Tag: philanthropic rich people

• The Shadows We Leave

  What a strange mix of altruistic and puritanical compulsion. Spencer Trask made his fortune on Wall Street betting on the future–the future of transportation (railroads), news (he saved the New York Times from bankruptcy) and light (he invested heavily in Thomas Edison’s works). Yet the idea of gamblers roaming the streets of Saratoga Springs in…

  Adrienne Morris

  September 24, 2014

  19th Century Art, Beautiful Images, inspirational, Men, United States History

  19th century mansion, 2014 Yaddo Tour, Art, casinos, Gambling, Gilded Age, life and death, philanthropic rich people, Robber Barons, sin, Spencer Trask, Yaddo