Show A GREEKS SiORY Alcide Yadoro After Squandering Squander-ing a Large Fortune In Dissipation in Enrope Ships for America where He Lands Without a Penny He Applies for Work Special to THE HERALD Examiner Dispatch NEW YORK March 26 Alcide Vadoro a young Greek came to Mr Conley of the barge office labor bureau yesterday morning morn-ing and applied for work He was a steer no nassontror on the Aurania which ar rived here Tuesday Ho said he would I gladly accept any work he could get for he I was reduced to his last penny Four years ago this same young man was possessor of 423500 in his own right He told the story of his life in a very straight foward way and there is no reason to doubt it is strictly true He was born twentythree years ago at Mansorah near Alexandria Egypt His parents were Greek and his father was one of the civil engineers engaged I en-gaged in the construction of theSuez canal He amassed an immense fortune and upon his death he left it in equal shares to his widow and his two sons His widow died in 1SS5 and the oldest son 1 year or two later This left the entire fortune to Al entre cide As soon as ho obtained his majority he converted the greater part of his inheritance in-heritance into ready money and came to Europe to see the sights Thirtyone thousand thou-sand pounds ho invested in the yacht Victoria He came to England and went in rather heavy for racing He bought the race horse Vasista and dropped 17000 on her at Chester in a single day Then in disgust he went to Paris and hot heavily upon Fitzroy Fitzroy was having a run of bad luck just then and before he I got through with the horse Abide lost 80000 francs The greater part of tho remainder re-mainder of his fortune was invested iu cotton and at about this time there camo the great failure of Steinshraano in which he was such a heavy loser that ho had to sell all his estate in Alexandria including his fathers house This brought linn in about 19000 He returned to England and before six months had passed the whole amount had been frittered away Then In utter disgust he shipped lor America ca with barely enough money in his pocket to pay his fare That Is substantially the young mans story Now he says he wants to set to work in earnest and mako an honest hon-est living and name for himself out here in this new land |