Show MANY DUPES OF PROMOTER How a former St Lo Louis LollIs man Sor bor- borrowed for for- Sorrowed rowed from his friends at Intervals until he had bad obtained a total total of Is the story related inthe in inthe Intha the bankruptcy court In San Luis 1 Obispo Calif where E EG G Lewis Is explaining how bow he carried on his game of ot promotion and finally fall ed The ordinary man will Wonder how bow a plunger can borrow and keep on borrowing until be ho has bas received millions Bejamin Franklin cautioning his friends to value alue slue money and to save saId To To know how difficult It t Is to get money try sometimes some limes to bor bor- borrow borrow row a few dollars Benjamin had never come coma In con con- contact contact contact tact with a man of the power of borrowing possessed by E B G Lewis The bankrupt must have hayo a a per per- persuasive persuasive manner with a mind filled WIth wild dreams Lewis was In southern California real estate estale oil and mining and when flush with money he had ar ar- arranged arranged ranged to finance a dally daily paper in Los Angeles Had he succeeded In his ventures he would Two have haV been r Jj h pointed to as one of ot Americas America's suc- suc successful sue suc successful financiers Today he Is smuggling to save something from the wreck and sufficient credit to meet his laundry and board bills |