Show r I WALL STREETS ANGEL t I Colonel Green Has Dropped 35 i in Four ars F H t A I ILLIAM COR CORNELL ELL GREENE W V V who male a flying l to fame In by spending on newspaper I last simply to UlCy Thomas W V Lawson ns as a liar fakir and charlatan Is II a I jumble of Bat Masterson and J 3 Pierpont Morgan H lie came canie to New York four years c ego o the th sole eole owner of a property in 1902 had ad an actual market alue of Today his real friends hate to think of how much he heI 11 I got left 4 Wan WaIl street has been a terribly costly with him HIs Mis money has hns been t taken away from him In n wads that Would stagger hat a dozen national ank He boasted on Tuesday that he had l left to fight On Thursday that the two laya ays of the Lawon slump lat In Greene 1 had cost him cx At that de I ared he be had bad left to light fight fi all his have hone gone is 15 1 10 s secret et to the mt iho have hae followed Ids lis street c closely Many of T rd him hIma as the most moet ever got south or of Pine e tes that the e men place tiOn the remnant of his wealth d not with the his Jes They ar are lower by a aIde avIde vIde Ide HiS title ot of colonel Is purely a cour It ivas given him when with his lil sudden and stupendous bound to en riches lie he abandoned the less sobriquet of Bronco Bill by br which he was known in southern Arizona for over a quarter of ofa a century An Old Indian Fighter COlonel Greene is 15 48 years old Re He Heas vas as born bom In county count a few miles above the present New York City line Une family being very nice I people but not dIstinguished in any va vay He got the w western fever feer before he reached the age of manhood an and fi n ally drifted to southern ArIzona nut far from tIle the Ie can line Bi bee a little town forty miles from the line was the metropolis which knew him best st until he became a 8 mil ml millionaire People who bo thought the colonel suf with cold feet when he failed to go to Lawsons Boston office on time and characterized him 35 s a baLl bad man made a mistake H has hILS a number of absurd hangers cn n and they tell teU storIes about Lis ability as a gun gun fighter his courage nerve etc Conservative men who knew w hint him In the old days das in Arizona declare that while these are arc ridiculous the colonel was as good an all round man as the average expert plainsman lie He could sho shoot t with the best of them rIde wIth any of them gamble with t the e nerviest of them and 1 ver showed showe the white feather in times of stress He herded cattle In a dangerous Indian country and t twenty years ears ago shot at Indians and was as shot hot at by Indians times Innumerable nUke Mr Lawson his friends do not to say BAY how ninny if any he js is entitled to wear on his hisgun hisgun gun Lawson says MYS of four men that he killed two were shot in th the back If 11 bc shot anybody in the hack back and his friends dont admit that he did they t may ay the colonel was justified that he be bews ws up against men who would have shot hot him In if iC they could have hot got hIm first One of the absurd stories told about th colonel is this The en end l of th the see sec Id hd linger of lila his left hand is missing A bullet took it off In one of his In Indian Inman man dian tights fights twenty odd years ago he hew heV w V d surrounded by a small band The tiring brought his cobo cowboy friends up on the gallop The They found him bun lying dl d in the grasa behind lila his dead lie He was wounded in two to or three la one of oC the being Ii the finger A count of dead In was as made the line of oC the cir clr lp IP which the attacking party made Thirteen corp t S w wa the total Is a Great Spender Colonel Greene Is anything but the in appearance today High hiving rich foo food and the luxurious life of f a 11 multimillionaire in this elt city dur during durIng ing the past four years hAS hax plied piled moun tJ or of tat fat on lIim him He is about 5 ft 10 inches tall RId weighs FoundS or more He is not only fat Ill im is flabby Any exertion makes him Rheumatism m a assails at attim tim s ir He has a rIch florid florl l color coler not th kInd due to outdoor nee life but to a IJ liberal bt 1 J of a 8 generously equipped table Th colonel Is good natured but cx plosive In the company or of million airN he affects the manners of the plainsman In the company or of ordin ordinary ordinary ary mortals he affects the tho manners of oC oCth th thic millionaire the Solid sul substantial man or of weighty business affairs the H w utterances es are of deep import to the tall YaU street world Here is the way the colonel came to tol l 1 the owner of It properLY that had a alue of oC and more Justa Just a roes the Mexican line from Crom southern Arizona was a great tract or of pasture which was as purchased in 1885 1585 by byl l s syndicate of Californians headed by r States Senator George C Per kills Id i is Timers were a number of ranches on th propertY One of oC them was called i the he Canausa Cananea The land was in the state Elate of Sonora Year liner after year the 1 nd afforded fair grazing for the cat 1 Je kept upon It ItIn itin In the latter part of oC the nineties Broncho Bill Greene had IAd amassed mon money Y to give ve up cattle herd berd jig and to purchase a I small ranch or of his own in southern close to the Mexican line His ranch pros and he be be ben n to pile up mone moneIn money In hIs life Ure lse he had picked up a practical knowledge ot 01 mining and the value 0 of ore here I is a peculiar 1 law In Mexico Grants rants to pasture lands such ch as the Jerkins syndIcate had do donot not carry with them till titi to certain which may be found on on the theland land Jand such as IS copper gold or silver And per person on can an go on to private lands land Ild locate for gold silver and copper copperI I If r he linds It he can put In a 8 claim for forthe till the land All that he has ha to do is to toJ J lay jay a fair prIce based upon its value rathie as LS a pasture Should the owner refuse t ti I sell he be can get po possession e jon by con proceedings alter after pa paying a prie Copper on Neighbors Land Greenes little ranch was on the fAr fArzone zone zona side of the the pasture land landof landof of the Perkins syndicate was Wag on the Mexican side Greene frequently rode over the property of his neighbors neighbor In he be got an Idea from from his mining 1 that there mIght be copper copier deposits of the Cananea ranch He prospected quietly and In the en end beat cd d eight mines He put In his claims for the property and the syndicate not knowing anything about the the mineral deposits sold out rather than fight co and be beaten In the md end Soon after Colonel Greene property by paying a nomInal sum Senator Perkins who had caused an anin In of the to tobe be bc made said saidI I believe thAt the greatest copper mines in iii the world have been j jt t there here and that there is i enough r j d now In sight to reduce prices tle world over 1 Greene ba a rough or of astuteness aE came east eust In 1900 and nd met various nOn nen skilled In the n rf ff Ht H 1 stock oe it hili ItJin n u ca c ame ne the task o of getting the cash to build b smelters purchase machinery and ande the th e equipment to get their I riches ri ches Into marketable shape He was the owner of every one or t te e 56 shares of the company e exCept I the th e few that he gave gaye awa away to quaIl qualify ther othor o men to act as directors He was 1 prodigal p in his efforts to rais the thene ne necessary ce cash This prodigality hater laler on ause c hIm a vast amount of trouble and a nd innumerable which took way away a hundreds of thousands One of the th e men he approached was was Thomas Toma W W Lawson L awson The man who introduced him to La Lawson sued him for tor l and effected a ti it was said based on the payment of 1 liat was a mere telle to time k net onet o A young woman who did his bis writing w when he 11 here ere tt d p roved d to be of valuable service tI him h im he rewarded to common report r with of stock Had the he t young woman hl held ld on to them she i could c have sold them for t tie e tock s going to 46 45 In 1902 but she he SOld when w hen it reached 25 realIzing Chummed With John W Gates the colonel got the company campan under u Wl way finally lse he settled In this city c ity making hIs home In tile the Waldorf Astoria storia A where he hired 31 t suIte He H e became the chum of John W r Gates Jumes J ames A Drake and other plungers who w ho frequented the Waldorf Valdorf and sonic some of o f the poker games that followed all allbut allut but b ut lifted the roof from that hostelry In his younger days l S the colonel hail married m and had one daughter HIs wife w wC ife died led long before ever dreamed c f being a When first fi came to hm he went to Bisbee Ariz A rIz and amid married Miss Mary Proctor who w ho Is related to the Proctor family or of Vermont ermont V He brou brought ht his bride to the AstorIa here Thre T a baby buby was born the first to toome com c ome into the world In the hotel Then the colonel moved moved I his ls family to th A where the colonel leased lense time finest fi nest suite in iii that hotel He still makes his hia home there When the fame Came of the Greene Con Consolidated s spread and nd the priCe e of its shares hares s made the former cowboy a ver table I Monte risto Lawsuits were brought rought b against again t time the colonel with a free hand h and They were the price of his former f ormer prodigality Most of them were based b ased upon alleged promises of on oue o us rewards he be had made when he hc needed n cash to start up his mines I t George A ll sl sued ed for tor 2000 James Shirley s sued cd for G Mitchell sued for and anda a number of suits for lesser Jesser were brought Several Seven of these thee wOre were settled Some are still pending The former cowboy by lila Ills great grUt got on t temis of oC Intimacy with the real financial kings oC the cit city ll H H Rogers sees hint him whenever he calls at Xo No 95 6 g E H Harriman is the second larg largest t stock stockholder holder in his C company John Johre W Y Gates was a lor of til company for a time Then the they ha bad a disagreement and Dond Gat Gates s got out His Bin WaR Wall Street Misfortunes I In the first flush of his llis great wealth the colonel spent pent fabulous sums One of his closest associates said He colLe bought hundreds of thousands or of acres or of timber r land with no timber on onit it He bought hundred of thousands of acres of grazing land with no grass grasson on It H He l bought t little which began and ended endt nowhere touching on the route In he headed d a 1 or of four men whIch p a acre atre ranch In Sonora M Meleo Io th tIme greatest c cattle ranCh in t tf tc world The tract is miles long surrounded with a barb barbwire wire fence He planned to put head of cattle on then His stock market ope have been time the most costly of mIll his von ven tures ture particularly his sp speculations in his own stock the Several times he has bought immense blocks on margin borro borrowing Illg huge sums from banks and trust companies With a peculiar fatality every time he up with the on bor borrowed borrowed rowed mone money has h happened the lending Institutions heavy additional collateral and bundles of the stock are thrown on the curb In JanuarY last ast he was caught in this way and It was reported that he would lose tn ti presidency of oC the corn com compan pan The s k he had to part with shares was taken talen b by Standard on Oil men at 10 On last the stock sold at 34 The colonel had loaded up wIth shares of it on margin He had to part with a big chunk of this in the perpendIcular drop to 22 The colonel appears to be the only man in Wall TaU street who know that the Standard on Oil group Is after his company compan or that there may t lying reasons for the radical actions o of the big lending institutions every time he loads up with the stock on borrowed York World |