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Show Is it a reflection upon the society of the Occident, or does it ahow a lack of appreciation on the part of western millionaires and billionaires, that they go east to live after making their fortunes? D. O. Mills, the California money king, makes Albany, N. Y., his home. Huntington, the Central Pacific Railroad man of millions, resides in New York; ex-Senator Cbatlee has cleaned up a vast fortune in Colorado, and become a New Yorker; Jim Keene carried hia millions mil-lions from San Francisco, and put them at work in New York; ex-Delegate ex-Delegate to Congress Elkina, of New Mexico, lived long enough among the greasers to pile up a mountaia of money, and is now a Knickerbocker; aud ao the list might ba continued. I f western people are good ecough for these chaps to live among when they are poor, they oucht to be good enough to associate with these whom they make so rich. AH of these money sharps were poverty-stricken wretches once, and were glad to get duck with which to half sola their dilapidated and b&diy wrecked pantaloons, while rusty bacon and creamlesa coflee were luxuries in which they could seliom atlord to indulge. II these "sudden" nabobs are going to cut their old associates in this ungrateful and and sho-U.r fashion, the boys of the west ouht to be cautious and not create any more nabobs. ' |
