| Show MONEY AWAY It Game Easy and Gates Gatos Was Willing t te Distribute Some San Francisco Examiner John W Gates Gate of or Chicago who ho has made millions In iron and steel ani fought on OR their own ground the Ute Stan SUm Standard Standard dard Oil on clique Morgan Widener and other easterners e emelS to whom be he has pub publicly Sely referred as M kid glove capitalists t tat Is at the Palace with three friends from New York one front from St Louis and one front from Chicago It is Ia a stag party and Gates dates says anys 88 his friends and himself elf are out oat here solely for pleasure They are going to shoot pigeons and ducks over I at the Ute Country club in Marin Maria county for tor three or four days dJS as the guests af of Alex Hamilton Gete besides being a shrewd and andul ul merchant is a book bold plunger In Lt railway and industrial shares From the stories told about him he be has bas in addition had phenomenal luck at cards and on the race track and all in all allis allI allis is I a very picturesque character It was wu at the th Paris exposition expo how however however ever eYer in the summer of IMO 1900 1 that Gates Crates made a reputation as a millionaire Kith I money to throw at the birds Flush Plush with an abundance of French and En English glish coins coin he be began to distribute them In hi a most mo t unique manner He got up vp in ill the BUCel EUrel tower and commenced j I throwing handfuls down among the I great crowd below Th Til Tile surprise of the people at the rafi raf of ot money ny may well I I be Imagined And then what bt a scram scramble his ble for the lucre Gates was wan a very generous god ad directing the little finan financial financial cial storm and might mi have continued indefinitely IY had bed not gendarme arme ascend ascended a ed the tower and arrested him on une ne pic Ion of lunacy j g The French policemen soon sw that Gates was in his hill right mind ana ann rather admired him when he be remarked Ive won about OB oa the French and English races race and I 1 might as welt well leave leavea a of it here It wont hurt me and I guess the crowd down below are ate I not kicking Gates name has haa been mentioned in connection with a number of big poker I games He is credited with having played in a game at a 8 New York hotel In March nee IMO 1 The sitting lasted ted about hours Five wealthy w I men were at the table and is I reported to t have ha changed Ranged hands baM Mr Ir Gates so 80 it is II said won I One of ot me his great veat reat coupe coups was the organization organisation of the Ute American Steel SteelA A Wire company It controlled all barbed wire patents He sold his lake hike fleet of steamers steamer to this company for and wd d afterward was JU said Mid to have remarked remA ked that he got two tavo prices for the fleet In whipsawing the shares of the company he Is credited with making a big pile of money At an another another other time he bought the Colorado Fuel Iron hOn company for JM A per share and not long afterward it was at Gates stands well in Republican cir clr circles mIss cles in Illinois and his friends are try trying leg ing In to create a boom for him JUm as the successor of United States Senator Cul Cullom CUllom lom lout I |
