The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 3, 1909, Page 6

of the United iy by The Star WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE VERY RICH? f how unearned wealth can curse a young N of a certain young Pittsburg It etaries do not often talk freely omit the name of the subject as related to the w York representative in the by living retary of this ne millionaire wapaper now metropolis forms a rare docu because with ment privat obvious reasons we » experience. the secretary, “is in hie thirtysecond of $1,500,000 per year from an industry a hard-headed Irishman, The business fs valued It Is ao} administered under the father's will by an executor and in the sole interest of the heirs. It has | under a trust agreement, that as long as there is a demand for steel this business must go on, and it can never pass out of my young employer's hands, So, as his great Income is absolutely assured. My employer sald year. He hag an Income founded by his late father at $46,000,000 corporation, eon so arranged, you see, eight years ago, just after his father’s He was full of health and He daily “L remember when. death, my employer came to New York. seemed ambitious to become prominent among men of affairs. established an office, and devoted a certain amount of time to the study of the financial side of the business. son few “He was young, handsome and poasessed a fascinating p ality, and quite naturally made friends, It only required a months to engulf him in a social whirl which caused him to forget his more serious ambitions. He took fashionable quarters in a smart Fifth ay, hotel, and before the first year me to the office to get money was out he only “The bills that poured Into my desk told the story of my em- Firat they pectable friends at respectable restaurants. ors sent to the hotel of a popular young Check, signed with an unsteady hand. Botorious gambier at Saratoga. It was for $25, Not long after this we settled a bill for $6,500 for a rope Another bill was for $9,800 for furnishings for a Central park west apartment, for which a lease was signed for Thousands of dol lars then passed into that apartment for all manner of extrava gances. And I noticed that his wine bill grew larger and larger. were for dinners to rew Then there came bills for flow actress. His first big to the order of a ployer's reckless life was made 00. of pearts. six months “His gambling bill became enormous. He bought a stable of race horses, investing $100,000. He also leased a yacht, which cost $60,000 a year to maintain. “My young man has been going the pace now for seven full years. His riot has reduced him to a miserable moral and physical wreck. He is a confirmed drunkard, scarcely a night passing that he is not carried unconscious or babbling to his bed. Me has spent, to my personal knowledge, more than $1,000,000 during the past year. He is utterly unhappy. His family and his respectable “Wi you please give me the Ristory Of Seattle's tot pole wrote a subscriber to the editor of ‘The Star. The editor passed the letter on to the city editor and during the afternoon the cry went in thé local room, “Who knows history ~— pt * Sle " and silence way! i) 9 ae etr, sediste that M4 6 He Yn Seattle K h@Bisteri@al tacts concerning the totem pole easily outnumbered those who do. “That it Was stolen from the Indians” was eagerly believed, but the detatis of the larceny were hazy and con Mleting. In fact, it fs a difficult MAtter to get the story of the to tem pole, even from the men who E responsible for its presence ere. Each one has a version that @iffers more or tees from that-of Me brother in crime, and is pre- ers, Thus his have already t pole ry may be sald gun for the Here ts one version Here's the Story. In 1899 the Post-Intellig gave, & bysiness men's excurs Math. (Whe “P-L” at that was, owned by George t gar Piper. Thix was the cursion of this kind to the about all the could at home business men Sea! re and run the The trip up the was much the same as t that have followed ft, the men showing no disposition tc any of the places visited. On return, however, the captain of a deserted Indian village there was a fine collecth tem poles. at the request pared to defend {t against all com-, to} tain totem frat ex North, and the city of Seattle nad on hoard ttle) a business coast many business loot hetr told where of to xf sewed READ THIS STORY OF ONE RICH YOUNG MAN AND THINK IT OVER —+-— friends have abandoned h nas himself in excess, Even his club THE ST It le clear that he will Ail! p fellows fight shy of him because they fear that in his reckless abandon he will commit some act which will repeat the Thaw ndal, | believe my employer is in sane, and | never pick up a newspaper without a sensation of fear that it may contain the report of some mad deed of hie, “The office that he as a boy for hie infamy atos have degenerated into the “His valet tells me that he clearing house 80 proudly established is today a and the duties of myself and aasoe! mere auditing of bis wicked bills has 47 suite of clothes, with box after box of shoes, bats, coats, fancy dress and all manver of such rubbish, and he spends hours cursing his valet and tallors because he has ‘nothing to wear’ the most expensl these are not bette “It te the boast of thi women, many of they tal wealth, Ho has today fh his elute throughout the country for her put her in bis way, was always mother, He han turned the head gifts, and it daughter appe: has the idea that my I have never heard of any pity for his poverty as I pity my is no chance that his money wi no chance foal wreck now. Fully a third of phyatctan, He only absinthe. ous wreck has turned nigh He in re intoxteated in the with rich and indigestible foods y able arly hours o that he will not live two years realizes this, becomes maudlin plunges tnto the abandon than ever a few hours “Nothing really gratifies his him. His heart is cold, his con: sober, but ra, that he will ever be able to save himself. than he enters upon a debauch which leaves him a tortured He drinks the finest wines and amokes rigars and cigarettes, and curses nature because Wretched man that more than 100 young . have fallen victim to the lure of his hes a beautiful young girl, famous clever acting, and who, until fate accompanied on her tours by her of this girl with a shower of costly ‘* that the mother, who is not now with her employer will marry the girl, 1 know that this ts not his purpose poverty-ridden man whom I can young man for his wealth, There Hl fall, and there seems therefore He ts @ phys the time he ts under the care of a and no sooner does he gain a little surplus of vitality nerv For breakfast he has to eat lunch, but, while partially f the mornifig, he gorges himself His physictan has warned him if he continues the riot, He and weeps over his doom when pids of dissipation with t into day greater later jaded appetit science dead. Nothing pleases 1 sometimes think that if his hard-headed old father could have looked into the fur ture and acen the suffering wea ith has brought upon hie son, he would have torn down his structure, thrown his millions to the winds and set his boy's feet on of honest toll and manly, noble Those a to this amazing document? eral members of the party, the cap put his vessel in to this vil lage and the excursioniets landed | The Spirit of Capt. Kidd. | onal who concelved this act of rapine and pillage is not known but some one suggested that a big totem pole wallone of the things that Seattle nm od = hadiy Her were totem * going to waate adorning the Bite of a broken down village According to some stortes, earch was made for somebody to buy a totem from but whether or not preliminary was gone th rtatn that rae cted business fen and ratical of Mor om the Spanish Matn, with all ¢ gan or Drake or K Ma Buch eminen CRAZY OLD STEAMBOAT AND BLIND | : smaller but This appeared place to hid navigable at to be an ° eT Tried to ide Boat From Govern- from the ft and everybody else on the t Inspectors and the globe, ‘ound Another Eldorado juiit « eatin. until the face x. P. the Iditarod, so they ran the obnoxious KAGWAY, Alaska, Dec. 2 y old steamboat and blind luck| overed the Iditarod, the newest laskan Eldorados. | @ trails are rowded to the strike now and a stampede is but already the story of its| very is being ss] kon. Quit Cards to Prospect. Solo” gets an is & good enough game, tiresome as an all ’ ing » Carmack first found nug on Bonanza creek in 1896 and| creek, and great gold rush to the Klon-| struck a began, successive strikes ha ac | migration sinking a hole, pay streak of |shotty gold less than 12 feet from | the Other holes THE OUTBURSTS p to camy jut not pede, which follo or the “fi line in 1899, surface the Fairbanks the Klon. on the has more on caused than discovery on Otter tributary the Iditarod ‘wo Thousand There Now. few short months deserted ago the wilde AROUND DODGING 4 BOLT m excellent ctors of M landed, and prepared to wait government men had passed on down the Yu Time hung heavy on their handa but winter asement, and they quit the cards to do a little haphazard prospect Beaton found rich colors on Otter LUCK DISCOVERED THE IDITAROD bed rock eénvince struck a bonanza. Staking claims for themselves and their friends, they returned to Anvik to get Di man and a stock of supp! that would last them through winter News of the strike leaked out and another party beat a hasty march to the Iditarod. What they | |saw more than satisfied them and | hem they had the hard but less dangerous road effort.” the worde of the secretary, What can be added os the Totem Pole-—Sea for Her New w Piper, Cite, F N W. Baker, Reve JP. Liwyd, Ralph Schoenfeld, E ¥ Hiaine and others swarmed over thin deserted village in qpest for a totem pole. Having deHed upon one, \t was quickly aboard the steamer and ip a few days in Se aitie Ite advent waa the signal of considerable newspaper rejoicing on the part he “P.1." The Tfines, which then entertained the same kindly feeling toward tts morning contemporary as it mant fests at present, talked about ghouls and grave-robbing Times Makes Protest The pote was formally dedicated to the city and the co mado provivion for it in Pioneer Squi All the time the evening publica tion was gnashing its editorial teeth, until word of the. affair as river packets made special tripe up the Lnnoke and the Northern Com mercial Co. towed two barges with 200 tons of provisions to the head of navigation on Otter creek And still the stampede in creased. The regular boats were diverted and sold for days-tefore they left Fairbanks. Winte the river carly in October, re enough supplies for all the men in the camp could reach the Iditarod by boat. In fact two river p the Tana and the White § re turned to Fairbanks from an extra rip up the Innoke, were caught in the ice near Fort Gibson and will be compelled to lay there wotil the spring break-up, The passengers | back they came to Anvik for a win: |i] ter supply | So the report grew and when the rumor reached Fairbanks mining | men began to put their outfite in| small boats and drop down the Yukon and then pole up the In noke to the Iditarod Then the Stampede By August a full fledged ede was in’ progress, The stam: | Yukon OF EVERETT TRUE 4VE YUST A MOMENT, MADAM | DECODED TO TAKE A STAND ON YHu$ | )7RAMING SKIRT PROPOSITIONS YOU THINK 74 GOING FO SCHOYTISCHE a OF DRY G00D8 BEN/IND Some “Fostex § DAME YOUVE GOT MY PERM) YOUR YO CHANGE yRoapectors intere: who had lower Inno Marston t about min ghtpb pecting ably conder jp stoan deatep the out came nepectors miles up to. the 150 Iditarod, PUND ft In the House $1722 $1722 They are all two alike. ve sell, samples Another $2.00 at shipment lar leatherbloom coats STORE OPEN N UNTIL Suit H. Latimery Eéear/ of «FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1909. Short Comment. “Unele Cannon and the house of lords are in the minds of many about due make & con tomporaneous exit, accompanied by to a loud note. just slipped Chief to also instruct his the highway Possibly it Ward's mind patrolmen to robbers and burglars ‘ont There ought to be some way of convincing Abe Ruef that the con dition of his heart and lungs is morely a local inaue. Exonerations still continue crowd thick and fast on Secretary Ballinger without any apparent per manent effect to One consolation in the strike ts that it will furni#h a good excuse sending those Christmas for not presents Zelaya can now easily see the Inconventence of executing first and investigating afterward. Ruining Bob Hodge's reputation ts going to be a large task for any |i small man As to the House of Lords, budget could budge it Star Dust the Chrietmas | inger | In the midst of your | shopping, don't forwet that Ua deniges” of it ai! At the present rate of thelr tw to bappen. birthe wit! lyeare Now yon inuch longer Ranta ( las Most Cherished Tradition Retold Residents. reached Sitka An enterprising person in Sitka! saw a chance to profit by tt. and managed to rake up some Indions who claimed that this partic totem pole was thetr sole object of worship, that it had been the shrine of thelr forefathers, ete, eto. In dictmenta were secured in Sitka! agains! nearly everybody concern, ed, apd the alr was filled with | th Of @ivil sults For a time it was looked upon as « joke, but it soon became and it looked aa if Seatth the totem pole had already developed a great telpal affection Finally the members of the ex cursion formed a peol and settied on a cash basis for the outraged} te of the Indians, and civil) iminal proceedings . were! i were taken overland to Falrbank« Nome, Fairbanks and Dawson hare all had their day, but Ite th Iditarod that will be the next great placer camp of the North. A win ter mail service has already been | established. Two thousand men are there and thousands more will head for th ein, s to come sands of Otter other tributaries of the Iditarod will be sluiced through the Mun box and robbed of their gold The Iditarod runs into the Innoke | yut 150 yniles above Anvik. Anvik is on the Yukon about 240 mile from the mouth and about 700! i miles from Fairbanks. i] $30 and $35 Coats ALTERATIONS FREE and no On each garment you can positively Save $10 to $20 regu- Petti- 10 P. M. SATURDAY Woman’s * Sample Cloak & Store 217 University Street, Between Second and Third Avenues FSS SS = At Decided Reductions ; These decidedly winterish ds mand for warm, heavy Coats for will be most welcome to those the house are represented, the outer garments for children Reefe navys, reds, browns, greens, Qualities to $ 7.50 are reduced to.sceese eveeee soeee Qualities to $10.00 are reduced to... 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