THE GR~AT SPEED TRAINS OF AMERICA THE SUCCESS COMPANY, NEW YOR~~'.. ~ ENTS • 1 by the Publishers of SUCCESS ! clober The Fall Sul,scl:iption cal1npaign is on. In the next few hundJreds, and in many cases thOUsallds, of dollars will be spent for ma,ga,~ml~S to be read the year. The better part of this business is direct to but most one year rather a u home M'lprine ofAmericllI. If one year. The world's fleuu and literary monthly. one year .."'''a'....a and improoed uflder its flelD maflllllf'l'i'l'!flt. one year - 6 will be the most pe:rio;;Iicll.l literature ever rel1narkablle offer on the other of the bed-rock IOf­ tor one year • I for one year one year ) R..pIar P,;"" 0 .., Price $1 TheM: two magazines ought tn be in ever)' hume. 3 5. 5 5 INGTON SUCCESS MAGAZINE Cont~nts of the October' Issue Cover Design by ClydeO. DeLand, A Day with Thomas F. Ryan .. ", , ~ , ',!'. Henry 'Hamson Lewis 639 lllu3tratiori3 by Fletener c. Ran30m and Loui3 FI;ri1ing , '. The Great Speed Trains of America " Sa~uel Merwin 642 Heading by Augu3t Henkel, With special photograph3 The Fall of G. Washington Jefferson, (A Story.) Charl~ F. Martin 645 . , Iliustration3 by Fletener C. Ramom ., The Yankee Drummer Abroad H. D. Varnum 647 i . Illu3tration3 by Arthur G. Dove A 'Rolling Stone, (A Story,) H. A. Thompson 649 The Jongleur, (A Poem,) Madison Cawein 649 " The Bankrupt Institutions of Royalty Vance Thompson 650 lllu3lratiom by Augu3l Henkel How Their First Books were W ritten .. ,~' " Montrose 'j. Moses 653 Inspector V~' s Adventures, (A Story') . • AW~~~ry Lewis 655 Il1u3lratiom by E. M. A3he What Has Luck Done for You? ' e>nSo~'Swett ~arden 658 .~ Nate Wells's Love Affair, (A Story,) William R. Lighten 659 lllu3lrations by Frederic R. Cruger A Preacher of Principles, (A Poem,) Wallace Irwin 662 IllU3tration3 by Flora Salinge, Roosevelt's German Days Louis Viereck 672-8 Life's Silent Watches, (A Poem,) Larita Wilson Smith 681 'Business Letter Writing as a Profession Sherwin Cody 686 The Man Who Tnes, (A Poem,) Ernest Neal Lyon 092 OTHER FEATURES AND DEPARTMENTS If You Are WeD-Bred Mrs. Burton Kingsland 663 The Home Garden. Mary Rogers Miller 672 Humor, and Anecdote 664 Questions and Answers, Mrs, Christine Terhune Herrick -673 The ,Editor's Chat . 667 What to Wear and How to Wear It, Mary Le Mcnt 674 The Woinan Who Is Forehanded, Health and Beauty . A. G. Virgus 679 , ¥ Isabel Gordon Curtis 668 The WeD-Dressed Man' .. Alfred Stephen Bryan 682 Mrs.-Herriek;s Table Talk 670 WaDace Irwin's Start . Felix G. Pryme 690 Ask the Author, (A Q!atrain.) Edmund Vance Cooke 673 What Happened Inside, (A Storiette,), Cy Warman 691 \ Digitized by GoogIe 'i . , "., '. ,.. + Digitized by GoogIe Coppt.II," \" GtMt ~'". F,,,to"- O••ooollll-ol... m.1I m.tt.r, Doo.mlller 1., 1904, .t tile poet offIoe Copy"."toc1, 19Of, Illy Til. 8uoon. Comp."y, £Jtte..- R Statlo"O'" HolI, LOlldo" .t Uow York, N. Y., u"de, tIIo Aot of Co"..... of M...II, 1879 U"ln..lty BUlldl"" W••11I".to" Squ.... Now York s CCESS 1YI GAZINE NEW YORK, OCTOBER, 1905 VOLUME VIII. NUMBER137 A Day with' By Henry Thomas Harrison Lewis [I LLUSTRATION BY FLETCHER C. F. Ryan RANSOM] IT is one of the little peculiarities of life that our pi.ns, and "communities of interest" as the halls everyday comedies and tragedies are generally with which to knock tbem about. played without approI?riate stage settings. Some ~ of the greatest events-m fact, most of them,-occur THEY TALK IN 'WHISPERS ..... BOUT MIGHTY DEEDS without the red fire and blare of trumpets considered If you should leave the throng that passes and necessary in the mimic drama. The playwright of passes all day long in the narrow thoroughfare front· the twenty-second century, for instance, certainly ing this buildi11g, and should moun t the score of will be hard put to find picture que surroundings well-worn marble steps tha t lead in to the room occu­ with which to clothe his creations treating of the pying the corner, you still would find nothing to present age. If his themes include high finance, indicate that you were within a few yards of an there can be no background of cavern depths and apartment in which millions upon millions of dollars dull-glowing furnaces and a strange array of glas_ are juggled practically six <lays in the \\'eek, and retorts. The money-making operations of this cen­ where men come with whispering \'oices to talk oyer tury are woefully disappointing in their environments;. business deals involYing the sa vings or the comfort. THERE FINANCIERS PLAY SKITTLE.S WITH BILLIONS of thousands of their fellow men . The room occupying the corner is the hume of For example, you would not expect to find e\'en Ihe )1orton Trust Company. Its furnishings are a tarnished silver half dollar in the somber, dull stone severely plain. There are glass and marble parii­ building squatted like an Egyptian tomb on the ti nand I\'ire cages, here and there, and very fel\' southeast corner of Nassau and Liberty Streets, in people visible even hehind the partitions. There is New York City. There is nothing in the forbid­ an air of discreetness, or quiet dignity, very like the ding structure, 'or in its unimpressive surroundings, unconscious hearing of a born aristocrat. Thi. tru'l to indicate that somewhere within its walls men campany is an ari toera t among its kind. It is well gather, at times, to playa quiet little game of 'kit­ groomed in its appointment, and there i' no vulgar tIes with commercial properties worth billions as the di play of jewelry orllo\!~txeo tboeposits of Digitized by ~UV() \.... 640 SUCCESS MAGAZINE fifty millions of dollars are not flaunted in the to purchase his neighbors' lands, even at an exorbitant price. Like the faces of the multitude. planter, Mr. Ryan paid a large sum,-not for the purpose of controlling When once past the entrance you will the Equitable Company, but rather to put an effectual stop to the bick­ find a short, rather broad corridor leading erings and scandal that were in a fair way to hurt the other enormous toward the right. At the end of this is an holdings controlled by himself and his business associates. It has enclosure guarded by a brass railing, and been pointed out, in the public press, that some mysterious and neces­ behind this railing you will find the first sarily diabolical purpose is at the bottom of Mr. Ryan's action,-that visible indication that you are approaching he is not the man to tie up two millions and a half of his capital, either the inner chamber of chambers. The indi­ for the three thousand,five hundred and fourteen dollars of legal interest cation is in the shape of a stalwart man clad he can draw annually on the investment or for the protection of the in a watchman's gray uniform. policy holders. The guard watches your approach with 8.00A.M.-,AT T .... E BANK In part, this is true enough. He is not engaged in any extensive an attention akin to suspicion. He rises from philanthropic plan of high finance. It is a part of his creed as a his chair and interposes his huge bulk at the gate. ,You have no man to deplore any suffering that may ensue to policy holders or the chance to linger or to look around. His glance is a direct and per­ public at large through maladministration of emptory challenge. You must state your business at once. insurance institutions, but there is no reason "What is it, sir?" this stalwart gatekee~r asks. to believe that he paid fifty times the face Now comes the crucial moment. You see a massive oaken door value of James Hazen Hyde's Equitable in the wall behind the brass railing, and you know instinctively that stock because of any heartfelt compassion. back of that door is a man around whom there revolves, to-day, the Thomas Fortune Ryan [You will observe the swirling money-mad whirlpool of Wall Street,-a man who was com­ significance of his middle name.] is a business paratively unknown to the general public three months ago, and who, man of the ultramodern type. by one of the most dramatic and unexpected coups in the history of He is engaged in playing a game that is high finance, vaulted in a single night to the topmost rung of the specu­ '0.30 A. M.-D,RECTORS. quite popular, these days,-at least, with a lative financial ladder. MEETING certain small and select group of men. Any- You ask if Mr. Thomas F. Ryan is in, and present your card or one can obtain a fairly clear idea of the game, the letter of introduction with which you may with its methods and stakes, by glancing through a most interesting and be armed. A secretary appears, in response comprehensive book entitled "The Directory of Directors," or another to a summons, and by a few direct ques­ hook, red of cover and equally entertaining, called"Moody's Manual." tions learns your business. In nine cases out The former book gives the names of the players and some idea of of ten he will promise very courteously to the stakes, while the latter goes into greater detail. From these books bring the matter to Mr.