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Show ii , Grandmother's way of curing a I !. . :old-wa to take a. little molasses or t ,)' honey, tie a. flannel sock -around the r neck and go to bed until morning:. y Financial wizards of "Wall street y I 1 ' 1 j and their children of Newport cure I , the same cold by paying thousands of dollars as expenses In winter and " j spring., cruises through the tropical J seas, lor-in. some palace In the frozen Is" regions. m Not all the Vanderbilts, Astors, . M Goulds 'and the rest of them are j I violent -spenders; yet when they m need sbmcthlng they go after it and ) K do not 'hesitate at the expense. Sir i ft' Thomas Llpton gets on his yacht i ip. and steams away when. It- gets ' to.o ' hot In the British IsIes--or too cold. I , ' ' The first" Mrs. John Jacob Astor . takes' a trip to Italy if she feels she ; j r needs, a change. Mrs. W. K. Van-derbilt Van-derbilt goes to Florida' If she so de- U sires, and so docs Frank Gould. A Jvf :' trip- to the .Sunda Islands, where rL. ', the tourists can sit under the. shade. B I of the palm trees and-eat Ice cream- K sundaes in . winter, and a' trip to' . fj Alaska, where they can sloop under M woolen blankets in summer arc com- mon fprftlie men who ' havo . the w; j money. , i j! Sometimes we hear, of sOrae-mll-' l: llonalre-who spondshulf a fortune M-.i In a battle with consumption - Then fj again we hear of one whospends a I ' I, million just to get rid of some Httlo If ilMIktf'acbld." At lhe present time y Jt" ; thereJar.c, six millionaires touring the a ' "West Indies- getting rrd of colds. ,r Thatthcy do -not dpen'd -a mijllon ' r! .each ,bn.-thjs particular trip is true- f because Instead of going- in their ! private . yacht and cnterialrilng' a ' . ; party of-sopiety persons on the way they ape on board regular steamers. ; 1 . Among'-the sexletlo Is Wllliani H. t GhccacbrbUgh.' who Is accompanied VN by two' rclafi'vcs and a nurse. Va ' , Among .the . former plungers was tjF J Charles G. Gates. --lie onr said he ?t ' apent- a million' in tips each year. m "t , He always said' he believed In. keep- l 1 1 ' ing all tho money possible In clr- ; culatlom- ' :'f I . Ot the'very riqh men of ''Amc.rlc3, il. 1 Cornelius KJngaley Garrison Billings i j probably spends the-most - money. j is'.npt widely, known, It la' only II i on rare occasions that his name gets H , Into print. He was born In1 Sara- , II : ': t0Sa Springs, N. Y., 'In 1$62. but n4 , was taken to Chicago two ycard , i, , ; later and spent most of his early i life there. His father was the great j i gas magnate of Chicago. After young Billings was graduated; from Racine J,) I " College he entered his father's of- 1 flee. In 1897 ho became president B i of tho People's Gas Company. Of M ! recent yearshe has lived In Now M j York. He has the only big country W estate on Manhattan Island. His $6 I - Placet at the northern end of the . Island ' Is one of the mpst magnlfi- cent In. America. - jfl s GUESTS DINJE . . v . - 6y IIOKSEBACK. ' . !:;.': Billings used to be a greatman-for trotters, and owned somo of-tho fast- i 1 mmWP ITPPER left Mrs. Regi- nald Vanderbilt, on left, and her chum, Judge Morgan Mor-gan O'Brien's daughter. Uper right The first Ars. John Jacob Astor. Center Frank J. Gould. Below Sir Thomas Lipton. est In the world. Ho Is an excellent driver and occaslonaly ho has han-dl.cd han-dl.cd the" reins In private matches. When ho built his Manhattan palace he planned a banquet that would bo unique. Ho wanted to give It In hfs new. stable, which was the finest ever built in this country, but could not ' get tho structure finished in time, and-schad. to.chango his ar-. ar-. rangements. .He gave, the banquet at Sherry's. As near as possible he duplicated .tho stable in which .he had washed to hold the feast. He Had-. his horses taken to the great .Fifth-', avenue-' hotel and his guests dined on horseback. .Tho public hoars' little of.Ilalscy Corwln ' these dnya. Six or eight years ago he was on the front, pago of tho-newspapers frequently.- His father-was Comptroller of Brooklyn boforc consolidation with New York. Old Corwin was a monoy maker. When he died ho left more than-$1,000,000 than-$1,000,000 to hl3 son. Tho son pro-- pro-- ceeded to spend -It, and, of all places, ho tried to spend it In Brooklyn. 'There's nothing spectacular about Hhlsey Corwln. Coney Island had a great attraction for him and ho went there a great deal. It was there that he met Roberta Menges. She was known .as. "the p.carl of Shceyshead Bay." Trjcrc-lsn'ta girl In-all Brooklyn Brook-lyn to compare with her In beauty. Corwln became infatuated with "her and they gat .married. For two years Corwln's progress along Bro'adway was like a procession. irromthe tTmc ho got up , until th'e tlmo' ho went to bed a crowd of parasites attended him. He was tho easiest picklng.the Great White Way . had ever ktiownr He never was . able to say "No.'-' Ills money melted . by thousands and tens of thou'r sands of dpljars. In a lltt.lo more than two years hls more than a million, dollars was gone. Then ho . and his wife separated. ' - JIalsey Corwln, with, not a dollar . of his fortune left, has had to go to work to earn his daily bread. Ho wasn't trained for any trade or educated for any profession. Within With-in six months of tho tlmo that his .U.000,000- vanished ho. knew what It was to bo hungry. He couldn't borrow a penny from any of the hundreds of flatterers who had swarmed around him in his days of plenty and had drawn tho gold out of his purse. Unablo to get anything any-thing bottcr to do. he took a job in tho Subwpy. Now he is a ticket chopper, working tlic handle up and down to macerate tho tickets dropped, in tho box by the peoplo hurrj-lng;to their trains. Many nion.' ' - -. - ''. ' '.- 4 mmm j and women who go by knew Halsoy Corwln when he was tho talk of Broadway. Few of them notice him now. But Corwln says he is happier hap-pier today than he ever was with his $1,000,000. He maked less than 512 a wcok. James P. Brady has mndc a business busi-ness of spending. He Is credited with being America's greatest salesman. sales-man. He used to bo baggage smasher smash-er In the Grand Central Station in New York. Somehow ho got a Job as salesman for a railway supply house. He made up hid mind before be-fore he went out that to be a success suc-cess he had to mnko such an impression im-pression on every porson ho visited that, he .wouldn't be forgotten. The m.cthod .ho employed was to garb himself in tho gayest raiment. Ho looked .like a negro minstrel, except that he wasn't in blackface. Tho men he called on gasped when they saw him or ridiculed him. .What was inore.-some of them gave orders for goods. From that day to this Brady h.aa been a spectacular figure-w.hcr-ever he has appeared. He started as -a salesman "when purchasing age'nts had wider latitude In railway buying than they have today. When Brady travels these days it usually Is In a prlvnto oar. He Is president of a big tar company, vl'qe-prcsldent of the largest railway supply house in the world, and a rtl- , rector In many corporations. When lie. soils now he sells to railroad presidents. Outside of his business he adopts circus methods,. He is the most bcjewcled person on earth He has thirty-one complete sefs of Jewels, one set Tor ever.' day in the month. One day ho will wear all diamonds, "When ho has his diamonds dia-monds on he' is like a flock of lighthouse?. light-house?. The diamond he will have , in his shirt bosom or cravat will represent a fortune. All his flngerf will' bo covered with diamonds. He will' havo diamond studs, diamond cuff buttons., diamond collar buttons, but-tons, diamond garter buckler, diamonds dia-monds as buttons for hi'n undcrT wear: In fact, ho will have diamonds splattered nil over him. ' Another day ho will go to rubies. Everything he has in diamonds is duplicated in rubies and worn as he wears "the diumonds. It's tho, same in regard to emeralds and every other one of the precious ston&J. . . In the days of bicycles he rode a diamond studded bicycle, tho frame of -wJiIcJi was gold. All of his walking walk-ing sticks and all his umbrellas have precious goms In their handles to - match the set of dlnmonds or rubles or sapphires ho may be wearing on any particular dny. The ferrule of each of' his walking sticks has a precious stone at the end.. His collection col-lection of Jewels is worth millions of dollars. He is a husky Individual and knows how to take cne ofj, himself, him-self, even If he is a walking Jewelry store. In one of the great s'afo deposit companies his collection of ' Jewels Is stored. Each day one set is returned and another taken out Ho Is a great man for entertain- . ing. Ho spends tons of thousands of dollars each year in a few' restaurants res-taurants alonsr Broadway. When he travels ho usually takes a lot of people peo-ple with him. He Is an Inveterate first nightor. TLALF MirTiTON VOn A HOSPITAT. About a year ago ho had'to-go to' Johns Hopklnafor. an operation. -He' . was close to death. To show his appreciation of tho work done by tho surgeons In saving his llfo and restoring- him to health ho announced an-nounced that he would spend 5200,-000 5200,-000 in thq establishment of a new department In Iho hospital. The work has been more costly than he expected and he has paid nearly $4 00,000 so far. Ho expects that, before ho. gets through he will have ' glvon 'mora tlinn $300,000 to tho hospital. He also has announced that he is going to give to Now York City tho finest music hall in tho world and endow It so that concerts of the highest class may bo within, tho reach of the- peoplo at moving' picture show prices. Clara. Anita Baldwin, daughter of Tucky Baldwin of California, knoWd how to spend money. ' She is. tho principal heir to the $20,000,000 . left by her eccentric father. 'Her legal residence is a .private car , which sho has. had built to order. The name of this car Is California. When' she Isn't. traveling. around the country:'ho. Is at .'her scent estate. Kaueho r'Santa Anita,, In California',! ' or at her New York home. She has had a magnjlicent yacht built, and when tho Panama - Canal' is open sho Intends-lb bo among the tlrst to mako the trip' from the Pacific to the Atlantic through that channel. fe'irico 1910, yhen tho estate wad settled. Mrs. Slocker, as she i.i known in prJvato life, has paid nearly $100000 for. diamonds and nearly 5100.000. to one dressmaker. In addition to her dressmaking bill she has paid $35,000 for ono ermine eo'aL Sho has two modest coats for ordinary wear. One cost $7,000 and the other $5,4 00. For her yacht alio paid $200,000. To have It In com-mission com-mission four or flvo months will cost approximately $50,000 a year. Her prlvato car cost nearly $100 000 Thoro isn't -another llko it in America. Amer-ica. It has a kitchen moro wonderful won-derful than tho kitchen - of any apartment house. Instead of an observation ob-servation . pratrorrh,' 'It has a veranda ver-anda fashioned on the style' of the California bungalow veranda' Tho drawing room is rich in tapestries and gildings, carvings and oil decorations. decor-ations. Tho moat- exquisite 'of all I J rooms, however. Is the boudoir of the owner. That Is the daintiest room that can bo found on wheels In America. Mrs. Stocker says monoy was made to spend. She In- . tends to get the things she wants, no matter what they cost. There Is no such word -as lavishness, sho says, when you have m6re than r enough money to gratify cvery whlm Mrs. Howard Gould Is credited with having spent. $5,000,000 in., eight years. She used to be an j actress and on Uie sfage was known i as Kathcrlne Clemmons. " Every- i thins sho fancied she bought. Sho ' had a great love for clothes. |