Show READS LIKE ROMANCE CAREER OF MAN WHO STARTED AS PENNILESS BOY None of tho the Millionaires of the Old School Had Such Picturesque Personality as Late Frank Work New York Frank Frank Work Is dead He Ra was almost the last to die of or that little company of or American millionaires millionaires millionaires million million- aires who started life lite as penniless boys He Ile r ran n away from homo home when he was 9 years old with In his pocket and he died at 92 worth many millions and with the original 5 gold piece still in his possession Perhaps none among these Amerlean American Amerlean Amer Amer- lean ican millionaires of the old school had such a picturesque personality as Work His fast horses borses were the talk tane of former years His ruddy f face ce surmounted surmounted sur moun mounted led by its its' snow white hair was known everywhere in New York He was born bor tin in Chillicothe 0 O. and showed his independent spirit by leaving home when his mother whipped him b because cause he be had been such a bad boy In school that the teacher had whipped him bim Two whippings whippings whippings whip whip- pings In one day were too much He never saw his mother again He worked his way down the Ohio and Mississippi l rivers to New Orle Orleans ns where lie began as an errand boy He grew up In that city saving his original 5 gold piece and gaining an education and a lIve livelihood bood at the same time But Dut he early saw that the southern metropolis did not him the chance he wanted so he moved to New York Here he entered Wall Nall street and when Jim Fisk and Jay fay Gould and Daniel Drew were making m their fortunes fortunes for for- tunes he ho was also busy making money He Ho became the head bead of the brokerage house of Work Sturgis Strong and while he did not become the master of one of the worlds world's greatest fortunes he was still many times a millionaire In the days of or his bis Wall street activity ity he was reg regarded as a bold plunger and a good loser No slump or panic could deter him bim from the course his judgment pointed out as best and this r l lFrank lI r 4 4 I Frank Work Is perhaps the secret of his success He could lose on sug sugar r and eat a hearty luncheon within the same half hour as he actually did one day in Work was a famous horseman His harness horses were of or national tation He was arrested on many occasions occasions occasions oc oc- oc- oc for fast driving through the streets of New York He had a strong predilection for horses of a gray color and he would never consent to sell any horse he posses possessed Some of his down broken-down old champions survive him now In the pasture lots where he bad had pensioned them The rhe dead millionaire was of Irascible Irascible ble temper and had many bitter quarrels quarrels with relatives and friends He Hele le leaves ves his wealth to Mrs Peter Pete I. I Cooper Coop Coop- er Hewett his daughter and to the children of Mrs Fanny Burke Roche his other daughter |