| Show A FAMOUS AMERICAN A conspicuous feature of last bundas dan Is new york world Is ie its account of the speeding of the vamoose for the benefit of thone thome not thoroughly posted on OD the most important concern re of the nation we will explain that the vamoose is 18 a toy steamboat built for mr W R hearst the heir to the estate of the late senator hearst of california also the proprietor and nominal manager in chief of the san francisco jex ainther the vamoose sel is not dot much over a hundred feet long and will not dot carry a hundred people but it cost more than a hundred thousand dollars all told somebody is likely to ask what mr hearst with the affairs of a great newspaper to look after and a large share of twenty millions to amuse himself with during off hours could want with this thin hundred thousand dollar babbie one would woula think that such a new newspaper sparer alone would be sufficient to occupy the energies of one pretty good intellect the secret of the matter isabe young mans ambi ambitions ions are strictly modern he yearns for public attention of the broa broadest deet and most comprehensive character possible millionaires are getting to be very common people and the fame of great editors necessarily has its limitation which are a vexation to the expansive spirits of an american model of the latest mt cast to compass this idea of human grandeur completely mr hearst could see flee that neither the newspaper nor the was the right thing such corn com greatness great nees he could disco v 1 er in just one direction if he would be great among all men and aad have haw hi name re sounded with op approbation probation from all human months at once he be must be a great sport this Is ie why her he has paid a hundred thousand more or lesa for a plaything but the money has purchased him the most excellent toy of its ita kind that any man ever owned the T vamoose P P will scud past and around the swiftest scudder that has haa yet been launched it has made the loafing gentry of now new york green with envy and has ban during its ito brief existence of a few months made mr hearst the most famous sport in all the earth the name of the owner of the vamoose has been on more tongues since the thing was waa christened than W E dalstone dad stone by far who will say that this young mans head was not level we have no especial interest in mr hearst or hit his vamoose our purpose in alluding to the matter is to illustrate a very conspicuous and somewhat regrettable gret table tendency of the times timer the care of twenty millions and the duties of a senator of the united states were not enough for the father of young hearst he had more inore time for breed log ing fast baet horses hones and gambling on their performances than he had bad for the man azemer ag emeit t of his wealth and the duties of the next to the highest office in this nation what is at the bottom of it all we think it is gambling we suppose that these sporting stena senators tors would make a pretense of breeding one fine stock to justify their pass passion IOD but on its merits the race course the boating busi and all the rest of the category of sporting artifices are but the natural and fruitful adjuncts of the gambling house bouse and the same may be said of the speculative attachments of nearly every branch of trade commerce and industry this is becoming a nation of gamblers |
