John Olin was obviously thinking of someone else --
“John Olin described Harold Money to me as he first saw him in 1913, after John had left Cornell and was working at his father’s Western Cartridge plant at East Alton, Illinois: “Money was tall – six feet four or five – and he had been loading and handling the Velox smokeless powder, which we obtained from his father. It was made with picric acid and he was as yellow as a Chinaman.””
By 1913, A.W. Money was retired and living in England, and Harold had left the U.S. circa 1910 and was off managing a rubber plantation in Ceylon in 1913.
In the back of a thin, 1941, Scribners edition of
De Shootinest Gent’man which contained only that one story, is a second part titled “Recessional.” “Recessional” was a sort of 10-page mini-biography of Harold Money – de shootinest gent’man. Nash wrote “Harold Money was just under six feet, a graceful, well muscled middleweight with a keen mind, delightful smile, superbly rounded educationally, and one of the most adaptable chaps I’ve ever known. With a gorgeous sense of humor and polished by the contacts of high birth, he could put all hands at ease on any occasion."
Velox Smokeless Powder was manufactured and sold by The Economic Smokeless Powder Co., of Hammond, Indiana, while Harold’s father, Capt. A.W. Money had operated The American “E.C.” & “Schultze” Gunpowder Company, Ltd., with works in Oakland, Bergen County, New Jersey, and with offices at 318 Broadway, New York City, up to 1904, when Laflin & Rand took over those brands.
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