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Lennox, sportsman, and his partner, Frank Huntoon,
frequently seen in the crowd, represented Wilson's
Whiskey in these latitudes. That was before Huntoon
took up aerated water and made a fortune out of it.
Herman Ellis, also a patron of the Bar, had dipped into
the same fizz water, and found it fine for accumulating
wealth. He had previously made one fortune manufac–
turing all-tobacco cigarettes in Baltimore. A jeweler
named Billings, who had a fine .shop just across Fifth
Avenue, was said to be one of the best patrons for
Champagne cocktails that frequented the Bar.
A little man with a pointed beard turning gray, often
noted in the Bar in company with M. M. O'Brien, pres–
ident of a well known express company of the day,
seemed to know almost everybody present, no matter
when he came in. As a matter of fact, P.
J.
Casey, long
titular "Mayor of Long Branch," knew almost every–
body of prominence in New York in those days, and
everybody liked him. Casey was an official of the West–
ern Union Telegraph Company, and when Long Branch
was a political center and had a race
tra~k
and gam–
bling establishments, and important message.s were con–
tinually being received or forwarded, he had charge of
the office down there, rendering such a high quality of
service that many financiers and politicians felt them–
selves indebted to him. Indeed, many of his wealthy
friends were really fond of "P.
J.,"
as they called him.
In the summer of 1907 or 1908, he turned up in London,
in company with Miles O'Brien and the latter's uncle,
Judge Morgan J. O'Brien, whose guest he told me he
was during a European tour. "P. J." in official title,
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