| Show I SPENDTHRIFTS DEATH New York Journal cut Cast off by the relatives whom he had I disgraced penniless and aId friendless at 45 4 William D Holmes a child of tor torI tune tine who in fifteen years years had run fun un i through two fortunes aggregating 50 sat in the lobby of the Hoffman House Hou e last Jut evening and nd faced ced a hope hopeless hopeless less lS future This was wis at 7 o lock Three Thre hours houT later he was dead in the alcoholic ward wardI wardI I of Hospital l a 11 man whose hose life Ufe I I had been an utter irretrievable fall faH i ure I He had attracted no attention in the I busy corridor c of the big hotel hO tel He was vas I well dressed quiet None noticed that I he was w s under 1 the influence of drugs and drink None saw the hopeless hor i ro r in his eyes But suddenly he pitch pitched I ed forward oward upon the floor i Porters and bellboys ran and picked I him up He Tie was wa unconscious and t breathing The pupils of I his eyes were dilated so that they I swallowed un ui the Irises I know this man he comes of a good family said Dr r Elliott to Man Manager Manager Manager ager O Pray take him to a aroon I room roon He lie was taken ken upstairs and for an I hour the doctor r assisted a by others I strove to rouse him They said he was 1 suffering from alcoholic coma and opium poisoning But he grew worse instead Ins ad of c f better under treatment and at last the doctors deemed it test est to send ind him to There he was given giyen Heroic treatment treatment to keep his heart going but all in vain He died at 10 They Th y knew him at the hotel but not as a guest campaign he had worked as a clerk for the Demo Democratic Democratic cratic national committee He hoped 1 for some permanent job if the election 1 went to tt the tite Democrats But when the returns came in he gave up all hope of ofa ofa ofa J a future and spent his ls fust wages for or orI liquor and poppy juice j tl c seeking M e king forget forgetfulness forgetfulness in the ocean oce n of f his misery I Whether he ought death leath no one will over ver know h Later his story caje out piecemeal in dispatches dispatched Pittsburg by information gleaned from acquaintances He was a former and re related related related to members member of the prominent banking firm of N Holmes Sons His father was David Holmes a prominent citizen citi n and a pioneer rin in the street rail ran railway railway I way business of the Smoky City He 1 was wu well w ll educated and alid graduated grad ted from college c But he wa wn witia a rich tieh mans thans son with all the U e weakness and the he vices that come with Idleness I His father died and left him a for fortune j I tune It went vent through hi hh fingers like quicksilver Then hIS aunt Miss Jane I Holmes s died and left l ft him between I and 2 With this money I he came to New York and plunged into the gay life of the Tenderloin He went I to Paris and lived there several years living prodigally throwing his money about as if there were no end to ft it When he was broke he came back to New York Here he eked out a pre precarious precarious carious living livinS losing one job after another an another another other because of his passion for stun stimulants stimulants narita and narcotics He was close to Poverty Hollow when friends got him the job j b with the Demo Democratic Democratic cratic committee This brought him toed food and drink particularly drink Where he h lived no one knows But to the end he wore Vore good clothes and look looked looked looked ed neat and gentlemanly even in his CUPS cu s sHe He had bad long since ceased to trouble his i relatives datives in Pittsburg for loans He had made his bed and he lie lay in it without complaining c His three cotta cousins cousins ins John Nathaniel and W M 11 R H R Holmes will wilt see that the body gets decent d cent burial One of the cousins wired to t New York last night for particulars ag as to his Jis death deathA d ath athA A part of Holmes fortune is said to have haye been lost in a publishing venture with Judge Albion Tourgee the author oT ff uA A Fools Errand and other novels But ut the most of it went in dissipation He never married |
