Show I 0 c S STORIES OFCALVIN BRICE How He Once Helped a Paris Mob His Ge eosit and Good Nature I New Yrk World VashingtonCalvn S Brice during his six yeqrs of public life in the United States senate made hosts of warm personal per-sonal friends Many of these after the announcement of hIs deth grouped together to-gether in te senate cloak room and tod interesting stOes 9f his career Brice took carb of his friends One of them was his old law partner James 1r vine now oC New York As young men both pOOl and nothing to live upon but Drospects and these none of the best ihey began the practce of law together I In Lima O Irvine was still poor when i Brice was a very rich man Several years ago Mr Brice visited his old home and called on his former partner II Jim he said a he looked around the old oUce ChrIstmas Is coming on Ive I been lucky and made some money I Youve worked hind and made little and deserve more Accept this as a souvenir of your old partner I was a check for 250 that Mr BrIce handed ales Irvine Later he called I IrvIne to New York and put him onto several good things in the line of his profession pro-fession and he is there today a comparatively compar-atively rich man I One afternoon when affairs in the senate sen-ate were droning Wong several senators I In the cloak room got into i a dilacussicin g over the I01 g case Some one spoke of of the the Frenchman impulsive and emotional nature I I Yes said Mr Brico they are easily dt iC i excited and I helped a fi i crowd in one of its emotional fits Instantly there was a clamor for the story for 1r Brice told a story wel I was this way he replied 1 happened hap-pened to be In Pars during the Com mune There was a good deal going on in France about that time and the French People made it quite lively at the capital I witnessed the razing of the Vendome A rope was thrown over the top of the column I col-umn and a thousand men possibly were I tugging away The rope broke ald a i second attempt was made Carrie away I with the enthusiasm of the scene Irushed I Into the crowd and pulled with the rest The column came down Oi yes the I French arc a very excitable people and Mr Brice chuckled as he made this obI ob-I seraton I The actual wealth of Mr BrIe has ai 1 I ways been more 01 less problematical I I is highly probable that his wonderful ex I ecutvo ability gave to his railroad stocks I a value that will cease to attach to them I now that his gUiding mind will no longer control Whatever mIght be the condition I con-dition of the stock market or however roughly he may have ben handle 1r I BrIce newer wurrled He frequently said that he could always sleep and awake I refreshed He once told a fellow senator I that if he knew he was ruined he would i bo nblo to enjoy a good nights rest and be prepared to begin the battle over again I the next morning His will power was indomiable But 11 Brice was prudent Knowing the fleeting power of riche and the ylclssludcs of railroad stocks he mao an Investment that neither bulls nor bears could attack His life was in surod for half a million dollars 11 Brce himself is authority for the statement that he never speculated in stocks on margins He always hought outright such stocks as he believed wee good Investments He was opposed to wild gambling but did frequently enjoy a game of poker It was very ioor policy to play cards for money Mr Brice said because when you won a friends money rou usually lost thio friend Card play ing was up for discussion in the cloakroom cloak-room oftlle senate onp dayby a coterie who Indulged In that pastime Mr Brice said that when he first came to Wash S ington ho sot aside 80Q00 a year for his p rsonnl pleasures He was undeciijd whether to expend it in a yacht or see it disappear over the card table It is a wellknown fact among the senators friends that he seldom made a winning When asked what conclusion lIe flnnliy reached on the subject tile senator smiled significantly as ho replied Well I didnt buy the yacht Charity neverappenleij to Mr Brice In vain In the harfi times of 1593 and 1894 during the winter months it was not an unusual thing for some dealer In Lima to receive an order from Mr Brice to distribute 500 barrels of flour or 900 tons of coal among the worthy poor Shortly after he was elected to the sebate Mr Brlce attended a state con veption at Columbus occupying a conspicuous con-spicuous seat on the platform An mel dqnt that occurred at that time showed the absolute imperturbability of Mr llrice under disagreeable circumstances JohnS John-S H Clark o Youngstown a brilliant orator or-ator addressing the convention on a res oiution providing for the election of senators sen-ators by the direet vote of tile people re ferred to the senate u Ii millionaIres club5nnd dectared thatOhio did riot ngnin desire to be represented In the senate by man who bad bought his seat Clark spoke In this htramh for several minutes Mr Brice only smiled goodnaturedly and chatted with his friends while the harangue ha-rangue was progressing It was impos siblo to ruffle him A year later Mr Brice was chairman of a convention at Daytea when thIs same Mr Clark arose to offer a resolution resolu-tion Chairman Brice recognizing him well smiled demurely as lie saId Will the gentleman from the Eighteenth district dis-trict please send up his name The chair does not happen to remember it |