MR FLEISCHMAN'S FORTUNE 



did I think when I used to go to the grocery store 

 when a kid to buy a tin-foil packet of Fleischman's 

 Compressed Yeast that later on I should be riding 

 for him and be his intimate friend. His firm made 

 a deal of money out of the wastage from the manu- 

 facture of the yeast. Especially vinegar and alcohol, 

 I believe. I know the stable used to be able to 

 get a demijohn of the alcohol — ^two or three gallons — 

 the stuff they use on horses after gallops, for the 

 equivalent of a shilling. 



In spite of his gambling Charles Fleischman left 

 between fifteen and twenty million dollars. 



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