Show FLOCKING BACK Wall Street Amazed at the thet t Geniality of the Mag Magnates Magnates Magnates nates Coming Home SHARKEY IS CHASING ART MRS SAGE AND DEAD HUS HUSBANDS HUSBANDS HUSBANDS BANDS MILLIONS Special to The Herald New York Aug 3 With all the mil nih millionaires millionaires swarming back from abroad Wall street is humming once more with its accustomed activity To many of these gilded gentlemen n the summer seems to have hav lent a tinge of geniality and on their arrival they knocked the maxim that millionaires never hever laugh into a fI cocked hat Even the snapshot fiend and the ubiquitous ubiquitous tous thus interviewer Int were met cheerily by such notoriously retiring persons persona as J Pierpont Morgan Morg n and John D Rockefeller ler Seasoned interviewers almost col collapsed collapsed collapsed lapsed with wonder on Air Mr Ir Morgans Mor ans ar arrival arrival arrival rival to find that the huge attendant who usually pushed all curious persons away from the magnate was not in evidence and they could fling their volley of questions without reproach As for John D he not only manifested a willingness to talk free freely ly about golf and bicycling but also posed for the tho snapshot brigade Reginald Vanderbilt who came over on the same Bame ship with the veteran oil magnate char characterized characterized characterized him as a delightful old gentle gentleman gentleman gentleman man It is true that William Villi am Rockefeller ler slipped sUpped into the tho country from Europe by way of Canada and stopped off at his Adirondack camp en route for New York But when he was cornered by reporters a afew afew afew few days later lie he submitted with a laugh to tell something about motoring in Eu Europe Europe Europe rope and H H Rogers the saturnine oil trust vice president who happened to be with him unbent so far tar as to Joke with the reporters Wall Walt street stands amazed at these manifestations and Manhattan is beginning to think that its millionaires are almost human Other Notables Back Other persons of note who are back from trips abroad are Deputy Police Pollee Commis Commissioner Commissioner Waldo Valdo and Mr Thomas Sharkey retired exponent of ot the manly art who now runs a thirst par parlor Ion lor opposite Tammany hall hail Captain Wal Val Waldo Waldo Valda do da spent a week in London and another in Paris studying the police systems and he comes back with the statement that thai our police poll eare are as good as those abroad Captain Waldo returned converted to the thes system s stem of or identifying criminals by Impressions Impressions impressions of their thumbs as practiced in London and he alleges that the system has so terrified London thieves that they now wear gloves when they break into houses This of course may be a com corn comfort comfort fort to the householder who goes gOS in for style As for Mr Sharkey he ho went to Paris too where he le apparently spent most of ot his time at the th Louvre admiring the art treasures tre Indeed he became enamor enamored d of at the statue of the Venus de do deMilo Milo Ulo which ha he conceived if It set sit up be behind behind behind hind the tho bar would please the aesthetic taste of ot his Tammany customers I thought he said that she certainly looked pretty dirty and badly busted too But if I 1 could get that Dutch friend of mine on Third avenue to put arms on her and fill in the chipped places and just put a nice ni c coat of clean white paint on her shed do So I told an old guy with brass buttons that Id be willing willingto to pay o or for her What do you ou think he says He told me the govern government government government ment paid for the tho thing So Mr Sharkey came home without his prize and the Tammany aesthetes must continue to drain their schooners without any classic lady to grace the corner near the pretzel table Second SecondS Harbor Needed New York is looking for a second harbor to take care of its overflowing commerce and particularly to relieve the congestion along the water fronts of Manhattan and Brooklyn For this purpose Jamaica bay which forms the southern edge of the borough of Brooklyn and of a portion of the borough of o Queens stands ready to meet her increased need Plans have been outlined which include the transformation of a great stretch of f marsh marshland marshland marshland land about the bay and of at land under underwater underwater underwater water by filling in and into improved harbor frontage and the deepen deepening deepenIng deepening ing of the channels of the bay ba leading Into the Atlantic so as to accommodate coastwise vessels of deep draught It is estimated that no less than feet of bulkhead ad will be thus added along the shores of ot the mainland nd alone The city and the national government are cooper cooperating coop cooperating r RUng in an investigation of this plan Hitherto agitation to make makeS Jamaica bay baya a harbor had had no result owing to the Inadequate funds at the disposal of the rivers and harbors committee of congress which has ha been compelled to attend to ap approved approved proved engineering projects aggregating with an annual appropriation Of Jf about for the th whole country Hence local commercial interests are now looking hopefully to the campaign of the national rivers and harbors congress for fora fori a i liberal policy of waterways improve improvements improvements improvements ments and an annual appropriation of 50 The Sage M With that intent almost Impertinent curiosity characteristic of ot the town New NewYork NewYork NewYork York is now watching Mrs Russell Sage who by the death of ot her husband will have lave the disposition of his estate of 70 00 which It is understood she sh will distribute for charity charIt Many a It woman in Mrs Sages position would probably have allowed herself to stagnate and lose in Interest interest terest crest In the world for she was allowed practically no latitude in money matters her ler husband had no social friends and up to a few years ago he not only man managed managed managed aged all the household accounts himself but in addition did his own mending and darning The picture of the old man sit sitting sitting ting ing up in his meager chamber darning laming socks and sewing on buttons is a pitiful commentary on his mental re Te resources resources sources s Mrs Sage does not care for amusements appreciably more than her husband and she never went to the the theatre theatre theatre atre but she he is keenly Interested in char charItable table work to which she has contrib contributed contributed contributed freely from the very limited sums her husband allowed her Since the death of Mrs Jay Gould Mrs Sage has been in ina Ina ina a sense a second mother to Helen Gould and has been an enthusiastic supporter of the he projects for the betterment of the poor In which Miss Gould is Js interested At 77 71 years ears Mrs Sage manifests a remark remarkable remarkable remarkable able business capacity and itis not probable probable probable able that she will be imposed by fraudulent appeals in the disposal l of ot the great sums now at her command Coup When Samuel Byerley clerk in the of office office fice ice of the American Express company compan obtained an award of Panama bonds bond from the treasury department and successfully arranged the transfer of his claim laim to a big banking concern rn thus real realIzing realizing Izing zing an immediate profit of from to o on an Investment of one tamp stamp Mr Byerley Byerle was hailed all aU over the he country as a clever lever young man Young Toung however he can scarcely be called for or he is within two years of the half halt century mark and has six children the oldest Idest 18 15 years of age Nor can he be called ailed i Ioor by any means for or his hi com corn to h apartment is situated in a rather His coup was no accident but the result of or a 8 study st tY of ot bond jond issues extending over many mah years carL M By private privat td hobby is French lit literature literature and he fa Is to spend his brilliantly won vacation iri iii France taking a trip that hat he has looked forward to for or years vears v ars All Wall street which above all loves oves a winner affectionately wishes him luck I 3 |