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Show 1 BRADY "GONE BROKE" John Oreen Brndy, threo times governor of j'j" '"':r, -, , Alaaka, uadd' to bo tho "tool of tho corpora- 'jSri .'"'fT tlonB" nnd accused of being In their pay. Those ' ' 1 who. believed tho charges thought that ho was fjft s' amassing onormouB wealth, yet today he Is ! '( "' practically bankrupt', with not a dollar to hla r iM name, and ho goes back to hla old homo In .'K WljttiS " Sitka "broke," aa tho minors my. He Ib 58 yW" yenrs old now, and ho la forced to begin llfo .vt WlL t$Xj i nnow, youth, health, strength, monoy nnd friends ' mmJ nil gono na a result of a disastrous Investment. -5 W jjluksf! .Jlrndy ls tho son of a longshoreman who lived j -A '(WT In n .water front tonomont nenr tho foot of Rooso- rf $ , J ; volt 'street,, Now York. When ho renchod Ma 8th tf birthday ho had Bold newspapers, blackened shoes, r 1 1Sk run errands, carried Batchols for travolera and l XiV.vi) : jilcked up junlf. Ho slept In packing cases anil hallawysnnd In n packing cnao a pollcoman found him ono night. 1 Youn'g Brndy was shipped to Randall's Island und In tho Bumijier of 1853 ho was ono of a party of 27 orphans nnd hoinoloss li'oys who wer'q sont west' by tho 'children's nld Bocloty. When tho company reached Tipton, Ind.. Johni .Gjeen, n lawyor, picked Brady out nnd took him homo. Green wrintod to, mako a lawyer of Brady. Brady wanted to bo a mlnlstor. Ho worked himself through Ynlo and finally tortk u degree In divinity at tho Union Thebloglcal1 seminary, In 187S ho went to Alnska as n missionary. Soon business 'begun to dumtind nttcntlon In Alaaka nnd tho missionary' Brndyc found himself trailing rit Sltku. lie becamy manager of tho Sitka Trading Co. By 1897 ho was lookod on us a fit man for govornOr and Rrcsl&n.l McKltiloyfippolnted him. Ho wns reappointed by Mr. MoKlnleyvln 1900 loift by Presldont Roosovolt In 1905. In that year charges wore filed ngalnll'hlm'A Ho wnB accused of doing Impropor things In tho Inturest of cop pomtlltoja, but was exonerated. Gov. Brady's frionda ndvlsed him to resign aftr l aa cleared, nnd on Feb. 11, 190Q. hla resignation wns put In the ImnilB lit Oi'o preiVut. Mciuwllo Gov, Urndy has been Interested In tho plana of II. D. Roy noldB or'fio?tt(n fort the development of Alaakn, nnd all of hla money has been Invested in tho Reynolds enterprises. On Oct, ll It wns nnnouneed that tho Reynolds bank nt Valdoz had fulled. Tho downfall of. Reynolds Is tho causo ot Brady's present difficulties. |