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BETTY GREEN’S SON
He Lo ks Very Carefully After His
Mother's Interest.
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HE BEGAN AT THE VERY BOTTOM
But Has Worked Himself Up to a Berpon
llbe and Honorable Business
and Social Position.
[Special Correspondence.)
Dallas, Dec. 20.—Tipped baqlc in
his armchair, with cigar rolling from
one side of his rows of white teeth tq
the other while he quietly but keenly
surveys the visitor through his eye
glasses, Edward H. R. Green looks
more like a New York traveling man on
his first trip than a railroad president.
This is when he is “dressed up,” with
immaculate shirt front, from which a
big solitaire flashes, perfectly fitting
coat and vest, razor creased trousers,
with glossy patent leathers as a fitting
climax to his toilet. But you may meet
him in a suit of dirty blue overalls ex
amining some part of a locomotive or
superintending repair work in the round
house of his line far out on the prairie
land of northeast Texas. He is an “all
round man, ’ ’ as railroaders say, a sort
of Pooh Bah, who can do and is liable
to be doing anything from president at
a directors’ meeting to running a new
locomotive on its trial trip.
Mr. Green is a remarkable man and
the only son of a remarkable woman.
Mrs. Hetty Green, supposed to be the
richest widow in America, is a familiar
figure in New York and New Orleans,
visiting brokers’ officesclad in a shabby
dress and carrying a faded cotton um
brella, which has now been immortal
ized in newspaper sketches. Vainly en
deavoring to conceal her identity, she
has made herself a conspicuous object
in the metropolis.. The fact that she has
a son is unknown to many of her ac- ’
quaintances, hut she has one, and he is
truly a self made man. You would know
he was a New Yorker at the first glance.
He has that decided manner of the great
city which tells you he is purely busi
ness and nothing else. His attitude to
ward visitors, while frank and hearty,
is so identical with the hustling broker
of Wall street that the caller is im
pressed with the fact that Mr. Green
has no time to waste or words either.
His life in Texas has also given him
some of the bluff heartiness of the cat
tleman and the ranch owner, although
it is free from coarseness. He is certain
ly a curious combination of the two sec
tions of the country which have formed
his surroundings and is one of the few
men who can suit themselves to all sit
uations and who can gain the friend
ship of a bank president or a section
hand with equal facility.
The honor of being the youngest rail
road president in the world has not been
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HOWARD H. B. GREEN.
long enjoyed by Mr. Green. He had to
climb a stepladder to reach the position,
and the rounds were far apart. Here is
the story of a part of his career as told
by an intimate friend—and he does not
deny it. He graduated from Fordham
college in New York state, not with any
special honors, as he had gone there for.
a “good time,” in the slang phrase, and
though naturally bright had not given
many hours to books. His taste of the
gay world as a college-student was but
partly satisfied.
He wanted to travel, and hie mother
turned over $12,000 to him for expenses.
At the end of three months he returned
with a half dollar to his credit. He had
spent about SI,OOO per week, but he
had gained considerable experience of
the world outside college walls for a
youth of 20. He asked his mother to se
cure him a position. The keen old lady
knew that small beginnings sometimes
have great endingsand she “started ’’’
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a single application of Cuticuba (oint
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PIMPLY FACES PUr 'ct?ricUKA , ’sOAP. br '
him as a foreman dh a" railroad in New
England in which she was interested.
His salary was $45 a month—nbout 4
per cent of his former weekly allow
ance. He entered upon the work and at
the end of the month had managed to
spend his salary and contract as much
more in debts. He asked his mother by
telegraph if she would settle the debts.
The reply came back, “Not one cent,”
but, as he has since acknowledged, this
treatment was what he needed. By
rigid economy he succeeded in paying
his indebtedness at the end of three
months and as a reward he was appoint
ed division superintendent, with SIOO
per month. In this position he acquired
practical ideas concerning all parts of a
railroad and when he left the hills of
Vermont and entered the service of the
Pullman Car company, also as a division
superintendent, young Green was able
to do almost anything required of a rail
way employee. About three years ago
Mrs. Green found that she needed some
one to look after a couple of what might
then be called “fragments” of a line in
the “black, waxy country” of Texas,
nearly 500 miles northwest of New
Orleans. Owing to litigation the road
had been separated into two parts, and
as trains were stopped at the division
point, the system depending merely on
the business from way stations, it was
rapidly accumulating debts. Here was
a chance for the college boy. He went
out and took charge and today has one
of the best paying railroads in the
southwest, and one which is a model in
every respect. It is not very long at
present—only 125 miles—but it has a
roadbed equal to any in this country,
on which are laid 70 pound steel rails,
over which trains of Pullman cars
drawn by powerful locomotives and il
luminated and, in fact, heated by elec
tric apparatus are operated at a speed
that sends them from one terminal to
the other within two hours.
But the railroad is only one of the
matters for which Mr. Green is respon
sible. Step by step has he progressed
until he now has charge of all his moth
er’s interests that are west of the Mis
sissippi river, and they are understood
to amount to $20,000,000, of which one
half is in California. This necessitates
his taking several trips a year to the
Pacific coast
Terrell, his home, is one of the mod
el towns of Texas, and this is largely
due to Mr. Green’s efforts. Ho is fond
of fine horses and frequently in the
evening takes a drive behind a pair of
trotters over some of the paved streets
which were put down mainly through
his influence. He is interested in most
of the local banks, has donated funds
for several charitable and educational
institutions and has made the Texans
feel that he is one of them, even if he
has control of a score of millions.
And he is still unmarried. Although
when Mrs. Green dies be will share
fully $50,000,000 with hie sister Syl
via, he has no ambition to have a yacht
race on the sea of matrimony. Bachelor
life seems to have the greatest charm
for him, and it is a fact that the only
female photograph -in his quarters is
that of his sister, of whom he is very
fond. Occasionally she takes a trip out
to this prairie laud of the Lone Star
State and visits “Brother Ned,’’who
has christened one of the towns he
founded Sylvia as her namesake.
D. Allen Willey.
A Clever Trick.
It certainly looks like it, but there is
really no trick about it. Anybody can
try it who has Lame Back and Weak
Kidneys, Malaria or nervous troubles.
We mean he cm cure himself right
away by taking Electric Bitters. This
medicine tones up the whole system,
acts as a stimulent to the Liver and
Kidneys, is a blood purifier and nerve
tonic. It cures Constipation, Headache,
Fainting Spells, Sleeplessness and Mel
ancholy. It is purely vegetable, a mild
laxative, and restores the system to its
natural vigor. Try Electric Bitters and
be convinced that they are a miracle
worker. Everv bottle guaranteed, Only
500 a bottle at Curry-Arrington Com
pany’s Drug Store.
THE HOLIDAYS.
Mr. Munkittrlck Meditate, on Their
Amenities.
[Special Correspondence.]
Summit N. J., Dec. 21.—The occa
sional vagrant snowflake pirouetting
through the silent ashen air' of the sil
ver drab day tells us that Christmas ie
again almost on hand. There is a feel
ing of Christmas in the air that is as
unmistakable as the real meaning of
the pedagogue’s politeness to you on
the street when he is aware of the fact
that you have a small boy that will
shortly be sufficiently ripe to go to
school. The shop window is now the
thing that is looked into by the young
woman as though it were a looking
glass, and it is a common thing for
some women to exhaust an hour in trav
eling over the short distance of a block
on which six or eight stores are located.
But even as the woman gazes upon
the diamond ring, the sealskin sack and
the suspended rug so does the small
boy gaze long and fondly upon the
latest toys that have been invented to
make him happy, and where one boy is
gazing into. the shop window there are
about 20 companions helping him, and
their remarks are critical and full of
color. They form such a mob around
the window and doorway of the toy
store that the proprietor, instead of be
ing pleased rind delighted, has to step
out and threaten to send for a police
man if they do not pass on.
The plumber is composed of one great
smile, and it is easy to conclude that he
regards the world not as his oyster, but
as his burst boiler. As he passes along
the street every wayside tree is a Christ
mas tree that showers presents in his
lap. His soldering iron is a scepter, and
he is as happy as a king. He can tell by
the sensation of the wind on his nose
and ears just how his patrons’ pipes aro
standing the atmospheric test. By stick-
THE ROME TRIBUNE. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER SI, 18V7.
ing his head out of th6 window just De- j
fore retiring for the night he can make
the finest kind of. a calculation upon the
disasters of the night and what they I
will yield him, and on this calculation
he decides upon the amount of money |
that he will be warranted in spending
on a Christmas present. The only kind
of a Christmas that he does not like is a
warm one, in which respect his thoughts
are identical with those of the coal deal
er, who is longing to replace the flesh
lost through the summer.
Every man thinks the particular thing i
in which he deals is just the thing for
a Christmas present. Even the barber
tells you a bottle of bay rum is the
thing of things with the same face that
a publisher employs in speaking of a
luxuriously illustrated edition of a hun
dred copies of “Keats” on Japanese pa
per. And the barber’s boy has posted
his Christmas box in the most conspicu
ous place in the whole shop, and he
cannot understand how it is that a regu
lar customer can pass it, as one fre
quently does, without seeing it. The
waiters in the various restaurants are
never so ostentatiously polite at any
other time of the year as they are now.
They smile upon you as though you
were a wealthy relative. They do not
keep you waiting half an hour for your
food. They see that you get a choice
cut, and never brush the crumbs from
the table into your lap or gayly toss the
check into your coffee. The rector’s
wife is capering around gathering shek
els to trim the tree and make every
small boy and girl feel as haughty as a
plumber or a fashionable dressmaker.
And the tree is seen everywhere—in the
shop window and on the street, where
it is dispensed for a dime. Sprigs of it
decorate the head of the equine that
pulls the bobtailed cur as he flies over
the shining pave like a courier of Christ
mas. The picture of Santa Claus kangs
averywhere, even in the bazaar of the
barber, who is so full of love and grati
tude at this festive season that he for
gets that St. Nicholas persists in wear- j
ing a long, full beard that he neither ;
trims inn dyes, hot rather lets it g > its •
Jwuwuj —as white as the Christmas
aitowi rift, as white as the Christmas ;
goose. R. K. Munkittrick.
Christmas Grect’ngs.
The Cnristmas spirit is crowding out
afl other thoughts these days, and the
glorious unselfishness es “peace on earth
and good will io men” will within the
next week, take possession of every one.
Tre hard times, whic£ are never
more felt than at Christmas time, are no
longer heard of, and the appearance of
all the Broad street stores indicates a
heavy Christmas trade. One great dan
ger in Christmas shopping is leaving
things until too late. One is apt to think
that prices will be reduced toward the
last, and the consequence is that what
one wants is gone, and you will have to
chase around and fiid a cheap substi
tute.
If yon are wise, and see an article you
want, it is best to buy it at once, for as
sure as it is left on the counter to be re
duced, some one else will come along
and carry it off.
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At a meeting of young ladies (domes
tically inclined) last week, one girl was
painting an exquisite gift for one of her
golf loving friends—a score book, on a
pale blue satin cover, painted in white
violets. The book was attached to blue
satin ribbons, which were to be worn
at the belt, and a small pencil finished
the gift. The score book can be removed
when it is full and a fresh one substi
tuted. These scores are always interest
ing souvenirs.
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When one is buying a Christmas gift
for each] member of the family and
many friends, she must not imagine
that the custom is entirely an out
growth of the Christian church. The
custom is older than Christianity. New
festivals were not invented by the
Christians, but pagan ones were altered
to suit the occasion.
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“What on earth to’give a man?” is
an agonizing cry that comes from many
women. Married men must submit to
receiving anything for the house; pillow
shams, lambrequins and lace curtains
are to be enthused over and paid for as
a token of affection from a devoted wife,
but few women enjoy, as a Christmas
gift, anew range, a book case for the
busband’s law books or such things.
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Women all love personal gifts, and so
do men, if the truth is to be told. If
nothing else, gloves are a nice present
for a man, handkerchiefs or neckties.
It is happiness to think of the joy that
is coming to the children and the an
nual visit of old Santa Claus. Their
eyes dance with joy and pleasure and
they spent the afternoon’s in the stores
and go home at night to dream of sugar
plums. This is one time in the year
when every one is thinking ot some one
else; when everything is unselfishness.
Especially is this true of tbe children of
the household. Every kind and loving
parent has laid away some secret treas
ure for their loved little ones. Many
new toys are seen in the local shops.
Biliousness
Is caused by torpid liver, which prevents diges
tion and permits food to ferment and putrify in
the stomach. Then follow dizziness, headache,
Hood’s
insomina, nervousness, and, _
If not relieved, bilious fever KTm - H ■
or blood poisoning. Hood’s 111
Pills stimulate the stomach, ■ ■■ ■
rouse the liver, cure headache, dizziness, con
stipation. etc. 25 cents. Sold by ail druggists.
The only Pills to take with Hood's Sarsaparilla.
Catarrh to
Consumption
Catarrh invariably leads to consump
tion. Growing worse and worse each
winter, those who rely upon the usual
treatment of sprays, washes and inhal
ing mixtures find that it is impossible
to check the disease with these local
applications which only reach the sur
face. The offensive discharge increases .
all the while, and gets deeper until it is
only a question of a short time when
the lungs are affected.
The importance of the proper treat
ment can therefore be readily appre
ciated. But no good whatever can be
expected from local applications, as
such treatment never did cure Catarrh,
and never will. Being a blood disease
of the most obstinate nature, Swift’s
Specific (S.S.S.) is the only remedy
which can have the slightest effect upon
Catarrh. It is the only blood remedy
that goes down to the bottom of all stub
born diseases which other remedies
i-annot reach.
Mrs. Josephine Polhill, of Due West,
S. C., writes:
“I had such a severe case of
Catarrh that I lost my hearing in one
ear, and part of the bone in my nose
sloughed off. J was constantly treated
with sprays and
washes, but each
f winter the dsease
VEa seemed to have a
firmer hold on me.
aZ I had finally been
declared incurable
when I decided to
trY s - s - s - H
kCWWoF ’ seeme d to g etr *gkt
'till Off o £
disease, and cured me permanently,
for I have had no touch of Catan h
for seven years.”
The experience of Mr. Chas. A. Parr,
of Athens, Ga., was like that of all
others who vainly seek a cure in local
treatment. He says:
“For years I suffered from a severe
ease of Catarrh, the many offensive
symptoms being ac- xAMtek.
cbmpanied by severe jw vsaPfjk
pains in the head. I ■ ' A
cook several kinds of Jr
medicines recoin- tj
mended for Catarrh, x-
ind used various local j
ipplications, but they
fiad no effect whatev
sr. I was induced
:ake S. S. S. (Swift’s
Specific) and after four months I was
perfectly well, and have never felt any
effects of the disease since.”
Those who have had the first
touchof Catarrh will save endless suf
fering by taking the right remedy at the
outset. Others who have for years
sought relief and found only disappoint
ment in local treatment will find it wise
to waste no further time on sprays,
washes, inhaling mixtures, etc., which
are only temporary, and cannot save
them from dreaded Consumption.
They should take a remedy Which will
cure them because it can reach their
trouble. S.S.S. is the only blood reme
dy which can reach Catarrh; it promptly
gets at the very bottom of the disease,
and cures it permanently.
S.S.S. (Swift’s Specific) is a real blood
remedy, and cures the most obstinate
cases of Catarrh, Rheumatism, Conta
gious Blood Poison, Cancer, Scrofula
and Eczema, which other so-called blood
remedies have no effect upon whatever.
S.S.S. is the only blood remedy guaran
teed
Purely Vegetable
and contains no mercury, potash oi
other dangerous mineral.
Books will be mailed free by Swiss
Specific Company, Atlanta, Georgia.
SSOO Reward!
WE will pay the above reward for any case of
Liver Complaint. Dyspepsia, Sick Headache In
digestion Constipation or Costiveness we cannot
cure with West’s Vegetable Liver Pills, when
the directions are strictly complied with. Thev
are purely Vegetable, aud never fail to give sat
isfaction. Sugar Coated. Large boxes, 25 cents
Beware of counterfeits and imitations. The gen
uine manufactured only by THE JOHN C. WEST
COMPANY. CHICAGO, ILL.
For sale by Curry-Arrington Co.
The Rosy Freshness I
And a velvety softness of the skin is inva- I
riably obtained by those who use Pozzoni’b I
Complexion Powder. f
VIM, VIGOR. VITALITY
RESTORED
JO DAYS.
Good Effects at Once.
CATON’S VITALIZES ,
Cures general special debility, wakefulness,
spermatorrhoea, emissions, impotenty, pare
sis, etc. Corrects functional disorders, caused
by errors or excesses, quickly restoring Lost
Manhood in old or young, giving vigor and
strength where former weakness prevailed
Convenient package, simple, effectual, and
legitimate.
The Cure is duick and Thorough.
Don't be deceived by imitations: insist on
CATON’S Vitalizers. Sent sealed jf your
druggist does not have it. Price $1 per pkge,
6 for $5, with written guarantee of complete
cure. Information, references, etc., free and
confidential.. Send us statement of case and
25 cts. for a week’s trial treatment. One only
sent to each person.
CATON MED. CO.. Boston, Mash.
M. A. THEDFORD’S
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Stomach Appetite
None Genuine Without The Likeness Ano
fiIONATURE OFM.A.THEDFORO ON FroNTOP
acn Wrapper. M.A.Theoford Meo.@-
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AT COST SALES
Retiring from Business or another kind of sales are not
in it when compared to the sale’ we will make in
THE NEXT THIRTY DAYS!
Suits, Overcoats and Trousers
Choice of any suit in our house for sl2 50.
They are worth from $16.00 to $20.00.
150 Good All-Woolen Suits,
new and stylish patterns, for
$6.50, worth $10,00!
Our Entire Line of Trousers
at prices that have never been matched in Rome,
We don’t intend to carry over any winter clothing and are determined
to make this the biggest sale ot big bargains ever seen
in Rome. Come and see us,
J. A. GAMMON & CO.,
New Stock of Short Pant Suits just Received,
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Your Physician Aims
To put all his knowledge, experience and skill into
the prescription he writes. It is an o r der for the
combination of remedies ycur case demands.
Pure and Reliable.
He cannot rely on results unless the ingredients are
pure and reliable and are properly compounded.
Bring your prescriptions to the
ROME PHARMACY,
Where is carried one of the best stocks of drugs in
town, and a complete line of Squibbs’ Shemicais for
prescription use. Everything of the purest quality
that money can buy or experience select
Prescriptions compounded
By a careful and experienced prescriptionist.
Everything at reasonable prices.
ROME PHARMACY,
309 Clark Building, Broad Street, Rome, Ga.
Economy Is The Road to Wealth!
Another route to Klondike!
By having your
Buggies, Carriages and Wagons
BUILT BY
H. J. KLASING’S.
Repair work’done promptly. If your horses don’t
travel right, give him a call. Corner South Broad and
Cemetery streets, Fifth ward.
JOHN H. REYNOLDS. President. B. I. HUGHES, Cashier.
P. H. HARDIN, Vice-President.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
HOME, GEORGIA.
Capital and Surplus $300,000-
All Accommodations Consistent With Safe Banking Ex
tended to Our Customers.
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