Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-01-20 | Page 4 | Author Paints Vivid Picture of Col. James Fisk

I I I 1 I A t r Author Paints Vivid Picture of Col James Fisk Jubilee Jim Proves Interesting Interesting In- In Work Vork of Biography BY TED LONG F Of time the fInancIal plunderers and ad r freebooters rs who flourished flouris In Amen Amen- I Ica ca durIng the sixties and seventies probably time the most Impudent and amI certainly the tho most notorious wms WIS Colonel James Jamel Fisk Jr Born in ina ina a small Vermont town he hall had come to New cw York at the dose chose of the Civil war to find after two t early reverses reverse that his talents for tor swindling and knavery et assured blin success in Wall Vall Street It Is of this man that thal Robert n. n Fuller writes in his Jubilee Jim and lie lle t treats ls him In a manner creating as narrator a a. cr- cr r- r lain Rufus Phelps life Ion long friend and publicity a agent nt of time the prince of 1 the ErIe Ills method Is highly r t. t successful for it presents Fisk In a a. alively and which lively engaging manner n be quite Impossible In It a heavily documented or 01 scholarly work Such treatment In fact couil I have serIously obscured Fisk's gaud gau- gau d mess BIOGRAPHY NOT BIASED Fuller tells of Fill Fisk through Fisk's friend time biography is not ot bIased time the author seeks s neither to defend nor justify Fisk ol Instead lie he tells teUs of him as his friend saw hIm and makes nb effort cHort to Influence the readers reader's opinion One can finish the book without feeling Fisk has pre louSy been misjudged or or that lie he was better r than he was n There Is a wealth of detail tn in tIme pa pages Qt of Jubilee JIm Nearly earl pages are given to a of time the gold corner an and Black Irida Friday too much space In relation elation to its In Fisk's life perhaps but not In relation to time the event ent Itself FIsk and Goulds Gould's their thelt handling of time the Erie Erio railroad their series of wars nars with Commodore Vanderbilt their great reat Albany ad m. campaign n and all p pf their the other fInancIal aricks are also amply descrIbed LIFE NOT NEGLECTED FIsk's life lICe aside asido from hIs financial affairs is not neglected nes The princes s famous dIamonds fast horses his love of display AntI masquerade masque hIs posturing as an admiral ad ad- miral Qt a boat line his colon ey In the Ninth 1 regiment and hIs fatal tatal with Mansfield ara all all' let act down clown The completeness or of the Is eident from time the fun full title hick n-hick reads Jubilee Jim The Life of Colonel James Fisk Jr Ilo- Ilo lie he Traveled Tra with Van Circus Made a Fortune Fortune- In Contraband Contraband Contra Contra- band Cotton Lo In Wall VaU Street J Joined Jay Gould In Capturing tIme tho ErIe Railroad Fought VanderbIlt to a Draw Exposed time tho Credit Drew Pan TIan time the Ither Line all as Or Organized d and Put Through h time the Gold Panic and th the DIsaster of Black Friday FrIda Brought ht Opera to America Became Colonel of th time Fell in Love e and wa as Mum dere dered l by b his Imis Bosom FrIend Ed a S. S Stokes Mr Tr Fuller attempts no estimate of Fisk lie merely offers time tha facts fact In a simple manner and although his book Is written n wIthout or iron irony It is very cry easy to read Jubilee Jim Jim Is made to he be en joyed joed MacMillan Company New ew York CIt City