TWO MILLIONAIRES.
STRIKING CONTRAST. NEW YORK, Oct. 2. Two millionaires are the central figures in the new stories to-dav. Edward Washburn, an aged multi-million-aire ice manufacturer, who had been missing for » week, was found' acting as clerk in a grocer’s store at 20 •dollars (£4) a week. He refused to return home, saying: “My children treated me like a dog. I will never return to them. I have given them my fortune. They care more for it than for me.” Fifteen years ago William McGuirk drove a milk waggon and earned 10 dollars (£2 10s) a week. He married Loretta Lannigan, one of his customers. At that time be said: “Some, day we will have money, and then we wiil take our honeymoon.” He sold his milk waggon and bought an old taxi-cab. Now he owns 1800 cabs, and his earnings in the last three years have been 3,000,000 dollars (£600,000). To-day he and his wife occupied the finest suite on the steamship Mauretania, sailing on the long-deferred honevmoon.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 25 October 1924, Page 14
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