CULLED PROM VARIOUS SOURCES.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 17586, 2 June 1919, Page 8

CULLED PROM VARIOUS SOURCES.

Russell Sage, one of New York's most remarkable mone.v makers and financiers, was typical of a class of succe.>siul men which has had at on e time or another representatives in every city of importance in the United Stat^ a class to which .-.oney getting ratfi'sv than money having has been the- mv.n oi'joctive. H« began business for himself as a small grocer, greiw to be a partner in a whoUsole house, and, foi* sonio mysterious reason, dabbled' for a time in local and even in national politics In his'own ti»e he did little tor inybody or anything wi\h his great fortune, but he placed not a single restrictive condition on ci-' use which his wile to whom he left it all, might think, proper to make of it, although he hal ieason to know 'hat she would let it gc n great deal faster than he had acquired it. On© cf her first benefactions was the establishment of what has conip to be Known as the Russell Sago Foundation. To this he made :i single gift of 10,000,000 dol., following it up with millions of dollars for Russell Sage Foundation Homes and the- building of a model town at Forest Hills Gardens, Long Island. She divided millions oi dollars among educational institutions, such a s the F.mma Willard School, the Reusselaer Polytechnic School, Co~ncl and Princeton Association, ani o her institutions of like character. Th.- list is a long ona, and bequests recently made public havo doubled its original length. Mrs. Sage seems to havo been impelled from first to last, hy the idea of making the Russell Sago millions so beneficial to her fellow men and women that {here might be found justification for rhe manner of their accumulation.

People who give commissions to obliging friends to purchase articles for them ought to put up the caf<h beforehand, as a rule. An Irish priest wno was going to Rome wa g besieged i>y many friends to oi.y things for them in th<- Holy City. He had the foregoing rule in mind. When he returned, l;e brought the ar Lic!«<s for those who had paid for them in advance. When tha others complained, he said, with a wine :

" -"While I was at sea, I got out all the commissions and Fpread them on tho deck. On the papers of those who ha<{ given me the coin I put the money. The others had nothing to weight them down. A squall c* wind came up. 't blew all the unweighted papers into the sea! So the on?,s who gave me tho money got what they asked me to ge*The others mtfsit ssk Father Neptu-ie for theirs."

One of the multitude of Parliamentary candidates ha 3 had the misfortune To lose both legs." writes the "DaJy Chronicle." Many years ago there was an Irish member, Mr. Kavanagh, who bad neither legs nor arms. He triumphed over his disabilities with marvellous success and courage, riding and mountaineering, and mMiiinj light of all difficulties. By special permission, a man servant used to carry the hon. member into the House and deposit *nim on tiie bench. A peer, jwho was unable to st'ind. wns several years ago accords! iho privilege of addressing their Lor-:1----ships sitting. As for blind mefmbe.'s, one recalls not only Henry Fawcett, hut Dr. T. RobertFon and Mr. W. A Macdonald. The latter lived a long way out of town, nnd always had a companion to escort him to St. Stephen's In his later years Viscount Midlcton's eypsicht failed, an I he, too, hat? to he helped in the discharge of his Parliamentary duties.

The romantic story of a young Swiss vaiter who rose to become tho mcut famous hotel proprietor in the wond was told at %c annual meeting of the Carl ton Hotel Ltd. It was announced that Mr. Caesar .lVtz. rhe founder 0 the London hotel which bears his name, died in Lausanne on 26th October. Mr. Ritz. who retinyd from business ten years ago, on aeeoiint of ill-health, began his working life as a waiter. "It h n story of wonderhi; progress," said fie manager of "he Ritz Hotel. "Mr. Ritz had no greater opportunities than otlvr boys <vf his ace 1 rid station but 'ie was ambitious. He worked hard in Switzerland and France, saving all ha fouJd. F.ventualU- ho secured the post of manager of the Hote-I Victoria in San Remo, in Itaiv, where he was most successful. Hei went from there to Monto Carlo, nnd afterwards to Paris and Lille. It was he who created tho hotel de luxe. The Ritz Ho^el in Lonwas founded by mm, and he wa s the £rst< Tn.lnn.2in2 director of the Carlton Hotel, which remains one of the most exclusive hotels in existence."

A New York Biitie student finds th*t tho armis; ice was Jgnod at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh nienth of the year, and tih»fc "he eleventh verse of file eleventh chapter of the elovenrh book of th© Bible reals (hus concerning an ancient kin"?. The passage has a present-day application;

. . . Foramuch ■. s thi> is done of thee, ■.•ml fhou has kept m> covenant and my -statues, which I h:\vn commanded thee, F will surely rend the kingdom from th^e. and will civ« it to thy servant.

Senator Smith. (; f Georgia, is reports'! to have introducer] this anecdote is part «f fn affer-dinner speoeh :—"G-^r-mnn militarism pet out to overrun the m-o"M. Before tha disn^ers thnt h.ire Vfnllen it. however. German m'litnrism must now ho feeliprr a goorl donl like Ca. fW. Olhom Clay.'of *>Ji;nt Rook wa<? fishing for tarpon in TTlorida. aTV ] H" Jwikr'l .-tHi a hirr nno tihaf it nuU'-rl Iv-r-i n-r-evKoarfl. A* Cal w»*ni L over tho «u]r, of th" V>nf rml tor^ thnviofh ihn vn+rr in fho tarpon's w.oke. he s.ii'l, 'W]ifl+ Ak irnTTs tO UITUr l<? rIU ie rjfs nitrrrnh a-fishin'. or dis fish .i-niggerin'!'