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Show Sr DAILY UTAH 8TATE JOURNAL, THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1904. COST OF PLACE PAUL JONES WON NEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE RUSSIANS are familiar llow iiiiiny with the fait that John Paul Jones, the father of the Ainerhan navy, once for the Russians? won a kc.i the victorious that realize How many American navy at Santiago and the defeated Russian army at Port both owe their origin to brilliant victories won by an extraordinary man? Singular, indeed, that the naval greatness of the most advanced republic and the most medieval autocracy on earth should both have been the work of one man. says the Washington Post. After the rexolutiou and the famous victory which he won over the Sera pis, Jones, after a short sojourn In this country, returned to Paris, where he fell In with Prince Potemkin, the f.ivorite of Catherine II of Russia, who proi nted him at the court of his mistress in St. Petersburg. This w.is in 17x7. Some time before this Catherine had made a tour of her realm. Potemkin acting as a sort of advance agent and fixing up agreeable surprises for her, among other things posting over the gates of Kherson the legend: "This Is the way to llysantium. At the same time Catherine had been meddling In the affairs of Poland and many other things had occurred which gave the Turks such an alarm that the lost no time In declaring war against the Muscovite empire. Since the days of Peter the Great the Russians had been employing foreign officers as commanders of their navy, and there happened at this time to be a particularly strong demand for such In the war against the Turks. Consequently John Paul Jones having at that time the most brilliant record in the world, was placed In command of the Russian fleet In the Black sea, to the great disgust of the English, French, German and Swedish mercenaries, and the Russian officers as well, many of whom resigned rather than serve under a vulgar adventurer." Rear Admiral Paul Jones was not long in command of the Rlack sea squadron before he fell In with the Turkish fleet off Sebastopol. A terrl fic battle followed, resulting In a glor ious victory for Admiral Jones, who on that occasion, displayed the same undaunted courage that he had shown in the battle off Flambo rough Head, when, In reply to a question put by the commander of the Serapls, "Have you struck? Jonea replied: "I have not yet begun to fight." The glorious victory won by Jonea destroyed the Turkish naval power In the Black sea. added the Crimea and Bessarabia to Russia and was productive of a grea er crop of hntei Jones received u handsome present from the Empress Catherine, but It was a mere nothing compared with the estate and other presents given to one of the German princes who served under Jones in the engagement. and who had contributed little. If anything, to the victory. Aiiit-rlcai.- a ur t X i 4 &; ' ? j I ' rv i. f , I . 'l! , f4 iji. ' :. r' ' ' s ' t .. i1 . - t - r 4 How much does It cost to break Into New York society? Dr. William E. Woodend spent 30t.-00- 0 and never got within the door. At the rate he was going and the way he waged his campaign he could have spent millions and probably would not have succeeded. Of all the meteors that have flashed over Wall street. Woodend was the most picturesque. With 85,000 he opened a brokerage office In June, 190L He had a narrow escape from going to the wall In the first few weeks. He knew little or nothing of the Intricacies of the stock business, yet In the first year he made nearly 8600,000. He was the most lavish spender, the most sumptuous entertainer, the handsomest dresser, and the most spectacular figure the financial district has known for a long time. Few persons who are well Informed were surprised when hls firm went to smash. The remarkable thing is that he lasted so long. Had it not been for his overwhelming ambition to get himself and his wife In society he var that Wall street looked like a But the gold mine did not so abundantly after the first yield year. The stagnation that visited the market put a crimp In the firm's bank account. Ar-thor of the eighteen The expense twenty branch offices which Woodend had established throughout the country were as heavy In dull times as In brisk, but there was no curtailment of expenses the Woodend business or In the Woodend household. Society was to be won, and any reefing of sails might be taken aa an evidence of weakness. The play had to be carried out to the end. The Woodend horses won nearly all the blue ribbons at the latest horse show. Mrs. Woodend never drove better and never dressed more beautifulFtack-elbur- g. ly. The honors of the show were hers. One of the most expert whips of England had been brought over especially d. ly to teach her how to drive a She proved an apt pupil, and drove In gallant style. A story is told of a man who saw might have made a fortune. of the Woodend traps one day. all There Is one thing that can he said In IKSO I went to Chicago to live and "Who rides In that? he asked, in cirpurchased a dwelling house on what Is to his credit: he kept money to a o mag- pointing ailed the north aide. A house that culation. With his twenty-tw"Dr. Woodend," was the reply. had stood on the same lot had been nificent horses, fifteen carriages, eighAnd who drives in that, and In burned in the great fire of 1871, the teen servants, two automobiles, one that, nnd In that?" he asked, pointing one I bought having been built two town and two country houses, with his in turn to the various handsome 100 suits of clothes and hla hundreds years later. equipages. I made the acquaintance of Lloyd of employes he made a brave show for "Dr. Woodend," was the reply. n a street calls man with what Wall Churchill (the names In this story are "What Is this Dr. Woodend ? he all assumed) a steady, religious young shoestring." asked. Society might have smiled on the man, and I Invited him to dine with "He Is a broker." Woodends and extended its hand had me. Churchill, I understood, had lost What do his customers ride In? hls sweetheart. Aline Haight, during the assault been made without the the visitor Inquired. the Chicago fire, she having been brass band accompaniment. "Trolley cars, was the answer. It Is not a new thing to try to among the missing after that great The magnificent horses and beauI noticed during the break Into the citadel of society with tiful conflagration. carriages have been sold to satdinner that Churchill was very much the horse, but no one ever used so isfy creditors. The house In Seventy-fir- st fine ones as did depressed, and later, when we were many horses and such street, which stood in the name of The doctor loves s Woodends. the alone together, he told me that the Mrs. Woodend, has been mortgaged to house which had stood on the ground horse and so does Mrs. Yoodend, but meet the demands of Insistent claimI now lived on had belonged to David the extent to which they worked this ants. The fair weather friends who Piggott, the only man he feared as fad simply made it grotesque. ate the fine dinners and who trooped The dally parade of their horses at rival for the love of Aline Haight. about the Woodends In their day of From what Churchill told me I gather Long Branch one summer became so glory have drifted away. They are that Piggott was a wild fellow, and much of a spectacle that one indig- sorry sorry for the Woodends and Miss Haight was a mild feminine type nant citizen went to the courts, ap- sorry for themselves. of "Dr. Jenky! and Mr. Hyde," now plied for an Injunction and got It. He Society sniffs and wonders how Impressed by the piety of Churchill contended that the parade Interfered anyone could be so presumptuous as and now led away by the reckless with traffic and public comfort. to hope to enter Its charmed circle by And no wonder. It was the custom There was pleasure loving Piggott. tapping on Its door with a horsea mystery connected with Miss to walk the Woodend horses about shoe. Haight's disappearance In this that town gay in their green and hlack It is the old story of the Yeneer-Ing- s Piggott was also among the missing cockades and with a groom In green with a twentieth century setand black livery at each horse's head. after the Are. ting. Those who know Dr. Woodend best Churchill never married. He died in 1895, I being with him at the time say he is not altogether vain In the THE DEVIL. of hls death, for I had become much display he made of hls possessions. That he had a full allotment of vanattached to him. We are told he does not go about like ity there was no doubt, and that he "I am going to Aline, he said, a roaring linn now; have always believed that she and loved to see his name In print and de- But whom shall we hold responsible Piggott were together on that terrible lighted to create a stir Is certain, but for the everlasting row night, that he held her for the time he saw In all this, or appeared to see To be heard In home, In church and being under hls Influence, but thnt she In it, a means by which his business state, to the earths remotest bound. was advertised and a return would died true to me." If the Devil, by unanimous vote, is noA few years after Churchill's death come In time. where to be found? The grafters saw in him the softest there were a number of burglaries in Wont somebody step up to the front Chicago, especially In my neighbor- mark In Wall street, and many were forthwith, and make their bow and the plays they made on his purse. Few hood, and I never went to bed withshow out fearing for what valuables I kept of them failed to get what they went How the frauds and the crimes of a A general row followed, in which all In the house. after, for as long as the money held Among other things want to We single day spring have up? might gone well enough with had a great deal of old silver and Jew out the doctor couldn't resist them. know. Jones, who would undoubtedly have Hundreds of stories are told in Wall els that had come to me by Inheritance The Devil was fairly voted out, and come out the victor had It not been from different branches of my family. street of the games thnt were put up of course the Devil's gone; for one thing. Jones was as ready Since I had no use for either I de on him by sharpers. A year ago a But with his tongue as he was with hls simple people would like to know man went to him with terinlned to have a vault made in my who carries his business on. sword. Moreover, he was a stranger cellar for their keeping. One morning the time worn swindle of the stock Australian Exchange, to Ruaalan customs and his habit of I went down there to pick out a place exchange book which would be a bisaying what he saw fit and not aa his for my vault. In a recess so dark that ography of the luminaries of the world Patent Medicines. superiors directed, did not set well was obliged to use a candle I ex- of finance. Anyone who knows anywith the Russian nobility. Had he amined the wall closely and noticed a thing about Wall street knows the exA man that compounds or Invents cultivated the good graces of Prince line forming a rectangle about five change would not countenance such a something that Is just a little betPotemkin he might have obtained hla feet high by three feet wide. I tapped publication, yet the doctor gave 8500 ter than the next best thing, is cerjust reward, but the facta are that the the wall within this and to the swindler at once. rectangle to entitled best the share of the tainly over Turks was the won in Instead of victory No offices In the financial district profits to be derived from the sale of giving the sound of stone direct violation, of Potemkin's advice It guve the sound of Iron. Thinking were more finely fitted up than were the article. So he patents or copyand Jonea made no bonea of setting at It might be a door, I looked for a key- the doctor's at 25 Broad street. He to his Interests Patprotect rights naught the ldeaa of the Ruaalan gran hole, but found none. believed In elegance. He was an ex- ented Procuring are goods goods, poor good dee. This offended Potemkin, who hammer I upon different places quisite himself, and hls 100 suits of goods are never tapped was not accustomed to such Inde patented. We have till, striking a certain spot, there was clothes and 100 extra pairs of trousers 20 us to give us of behind trial years As a pendence. result of this falling a click, and one man busy looking after them. the assurance that we have the best at loggerheads with the favorite of be a door what really turned out to kept sprung outward about an The sumptuous appointments of his medicine compounded for the cure of the empress Jones lost Influence and Inch. With my fingers I pulled It home at 58 West Seventy-fir- st street, dyspepsia, sick headache, biliousness, was removed from the command of the with its grotto In the basement, its open. Black sea squadron and placed In indigestion and all stomach disorders What was beyond I could not see, fountains and Its statuary, were the We protect the public as well as ourcommand of the few old tubs which for all was ns dark as Erebus. The talk of all who visited the house. selves by keeping the formula a seconstituted the Russian fleet In the Rut although the Woodends enterdank, musty smell was certainly uninstorm tossed Baltic. A few months of cret; as long as we make It we know I held the candle Inside and tained lavishly, although their dinIt is made right and It cures these dithis inaction was enough for Jones viting. caught a confused view of what made ners were the finest money nnd epicu- seases and he left the Russian navy, return- me Druggists tell us that It Is start away from the ojvenlng, and rean taste could provide, they could one medicine that the sale Is ever (he ing to Paris. He never forgot this In- I didn't pause before I reached the not obtain the recognition they de- on the Increase. To get the best remjustice and for the remainder of his other end of the cellar. But curios- sired. The dlctor was a perfect host life never let a day pass without edy for dyspepsia or Indigestion ask there are few men In town who are ity soon got the better of terror, and the druggist for Dr. Gunn's improved writing letters to the Russian court, I went back. This time I bent handsomer or more distinguished Liver Pills my once price 25c per box. only one to obtain trying command head and entered again the space that lay looking and Mrs. Wood Rent was for a dose. For sale by Wallace Drug of the Russlnn Black sea fleet. beyond the door. charming. company. From the days of Peter the Great It was a handsomely furnished Hundreds were eager to ent their down to the present day the percentapartment, though the hangings were dinners nnd shower Incense on them, EXCURSION RATES VIA UNION age of foreigners In the Russlnn navy dropping to pieces and the carpets but they were of the class who are PACIFIC. has been enormous. The sailors are eaten away in spots. In the renter eager to eat good dinners wherever In very few rases genuine Russians, was a St. Louis and return, 843.50. table, on which were dishes and and whenever they can get them. but are for the most part made up of traces of a supper, Chicago and return, 847.50. though only tracer Some of the visitors were delightful; Swedes, Courtlanders. Finns, Greeks, for every crumb had been consumed, some of them were not. Chicago and return via St. Louis and Odessa Italians. In fact. It might On a divan lay the skeletona of two It takes a world of money to en 850.00. be said that the foreigners have not women In the costume of St. Louis and return via Chicago, young per- tertnln on a large scale In New York. only made but are still maintaining sons. They were locked In each It takes a small fortune to maintain 850.00. the Russian navy. The reason for others' arms. Oil the floor was Limit 60 days. Transit limit 10 days a stable where the horses are blue this Is because the Russians are not skeleton of a man and In nn easy ribbon winners and the traps are the in each direction. Pullman sleepers 'a maritime people. choir that of another. best our manufacturers can turn out. through to St. Louis without change. Russia proper, that is to say, that I staggered to the doorway and re The Income of a Vanderbilt would Tickets on sale Tuesdays and Fridays part of it Inhabited by Russians, and covered my equanimity In the cellar. have been necessary to meet the drain esch week. Stop overs allowed. In which the Russian language Is A. B. MOSELEY. upon the resources of Dr. Woodend. (Continued on Page 7.) spoken. Is confined to an area about Thnt 8600,000 came so easy the first Trav. Tass. Aft tli-toi- . as large as the southern states of Moscow and Kievy, the Baltic coast having In times past formed a part of Finland. Germany. Sweden and Poland. Thua the whole Baltic coast of inhabited by Germans, Is Russia Swedes, and Finns, who apeak their own language and are members of the Lutheran church, while the coast of the Black, which was wrested by Admiral Jones from Turkey, and the Khans of Crimea, Is Inhabited by Tartars, Turks, Greeks, Italians and Roumanians. 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