{"id":609,"date":"2023-08-13T07:39:16","date_gmt":"2023-08-13T11:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/?p=609"},"modified":"2023-08-13T07:39:19","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T11:39:19","slug":"the-great-bean-man-published-july-3-1881","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/the-great-bean-man-published-july-3-1881\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Bean Man [published July 3, 1881]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"218\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/beans.jpg?resize=218%2C240&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-610\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; There is a quaint old gentleman livin\u2019 in this big city now who has lived in it for a long time, and has made a lot a lot of money in it. He is a queer sort of a chap, but the way he made his money is queerer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; His name is Baker\u2013Abner Baker\u2013and he used to have a store in Greenwich Street, and he was known as \u201cthe bean man,\u201d because he made his money out of beans. And this is how he made it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; When the war broke out everybody in New York and throughout the North thought of either one of two things\u2013either helpin\u2019 the Government to make war, or of helpin\u2019 themselves to make money out of the Government; generally the latter. Some patriots went to the front, and other patriots didn&#8217;t. Those who went to the front got the bullets, and those who didn&#8217;t got the money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Some stay-at-home patriots got up a corner in blankets or army clothing, sold the Government scoddy, and made millions. Some stayed at home and bought up all the old army muskets they could cheap and sold \u2018em to the government dear. Everybody tried to corner the Government in somethin\u2019, and so Baker cornered it in beans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; But this much must be said for Baker, he was a square man after his fashion, and he did two things that most of the army contractors didn&#8217;t do. He gave the Government to the exact quantity he promised every time, and he gave it a fair quality. He sold Uncle Sam good beans and plenty of \u2018em, as a patriot, but he got his own price for \u2018em, as a contractor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The idea about beans didn&#8217;t come to Baker at once. Ideas that pan out seldom do. But he made up his mind from the start that he would get a pull on somethin\u2019, and then he thought day and night what that somethin\u2019 should be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; It must be somethin\u2019 that the Government must have, because the boys in blue all needed it. It must be somethin\u2019 in which there wouldn&#8217;t be any competition, for Baker didn&#8217;t have enough money then to come into competition with anybody. He didn&#8217;t own above ten thousand dollars in the world. It must be somethin\u2019 which could be kept stored till it was wanted, for he didn&#8217;t have any establishment in which to store it or to keep large quantities of it on hand. It must be all this. But where could he hit upon the somethin\u2019 which would be all these, upon which somebody hadn&#8217;t already hit before him?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; He walked the streets by day and walked \u2018em by night, he read the papers, he got people to talk about the war, sayin\u2019 little himself about it, but listenin\u2019 to their ideas. But the idea of the somethin\u2019 didn&#8217;t come, though he had been a year and more pondering over it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 One day, when he wasn&#8217;t ponderin\u2019 over it at all, he got it. He went into a drinkin\u2019 saloon on Nassau street once\u2013he wasn&#8217;t a drinkin\u2019 man, but he wasn&#8217;t a straight-laced man, either\u2013and while there he and his friend took a bite of some very nice beans on the free lunch counter, just to get even with their drinks. While eatin\u2019, his friend remarked to Baker: \u201cHow the boys would enjoy these beans in the army.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/beansarmy.jpg?resize=316%2C312&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-611\" style=\"width:316px;height:312px\" width=\"316\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/beansarmy.jpg?w=440&amp;ssl=1 440w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/beansarmy.jpg?resize=300%2C296&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 316px) 100vw, 316px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cAre the soldiers so fond of beans?\u201d asked Baker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cFond of \u2018em!\u201d said his friend; \u201cWhy they live on \u2018em in the army. It is about all they have to live on\u2013beans and hardtack. They can cook anythin\u2019 if they have beans. Why, the sayin\u2019 is in the army that a soldier will \u2018swim a river for a bean.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cAh, indeed, indeed!\u201d said Baker, in the slow way that he had when he wanted to keep cool, and he said no more. But he felt like yellin\u2019 at the top of his voice, \u201cI have found it.\u201d For he had found it. Found the \u201csomethin\u2019\u201d he had been lookin\u2019 for for a year and more; found the way to make a fortune; found the idea of his life by accident at a free lunch counter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; This was about two o\u2019clock in the afternoon. By four o\u2019clock Baker was talkin\u2019 about beans, in his slow way, to dealers in beans, and askin\u2019 all sorts of questions, in his slow, calm, cool, indirect way, about beans, just as if out of mere curiosity, nothin\u2019 more. What could beans be to him?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; And here is just where his real, first-class smartness came in. He went all \u2018round the city, all \u2018round other cities, all \u2018round the country, makin\u2019 bargains for beans\u2013gettin\u2019 the control of the bean market, in fact, of the country, without the bean dealers knowin\u2019 it or droppin\u2019 on it \u2018emselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 All each dealer did know was that a New York man, by the name of Baker, had bought up his beans on contract at the lowest price, payin\u2019 a little money down to bind the bargain, the rest of the beans to be held by him till called for by the man by the name of Baker within a given time, and if the party by the name of Baker didn&#8217;t send for the rest of the beans within the given time, why the bargain was off and the money already paid was forfeited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"378\" height=\"261\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/baked_beans.jpg?resize=378%2C261&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/baked_beans.jpg?w=378&amp;ssl=1 378w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/baked_beans.jpg?resize=300%2C207&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 378px) 100vw, 378px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Then, within the time that Baker had set for himself, the number of troops in the field got to be so great that provisions began to give out, and the boys in blue clamored for beans. Then, of course, the Government called for contracts for supplying the army with beans, the contract, of course, to be given to the lowest bidder, or the man who could afford to furnish the beans to Uncle Sam at the lowest price. There was, of course, no man to put in a bid for this bean contract but Baker, as all the other bean men had bound themselves by written contracts to hold their beans subject to Baker\u2019s order. So Baker put in the only bid, which was, of course, the lowest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Government, in fact, had no choice. It was Baker or nothin\u2019. All Baker or no beans. So it had to be all Baker. The shrewd fellow, with the slow, cool way with him, made over a quarter of a million dollars off of one contract.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Perhaps the best point in the whole thing is that Baker didn&#8217;t really have to furnish any securities or sureties on his contract with Uncle Sam. To do this he might have been compelled to give his little scheme away to his sureties, who would have gobbled the idea for \u2018emselves. No,&nbsp; he merely got the contract indorsed, sometimes by his clerks, sometimes by his porters (who didn&#8217;t bother to read what they were signin\u2019; in fact Baker didn&#8217;t let \u2018em). The Government authorities didn&#8217;t of course know who&#8217;s the names were on the contract as sureties; all they knew was that everythin\u2019 seemed to be in form, and drawn up all right, and that the Government got its beans. For Baker sent on his beans to Uncle Sam at once, and kept on sendin\u2019, so that Uncle Sam had to keep on sendin\u2019 the money, good Government money, which Baker paid out at once to his jobbers, keepin\u2019 the profit for himself as his own little racket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; It was one of the neatest operations I have ever heard tell of\u2013nothing could be neater\u2013and Baker, although he didn&#8217;t care much for \u2018em as vegetables, never havin\u2019 beans on his own table, was a regular Jay Gould in beans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But it wasn&#8217;t after all so much beans that made him his fortune as brains\u2013beans and brains together. He kept his own counsel and held his own tongue. He was the great bean man, because he was the great silent man. But for that very reason there will never be a great bean woman!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[Editor&#8217;s notes: It appears that the profile above is original, i.e. no other writings mention Abner Baker. But he did exist: Abner S. Baker (1817-1885) was a produce dealer in New York City from the early 1860s onward. Though beans may have made him rich during the war, in the 1870s he (and his partner, son John Byron Baker (1844-1925)) had to file for bankruptcy. However, before his death in 1885, Abner Baker and son had regained their fortune. The son, John Byron Baker, was able to retire at an early age to an estate on Long Island, where he became a noted horseman. 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