Outing . nto accumulate real wealth. He started his career as a pennilessorphan, a victim of the guerrilla warfarein southern Missouri during the CivilWar. To-day he owns tens of thou-sands of acres in Missouri, controls abso-lutely an entire suburb of Quincy, Ills.,and is one of the heaviest taxpayers inthe city of Quincy itself. They areproud of him in Quincy. Oldtimersare full of yarns about Tom of the picture post-cardsthey sell in Quincy are photographs ofthe elaborate and imposing edifice thatrambles over many acres of ground, whichis known as the Baldwin mansion. Butt
Outing . nto accumulate real wealth. He started his career as a pennilessorphan, a victim of the guerrilla warfarein southern Missouri during the CivilWar. To-day he owns tens of thou-sands of acres in Missouri, controls abso-lutely an entire suburb of Quincy, Ills.,and is one of the heaviest taxpayers inthe city of Quincy itself. They areproud of him in Quincy. Oldtimersare full of yarns about Tom of the picture post-cardsthey sell in Quincy are photographs ofthe elaborate and imposing edifice thatrambles over many acres of ground, whichis known as the Baldwin mansion. Butthe old air-dog has not lived there foreighteen years. He suffered the prosaiclife of a landlord for ten years, and couldendure it no longer. The tanbark calledhim and he started out again. He loves the gypsy life of the show-man and the glare of the calcium. Butby a strange contradiction of nature hecraves home privacy. There are notmore than six people in the world whoknow where he lives in New York when. BALDWIN IS LUCKY BECAUSE HE NEGLECTS NO PRECAUTIONS he stops long enough to take up anabode. He is content with the typicalNew York City hall bedroom, and dinesat obscure lunch-counters, while his fam-ily lives luxuriously. His wanderlust is almost as strong ashis instinct of caution. He has girdledthe globe seven times. It was while onone of his early globe-circuits that hehad to determine whether his heir shouldbe born in China or on American abandon his trip meant the loss of aquarter of a million dollars. He did nothesitate. The contracts were cancelledand the heir, who is now twenty-oneyears old, saw the light of day in Quincy. This streak of sentimentality crops upcuriously in the Captain occasionally. Onhis key-ring is a battered, strange brasskey. It looks out of place among therest of the keys. He has carried it forforty-seven years. It was his switch-key when at fourteen he was a brake-man on an Illinois railroad. He says itspells utmost happiness to him. It
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