Show CHIP offal BLOCK young gates very much like his father has already shown the plunging spirit on a small scale some of his escapades Escapa dea in tho field of chanco new york like his late father but necessarily on a smaller scale charles U gates has been knon for several years as a spender now with upward of 30 in his control will be prove to be a spender to an extent to the reputation be has a an embryo or as the eon or john W gates several transactions in young gates has figured and which may be regarded as significant are recalled bere iere while they perhaps no more than verge on the sensational they disclose it la pointed out a character that in time may develop true bet apu a million proclivities it Is recalled that in 1901 charles gates decided he wanted a seat on the new york stock exchange and to get it wrote a check or 52 the rec ord price paid tor a seat up to that time on one occasion john W gates went to texas on a shooting trip and left his son in charge of his waif threet brokerage office one day the latter went out before the books closed on colorado fuel iron bor rowed about shares and bad it transferred into his own came after the books closed he returned the certificates but gave proxies on them to mr harraman Harrl man by a strange coincidence george J gould owned all of this stock he bad planted it about wall street to see what would happen to it when mr gould saw the clever move made by young gates tor the colorado fuel war had just begun and such moves counted he let harraman Harrl man go ahead charles G gates counting the stock until the next day when young gates was overwhelmed ay having served on him legal papers by the numerous brokers from whom be had borrowed the stock ordering him to send tho proxies on it to them and telling him that II 11 be attempted to vote it at the denver meeting they would bring suit or damages gates had run bead on into the law and bad to back out when john W gates was in bis alme bo was a familiar figure and a eavy plunger at the race tracks bo as bis son the latter s best record 1 winnings was made at los angeles brhen be took 28 from the santa anita bookmakers book makers returning to the city on the last day of the meeting young gates much elated paid or a dog worth 50 he then gave it to the cashier ot the alexandria hotel next he procured a 50 puppy but meeting a young woman who liked the animal pup no 2 vanished in oblivion then the young plunger found a hand borne bulldog and parted with S but kept the animal charlie gates has also taken occasional cas ional flings at roulette and faro and fortune usually changed hands one way or the other one night after a banquet on broadway Dro adway be fell in with arnold rothstein and william shea both notorious gamblers and spent jio night at their place of business to the morning rothstein accompanied the young plunger to bis bank where rothstein cashed a check for which gates had written at daylight it the father was possessed 0 a whole genao of humor so la the ton and it has been amply evidenced several times again big sums wera always involved at least in the that found their way to tho public print the following la a sample turn me a trick in the market will you 1 need the money badly this request came over the tele to young gates one morning mr gates immediately bought OU chares of louisville in less than an hour the block had eold at two points 1 ve got for you over the telephone how you want it cashiers the clerk who thought mr was joking replied oh send it in pennies two etring porters were to the ab treasury 40 new pen I 1 liea were procured and delivered the amazed customer la a brabel has tet |