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Show ECCENTRIC MILLIONAIRE. ODD CHARACTERISTICS OFA WIS CONSIN MILLIONAIBt Laid Foundation for His Wtalth In Chicago After Oreat Fire tils at a Three Cent Lunch Countirand Wears (S Suit of Clotlm. Madlaon. Wla Tho artade or n millionaire being arretted for alleged violation of the city ordinaire In leasing property for dltordnly pur poms haa railed intention to tho unique H-ionallly of Frank V Ogden The tapltal city of Wlaoonala cannot hi man) inlllloiiHlrH It k a city of idtirdy well to-do poo pic wto Kilnt llh pride to llohert M. UWIette. a )m- of poor man who haa nmalned tMr deiplle his exlrnorillnary aucce In politic Hut Prank A Ogden I anotier lyie. ami It la probable that no city In the country meen n cltlien alio bn iirh a ipiantlty uf onntradlcatry habile hab-ile aa Mr Ogden III ttaullnf rharac u italic I Ida eccentricity rbe were not worth a million It wouM attract but little attention, but In ami way he i mutate the lata IIimmH ge Ogden wna one of the men who got a atari In the big Chlengo limit 1671 Ii ma) he an hi that hit iroeperlty dut.s from that tragic epleodi With the natural acumen of th imalne mini Ogden aaw bla npimrtunlly and iiibiIh the moat of It He dnkh-d that he could make u fortune If he made the proper Hsu of hla money and ararrely lM-fore the umber of the- fire had died down Ogikn waa negotiating for leaae on nil tho building he could get hold of PomeMlng ready money, (his was an enay taak at thai time. He Immediately ro-leaaed the build-in build-in ga at grtntly ndtuncol flgurea, and to this la due hla rlao In fortune Itlaht alter the tiro properly com menced lo aoar In vnlue, and money commenced lo How In a steady at ream Into the Ogden coffer Well placed Investment Increased hla Inoome, and ho WHin wna known aa onef the city' wealthy men Kor jeor Ondeti haa lived a quiet llfn III Madison, occasionally occasion-ally ruining Into tho llnwilgtil on nc count of hi well known ntralmonlou habits He I one of tho tst abateml on of the Inhnbltanta of tUa rlt). ami any be doe not know let much he la wnrlli lulling hi ini-ols nt a 3-ctit counter, spvndlng n coimldernblo portion of Ids time In the rnpltol parkjjn a rustlo seat n-ndlng the dally pycis which other have discarded, Prink A Ogden, Og-den, the cltlien, wearing n'l suit, has long been atlgmntlied In lie town for hit frugality Ogden, the business man, awecp out hi town foul oulce, have himself, nnd keorouslnesa note on tho back of envobp To those who Inquire M limine ho replies Hint "ho Is n retired lumber merchant, reaaonabl) aureeaaful and atlslteil ' Ogden waa born at Painted I'oet,' N Y swrnewhere about 1120. He deellnea to give hi eaart age, but orne lime ago, In repnne to an In qiilry, aald playfully If nny )oung girl wnnt to g-t married 1 am old enough " Another iierullarlly or hla In Ihla ro- liect I to give hi age aa 10 He la, however, imire than 70 n ho entered the trnlverall) of Wisconsin with tho Mret class In 1SS0, M year ago The Ogden left New York In 18K, atnrllng overland for Wisconsin They paiaeil ibrough Chicago and Prank Ogden aa of the Incident 'That part of the rlt) of Chlengo weat of FRANK A. OQDCN. (Wisconsin's Most Eccentric Millionaire.) Million-aire.) the river waa 11 wet marsh and valued nt 115 1111 acre I bad Just JI5 then, but did not roitclinle to Invcat" Ogden first reel estate v entitle wn In Madison He had J 30 and borrowed 110 more of his mother to make a payment pay-ment on four lot which ho bought nenr tho alnte unlvenll) ground on time imyment Before the next iy-ment iy-ment beenme due he void one lot fur more than the four coat Mr Ogden la aald lo lie worth n million mil-lion or more llelde hi two hotel In Madlaon. ho haa big holdings of Immensely vnluiil.l" take front prole ert) In Chicago proiiert) In Superior. Wis. In Kansas and In the slate of Washington where he riieull) Hold a township of land nt a handsome prollt. Koine time ngo be said he owned n hundred farms In Iwiinslu, and nt one time mined man) mote In Kansas. Madison mini who know him well n He hue the Instinct of buying right A man ran easily get broko 011 hind, but Ogden la too aharp" Ogden got n big start by deal In Knnsna Without swing the land ho bought a big belt which some company com-pany offered lo unload on 111 111 at a big figure Ogden baa faith In tho future Ho buy on n 15ye.tr basis lie sa)s every 16 year each section, nnd particularly par-ticularly each pioneer section, take a big fresh atari He It willing to wait hi IS year to double hi money |