Show 04 NEWLY L RICH YOUTHS OUGHT HOTEL fOR OR THEIR THUR PRIVATE ORGIES Somo men when their natures crave excitement shoot out the lights others jump ot off the Brooklyn bridge or go over Niagara tills falls and a a. few simply pack nil all U their money in lii boxes and barrels and stait aIt for or Broadway says the Scrap Book These few fow aro intent upon stunning tho street hitting only tho the high places sailing over everything lower ver than an getting their story building names and pictures in the tho papers right bump up an illustration of big nig money But usually the finish is i quito quite differ di onto ont They como to town unpack then their little boxes of bills pile pilo their cash in in tho middle of tho street stroet as it were er touch a match to it it then thou loosen their teeth and fracture their lun lungs s shouting Fire And nobody turns m an alarm or pays the tho o slig slightest attention to 10 them A striking incident of this kIn kind happened happened hap hap- only a year yea r or two ago A west west western ern n man had accumulated in in a short time what he thought was a very lar largo o roll How Ho he j cot ot his roll or verbY w what n this his name was aro are acts that cannot be ascertained ascertained as 35 because they ar not of roe rec ord At an any rate he decided d that that Broadway Broadway Broad Bf way Tay needed livening up a bit and that he De was the tho man to do it Didn't Get Name in Paper He ca came e a as i fast frist t as steam stam could carr carry him and got ot on the job According to the stories he told his nis neighbors put out wes west he broke a all records for ism in touching off financial bonfires But there came a time in n eix ix short weeks eek when ho be ord ordered roo his trunks packed and kicked a do dog on the way to the train and all bc because he ho never saw even his bis name in a newspaper after having hay have ing jug spent But once in a decade dead or so gO som somebody body comes alon along who actually makes busy blase old Broadway sit up and take no no- tice Such a visitor came from Oregon this summer cummer in in the person of Ol Oliver ver Barnes who though h a youth still gUll in in his twenties twenties short after iter ties started something shortly 13 1 a he be sanded landed Jand d from the train that immediately immediately imme imme- focused ed the eyes of the town to upon upon upon up up- on him It seems seems that ho and another western youth who has bas a 11 rep reputation tation for knowing how bow to spend money rapidly were ere annoyed an an- noy noyed d on one night Dight by the fact that the places they visited did aid not keep open late enough to suit them Of course tho places closed because the law required them to do so o at it a certain hour but that made no difference to Mr tr Barnes aud and his friend Bought a Big Hotel HoUI Finally a lucky thought struck one of them Ie Lets Let l buy this hotel botel were we're in now said he be and ana run it to suit luit ourselves Don Done said Mid the other r p putting ng out his hand band wheres l the man who owns this place T J The own owner r could not be bc found at that hour but he was found the next day dav He did aid not want to sell but the spenders spend ers era insisted that they mu must t bu buy Eventually Eventually Even Eyen- tuan h he hd mentioned a sum that ho bo thought would end the ar argument but hut it didn didn't t end it the way ho expected it would Youre on shouted the two In n cho rus Draw Dra up your a agreement Mr Ir Hotel Man and ind b bre re is enough tl to bind the bar bargain We want posse possession sion within with with- in In twenty four hours hour And the Uie next night they ran the place pace to suit them themselves Barnes is descended from a good old re respectable family His grandfather was Colonel Oliver Wendell Barnes Barncs one one of tho the nations nation's most skilled en engineers He it was wa-s who made hit bit of commonplace commonplace common common- place commercial railroad track a bit hit of oC art to deli delight ht the eye ere and grace graco raco many a canvas He Ie built the tho Horseshoe curve Early Erly Mon Morning ng Vaudeville But the young yonn man docs does not even eyen curve e horseshoes Spending Spendin money is i his game ame and he says s ho d doesn't care care if he is is- considered easy cas easy because it puts the public off oft its guard and enables him to make master plays s at wealth wealth- I getting etting He insists that he is making more money than ho he is spending Shortly before Barnes bought his hotel ho tel a select few were bidden to join him at 3 a. a am a.m. m. m at a lIa private vaudeville party to be bo given gi in the tho rear room of ofa a cafe just back of Broadway on For fourth ty-fourth street The guests ests thero punctually The artists were culled from the best theaters Those Thoo only were bidden whose intellectual qualifications qualifications were such as to assure their gratification It was not quite PO so o crude as the Seeley dinner nor yet too conventional conven conven- When the guests departed the tho tired milkmen were were dragging n themselves themselves them them- selves home bome sleepily The Tho talent cost CORt oo the edibles and tho the wino OO 1600 in all nIl A mero bagatelle bagatelle baga baga- telle he said This was waa for amu amusement ement after tho the and other pleasure places had turned down the lights The Tho earlier hours of tho the night were not wasted by the tile young man How Ho Spends Young Night Prior to the tho show just referred to there thero was observed a madcap auto speeding alon along Broad Broadway uy It hovered a or BO so before tho the stage en on- trances It received frou frou-frou freight at each until at J lastS last unable to hold bold another another an an- other tidbit of femininity it ehu chugged cd its way far into the dark daric leavin leaving be be- hind bind a n ripple of Jau laughter a snatch of song and an odor of gasoline Tho w goal al was a n way wayside ide inn ninny many miles from tho the evil H eye of ot concern was spread a n supper for twelve Tho rho cost 7 Ono One thousand dollars doar Old timers have seen Been the liko of Barnes Barncs before They know kno the wa way the others wont went They hov know there thero must be bean bean bean an ond end to this golden oden stream lIe IIo has caused them to stand nd aghast t at his ex ex- Hero Itero are a n low fow items Aladdin of Groat White Way Automobile hire 72 a day 10 tips to waiters at each men meal 5 tips lips to barbers barbers bar bar- bers bees 30 0 tips tipa to tho the chauffeur who his whim whether it be the snip snipping ping of the record or the he missing of a atele tele telegraph aph pole by the eighth of ot an inch inch- breakfasts costing coating 1500 banquets costing cost coat ing ins that sum sum- thea theater er parties ceEt- ceEt ing ng more moro thousands vaudeville shows a n thousand or two two apiece an ana and trinkets a private hotel to dwell in in- in there thero you have young Barnes smooth faced Laced of clerical cut spectacled and just 22 22 the the Aladdin of tho the Great Whito VayA Way Vay A little after aCter Barnes Barnes' arrival another another an other young western millionaire came cameto cameto cameto to New York to se see sec tho the town rc regardless of expense Jack West was his name namo and was his habitat lIe He con con- tided that he had bad ad cleaned J up in iii m nine niue years in In mining and was as willing 1 to pay well VeIl for any kind of amusement mado a hit lilt with him He gave ve live five anti ten Len dollar tips tipi to the hotel porters mid and said Mid that he lie expected l to wed a ace ce- ce York beauty before Returning returning to the mines Days of Coal Oil J Johnny Those rhose whose memories run back fony forty odd years will see sec in th this s youth hut a repetition of history They The will toll tell you of the da day dav that Coal Oil Johnny John W. W Steele of rankin Franklin Pa Pa- came caine I out of the oil country anti ana spent within twenty tour ur hours hour u Coal Coal O Oil l J Johnny got his sobriquet from irom that fact that one da day during tho the sixties his mother foster was as blown n into the beyond bc by essaying to quench n II fire firo with ith witha a nY bucket of petroleum Tho The death of the goo good lad lady resulted in an investigation investigation gation which l led d to the di discovery discover that the thc nearby stream was almost wholly petroleum instead of water Its It source Murce was as in tho the Steele farm of which the gentleman g under discussion sion through this strange circumstance became the possessor Prospectors took tho the matter in hand and Johnny ere ore he ho left home borne received i for the farm farmand farmand farmand and its contents Without so 10 much education as would sp spell ll his name Johnny went rent to Philadelphia bought a hotel botel and hung out out out-a a a. a ti sign sIgn sIgn- n- n Everything thin Free Everybody Welcome Welcome Wel Wel- come comp and entertained in a style le that awakened wonder He stepped d over oyer to New Xe York for a afe afew afew few fe fedas lays days nn and the city cit well weB remembers lilt his advent Bootblacks got 5 5 for shining shining shin shin- in ing his IbO shoes Io cabbies received ed twice their most extort extortionate iona t charges wa waiters waiters wait wait- it- it ers pot got ot oO jO tips washerwomen were handed b bills Jl in payment for a R few laundered shirts and collars he lighted his cigars with tb 20 O bills when 1 some somo refractory refractory re re- re- re taner failed him until him until each of Johnnys days flays was a R. golden memory memory mem mem- ory cry around the hot hotel where bore he be wallowed L One hired ired rode day ny Johnny Johnny a cab three blocks and arriving JUg at the tho Fifth Avenue hotel hotl tendered the cabby 50 5 bill hill The cabby could not change it t He said he would return with ith the change dU litter later Johnny told toM his hiR fr friends he never r expected to see e cabby or the 1 lull lulla a again go in The cabman came bl back k however which so o astonished the spendthrift that he sought the tho owner Ivner of the ri rig bou bought ht the th outfit for 1000 and nd cave n fI it to the cabman as a reward for hon hen esty The Tho next day he hI bought a stable wherein the j jehu hu could install his pose pos pos- session e sinn Bought Barber Shop Steele Steel went into a barber shop hop on upper upper upper up up- per Broadway Broad H Ho was in mellow mood and fell How Ho long he slept only the barber knew He had to bo ho routed o out of th the chair bair to make mak wa- wa for Cor another another an an- other customer He Hf arose e astonished hed that he be- had been ben shaved pd complimented the barber upon his art art and bon bought ht the shop for him for 2000 Johnny was as a 1 great wine wine consumer con con- sumer It is estimated that of third one went for wine One da day when he hl couldn't drink any more mor yet Jet et felt that he hen ought n ht not to stop ator buying b he ordered twenty cases S to his room and lumped dumped into the bathtub Whereupon Whereupon Where Where- upon ho he bathed Steele went to Skipp Gaylords Gaylord's show one ni night ht and was so o t tickled with tho the jokes joltes that he be bought the troupe hired hire tho the academy of music for fora a month ordered woodcuts to advertise advertise ad ad- vertise e the show and took it on the road Spendthrift Bc Becomes omes Laborer At Utica when ho be was in a hurry burry to got to New York and there was no DO train lie he bou bought ht an en engine tender ba baggage baggage bag bag- gage a o car and sleeper for his personal use His end i It came within seven months When his millions were gone one he lie went to Kansas and aud hired out as laborer la Ia borer at a day To teU tell the tale of or Howell Osbornes Osborne's meteoric career within the precincts of Broadway would be to write a book the tho title of which mi might ht well bo ho The Tho Rako's Rakes He lie was tho the immediate immediato imme diato diate of E. E Berry Wall Vall as Kin King I of tho the Dudes He lie fell fen fell heir to I He lie went broke in two Years years despite the fact that besides his income income he ho managed to make man many a w winning in inthe the tho stock market When ho he went broke be he admitted that his clothing had cost him a 3 year rear Car and his bis clubs 2500 He lie spent a year lear for cab eab hire and an In equal sum bum at the theaters His lUs yacht cost him a R year jear to maintain nt n and hi his houses one houses one in town and the other in inthe the tho country countrY- country more What ho spent for vaudeville vaudeville- shows private en en- upon actresses anti and for w wino wine l e he said lie he dared not even een ap ar proximate It staggered sla-ered even eYen him P. P T. T Barnum's Barnum a Grandson Herbert Barnum Seeley was vas the grandson of the circus man P. P T. T Bar Bar- ibm num He lIe was ns a spender of note DOtO and is isnor isnow now nor remembered chiefly for tho bachelor bache lor br dinner ho he gave e a upon the tho eve 0 of his brothers brother's wedding Captain Chapman broko in upon uron the dinner much to the confusion of II Little E Egypt the tho dancer and and somo somo others Tho The dinner cost a fortune fortuno It was WIS simply one ono of a type of shows that prevailed pro pre without molestation its patrons being the tho ultra rich ey was disgraced disgraced dis dis- graced by it ft however Ho was last heard of as manager er of a 8 skating roller rink When Whon u Scotty Scotty J. Scott 1 J W. W Scott Scott blow blow blowin in from the Pacific announcing himself aa as tho the only live Jive thin thing in Death valloy val val- Joy hey he lie carri carried with him a R ba bag of gold Jold nug nuggets a wad warl of greenbacks a monTel mongrel mon moo grel Tel do dog and a voracious desire desiro to tomake tomako mako make Homo Romo howl When Whon Scotty Got St Started Ho lie wanted to bet Harriman that he be could beat his transcontinental record Ho offered for a special train from Chicago declined to bet and he be was refused reus the train As it was Wl ho bo broko broke tho the record to Chicago from front Loa Ios Jos Angeles He landed lauded eventually on upper Broadway Broad Broad- Wa way wearing t two o two-carat two shirt studs a ii solferino tie bag baggy trousers and a bland blan smile He to Io immediately installed tho pup in one ono of the best hotels at ata a cost of 5 5 a day Messenger er boys boy received received re reo re- re 5 from Scott tips until tho the messages became too man many and ho got t got wise his thirst bill was about 17 i a day and his hotel botel bill 20 In all ho spent about a day He JIe was wal turned down by the people of I the tho Great White Whito Way for accepting 20 cents cb change n e from a 2 bill For a fin n ish Scotty leaned against a window windowpane indo pane in a cafe It was as demolished Scotty handed out 75 packed his bI bag and rind went to Philadelphia which ho said ho had heard beard was a more placid place When ho got there thero bo ho missed hi his bag bas of nuggets said to be worth 25 Ho lIe returned to the Funeral mountains moun moon dead broke He lie h had rI been in Now New 1 York ork four days Died Broko and Disgraced Ever E remembers a the tho debonair six feet two of Henry Graham Gi Hilton son of oC the late Judge Judco Henry Hilton one ono partner pO of or A. A T. T Stewart His ills father rather left him an n Income of oC H R few thousand a atu I Near tu Ho lie threatened to break tho the will I There was as a ram family II agreement 1 by which I lie he got ot Jl 1 I Ij HH Hel had previously pre married and had hall a magnificent residence at Woodlawn called Tho Thio hodge tho I gift of or his lila father rather Ho lie spent upon n a |