Norman Democrat--Topic. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 33, Ed. 1 Friday, March 4, 1910 Page: 3 of 8
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John km Am
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• >HN JACOB AS-
lor was born of a
Dutch family that
had migrated
down to Heidel-
berg from Ant-
werp. Through
some strange freak
of atavism the fa-
ther of the boy bred back and was
more or less of a stone age cave
dweller. He was a butcher by
trade, iu the little town of Waldorf,
a few miles from Heidelberg. A
butcher's business then was to
travel around and kill the pet pig
or sheep or cow that the tender-
hearted owners dare not harm. The
butcher was a pariah, a sort of un-
official industrial hangman.
John Jacob Astor was the young-
est of four sons and as many daugh-
ters. The brothers ran away early
In life and went to sea or joined
the army. One of these boys came
to America and followed his father's
trade of butcher.
Jacob Astor, the happy father of
John Jacob, used to take the boy
with hirn on his pig killing expedi-
tions. This for two reasons—one,
bo the lad would learn a trade, and
the other to make sure that the boy
did not run away.
The pastor of the local Lutheran
church took pity on this boy. who
had such disgust for Mb father's
£
ork in his
That night John
wan light of the
trade, and hired hin#
garden and run errand!.
Under the kindly care of the vil-
lage parson John Jacob grew in
mind and body—his estate was to
eome later. When he was 17 his fa-
ther came to the parsonage and
made a formal demand for his ser-
vices Thogpnung man ftiust take
up his father's work of butchering
Jacob walked out of Waldorf by the
ITri'fCM('( Vi°i ^"tWerp- carried a big red hand-
kerchief, in which his worldly goods were knotted.
Inhnn ?i! J v'intwerp in a week. There he got a
Job on the docks as a laborer. The next day he was
promoted to checker-off. The captain of a ship asked
to„g" London and figure up the manifests on the
way He went.
The captain of the ship recommended him to the
company in London and the boy was piling up wealth at
the rate of a guinea a month.
In September, 1783, came the news to London that
George Washington had surrendered. In any event
peace had been declared—Corn wall is had forced the
issue, so the Americans had stopped fighting.
A little later it was given out that England had
given up her American colonies and they were free.
Intuitively John Jacob Astor felt that the "new world"
was the place for him. He bought passage by a sailing
Fhip bound for Baltimore, at a cost of five pounds. He
then fastened five pounds in a belt around his waist and
with the rest of his money—after sending two pounds
home to his father, with a letter of love—bought a dozen
German flutes.
He had learned to play on this instrument with pro-
ficiency and in America ho thought there would be an
opening for musicians and musical instruments.
John Jacob was then nearly 20 years of age.
On board ship he met a German. 20 years older than
himself, who was a fur trader and had been home on a
visit. John Jacob played the flute and the German friend
told stories of fur trading among the Indians.
Young Astor's curiosity was excited. The Waldorf-
Astoria plan of flute playing was forgotten. He fed on
fur trading.
Arriving in Baltimore, he was disappointed to learn
that there were no fur traders there. He started for
New York.
There he found work with a certain Robert Bowne,
<k Quaker, who bought and sold furs.
Young Astor set himself to learn the business—every
part of it. He was always sitting on the doorstep before
the owner, carrying a big key to open the warehouse,
got around in the morning. He was the last to leave
at night
The qualities that make a youth a good servant are
tiie basic ones for mastership. Astor's alertness, will-
ingness, loyalty and ability to obey delivered his em-
ployer over into his hands.
Robert Bowne, the good old Quaker, insisted that
Jacob should call him Robert, and from boarding the
young man with a nearby wur widow who took cheap
boarders, Bowne took young Astor to his own house
snd raised his pay from $2 a week to $(5.
Bowne had made an annual trip to Montreal for many
years Montreal was the metropolis for furs. Bowne
went to Montreal himself because he did not know of
anyone he could trust to carry the message to Garcia.
Young Astor had been with Bowne only a year. He
spoke imperfect English, but he did not drink or gamble
and he knew furs and was honest
Bowne started him off for Canada with a belt full
of gold; his only weapon was a German flute that he
carricd in his hand.
John Jacob Astor ascended the Hudson river to Al-
bany and then with pack on his back struck north, alone,
through the forest for Lake Champlain. As he ap-
proached an Indian settlement he played his flute. The
aborigines showed no disposition to give him the hook.
He hired Indians to paddle him up to the Canadian bor-
der. He reached Montreal.
The fur traders there knew Bowne as a very sharp
buyer and so had their quills out on his approach. But
young Astor was seemingly indifferent. His manner was
courteous and easy. He got close to his man and took
his pick of the pelts at fair prices. He expended all of
his money and even bought on credit, for there are men
who always have credit.
Young Astor found Indian nature to be simply human
nature The savage was a man and courtesy, gentleness
and fairly good flute playing soothed his savage breast
Aster had heads and blankets, a flute and a smile. The
Indians carried his goods by relays and then passed him
on with guttural certificates as to character to other
red men and at last he reached New York without the
loss of a pelt or the dampening of his ardor.
Bowne was delighted. To young Astor It was noth-
ing He had iu his blood the success corpuscle.
He might have remained with Bowne and become a
partner in the business, but Bowne had business limi-
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TACK THIS UP
Prescription That Breaks Up the Wont
Cold In a Oay.
Every winter this prescription is pub-
lished here and thousands have been
benefited by it. "Get two ounces of
Glycerine und half an ounce of Con-
centrated Pine compound. Then get
half a pint of good whiskey and put
the other two ingredients into it. Talte
a teaspoonful to a tablespoonful of thia
mixture nfter each meal and at bed
time. Shake the bottle well each time."
But be sure lo get only the genuine
Concentrated I'lne. Each half ounce
bottle comes In a tin screw-top case.
Any druggist has It on hand or will
quickly get it from the wholesale
house Many other pine extracts are
impure and cause nausea.
LASSITUDE."
tations and Astor hadn't.
Hence, after a three years' apprenticeship, Astor
knew all that Bowne did and all he himself could imag-
ine besides. So he resigned.
In 1786 John Jacob Astor began business on his own
account on Water street, New York
Astor had made friends with the Indians up the Hud-
son clear to Albany and they were acting as recruiting
agents for him.
Having collected several thousand dollars' worth of
furs, he shipped them to London and embarked as a pas-
senger in the steerage.
In London furs were becoming a fad. Astor sorted
and sifted his buyers, as he had his skins. He himself
dressed in a suit of fur and thus proved his ability as
an advertiser. He picked his men and charged all t.he
traffic would bear. All of the money he received for his
skins he invested in "Indian goods"—colored cloth,
beads, blankets, knives, axes and musical instruments.
His was the first store in New York that carried a
stock of musical instruments. These he sold to savages
and also he supplied the stolid Dutch the best of every-
thing in this particular line, from a bazoo to a Stradi-
varius
When he got. back to New York he at once struck out
through the wilderness to buy furs of the Indians, or,
better still, to interest them in bringing furs to him.
He knew the value of friendship in trade as no man
of the time did.
In 1790 John Jacob Astor married Sarah Todd. Her
mother was a Brevoort and it was brought about by
her coming to Astor to buy furs with which to make
herself a coat Iler ability to judge furs and make them
up brought young Astor into "the best Dutch New York
society," a combination that was quite as exclusive then
as now.
This marriage was a business, partnership as well as
marital, and proved a success in every way. Sarah was
a worker, with all the good old Dutch qualities of pa-
tience, persistence, industry and economy. When her
husband went on trips she kept store.
Capt. Cook had skirted the Pacific coast from Cape
Horn to Alaska and had brought to the attention of the
fur dealing and fur wearing world the sea otter of the
northern Pacific. He also gave a psychological pro-
phetic glimpse of the insidious sealskin sack.
In 1790 a ship from the Pacific brought a hundred
otter skins to New York. The skins were quickly sold
to London buyers at exorbitant prices.
The nobility wanted sea otter, or "royal American
ermine," as they called it. The scarcity hponied ?be
price. Ships were quickly fitted out and dispatched.
Astor encouraged these expeditions, but at first In-
vested no money in them, as he considered them "extra
hazardous." He was not a speculator.
Until the year 1800 Astor lived over his store 'n
Water street, but he then moved to the plain and mode t
house at 223 Broadway, on the site of the old Astor houflfe.
Here he lived for 25 years.
The fur business was simple and very profitable.
In 1800 Astor owned three ships, which he had bought
so as absolutely to control his trade. Ascertaining thet
London dealers were reshipping furs to China, early in
the century he dispatched one of his ships loaded with
furs directly to the orient, with explicit written instruc-
tions to the captain as to what the cargo should be sold
for. The money was to be invested in teas and silk*.
The ship sailed away and had been gone a year.
No tidings had come from her.
Suddenly a messenger came with the news that the
ship was in the bay We can imagine the interest of
Mr. and Mrs. Astor as they locked their store and ran
to the Battery. Sure enough, it was their ship.
The profit on this voyage was $70,000.
By 1810 John Jacob Astor was worth $2,000,000. lie
began to invest all his surplus money in New York real
estate. He bought acreage property in the vicinity of
Canal street. Next he bought Richmond Hill, the estate
of Aaron Burr. It consisted of 160 acres Just abort
Twenty-third street. He paid for the land a thousairl
dollars an acre People said Astor was crazy.
In ten years he began to sell lots from the Richmori
Hill property at the rate of $5,000 an acre. Fortunate?/
for his estate, he did not sell much of the land at thfs
pricc, for it is this particular dirt that makes up thft
vast property known as "the Astor estate."
During the revolutionary war Roger Morris of Put-
nam county. N Y., made the mistake of siding with thro
Tories and expressing himself too freely. A mob coV
lected and Morris and his family escaped, taking ship to
England.
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'fill..
n
Roger Morris is
known in history as
the man who mar-
ried Mary Philipse.
And this lady lives
in history because
she had the felicity
of having been pro-
posed to by George
- / ' Ji, Washington. T h e
•3 lady pleaded for
yjp time, which the fa-
* ;•' ther of his country
' ' f , J declined to give. A
• ' - small quarrel fol-
lowed and George
saddled his horse
and rode on his way
to fanwand fortune.
Just 22 years after this bout with Cupid Gen. George
Washington, commander-in-chief of the continental
army, occupied the Roger Morris mansion as headquar-
ter b, the occupants having fled. It was Washington who
formally confiscated the property and turned it over to
the state of New York as contraband of war.
The Morris estate of about 50,000 acres was parceled
out and sold by tii«* state <>f New York to settlers.
It seems, however, that Koger Morris had only a life
Interest in the estate and this was a legal point so tine
that it was entirely overlooked in the joy of confiscation.
John Jacob Astor accidentally ascertained the facts.
He was convinced that the heirs could not be robbed of
their rights through the acts of a leaseholder, which,
legally, was the status of Roger Morris. Astor was a
good real estate lawyer himaelf, but he referred the point
to the best counsel he could find. They agreed with
him. He next hunted up the heirs and bought tVieir quit-
claims for $100,000.
He then notified the parties who had purchased the
land and they in turn made claim upon the state for
protection.
After much legal parleying the case was tried accord-
ing to stipulation, with the state of New York directly
as defendant and Astor and the occupants as plaintiffs
Daniel Webster and Martin Van Buren appeared for the
state and an array of lesser legal lights for Astor. The
case was narrowed down to the plain and simple point
that Roger Morris was not the legal owner of the estate
and that the rightful heirs could not be made to suffer
for the "treason, contumacy and contravention" of an-
other. Astor won and as a compromise the state issued
him 20-year bonds bearing six per cent, interest for the
neat sum of $500,000.
Astor took a deep interest in the Lewis and Clark
expedition. He went to Washington to see Lewis and
questioned him at great length about the northwest.
Washington Irving has told the story of Astoria at
length. It was the one financial plunge taken by John
Jacob Astor.
And in spite of the fact that it failed the whole affair
does credit to the prophetic brain of Astor.
"This country will see a chain of growing and pros-
perous cities straight from New York to Astoria, Ore-
gon," said this man in reply to a doubting questioner.
He laid his plans before congress, urging a line of
army posts, 40 miles apart, from the western extremity
of Lake Superior to the Pacific. "These forts or army
posts will evolve into cities," said Astor, when he called
on Thomas Jefferson, who was then president of the
United States Jefferson was interested, but non-com-
mittal. Astor exhibited maps of the great lakes and the
country beyond. He urged with a prescience then not
possessed by any living man that at the western extrem-
ity of Lake Superior would grow up a great city. Yet
in 1876 Duluth was ridiculed by the caustic tougue of
Proctor Knott, who asked. "What will become of Duluth
when the lumber crop is cut?"
Then Astor proceeded to say that another great city
would grow up nt the southern extremity of Lake Michi
gan. Gen. Dearborn, secretary of war under Jefferson,
had just established Fort Dearborn on the present site
of Chicago. Astor commended this and said, "From a
fort you get a trading post and from a trading post you
will get a city."
He pointed out to Jefferson on his map of the site
the Falls of St. Anthony. "There you will have a fort
some day, for, wherever there is water power there will
grow up mills for grinding grain and sawmills as well.
This place of power will have to be protected and so
you will have there a post, which will eventually be
replaced by a city." Yet Fort Snelling was nearly 50
years in the future and St. Paul and Minneapolis were
dreams undreamed.
Jefferson took time to tUink about it and then wrote
Astor: "Your beginning of a city on the western coast is
a great acquisition and I look forward to a time when
our population will spread itself up and down along the
whoi' Pacific frontage, unconnected with us excepting by
ties of blood and common interest and enjoying, like
us, the rights o' self goverment."
A company was formed and two expeditions set out
for the mouth of the Columbia river, one by land and
the other by sea.
The land expedition barely got through alive It was
a perilous end; i taking, with accidents 1>\ flood and field
But tue route by the water was feasible.
The town was founded and soon became ;i center of
commercial acuity. Had Astor been on the ground to
take personal charge a city like Seattle would have
bloomed and blossomed on the Pacific 50 years ago.
There cainu a grand grab at Astoria and it was each
for himself and tin devil take tin hindermost; it was a
stampede System and order went by the board. The
strongest stoib the most, as usual, but all got a little.
And England's gain in citizens was our loss.
Astor lost a million dollars by the venture. He smiled
calmly and said, "The plan was right, but my men were
weak; that is all. The gateway to China will be from
the northwest. My plans were right. Time will vindi-
cate my reasoning."
When the block on Broadway hounded by Vesey and
Barclay streets was cleared of its plaia two-story
houses, preparatory to building the Astor house, wise
men shook their heads and said, "It's too far up town."
But the free 'bus that met all boats solved the diffi-
culty and gave the cue to hotel men all over the world.
Astor was worth ten million, hut he took a personal de-
light in sitting in the lobby of the Astor house and
watching the dollars roll into this palace that his brain
had planned.
Astor was tall, thin and commanding in appearance.
He had only one hallucination and that was that he
spoke the ICglish language. The accent he possessed at
30 was with him in all Its pristine effulgence at 85. "No
pody vould know I van a Cherman -aind't it?" he use<v
to say. Yet where John Jacob wrote it was Knglish with-
out a flaw.
In all of his dealings he was uniquely honorable and
upright He paid and he made others pay. His word
was his bond. He was not charitable in the sense ot
indiscriminate giving. "To give something for nothing
in to weaken the giver," was one of his favorite sayings.
That this attitude protected a miserly spirit it is easy
to say, but it is not wholly true In his later years he
carried with him a book containing a record of his
possessions. He would visit a certain piece of property
and then turn to his book and see what it had cost him
ten or twenty years before To realize that his pro-
phetic vision had been correct was to him a great source
of satisfaction.
His habits were of the best, lie went to bed at nine
o'clock and was up before six. At seven he was at his
office. He knew enough to eat sparingly and to walk, so
he was never sick Millionaires, as a rule, are woefully
ignorant. Up to a certain sum, they grow with their
acquisitions Then they begin 10 wither at the heart
The care of a fortune is a penalty I advise the gentle
reader to think twice before accumulating ten millions.
John Jacob Astor was exceptional in his combined
love of money and love of hook:-. Fit/Green Ilalleck
was his private secretary, hired on a basis of literary
friendship. Washington Irving was a close friend, too.
Astor died, aged 86. It was a natural death—a thing
that very seldom occurs. The machinery all ran down
at once.
William B. Astor, the son of John Jacob, was brought
up in the financial way he should go. He was studious,
methodical, coonservative, and had the good sense to
carry out the wishes of his father His son, John Jacob
Astor was very much like him, only of more neutral
tint. The time is now ripe for another genius in the
Astor family. If William B Astor lacked the courage
and initiative of bis parent, lie had more culture and
spoke ICngiish without an accent The son of John
Jacob Astor, second, is William Waldorf Astor. who
speaks English with an Knglish accent, you know.
John Jacob Astor. besides having the first store for
the sale of musical instruments in America, organized
the first orchestra of over 12 players. He brought over
a leader from Germaany and did much to foster the love
of music in the New World.
Every worthy Maccaenas Imagines that he is a great
painter, writer, sculptor or musician, side tracked by
cares thrust upon him by unkind fate John Jacob As-1
tor once told Washington Irving that it was only busH
ness responsibility that prevented his being a novelist;
and at other times he declared his intent t<> take up
musi' as ii prof vsion as soon as he had gotten all of
his se< urities properly tied up. And, whether he worked
out his dreams or not, there is no doubt but Uiat they i
added to his peace, happiness and length of days. Ilappy
is the man who escapes the critics by leaving Ws lite* |
ary masterpiece In the ink.
Waldo—And why would you rather
have one million than two, Weg?
Weg—Ea«Ver to count, Wallle.
He Had No Objection.
"We—we want you to marry us,"
said the blushing young man, indicat-
ing a young woman with downcast
eyes and smiling face who stood a
step behind him.
"Come in," said the minister, and he
endeavored to ease their embarrass-
ment for a moment; but he soon de-
cided that it was useless to try.
"Will you be married with a ring?"
he inquired.
The young man turned a helpless
gaze on his companion, and then
looked at the minister.
"If you've got one to spare and It
can come out o' the two dollars, I
guess she'd like it,' he said at last.—
National Food Magazine.
How's This?
F. .1. CUKM Y A CO.. Toledo, o.
W>, th" vmlerslnnrd. have known F. J. ( limey
for the last 15 years, and bell- , him perfectly hon-
orable In all business r • ■ irtlun* and financially
able to carry out ans > blli-atlona mad" by hut firiu.
WAI.DI.V. KiNNAN A MAHT'W
Wholesale DriiKKlstii. Toltdo, O.
TInll's fstsrrh Cur« U taken Internally, acting
lire ! y upon the blood and nun-otis mirfaces of tin
tystrm l .atlmonlalB sent fr>■ ■. Prlco 76 cents pe*
tot !•■. Sold bv all I)ruj.*i'l.sts.
'laku liaUa Family I'll la lor constipation.
Ineligible.
So you wouldn't let Bombazine Bill
sit on the jury that tried the horse
thief?"
"No," answered Three Fingered
Sam, "we do things fair and square
in Crimson Gulch. Bill's a good man,
but the fact that he runs the only
undertakin' business in the county
couldn't help prejudicin' him some
agin the defendant."
What She Ought to Say.
She.—Speaking correctly, John,
should I say "I will have a new bon-
net," or "I shall have a new bonnet."
lie -Speaking correctly, absolutely
correctly, my love, you should say, "I
won't have a new bonnet."—Iilustra.
ted Bits.
His Landlord's Reply.
"This appears to be a pretty slow
town. You have no pay-as-you-enter
street cars here."
"No, but we have a pretty good line
of pay before-you-leave boarding
houses."
Nothing New.
"Congratulations! I hear one of
your daughters is eugaged. Which one
is it?"
"Get out! It's only Bessie again!"
—Meggendorfer Blaetter.
Many a man has kicked himself out
of a good job.
PATENT VO!',K I' F They may brine vo%
tiUtfer.vld A i <> . I'at.A'tys .llox K WasliiritfU.n.D.U,
OLD SORES CURED
i irerH.ncroiuinii-i i nt)r . unvote « nt-in.m-
dol«nt I'lrera.Mt-ri urUl I I. .th VV liltuSwell-
ll.K.MUk • «!• Norm, allow Pn.iltr-1;*
ruCf- j ivAU.ttN.Upl.A-'.eii.i'aui.Mlaa.
FREE TO YOU
\ Kl
Any suf-
colds
ad'lress to
SKY PILOT OF THE LAKES
flev. W. H. Law's Parish Is 1800 Miles :
Long and 300 Wide, and Its 1
Membership Large.
y i*Uy of th# parishioners never wor
-hip twice In the same locality, foi
services are held mostly In moving
1 hips. Some are held In lonely light
A parish 1800 miles In length ami houses far from other human hablta-
300 miles in width is In charge 01 tlon.
Itev W. H. Law, known from Buffalo No wedding has ever taken place in
to Duluth us the sky pilot of the groat this parish, no christening of a baby,
takes uo services for the burial of the dead.
The membership of this parish runs This sky pilot seekc liis parishlon-
lot" the thousands, und tVe great ma- i ers iu a gasoline boat £2 feet in lengtla.
leslde carrying the message of the
ospel to these men he takes to them
ooks, magazines, papers and news of
he outside world.
His visits are looked forward to by
he lighthouse keepers and the llght-
.hlp crows, for his territory Is so
large that he is unable to visit them
mere than once during the season.
He maintains a small circulating li-
brary of not more than 70 books. He
al.so carries with him a phonograeh
with records of the most popular
hymns.
Some of the lighthouses visited are
far from the mainland and the trips
to them are hazardous. Standard
rock light for instance, is nearly 50
miles out from Marquette, on Lake
Superior. It is erected on a small but
dangerous reef which resembles a
whale's back.
The light Is 105 feet In height, and
rests on crib work, which is encircled
by a railway, and for weeks at a time
the weather is so bad that it is dan-
gerous for the keepers to venture out
of doors. Between the ilk'Ut and Ke-
weenaw point there is a depth of 1008
feet of water.
On his travels the sky pilot visits
300 lighthouses, 15 lightships, and 60
life saving stations. Mr. Law does not
outwardly resemble a minister of the
Gospel. He is big and healthy and
bus a rolling gait liko a sailor. He
preaches simply to the sailors, with
whom he Is very popular.—New York
Sun.
No, Cordelia, all hbarp men are hot
In Ue sharper set.
I Another Good Old Tar Heel Word.
| Besides Sampson county, O'.slow
i omes forward as a shipper of Jeru-
J salem oak seed. "The seed, In mo-
lasses, as an old time domestic rem-
edy," we are told, "can' be swallowed
more mellllluou8ly under the naino of
'Juzelymake.' "—Charlotte Observer.
Good Thing to Remember.
"Talk," said Uncle Kben, "Is supln"
like rain. A certain amount is wel-
come an' necessary. JWut doggone $
dfe'ugo!"
ferer fu m hr.'^-iches, neura
or LaGrippe send
EUREKA MEDICAL CO. South Bend. Ind.
for a box of Nkuhm.ine fre. A«ents
wanted. Good profits.
BROWN'S
Bronchlu Troches
An ahaoluUIy fi.ini.Uss remedy ivr Sore Throat,
11 iar«cnt«a and t Give immediate rclui to
Bronchial and Lung Aiicctions*
Fifty y.Ar*' reputation.
Pri:«, J'j ccnts, 00 centa and $1.00 box.
Sample sent on rcqueat.
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Baby Smiles—
When He Takes
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\ CURE
tttt StST YM
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A Suodaid Remedy ioi hali a centuiy.
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