| Show I THOMAS LIPTON 9Y AND MAN I Story of the Career of the Shamrocks OWl1crA Lad Who Had a Dream Which He Never For a Moment forgotIts Full Realization Reali-zation IIj America In I Handing on tipI I A tip-I from the busy office ot Wall etreet Now York la the crowded wharfs of Wattle from the I lumber ramp of northern llkhlnin to Iht Mellon border lint sooty good American Is I looking nnxlouely toward Sandy Hook walling for the first news of the great International yacht roc Which will It 1 tr Will It 1 to Ihe II llanch Columbia Hit flower of the meet or the fleet Blumrock the pride lit III llmerald lets and 1 the oM world Will the cup of the old America which In elt Ham has held w lone remain null lit or will It 1 lw I carried 1 triumphantly beck to England by Hlr Thomas Upton and his ClfIi built racer Such questions only time tin answer Today everything Hindi In doubt The early confidence of the American tachtemen who once crew nlhulIo i over the beautiful llnee and Iht airy llfhlneti bf the Columbia hit been ftomewhit shaken tine the ominous looking Bhimrork hm been fluttering up and down the Jersey coast like a frightened null after her astounding dh acres lhAIInllc Splendid AI are the lines and the onlllng quallllM of the ColumLI there hu been a feeling of vaunt uneasiness since Hit Irish racer has stretched her canvas In American waters 1 A dark horse say old pea dog sagely I with a wile I wag or weather beaten hd a dk borse as mighty uiultttn lookln Hut the Interest will not oil be on ont tide While Hit Montana cowboy and the Michigan lumberman art waiting 1 for the first word from New York the Prince of Wales Mill probably bo paring anxiously UP and dawn the velvet plied carpet of llmklnicham palace watching fur the lint word I of the race to Mash across the wide Atlantic While the crowded excursion ileamrra of New York harbor are churning and panting after the two flying clouds of hUn hU-n the emperor of Uennany will IHI Impatiently pulling file Imperial muitachloi and wondering how Ida sell on who were tent over to help I man the Irish run have done their work In firort Ceylon 1000 half naked men t and women nlIna monlC that vast e lilllildt lea plantation ° of their great n while mailer will pan around the word r that their treat whlto sabot and Hit J white men of the new world art making I trance trial of speed with little ihlpl that art all tall and no body And ai the fragrant balet of tea art picked and packed many rupee will bt slyly put up in wastore against the ship or the C now world And when the last race It I lost and won and the news has gone t currying on a thousand placing wires all about its world and while outran are being pounded out In I sun scorched JUlrat and newibon are crying the d raw In I the frog laden air 1 or lImon 1 ton there will either bt tear in the eyes 01 Uncle Nom or pndmonlum In ° lower New York bay roc nevi before In the titttory of the world hot A boat race attracted greater attention The great machinery of Intel and kingdoms will Hop the wheels ur commerce will slacken and when III It all over a few million people will my 1 told you ant In the meunlltm Sir Thom John r tone Upton the titled owner or them the-m 8114111 rock find himself the mOIl talked about man In I two hml spheres And with Sly Thom there t It I much to talk about Ills hat been n strange history In that history there I ° a key to the firmament situation Mir Thom la l a man of orlglnallly lit leftist and alwSys l hen defied precedent prec-edent dentIN Ilket to have a public shock up lilt 1 AaI44 J a A X311 r ILL S09 MipuTALC I 6 n 7CA CCYLOfJ 1wIr Y av tb IBM dsSE + j lrtAp + sleeve 1 All hit lift lie has been trumpIng trump-Ing new Hut he Hill another trump hidden away up the letv of that fin maculate tthltt lachllng suit of life Thirtyill years alto a ragged Illlle urchin Used to ill on the busy dock that fringe Hit Itlver Clydt at Glasgow He ipoke with n Iou I and had few friend among the wharf rain of the city Hu he used lo tit on the edge of the Jocks and dream day snots With e > ea of bright Irish blue he used to watch the tnorehnntlnru and the Petitioners anti the m1I salting craft Koine eternally back and forth lie liked 10 watch Ihm and the Yachts that went iklmmlng back and forth 1111 hood while winds The boys name was Tor mlt Lipton He was alto very fond ol watching the big tea vessels from China unloading their 1 and 1 hr Itn d l hlme o h I o h e Io to nun mIng to t ar 01 ehpn ft1 enl tr an x an II o oil OH lhr hl lhtt n I f all he lk1 to r the yarhte that went rep I n1 dow the rlyl and roll that some day he huld Ilk to hn Ih beat end fale 1 Yaht In tea we I J 17 n h 1 II he hr owe a mn I try bean h i i Uoh t 11 1 01 n In the dock > i I 01 h 1 Ih 011 MH so up and dot n post the dirty thliilnir hat rrowdes the else front inn i V hen II am file ih mriCTngtr boy iirning I hlllinn tied I pence a weak anti in ay 1 I > h ill IM a rich mara nl i son going o hone mar-a yacht > < my own i lit will tw the test yacht that was I ever md I Then Ih mom enter bay Would start I oat on him munJn through the artat gloomy Stolen < Its Hut ht did not llo at moil boys lit did not forget hid hi-d The boyish fancy took toot In I hit brvatt He ttlll Mid I ht wa going to bt a rich man some day owning grHt tea vessels 1 laden 1 with fragrant client s Thirtyill team have Passed since the regard mile boy on the edge of a Glasgow dock MM I that moon day he would lie rich and own a yacht What line happened Once that llmtT Tixlay Iht once ragged unit Tomml Lipton has a fortune of IMOffOOOO AI Mitt warehouM docks In Colombo Ceylon Cey-lon lie IkHi of vessels loading with cheats of fragrant tiu leai touch ing just ai It did In the nut of the mile bout llhlilli boy who used to watch the hlpaumongthedockeofdlaigow Those Circle now belong to that same 11111 boy Today over 6000 half naked Cry lowe ar plrklng and I i k ng antI porting ant-I an Id ui f th m labors for Tummh Llplim Ivur hundred and te tily floarllilng btinlnewi houniii Comm i i I in en l ul HrH ain shone each one lee the nm hI Thorn Upton In rhka < and Omaha ht own abattoirs that < old supply the I whole llrtllth army with mat tn film employ I are 10080 whites and A far uml I ireatrr number of blacks artterd throughout Goo remoter regloni or thin earth When the rnweiti nf 1Yames I glottis her Jubilee dome fund fatting ihrough this man takes out his checkbook check-book and nonchalantly writs out a check for IIKMO to go toward feeding the poor of London He u knighted by his tovtnUrri at a reward rr him munificent rha rills He own a i 1wnu tlful plate a Veritable r0lwe rat Os1ARel As leaves In epee Ind lentos hr glues halt a million In found eating houses In London ht chums with the Duke of Turk and hobnob wllh the Irlnct of WI x he cross Ihe Atlantic I In I hit palatial private yacht the Erin but abate and beyond all tills lit U I the owner and the manager ot the beautiful and myilerlouMy constructed yacht filch ll I Hu ihalltngcr for Hit historic cup ot the grieved old America The rumored little Irish lad I who once wandered wan-dered about the streets of the gloomy Scot h city U I now Sir Thomas Uplon the merchant king ot the united empire em-pire 1 Hut In Hu gray blue eyes of thin opulent err hunt king inert li I Hill the lime ol 1 in try twinkle that lurked there Cl yells tko fordid I and un I scrupulous Arm or buslneea have never come to England great merchant I mer-chant to embitter his heart and dull till sympathies Today among till rrl eoa h 1 IM still known as Ibo merry II Inrnutrs r r other mn who are am Ithy UK Hlr Thomas Lipton but then mere ate may WM 01 Acquiring wealth uptnnt average hat been the reward of energy and earliest en iator and uncmipromMng honesty The atiwy of hit struggles leading up to all the final eucmt with which lilt loony lift hoe been Crowned If tier written out In I lull would read tike a tomatoes When this man today rate the wife deck of hit beautiful steam yacht Erin and chance lo feel through Hit ven lllatora the hIM air 1 turning up from the boiler roams below he will probably prob-ably reran the itayi when by the aweat of till town brow In just such H furnace room he worked Ma lunge to Now York As a Maker on an ocean liner Thiit flight from Olfltgcw was Hit making mak-ing nf the man fair Thomas blmil onfeuet that hit early lift and ei lierlenrra In the Unlle1 Btttea were hli thtlon It AmtrlMmie1 him It put a rator Wce on Ida already harp wit Plot KM hiM nil alto done of afire ndniet It taught him to jump at n hn when h paw ono net we why alter knocking about the United t + y w 1 of t to Zia Slates roc awhile young Lipton saw there was money In I the grocery bust I notes In Glasgow Ir any one could only Vkd the r nllhoJt ot carrying on such It business In woe way or another file humble but hardorklllll parents hd scraped up the vast fortune or OOvu1 Inc deed I roc 1IIUh parking ooplodulna their sons wanderings about Allletl With Hilled as a loan Yount IJVlo start Hill-ed a little provision store Ina narrow street of Glasgow not a pretentious of fair to be lure roc lie was his own salesman and his own bookkeeper and his own porter and his own delivery wagon It woo hard work but he I was happy In the oynlnv ho put up tote shutters hlmielf and In the morning he I himself look them down lIuloH Increased but not 10 fait ai young Lip ton II nlt II to As ho a now In th habit or saying he Cored 10 walk 16 out of the II hours of the day Then he dldd lo advertise It was hli tint venture along R line In which he hAl In ee illMlngulihed himself and II Was Ignlflctnt lit bought It of the bigot big-ot hon In all Brolland lit had them decorated with nyly 1 colonel ribbon Then he had them libeled UplonJ Montlen and driven through the otreets of Glasgow A rendition foi Covert The data old Bmtch wives ot hit date old Scotch town wet ai founded Such a thing hAd never before i be-fore brain In I the memory of aunt Iherrd took to talking of the affair and people begin to flock lo the Upton hop lust to let what It 1 woo like Ho indoor people came that the hop grew too i mall The Idea I of a second place l fit I the Hint city occurred lo the pmiperoui young merchant Ho a eee 01 chop woo Secured and then A third and then allll more until london was Invaded and the provlmte of Knglund were Plodded with them and they were even taken to Ireland and the name ot Upton became antoclaleil with the belt tea and the aunt Comma that could bt bought with n limited liocketbook leach new hop was opened with a breed hand And a parade Curh ettab nshment too was 1 hW Ith e 1 M tetchy i awl shone like X a star betide the dingier limpllihled rivals about It lluilneti went up by leant I and bound I llefore he coull replies It 1 Lipton found himself the blggeit retail tradesman In Coolant With the acqulilllon ot wealth came the dam re lo realize A long cherlthed ambition He had IM stores throughout through-out area Ilrllaln and W In London atone Hut ht wanted to no ttlll farther He entail to do away with the middleman to gnw him nun lea on hie own ilantallont and kill lilt own base and In doing eo be able to Mil lo hU million ot customers goods the quality or which and nol depend upon the hnneety or dishonesty ot Hit producer pro-ducer and 1 wholesaler The Idea Ass laughM at Upton let Ihem laugh He Cora I a quiet little trip acmni the AtlanEc and before he returned re-turned to Kngtind he had started a provision factory of hit on In the city ur Chicago At the Present Hint 1000 hog art killed each day In I that same rrh ry Englishmen aremd 10 like these Uplon ham for son afterward IYr y lit + k4 it lr 47t > r t S a 1 ° tl J yfri b L a Ih J R 1 3 d 1 J eA 11 t J1P70NeS CALCUT7A OffICC5 1 I 1 l u Iii t i FrO1tl ti CA MDq LN NL t TATC E y lt f j I I r rT v a ry low another factory had to bt started at Omaha Then the lea business began la develop de-velop When Uptona suttees ai a provision merchant became the talk of commercial circles In I London a number of metropolitan banker who had loaned money to certain Ceylon tea planter went la the big merchant und Invited him to go Into tea planting They were afraid ot their Investment and trembled trem-bled for the Interest on Hit faraway loan they had trade They thought they might unload on Lipton They suggested he buy the plantations on which they had taken foreclosure pro cecdlngi They swore there worm million mil-lion In I It They itt Upton thinking Hut Lipton did not decide at once lit packed hit valise and went to Ceylon Cey-lon He wt over the plantations noon no-on ulna who ht wan or Hit object ot till Milt He liked Hit appearance of those plantation very much They fitted Into his general scheme of things He cabled to the London bankers offerIng offer-Ing them a very low figure for their plantation Cant you do better cabled back the bankers Upton knew the plantation were bps I at hli own figure That li how Upton1 Teal becamt byword throughout world He taw how the ruinous dirt and want of the primitive Chinese method of preparing and packing the leaf wai lotlng money for every lea planter In I the east Hi put III machinery clean and economical affairs that allowed him to underlet his rivals and gave the workingman or Kngland good tea to drink at a mol reasonable figure In a few years the now notorious Ernest Torah Iloolej offered 11600000 for the Lipton business Lipton drclln rd with thanks Instead ot tolling out he himself turned the business over 10 a corporation and Ungllth capitalists fell over ont another In I the ruth to get hold ot work Ut year lId I it k paid II I per cent dividend Mote 1 u onehalf of this mock Lipton In f own When nt the lime of the quern n II monil jubilee Prince of War I a p I posed to give 1 all the pour of Lnmli 4 great dinner In I honor ot the acre n her plans almost fell through Ixcmit of the Impecunlotlly of the wealthy Persons of London on whom the prln Core had relied for support The dinner din-ner was all but given up by the prince In disgust when ont day Lipton learn d of the true Halt ot affair while din 11 with the lord mayor and taking out his checkbook wrote out a check for 1118 000 Since then ho has I given toO 000 to found eating houses through ul London for the accommodation of Hit poor where such paranoia might n mi food at Hi nbeolute cost pike upl ni sovereign mw nt to reward curb generality with a knighthood Tommlt Uplon once the flltncotr mei ncr boy became Sir Thom Upton Hart When In the name of the lloyui tl i Pier Yacht club Sir Thomas first tint Congeal for the long contented 1 Ai i r lent cup there were certain ii i I Aristocrats connected with laHilltm r fain In I real Ilrllaln who neared nt the pretentious teaman They wire aristocrats uy Inheritance and not by worth and they did not like lhie parvenu porlimang Intrusion Into heir rank Hut the lint gentler i n or Europe noon ellled that llttl H1 ulty H mutt be born In igiad Hi it whomsoever the Wince of Wake Co 1I0be With I t no longer of qucttlnnnl I social rank Much royal amem inn glorified him at one Ha when Alb n Cdward grew chummy with the gr < it merchant prince and It 1 WOO Men file it < Ira seller could be nt much n gentl nn As a bon nobleman find more e II respecting a ylchUman than n Dim raven the upper clamors began to i lent and Mid that fair Thomas win rt such a bud fellow after all It In I uul In Indon that when Lord Ilunra n lecllned to allow Upton lo Use the Valk > rlt 1 lit ni a trial hone agaln ht new challenger the 1rlnre of Wit i himself silently but Ignlnrantly i looked the chlldlthly anobblth mil 1 if offering to the Irish sportsman hit can yacht the Britannia The prlmr 10 Prevent any mltunderilandlng In Hit matter look a great Personal interest m he trial nee and no when Fair Th mini Upton tailed for America on the Kiln ho found Ihoeo Hngllth > achtimin who had at nut looked l upon him and hit yacht wllh a jealous eye only tax S14d to kt recognlied by him nt the ham rocks owner bince Corning to Amer lea too late Thomas her proved himself one of the beat of sportsmen and by his amiability and klndllneei and modmy hen won many friends even In the amp of Hit enemy And If In the end It > o fall out that the historic cup it flat old America mutt go back lo End land there 10 I no one whom Amerlrniui would prefer lo tee carrying It back In triumph Chan Sir Thorn Lipton him IIf Hut whether It toes or not It I nl togilher another question It the Hhimroik doe win and the cup li emend eme-nd back across the AtUntlc then the dream ot the little Hcottlthlrlth hoe who used In watch the ships from the dorm of niawow hall have been realized and 1 lie I who wn once knonn as Tomml Lipton will own the fastest yacht In the world YorlIooen I IIAnNVlI |
