Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 171, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1910 — The Miser of Sag Harbor. [ARTICLE]

The Miser of Sag Harbor.

“Economy,” said Daniel W. Field, the millionaire shoe manufacturer of Boston, who at the age of forty-five has entered Harvard, “economy is essential to wealth, but by economy I don’t mean niggardliness. “Too many men fall to attain to wealth because they practise / a cheeseparing and mean economy that gets everybody down on them. “They practise, in fact, an economy like that of old William Brewster of Sag Harbor. William, you know, would never buy oysters because he couldn’t eat shells and all."