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Show DICK CROTCEK'S BOYS, WILL SOON DID FOn FAT CON-TRACTS. CON-TRACTS. Rtrhard Wants m fjoarr Ha la Alio tod-ln; tl.rltK-ll,, nmt llolh of Hi. Ilo-a Am -Itaaitlnc low I rank In a llolldlar: Conr.rn. (New York l-cttcrl Will Richard Croker l Industriously Industri-ously engaged In thi laik of oversea-Ik oversea-Ik the government of the city of New York, bit two eldest Hunt, Richard and Francis II., 2! and SO )cars olil, re-pectlvely, re-pectlvely, hair darted In to carve mil tbelr fortunes on more prosaic linen. Mr. Oroker'a associations abroad evidently ev-idently have not caused him to frown upon "trade," for, although It wa hi desire that one If not both of hla big boy ahould enter the law, yet when he found their leaning was Inward business, he brought them back from college, told them to go ahead, and said that he would stand back of them 80 now young Illchard Is In Pitt-burg Pitt-burg with the Westlnghouse company, where he la making a study of electricity, elec-tricity, not with a view to becoming an eipert, but almply so as to get sufficient suf-ficient knowledge to be of advantage to blm In the business he Intends to follow. What tha general line of that r 51 P Tfi FRANK CHOKKlt, business will be Is Indicated by the fact that he Is now considering the organization of a company to purchase a 1200,000 quarry In Pennsylvania, which la said to produce a fine quality of foundation atone, and ns the quarry la within four hours of New York City by rail, young Mr. Croker might pos-albly pos-albly figure by and by as the successful success-ful bidder on some big contracts If he gets his quarry. The other aon, Francis II.. has cast bis lot with the Itoebllng Construction company of New Jersey, He and Fcrdlnnnd W. Itoebllng of the famous bridge-building family are really the whole rnmpauy, for they control all of tbo MO share of mnck except seventy. sev-enty. The cupltnl stock of the company com-pany la l!50,OOU, and Its business Is to erect buildings, using as much as possible pos-sible the products of tho Itoebllng' Sons' company, which Includes the wire cloth that Is used Instead of laths In fireproof buildings. Illchard, the eldest of the six Croker children, Is a rather stocky, muscular young man, good-looking, and of agreeable manner. Ho has rather a long head Ills eyes are gra-blue, rather serious In expression, ami yet with n merry tight In them. Ills hair la dark mid heavy. Inclined to curl He lias a reserved re-served but not forbidding manner. He and his brother I'rank hate at-us at-us been Inseparable rliunis, and and both haa unusual nihil affection. All during their student days the boys never let u day pass without communicating communi-cating with their mother, either by Utter, telegraph or telephone. Although Al-though they are now away from home much of the time, they share together one floor of the Croker town house. I'rnncls II. Croker, or Frank, as everybody every-body calls him, Is of lighter build than his brother Illchard, and very much more boyish In manner and appearance. appear-ance. He bus shown talent us un orator, and ho Is the hoy that Mr. Croker partlcularl) desired to become a lawjer. If either of the boys ever enter tha political arena It Is much snore likely to he Frank than oung Illchard, but at the samo time the fact that ready speech Is not essential to utciiARi) citounn, jr. iucccss In the Held of politics Is amply Illustrated In the caso of Mr Croker. Tho boys hove ulwus been chums and schoolmates They first intended the Manhattan College In this city, wbere they began to develop their lovo of athletic sports, and where Frank won the gold medal for oratory when but 14 years old Later Mr Croker sent them to Amherst, but they remained there only a month. The reason given for their withdrawal by some was that they received so murh newspaper attention at-tention that their father was annoyed, but Mr Croker My that the reason was that thn boys were rue down, and he wanted to takn them abroad with him After returning to this country t"e boy were sent to llronn Unlvent'iy, and there, ns In other colleges tny attended, they were received as good students. Illchard was regarded one of the beat full backs that Ilrown er had on Its 'varsity eleven. Ho plavr! center field on the 'varsity ball J team at.l Frank plajed first base. Although they are now busy with li ulnee tnlerrsts, they are both db-vot'.tR db-vot'.tR two hours a day to tho study of law and Intend to attend special lecture courses at the New York Ijvw School together The) say that they do not expect to practice law, but both want to gain admittance to the bar and to possess all the legal knowledge knowl-edge which they may need In conducting conduct-ing their business affairs |
