Show millionaire generosity v it Is refreshing to read of deed in a naughty world S that reason I 1 call your attention ass recent one in a neighbor state ex senator tabor of colorado is fid an old man he was once the est man in colorado he was boess b he became that one of the pa pool prospectors in the state his ca was in california gulch and there first wife helped out their living taking in washing for miners tea came the finding of the ore that TL leadville the richest camp of its tt and mr tabor a millionaire he aa to denver and invested in real he built tabor block comer come sixteenth and Larl larimer mer all and opera house sixteenth and C C for many years they were the buildings in the city they c co pile of money but reverses bt tune came to the rich man and 4 long struggles he finally lost thing for years he has been wall w against III fortune his last ven a prospect in the mining region to hi mountains back of Bo boulder bowlder Bow wIder lder cole col he needed money to develop his erty and went to colorado spring ark laid his case before W 8 Strat toli millionaire miner of cripple cr crebell how much money will be asked mr stratton 1 I believe it can be done with said mr tabor 1 I will take your proposition consideration and will answer awl your hotel before night later a messenger inquired foar f J tabor at his hotel and placed itt hand a package and a letter package contained the cheh 1 I 1 quote from the denver news my dear mr tabor the I 1 will deliver into your hands tan th 1 of accept this as a abl a worthy man whose generous 6 rightly rewarded could nevet never money if at any time you yourself financially situated so as luin A the amount and feel inclined send me check may your so you otherwise do not con u belf under the slightest ob an I 1 ask for no security and will t none wishing you the best of I 1 iam am yours truly W S STRATTON stratton was for many years a carpenter and earned the money emch leh he finally demonstrated the 0 of cripple creeks hills at his stratton is an evidence mr am millionaires do not deserve as so many american poor W assert not a man in all america brer r because mr stratton became X alre it is not the ownership of it that makes balth th but the use men friends or foes of the people kindness to mr tabor is Strat tons fining ling episode I 1 hope it may others ethers as a godlike action and gly ely hope the gift may mark the point in mr tabors struggles CHARLES ELLIS |