The Choice of Successful Men! Warning: may cause you to hallucinate small creatures in cliched Mexican garb.

Made by Waitt and Bond, you say? There were two gentlemen who knew something about the preferences of successful men. Charles Bond made a huge pile off the cigar trade, went into real estate perhaps as a big for respectability, and constructed a riotously ornate office building in DC. He was paying for the Lyric Theater in Boston when the panic of ’07 hit.

He lost control of his businesses and was found dead in a bathtub. Which, sometimes, was the choice of previously successful men.