Show WILLIAM I COLLINS WHITNEY Piling Up Money and Looking After Invalid Wife a Ivaid Wie St Louis GlobeDemocrat When a mans income ha reached stupendous figures and all of his investments in-vestments are making most satisfactory satisfac-tory returns it would seem that human ambition so fa as the amassing of wealth is concerned should have been reached There is a trite expression in that homely work The Hoosier Schoolmaster which comes from the lips of one of its unique characters to the effect that it is excellent policy to keep a gitten while yer gitten I applies to more than one of the wealthy men of the New York of today but I just now i would seem to cover the case of William C Whitney better than that of any of the other men who metropolis are daily piling up wealth in the metropols Mr Whitney has long been residing on what the Bowery calls Easy street His financial ventures are too well known to need repetition and the money which he ha made since he was the acceptable secretary of the navy in President Clevelands first cabinet cab-inet has amounted to millions The shadow in his life the accident to his second wife whose neck was dislocated dislo-cated while foxhunting and who will be a helpless invalid until the end seems t have spurred him to greater efforts in the financial world His racing rac-ing stable comprises the most expensive ex-pensive of thoroughbreds and although he is one of the most active of business busi-ness men his attentions to his unfortunate unfor-tunate wife are most constant and are marked by touching tenderness But Mr Whitney like Mr Yerkes of Chicago Chi-cago may overreach himself As is well known he is at the head of a powerful pow-erful traction company which is such a dividendearner that the surplus is rapidly piling up Not only is there a surplus of funds but there is a surplus of power and the company is now about to dispose of it at good figures to all who wish heat and light Not satisfied with this evidence of the tiuth of the scriptural quotation To him that hath shall be the shal given company com-pany of which Mr Whitney is the head has been looking about for other New York streets to conquer The idea has been to obtain a gigantic monopoly of the heat light and power business of the greater city including the borough of Brooklyn and possibly later outlying outly-ing districts When the scheme first bees be-es me known a cry was raised against it in the newspapers and for a while i looked as though there might be a little excitement on the Chicago plan Lately the air has been clear and the public had evidently forgotten the matter when the other night some member of the city council was so indiscreet as to remark that the scenes in the city hall of Chicago might be reenacted here if a bill looking to the carrying out of the proposed Whitney scheme were presented pre-sented Then there was a howl from the wa ighteous colleagues of the councilman I mentioned After a warm discussion concerning the honesty of the members of the New York council the matter was dropped but it is likely that it will be heard from again < > 00 Now the latest financial scheme of Mr Whitney and others is to obtain a monopoly of the entire trucking business busi-ness of New York This would be enormous enor-mous In the wholesale districts of the city As the preliminary step to the scheme the Autotruck company has been formed with a capital of 1000 000 Air power will be used and the trucks will be capable of Carrying much larger and much heavier loads than is now the case with hc ses One of the men interested with Mr Whitney Is I young Joseph Leiter who ha not hidden hid-den his light under a bushel since his wheat corner went to smash Young Mr Leiter recently purchased the I rights of a motor company with the intention in-tention of Introducing motor cars in the streets of Londrfn and banishing the stages there whcn are even more picturesque than those in use on Fifth avenue here and which are soon to be succeeded by automobiles When Mr Leiter was cornering the wheat market there were those who were so unkind a to hint that he wds setting hnaort ant tips from his distinguished brother inlaw the Hon Ge ige Curzon then under secretary foe foreign affairs but now viceroy to India I is not stated whether the efforts of Mr Curzon had anything to do with the young Chicagd I ans Intention to introduce motor cars in the streets of London T I J |