAS.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXXXIV, Issue 55, 15 June 1908, Page 1

FORTUNE-MAKING IDEAS.

Chance brought me *h« wattaintauoi the other day of a whose invention's , enioy _, a Jwjg*g YrfrkJ correspondent of 'St. James ■ K&t? oTwouKT hardly^hvnllM away in the corner of what was onjt the Wantial home of. a prosperow New York merchant, but is now a newaoffice in the down-town busing quarter of the city, w the cradU» «ad minti of pttMies/»nd conundrums ttat wa«k thV brains of ao many millions. But Mr Sam Loyd, now close upon ha seventieth year, makerof several fortunes from ingenious seolutabn advantageous, . Hi. "fin, with : its ourious mathematical bent, is « fertile a. ever. ITtho him ito construot a chess P*f£* °* trac* some peculiar pr<>P<«^f r f &£s& *t; ' fram* a pusxle, or set a W» fcrjta fascination of young and /„. thori are some days in which n»J> a » r with!equal facility turn out any or all ofths. was Dlaying chess with Mdrpny. UW problem was adjudged the £"*•*•• toy he went to the Bchool kepVby Dr Houghton, tho founder of^ "ft e fotfb Church Round the Corner, a -Rvw 1 York institution. The master offered, a . IpriS for the\est work. The design sent in by Lloyd, 1 which won, threw into the.shade the iworf of tne Vanderbilts of the elder : generation, and of James Gordon Beni Sett! who we-among his schoolfellows. Lloyd. is ; r , ; reconstruct that pusrie of "hu boyhood. - He told me it took him a week before -■ he hit upon the original device. Before heWaeSwerfyonefof had I netted hiin ; »■ wnsideraWe-sum, of . ! money with which'to * : Se* of the "Donkey Pusisle," in .its : firstj conation, a disjointed• pony.-JJ: < gested itself after a. Enfidand. , : Andia vivid impression of the Wnite ; Hor o whkh n/rks King Alfred's vie--1 torv over the Danes «.*«■% ™ • -Tfgs in Clover Pu«le'' the, Chmamen? Gettinte off the Earth, *°* nirl in Ann ?" and a hundred other ' SX mysteries of less fame were to Follow in due course, supplemented by manV Mechanical turf. Mr Lloyd does not attribute thisf power of pu«le-making toi any abnormal faculty. Anyjhild's mind, he Relieves, can be trained by the mental igvtnnastics of Tuwdes to graspa nofie of »^ m^ v ft ■ front which the average boy of tenturns in disgust when m lifeless ■Shoolrttles. He has little patience with method of teaching SratS, if they'become »-■ Vt tions, as they promise, to do with wita Bharpened by recreative, puzsles, wffl bHtttor able than, their.fathers to keeb abreast with the rapid advance of ecience and the development of stupendous'industries. .. , , ,r B - + '^ Seven of the newest and best theatres in New York were built by a speculator who* jumped into a fortune by t a piece of shrewd political forecasting. Mr D. BelaWs Stuyvesant Theatre, opened last 1 autumn, in, convenience, stage equipment, r and decoration, cornea roar, peVfeefcion a^Ming;to the-.nioA. ■ modern ideas of theatrical building construction. And the Astor is another pretty little house -Not agreeable seatholding capacity. The builder, of the theatres was not a professsional theatneal architect, but in his later years displayed a positive.genius for practical execution of .theatre designs. His reputation; however, and thej>opular nickname he bore. "Bim, the* Button .Man; . were 1 gained in a totally different sphere. Meyer Bimberg; as a young dabbled in politics in the east side! district of New York, where ho , was'born. He was sent as a delegate to the St. Louis National Republican,, Convention which nominated McKinley for President and Hobart for Viee-Pre-si.lent. He had got a •'tip'.' that the? would bo chosen, an din anticipht v a ho i h* t ijoo,ooo i>utton!F '-ado btfaf iuc tHoir i photrgraphs. Everyone, at. the Ojm \ nation; fastened one in hisbuttonholo, and the campaign photo.-button became a» institution. Bimberg managed ti Keep the monopoly in his increasjnfr tho fortune it created for him by picturing ~" on a button Mr Roosevelt in Rider uniform, when, as. Lioutenant* Coldnel, he brought back his, regiment from the war in Cuba, and wis ab.mt to become a candidate for tJie Governorship of New York State. After that ! "Bim's" buttons, were a feature of. every national and State election of 353portance { and he seldom failed to •p'iek the winner. He was just as stun' ■ees«6il in meeting'the public demand for more theatres in.the theatrical district proper of New York, as well as in ■ tho • suburbs. . ,- - • /