Show SOME ESCAPADES OF S NEW YORK YOUTHS 1 New York Tork Correspondence of f Cincinnati Enquirer From being a millionaire and known as th too the best young fellow in lb all New York to finding himself in iA prison because bec uso un unable n able to pay a shortage of 00 all a brief time is the experience of Peed Fd F now in Ludlow street Jail More than is owing him In bor borrowed borrowed borrowed rowed money yet cant set get et hold of a now n yet within a single sin le month he ho gave thirty dinners which cwt ct him more than On one occasion sauntered teto tito t the Casino the theatre atre atra A new ne production had just dust been put on and h he with several friends man prominent in club cirel Invited el a num nuni number number ber bar of the chorus girls of the company out to dine There were three million millionaires millionaIres aires ares in the i party and although an er cx Pt naive dinner r wa was w s juen t ven r de dc J I cl ned d to allow now a anyone else oise to t aid In pay tug rug for It ItA After A t the banquet the party drove to a downtown where one ol of the meat mem hers he insisted on paying for sonic borne chain cham that had been ordered dered Youngling ared It was he lie was giving the dinner and would not have anyone else settle for tor anything The other man was wa Equally aa as obdurate and after he laid had liquidated a bill for Youngling ev ex cued cu 1 himself got up ill from th the ted table walked out on t and never spoke to any of or or the party afterward I As long as he had monc money he insisted on spending It regardless of I He had standing orders for flowers flors with every ever dealer In the city dally daily wine or darf d dea were placed at hotels and vl n itt hE n could lied lind no easier means of squandering his money mone he would into a cab ride to the oyster market in inest ineat Yest est eat street purchase many barrels and send them to his friends f friendsOn ends I On one occasion a mend frIend asked aked a ked him for fora a match Youngling produced it and about half an hour later there was a similar request The two were silting sitting in the th Gilsey GU e House at the time The young man mam pardoned himself and an lt driving to a nearby grocer ordered ord red OO worth of i matches sent to his friend I One night 1 I saw borrow more i than 2 MO to lend to friends The follow ing day he paid It it and that night gave glye I Ia a 8 dinner at a downtown restaurant The meal maal amounted to and when Yeung ling Hug reached into his pocket to get the money he found he did not have it by 30 Dont let that worry you said the waiter waJter jokingly ne id is Is that so 80 asked the young man in answer whereupon he gave gae his check and the following day was wa compelled to hot borrow row money to make it good goodHe He went absolutely broke giving the and much mU h to the astonishment of his friends for they judged from frn his actions that he was vas still stilt a I i Most Moet of s fortune was spent t i ion I on an actress ante and she yet has several thousands of dollars worth of diamonds j j which he gave her t i I There was no occasion for surprise at atthe atthe I Ithe I the stories printed tie the other day to the effect that Perry Tiffany had gone gon into i bankruptcy I bad been be n expecting it for fora a long time but was astonished to find the amount so small a meager t i There was a time when Tiffany too i I I ranked high in the class elsas of spenders spender but since his marriage ie be has not squandered so freely The young man was generally known ab as a a high liver fIver and nd he lie spent much money mone on social s functions wife did and still moves moves in the best cir circles cles rIca at Newport and Bar Harbor and at Lenox and anti the other swagger places but young Tiffany dropped out ou of the social swim a year vear or two ago and since then has been more frequently seen on Broad Broadway Broadway way than he has been at Newport Tiffany however differs In many re respects respects from froIn Insomuch that he heis heis heIs is only temporarily embarrassed ed for some day he will come co me into In o an independent independent Independent dent fortune I His friends have generally regarded him to be independently dently wealthy in his own right but like other young yo ng men who have had fads for spending pending money mone TIC Tiffany Tiffany I fany has lias lived on a parental arent l income o 0 Fred Lester Leter Let ter who wa was at one time one I I of the best known in N New w York and nd a spender whose reputation coveted two continents is clerking el lit lii a brokers broker 5 office in lower Broadway Eight years ago he wa w worth some something something something thing like Uke In his hiB own name but it flowed as rapidly as water over Ni Niagara agars agar Falls FaUs and three years y rs found him without a cent Lester had a hobby bobbY for tor playing jokes on people and he did so once at an expense of something like 10 to himself He had invited a 8 large party of friends eighteen in all to accompany him on a through New N w Jersey Jerse ratter after be big dinner at atone atone which bieh there was to a I Ione one of the Lakewood hotels Plates were set for 19 and after a huge banquet had I been ordered Lester called a waiter and saM salt he wanted a 8 single porterhouse steak and some pickled beets The dining room was quiet The young millionaire began to glance around him and some someone someone someone one asked What are you looking for Fred Why Thy he answered pointing to the rear of the room roem there Is is a man back there who threatens to kill every one here The party to a man glanced in the di dl direction indicated by Lester As they did so he be reached into his hip pocket quickly extracted a pistol and fired it rap rapIdly lilly Idly under the table As he did to so S J he grabbed the b beets et In his other hand and splashed them over his own face Immediately the entire room was thrown into a panic nie and several men ran out to hunt for the assassin assa sin Another discovered Lesters revolver under the table able and it wa was concluded he had com corn suicide The hotel h tel physician ian was summoned and a 8 kind young woman be began beg benan nan gan g n to rub rob away the beet gravy thinking ft It was wu blood bleed from the millIonaires face Soon the physician arrived and bent over oven Lester who was supposed to be dead He simply opened his eyes ejes ey and gazing into the doctors face exclaimed e t Lord but hut a d dd d long time cooking that steak Lester was sued for Judgment was rendered against him and he paid It required him just jUM one year to rid himself of half halt his money mone and he went to Cairo Gairo where he married a young Eng English lish U h girl He brought her to New Nev York and after living with her hel six months the young woman left him on the ground that she could not stand his mode of life Ufe Six months later Lester wafe wah wa penniless At this time the Lexington avenue cable road was building and after he had bor borrowed borrowed borrowed rowed to his bis limit he went to work as a common laborer One day the contractor In charge went to the foreman under whom he ho worked and asked him the loan of a man for tor forn u i few minutes The foreman picked out Lester The contractor gave him a boUe of ut wine and told him to take It to his wife In street Les Lester Lester Lester ter reached the house to find that the contractors supposed wife wite was his own ownA ownA ownA A suit quit for ociE for the Ule alienation of or af affections ns followed but it never became b came a matter of ot o publicity and the contractor compromised for fer Lester took ok t the money and went to Lon London London London don where he met Charles WInslow who decamped from New York ten years ago with of ot his lathers wealth They Phy spent the together tOg and Lester re returned returned turned turne t to New York having been em employed employed employed almost ever since as a brokers clerk S Winslow married a So wealthy young youn woman in London but she lived with wit him higi only two years At A the end of that time she sh sued and secured a 8 divorce His money gave out anti and an he became a n public charge He was arrested a as a vagrant thirteen en times time in one month Ambassador Bayard paid the tb fine ine each time out Olit of O friendship for his father but finally a n magistrate mag at t Bow street declined to us any longer t accept the money and WInslow wa was sentenced for two years He should gain his liberty ome some time during the present month S 0 S Another tf M f those who made mado mOney niton ey fly in ih the Tenderloin T n as long a as it lasted lusted was Walter WaIter Stewart Stwart wart the son of a Tennessee Tennesse planter Ten years ago Stewart was worth tt K He came caine to New York one Saturday Sat and the following Monday was worth less having become infatuated with a young woman oman who re relieved relfe ed him bim of the difference in 4 single night Stewart Stewarts s favorite pastime was to en eno engage gage o a few hundred seats for a theatre distribute them almost an any place end and nd enjoy lf by bv buying drinks f w the party pam On in one occasion ho lit r nt I h 1 ed the old Rev Revere ere house e at Broadway Bri d dand j and Houston street for i week and there entertained lavishly lavish In two months h lie ho hof Pound nind f himself penniless an and friends bought him a ticket talk back to Tennessee renne ee On the way he be became bec me despondent and stealing Ung a pistol from a teltow tellOW i committed suicide i iThoma t tThomas Thoma Thomas Wilson once once succeeded J i spending I in m the T With Jn in the course of A single year vear t was the boast of his life that he never nc r Squandered quan dered his on on women omen He was waa a member of nearly every im important vort nt club in th the city cit and id owned a home at Normandie Norma nd ie N J 1 where here he ha en entertained entertained entertained on a lavish scale At the end of first year when all aU of his reedy ready cah ah was wa gone Wilsons house was taken I tram from him he wax wu eject d from his apart anart I monts in Fifth avenue a and turned moo adrift bv by b hi his father penniless His Hia only tom oin I ment men t on his former tortURe fortune was vas wasA S Well A ell I had a of vt a good time times spending ending s It Wilson remained in New York and about live Ago quit drinking Wt Wb en n the war with Spain broke out he be entered the service ervice ice and to Is now in the Philip Philippines pines |