Show BUFFALOS MILLIONAIRES Something About the Kicli Men of the City of Breezes Special Correspondence BUFFALO April 2 The millionaires of Buffalo a given told to-ld investments and a flurry in the lead narket would cause more excitement than n ittack of hog cholera in Chicago The men jf wealth in Buffalo as a general rule started poor and know how to tko care of money E G Spanieling president of the Farmers md Mechanics bank i said t b worth 10000000 He i called the father of the greenback because when in the treasury department de-partment he conceived the idea of the issue of inpcr money He has a fatherly regard for die greenback to this day and has taken many of them in out of the wet Nelson Holland the lumber prince lives in a big house and has a pretty daughter who is intiauito with Mrs Grover Cleveland and lias baen inc they were little girls I went to ask Mr Holland once i it was true tunl his confidential clerk had robbed him of J > J Hu said it was too true and that he fi It very sorry about it I asked him if he ptopoittl to have the young man arrested He said 1 ho hadnt decided whether it would b btst l or not to do so He never did decide de-cide The clerk was last heard of in New Orleans where he was making a living by selling sell-ing Key rings ExMayor Jonathan Scoville made h money manufacturing car wheels and has a big boodle lie has been in congress and i well posted on all public ciue > tious He always al-ways tells the reporters just what he thinks and like Murnt Halstcad is not at all particular partic-ular whether his interviews are printed or not 1 last saw him on the morsing of the Rilnnond hotel fire March 18 when he u bulling with oil the burns of a poor servant girl who had jumped from a fourth story wi dow His money i always ready in a cause that appeals t his large heart nd he makes no blow over his giving He usually has a hand i every political pie and votes the Democratic ticket He owns tho finest site on Delaware avenue It i devoted t flower gardens The only buildings are a own stone stable and gardeners lodge Mr Scoville lives with his brother in Scovie lve wih hi brther cheap lodg ings down town He i 1 jolly bachelor and has no u for a house Jacob Shoellkopf tho wealthy tanner miller and dye manufacturer ha dead loads of money He lives in a 0 house on Delaware avenue When he moved in his wife said she was afraid she would have to keep a gui 1 Mr Schoollkopf gives his German Ger-man friends some famous feasts at his friend SchcnkelberRers restaurant He drives a pony called Spot who stands unhitched in the street Sometimes ho goes oif alone but that does not bother his owner any He simply takes a street car home and always fluds Spot chewing at the stable door When tho famous Schoellkopf mansion writs erected a figure adorned the portico that made Spot shy little The old man took the aide of his faithful horse and had the figure taken down M Schoellkopf takes pride i tho German interests of Buffalo and was a projector of Musk halL Daniel ODay of the Standard Oil company com-pany used t work i a shoe shop for 150 a day He went t the Pennsylvania oil fields when the first fever was on and bought a half interest in a well Today he i worth millions He president of the local branch of tho Standards natural g company and expects to make rflore millions for himself and his friends Ho likes t own a few shares of newspaper stock not for publics tion but ns a irnnrnnf o fJinf Tin will hr treated in good a faith He is an Irish Catholic Cleveland Catho-lic Democrat and a admirer of Grover E L Hedstrom is another rich m He mado his money out of black diamonds He is 1 Scandinavian and a Baptist Keeping Sunday Sun-day i his hobby Once says rumor his men telephoned him on Sunday asking whether or not he desired a certain boat loaded with coaL His reply was that it was never nec sary t ask him such a question a he attended at-tended to no business on the Sabbath The matter was referred to the general manager who was not so devout and the boat was I loaded Francis H Root mantle h money out of leather His daughter married Robert Kent ing and the firm is Hoot fr i Rot Heating The daughter died and tho grandfather dlughtr de gdfate adopted the son Mr Root i fond of the theatres His grand and adopted son gives theatre parties first nights and is head over heels pie teur theatricals IMscal P Pratt president of the Manufacturers Manufac-turers and Traders bank i in the millionaire las to and is called the nicest man in Buffalo That means that ho i a gentleman and polite to reporters who delight i adding to his good rpr Gel Rufus L Howard of the Howard iron wOk baa an eye for fancy stock and cattle owns a form for the breeding of horses and AV H Gratnick the Tonawanda lumber dealer has many shekels He came from Albany N Y a few years ago and made money rapidly His homo i i Buffalo mo ad he delights in Buffalo society Ha picked out Dr Ward of Englewood N J for rector of rtr Trinity church and was greatly shocked when that divine shot h wife Dr Ray V Pierce the medicine m h a big pile of money and a invalids hotel He i fond of shooting and fishing and w I an organizer of the Society for the P ton of the Niagara river whose hobby i t prevent the street contractors from dump ing sweepings into the river t the detri i ment of the fh He has a big gold mine on I the Feather river in California which h I i cost 81000000 develop The course of the Feather river had t 0 changed by tunnel ing a mountain When the mine begins t pay Dr Pierce expects t become a rival of I Bonanza Mackay PHINKAS lI |