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..THE ARGUS.: SAT URDiVi JULY llClObTV : L ao r Uames R Keeoe SPECULATOR AND SPORTSMAN WHOSE LOVE HORSES IS HIS RULING PASSION. FOR Man of Invincible Energy, Who Could Get Rich In a Desert if Any One Could, Says a Friend Seldom Bets a Dollar Likes His Little Joke and Advises t f x All Not to Speculate. J By R.ORER.TUS LOVE. J I 'SI now those who take an inter est i:i turf matters are hearing union about the winnings of James K. Keene's !)o;-s(s. It Is the horses t'.int win, not the horseman. Mr. Keene si-Mom bets a dollar. He Is not a .iort. Neither on the turf nor oa the stork market does he jraiiili'e. He Is a speculator on the market and n sportsman on t!ie turf, rietwron a speeulatot nail a phn-er the kuII" i quite as wide a:; that between a sports nian and a sport. These tiisliuetions shotilu le borne in mind ly any one who en res to know the character of James R. Keene. Hoth as speculator and sport.smfin Mr. Keene's reputation clieked Into the top notch at least a quarter of a century ago. It Is a question whether his cash or his colts have brought him the wider distinct ion. Horn in Lonthm sixty-elnht years ngo. of a father who also was a native of England. Krone nevertheless is r il ly an. American. His ancestors hack of Ids father lived in Virginia for sev- with lils splendid household f urnishhis. j "Co get a job now, Jim." his friends nil advised. "That's all you can do." Nobody had any confidence In Keene's speculative ability-that is, no lxidy but himself. lie believed that he could make good. He kept to the curb stone and hoed a mighty hard row until lie met Senator Fclton of Cali fornia. The senator had a seat in the San Francisco Stock Exchange, lie liked Keene. When V elton became as sistant I'nited States treasurer he pave Keene his seat on the exchange, to be paid for at whatever ft might be worth when the young man was able to pay. A few months later Keene paid Fcl ton several times the value of the seat at the time he acquired it. but he was making money so rapidly that the out lay was not felt. Hy ISTtt James It. Keene had made several millions--some say !?(;, hm.0:w by speculating in mining stocks during the "Bonanza" period. Then his health failed and he determined on a trip to Europe. When Keene reached New York the Wall street atmosphere so charmed mlmm nit - mi - Kreaso U m-- r - VJ - Cartoonist sees: if M if M .... f (y if . ?ir j I f ' I 1 : V'V IS ' V 0Z&i r f 1 era I' generations. Moreover, when the father failed iu business abroad the family came to America, settling !u California when young James was on ly about fourteen. The Im'j- got a job taking care of cows , and mules at a military post. He worked ut various occupations until he grew up, when he studied law. For time ho taught school. Then he edit ed n country newspaper at a place cail rd Ilorsetown, In northern California. The name of the town probably had :io particular influence upon Mr. Keene's career. The Ir.'e Charles A. Iana. who used to read the Keene editorials, maintained to the last that for style, force and lucidity the pen of no Eng lish writer since the days of Charles IjuuI) surpassed that of Keene when he edited the Ilorsetown sheet at a salary of $2i a week. Had Literary Ambitions. Keene, according' to Joaquin Miller, who also frequented that part of Cali fornia iu those days, had literary ambitions.- But as Shasta county jour nalism was not a money making insti tution he Bhortly stepped off this ster . ping stone to the literary life, and America lost a Charles Lamb. Keene. it la sald. peddled milk, clerked n round hero and there and Dually found him self in the mining camp of Virginia City, ?ev. In some unrecorded man ner ho managed to get together a stake of $10,000. About this time Miss Sarah Daingerfield, a Virginia belle, visited her brother, a United States judge. Keene met her and fell In love. But Judge Paliigorficld scorned the young man who had descended upon Ran Francisco and become a curbstone bro ker. "An upstart curbstone broker," sneered tl' judge. "Huh!" Nevertheless Keene loved well. Love him that he did not go to Europe for fifteen years. He stayed in Wall street and speculated. One of the most familiar stories of the street is to the effect that soinelMidy remarked to Jay Mould, then the wizard of Wall street: "They say Jim Keene, the California millionaire, fa coming to New York in u palace car." "All right." returned Could. Til send him back in a box car." Jay Gould After His Scalp. Those were the days of the individual speculator. This is the day of com binatlons. Keene went It alone, used his judgment and made largo win nings. But Jay Could was after Ms scalp. By the year 1S.S4 Keene's for tune had more than doubled. Then he got into a combination against his own judgment to corner the world's wheat market. Just when it seemed that all was ready for the big rake on" Jay Could and others sprang a coup that came near shipping Keene back by tl7e box car route. There is still hi the street the tradition of a forged tel egram which split the corner and smashed Keene to smithereens. When he crawled out from under the ava lanche he was about a million and a half iu debt. Everything went, in cluding one of Bosa Bonheur's mas terpieces, "Sheep." which was the pride tif Keene's household. A little later a gentleman now well known in New York journalism had occasion to call at Jay Could's residence on Fifth avenue. Gould pointed to a magnifi cent oil painting on the wall. "See there," he said exultantly. There hangs the scalp of James 11. Keene." The painting was Rosa Bonhenr's , "Sheen." Gould had bought it at a and luck ran together. Keene soon in-J fabulous price from the man who bid creased his cash to !517.VHm), married it in at the Keene sale. Gould gloated the girl and set up housekeeping on a I 0vrr It. As a work of art it meant lavish scale. By the time he had don- jptle or nothing to the wizard, but as bled his fortune a crash came, and in f,js badge of victory It was to him a one day ho was wiped out to the base-l trnnhv ns BntUfaetnrv as Is the drln- raent, so that he was compelled toTftrt! ping 'BCp cf a paleface to an Indian J chief. Wall street sometimes mases men so. But Keene, when he heard of this incident, did not faint. Referring to the manipulations by which he nail been cleaned out, he said: This has taught me caution, and the lesson will be worth while. I will still walk Wall street when every man of the band that lias plotted my ruin and worked it will be either dead or bankrupt." Still Walks Wall Street. Jay Gould liag been dead these many years. Keene still waits street, having paid off all his debts and made Several fortunes since 1SS4. But for some years Keene was not so much of a figure in the street. Again they said that he was down and out. just as they had said it when he first lost his money in San Francisco. He became during those years more of a promoter than an independent operator. Having eat en of bitter bread in the wheat corner, Keene took up something to sweeten existence. Ifce boomed sugar for the Havemeyers. Incidentally lie boomed it for Keene, sweetening his tooth to the extent of some .'J.0no.n0. Then Keene bit o(f a large chew of tobacco, but not larger than he could hew. Practically the sartie ring that had tripped him tip in the wheat bin tried to strangle him with tobacco juice, but Keene was keeping his own counsel then. He had grown cautious. He rushed "i.OOO shares of tobacco In to the market, the price dropped from 1."C to lb", the ring lot and Keene won a million and a half in a day. Give a man rope enough and h will hang himself," savs a wise one. Keene took a lot of rope American Cordage and added a few more mil lions to his pile, incidentally stringing up a few of his enemies. By that time, which was a matter of nine or ten rears aen, James R. Keene had succeeded in convincing Wal street that If he ever retflrned to Cali fornia he con hi go in his own private palace car or In an airship if he pre ferred to take that risk. There hive been ups and downs since, but never an out, though it is understood 1h::t Mr. Keene lost largely by the failure of his son in law's firm, Talbot J. Tay lor & Co.. about four years ago. But the Keene family larder was secure in my evunt. Many years ago a silent partner, Mrs. Keene. persuaded her husband to give her half of his earn ings. When Mr. Kceuo made a million Mrs. !("!!( was half a million richer. As the silent partner did not speculate, the money remained in the family. His First Eig Horse Victory. Mr. Kec.ie is known as a man of 1n- doniirahe energy. "He could get rich iu a desert if any one could," says ait intimate associate. This recalls a story In connection with the lust big hoive- (!esh victory of Keene's career. His horse Foxliall won the Grand Prix ut Paris in 8S1. Twenty years earlier Keene had been at his ITorsetown stage, and one of his acquaintances in the California country was Dan Gait land. When Foxhall won the Grand Prix, Pan was still prospecting np In Grant county. Ore., not far north of Ilorsetown. He heard the news rushed into the presence of Tom Mer ry, another acquaintance of the Cali fornia Keene. "Tom." said Pan. "did yez hear phwat Jim Keene done las' Sundah?" "And what was that?" "The papers sez he bate the divil out Iv the frog eaters wit n horse uamed Foxyhall." "Well," said Tom. "from what I re member about Jim he's a mighty hard man to keep down." "Uoight ye le," rejoineil Pau. "Ye cud putt Jim Keene aboard a ship an' send him to say, an' if the ship wuz wrecked on a desert oislaud Jim 'u!d lie walkin around, be wud, an' the nex' day he'd be se'.liu maps iv the place to all the natives." Mr. Keene has owned some of the greatest horses on the turf. This sea sou his colt Peter Pan earned $.V2, (i(K in four races In less than thirty days. He owned Domino, over whose Kentucky grave lie erteted a hand some marble shaft. Other great ones developed by Keene were Sysonby, Commando, Cap and Bells and Tom my Atkins. Dearly Loves Horses. Mr. Keene's love for horses is his ruling passion. One day a horse fan cier whom Keene had met in Ken tucky call"d to see the great financier in his New York ollices. Half a dozen men were in the anteroom. The Ken tuckiau finally requested the .voting inuu to tell Mr. Keene that Bill Scully of Kentucky had dropped in to say "Howdy." Scully started away, but as soon as the millionaire heard that he had called the door Hew open, and Keene rushed out into the hall, yell ing: "Hey, Bill! Here, Scully!" When Scully was dragged into the inner sanctum he protested that lie was taking up Mr. Keene's time. "Not by any means," replied Keene. "I can talk stocks any day, but it isu l often that I get to talk horse with a Kentuckian." There is nothing saturnine about Keene. He likes his little joke. Not long ago he was reading a review of certain financial undertakings when lie reached this sentence: "It was then that the Rockefellet stocks came to the relief of these agi tated, overcapitalized properties." "That's a disguised way of saying that John D. poured oil on the trou bled waters," remarked Mr. Keene. A country boy in Indiana wrote Mr Keene that he wanted to make a for tune, but so many doors were closed to him that he didn't know which one to open. "Open the one labeled Tush,'" wrote back the financier. James It. Keene has one word of ad vice to all persons who evince a dis position to speculate: "Don'tr1 ! ! E-fl Our water comes from wells 1400 Eg g3sS feet deep. E , Our barley is selected by a partner in our business selected from the best that is grown. v Most of our hops are Bohemian. Our yeast is produced forever from the same mother cell. 'Tis a yeast that no one can duplicate. That is why Schlitz beer is good. But we spend more on purity more time, more skill, more money than on any other cost of our brewing. Ask for the Brewery Bottling. Common beer is sometimes substituted for Schlitz. To avoid being imposed upon, see that the cork or crown is branded The Beer: That Made.M i Iwapke That is why Schlitz beer is good for you. nvii 1U1i Ul jo Carse & Ohlweilcr Co.' " ' 425-431 nth St.',' ftocY Island i. 'X v. V ;. .; . : - ...-.-.. .; v ;4 ,.;; v : -.? : ' -. Ci u-M .v i ' : ' ' 5T v.. h ,'iVv. & nMMB .-, ! ' IT,... V e famous.! j STEPHEN CHARD. The Eccentric Millionaire Was a Mnn of Mtiy Mv.ods. To a:-t a s;:!:::cnpi; i:-. s'r -ui Stephen tlirarl. fu:i !, r of...' .i.'.'.rd iii!o in riiil-!tl--.';.!ii.!. V,::;- leu .1:1 e.:-;y M.atK'i'. U reiiuire.i t:f t and tie r'"Ht introduc tion, and ii. ::iy l'r! 1. v. .' v t'.uv .i;c coede 1. It i.; t.:M I v i'ie au'.li-i of "The French I'd i 'i lit A:i:c:-;.-.'" I I;:it Samuel Coates, a ?X ;mal Onager, was one of tin few Men w!: Kiev !:-ev to 'ap proach the c centric millionaire. 'lie was a uiana;r."r of t he ' Pennsyl vania ho-ipital and culled on tli'rard for the purpose of rais .m;ic.v for the support ol that institut'o.i. "Well, how much (! you want. Coates aked (iir.v.'d in his usual. brtiKijUe tones. ' "Just what thee pleu -.es to j;lve, Ste phen." replied the nuaker. rard wrote out a check for SJ.c-o mid. hand ing it to Mr. Coates, was surprised to see that ircutleiiiau pocket it without looki'iic at the amount. "What! You don't lonk t sec bow much I give you':" cried ;irard incred ulously. "IVggars must not bo choosers, Stc- Ijihcn." replied the Quaker. "Oive me back my, check, and I will change it." said Oirard after a mo ment's pauo, "A bird iu the hand ii worth two in the hush, thee knows. Sir-men." tniltlly replied the otiakor. Without another word Ct Irani sat down and wrote him out a second cheek for .So.ODO. His farm on the outskirts of Phila delphia was one of Hie . best in the country, and while living iu town he I often drove out before breakfast to see J that all was going well. He was very exacting with his hired hand') and never trusted tlie management of his farm to ! any one else, but ran it himself, as he j did all his affairs. Arriving one inorn- i-g a btile oarf.er than '.iseul. I:e j.- greaily .aunoyed at not finding his man at work on a fence that h was build ing. 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