Show I L Re Revived Stories of Russell Sage I I Indianapolis Star Wall street teems with wll anecdotes an of Russell Russel Sage His thriftiness became a byword all al over OV 1 the country co That Mr Sage was thrifty there can cn be no gainsaying Wall Wal street has an old joke about Mr Mi Sage to the tha effect that hanging framed in his office was tt first dollar bill bl he e ever made which he cherished so much that he would not part with It except on the best collateral It I used to be an event in the finan financial financial financial cial district when hen word was passed along that Mr Sage had bought a ne new flew piece Of ot clOthing Some Som were unkind enough to say that no 10 such buch r Ot could Uld be true as za 8 he had h d never hev r been known to buy anything new At any rate his personal pel appearance indi indicated indicated that he ho believed in hI the adage that only a rich man can afford aford to t look shabby Dally Daily Daly for years Mr Sage used to go from his Wall Wat street office to the Western Union building at Broad Broadway Broadway BroadWay way to partake of the free fre lunch that th t was served td tO t the company by Its Us di dl directors rectors ret Ohe Ol e a newspaper news p r man fol tol followed followed lowed him there to try trl tr to obtain an aU Interview on oil al an important financial matter mater Mr Sage showed that he did not want to talk about it itHe It itHe He boarded a Broadway car down downtown dOWntown downtown town and the persistent lt reporter still aWl hopeful hop ul of or a tak task followed The Th con can conductor conductor ductor came around and asked d lOt for fares Mr lr Sage never budged The Th conductor was getting impatient tad and It I was evident that some one would have hare to pay la The reporter had fished up a nickel for himself but he dived Into his pocket again so no one was I I put oft off of the car cal Mr Ir Sage brightening up perceptibly said Thank you but did not offer ofer to reimburse for the fare C le leThe The reporter porter r got his reward however ho Weer In the interview Once again this newspaper r nan man en encountered encountered encountered countered Mr Sage at the corner of pf Broadway and Cortland street on his way ay to o the elevated el railroad station bound A newsboy had liao proffered his evening papers and Mr 11 Sage had taken one He Ie offered a dime The boy could not change It h hand and alid was trying to secure cents for It from nearby real y banana and peanut ped peddlers peddlers dIem Mr l Sage was keeping a watch watchful watchful ful eye upon him all aU the time Said the reporter to the aged financial mag magnate magnate magnate nate Ill Uli 11 treat you Thank you thank you said sid Mr 11 Sage and calling loudly Boy Boy Boyhe Boyhe Boyhe he summoned back baek his dime and as smiles overspread his face the reporter report r handed over oer a cent for the paper It used to be a standing joke of this news newspaper newspaper newspaper paper man that he had invested 6 cents In Russell Russel Sage Contrary to g nenI Wall Wal street opinion opinion ion lon Mr Sage was quite quie sensitive about newspaper stories reflecting on his thrifty habits habis The newspaper man who had Invested 3 6 t cents In him had hada a 1 sample of this one day when he was wasa accused a by b Mr lI Sage of bE having written a story which had appeared appear d in one of the tho morning pa papers er purporting to tell teU tellof tellof of a cock fight In Mr Sages office As Asa a matter mater of at fact some chickens crated had come to the office the day before addressed to a clerk of Mr 11 Sages who lived U d In the country and nt the story told how they had escaped and how two roosters har ha fought taught over heaps of bonds worth millions of at dollars It I also told how Mr tr r Sage Sag had hadr reached ached r the office after tIter the fight and had wanted to know all al the particulars and which bird had won on and how he had searched about his office and found a egg In iti his waste paper basket which he had carefully wrapped up un for his breakfast next n morning I i The newspaper per man tried tred to convince Mr Sage that he could not have writ written written ten the story as it had appeared in a paper that did not employ him but butr Mr r Sage would have hae h e none of f It ItHe ItHe itHe He said he h had been b en told that the I Ithe newspaper man had been in the office the day before and ard that he did not lut know of any other reporter who had been there th r So suspicious aus and exas exasperated exasperated exasperated was he that he gave Instructions in ruc that his heretofore newspaper friend should not be admitted to his office again This was a 3 nuisance nuhi h e to the th latter HUler as Mr Sage was wa at that time still sUn an ac te I tiva power In Wall Val street The re reporter reporter i I porter wits vas a kept kent out of the office for two years until one n day Mr Sage had told him the th way the story had h d reached ached r the paper that had printed it i Another reporter porter r had happened to visit the of office f flee fice fee for a few tew minutes and had h d noticed the chickens Before the tile bomb explosion that very nearly nearl cost Mr Sage Sag his life it was comparatively ly easy east for strangers to retch reach rech him and converse with him After that event in which the crank cr Norcross was blown to pieces bars bat and gratings were vere put up in the Sage office and no one who could not n t fully fUl explain his business had any chance of o getting in Wall Wallstreet Wal Wallstreet street got to calling the office Sages II That Mrs Sage was not in her hus bus husbands husbands bands confident as to money monO matters is further futher illustrated by several stories stort s that are related rel t d by persons who know the family affairs Sage gave to the San Francisco sufferers fund ana Wall W l street str t stared and gasped gasp d It I Was wag wasa d a vast fortune for Sage to give away kWay W Without ut a possible chance of cit a return That night Henry Clews dews Who wh lives next door dour to the Sages Sag at t 63 Fifth avenue thought he ought to lo tell teU Mrs Sage what her had done for charity Clews stepped into the Sage house and gleefully reported to Mrs Sage I the news He only oily gave said I Mrs rs Sage m in n surprise He ite Ie to have given 1000 she added in a i regretful way It I was explained to her herby herby I by Clews Cl Vs that Wall Wail W l street thought It i was a lot tot of money for het her husband to give away awa and arid that the financial men m mena n na ali a rejoiced that he had shown ten tendencies tender tendencies les toward charity der 4 One of Sages s In Ih re regard regard regard gard to the expenditure of money was ivas to borrow borr W newspapers p rs when he could uld It I is related of him that hat he would stand on a street corner searching through his pockets pocket the hope of find finding findIng ing a cent EO that he would not have to break a nickel l This occurred only when he had to get g t the paper quick and saw no way w y of getting his Information Information mation maton from else paper He would twist the nickel about In his fingers and part With wih it regret regretfully regretfully t truth fully ruth If tr I he could not hot turn tutt out a penny pOnny from his pockets and grabbing change and paper r would wo ld look as rita as though pa about ab ut to t foreclose f f cl se a n mortgage g Another of his habits habis In this was waa 0 o leave his house every every night and walk he hated to pay car c r fare fate as tie much as tia ls anything else els to t the Grand Union hotel h tel where he Would w uld gather up the th evening pap papers rs on OTt the tables and chairs h irs and use the hotel l reading r room m until he h had read r t all |