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Rh lock or breaks open a cash drawer does it first in his thoughts before he gets through the door where it is.

Young Williamson despised shams and make-believes. He never kept bad company. If he could not have friends of the best class, he preferred to be without any.

He planned his life and always worked towards the object he had before him.

There were no riddles in his life. The results were answers to tireless thinking and toiling.

At the end of his life, there were no old judgments of any kind recorded against him to be satisfied or documents to be destroyed.

The Honorable Wayne MacVeagh, in an eloquent address, on the occasion of the dedication of the Drexel Institute at Philadelphia, said in commendation of Anthony J. Drexel's gift, that not a penny of the money given by Drexel represented ill-gotten gains. These words, so true of Drexel, are absolutely true of Isaiah V. Williamson's wealth.

It is to be remembered, too, that all his money was of his own earning. He had not inherited any business established by his