Show RED HOT COINS GIVEN BEGGARS Eccentric Banker V Would Throw Va Water on us llis Sailors NEW TORK yom April BY 9 The Associated Press Press-Hany Many stories storie were revived here Thursday lY of or the eccentricities of o McEvers Bayard Brown former New York banker who died aboard oard his yacht Val Val- freya at Colchester England His treatment of or his crew crew- and hIs original methods of making gifts girts were recalled Not content content with frequently ducking his crew with bucket of water while they rested In their bunks Brown had a a large squirt gun cun made and with this he would steal Into the tho forecastle at night to shoot a stinging charge of water Into the car ear of a sleep sleep- sleep sleep-in Int ing sailor ailor As A rapidly as a his angry victims left left ho he hired others rs at high wages Sometimes he h pursued his sail sail- sailors sailor sail sailors or ors with a red hot poker When beGgars swarmed armed around hi his yacht In rowboats he ho would ask asic What do you want you ou scum of the earth Money Mone- Tell the cook to bring brine a Then he would shovel red hot coin towards the tho beggArs When they attempted to outwit him bini he threw hot water Another of his methods of dis distributing largesse larfess was wa to wrAp checks check and notes around chunks i of coal which ho would hurl atthe at the in 1 beggars beggar 1 |