Show John Jacob Astor on Wall Street Mr John Jacob Astor is better known in the vicinity of Twentysixth street and Broadway and Thirtysec ond street and Fifth avenue than he is on Broad street and Exchange place Mr Astors aversion to bestowing tips is well known and so his principal public character in the neighborhood is that of a man who finds it about as difficult to get extra attentions from waiters in Delmonicos and the St James as any other man in New York In the Knickerbocker club he continues contin-ues the same amiable and guileless youth he was before he married one of the most beautiful women in the country coun-try and his qualities as a husband are understood to entitle him to considerable consider-able respect from the bored young men who habitually employ soda lemonade as a beverage On Wall street however how-ever Mr Astor appears in quite another an-other characterIn that of the representative repre-sentative of a tremendous money power and the vicepresident of the Toledo Ann Arbor North Michigan road among other dignities In the stockholders battle now raging in that organization he has displayed very conservative con-servative and prudential qualities and while he rarely takes the initiative of measures can interpose a veto with the obstinacy of Cleveland himself New York Press |