The evening world. Newspaper, August 24, 1908, Page 3

» A LITTLE BROTHER OF THE RICH Most Sensational Novel of the Day By the Millionaire Soolalist { JOSEPH MEDILL PATTERSON (By special Arrangement with the publishers, Reilly & Britton Co.) 10,000-word con- The Evening World has permission to print “a densation of the book. The atory is 70,000 words in length, printed complete it would take forty-six eolunims of space, or about seven pages of a seven-column newspaper. BEWARE OF A “FAKE” COMPLETE STORY, Joseph Medill Patterson, the brilliant, thougn erratic son of the editor of the Chicago Tribune, related to a dozen of the richest and most socially promi. ment families in the United States, has capped the climax of his career zi writing a book called “A Little Brother of the Rich. Bensational to a degree in Its theme, dering in ite treatment, brutally trank | fa its language, lashing society and {ts practices as it never has been scourged | before, young Patterson's book will, beyond question, excite such wrath and in- @ignation among his friends and associates that by publishing it he is virtually | signing his own death warrant, as far as the people among whom he and hia| wife, his sister and his family have been brought up, HIS HONEST OPINIONS, NOTHING MORE. | Young Patterson's career, however, has amply prepared the world to expect | anything from him, He has furnished it with one sensational episode after another all through his strenuous young life, and, as he has never hesitated to follow where the courage of his convictions led, his book, which in another man might be deemed a treacherous turning on ais friends, will be only looked upon as a result of his really honest opinions. Summed up in a sentence, Mr. Patterson's book presents a picture of Society, and incidentally of the stage, which, if it were true, ts ton vue and Tevolting tor | words, According to “A Little Brother of the Rich,” every fashionable woman drinks to excess, Is untrue to her marriage vows, is animated by absolutely no thought | except vulgar display, the gratification of animal passion and insatlate steed | for money, and cares nothing for the meana by whioh this money is obtained, “NOTHING GIVEN KOK NULHING.” A single sentence expresses his opinion of the stage. Why," says one ohorus girl to another, “don't I get along in the profession? I can sing better and dance better than W per cent. of those who are striding away past me,” “Because, ny dear," answers the other, “in this business nothing is nothing.” The hero of “A Little Brother of the Riah,” tf such a miserable, despicable character as Paul Potter, {ts principal masculine figure, can be called @ hero, Is introduced ag a poor country boy working iis way through college. (Mr, Patter- fon is Yale man.) Because of his athletic prominence he 1s taken up by the | | @iven for richest men of his class, rooms tn his senior year with the richest and mose fashionasle of them all, Carl Wilmerding, apparently @ thin disguise for tne young millionaire who was disinterited some years ago for refusing to give up at his father’s command, the girl to whom he was engeged, if PAVES WAY FOR CONVENIENT DIVORCE The father of Sylvia, the girl to whom Potter {# engaged, embozgles the tunds of the bank of which he je president, upon whieh Potter gladly em- e which the girl gives him to break che engagement, and accents a position 4 broker's office in'New York. Here, thanks to toadying in is most abject way to Wilmerding and his friends, he rapidly acquires a lar rt) graces tlie ch income; is finally discovered with a married wean at 3 o'clock in the morning by the lady's husband, who has long suspected the Intrigue, but who did not care enough about his wife to take any aotion until he himself wished to be free in order that he might marry the wife of another friend of big with whom he had been having an affair. ne country girl whom Potter Nad dlscaraed, atter Working a8 a salengiri fn a big department stor was finally given ® line to speaXx in a theatrical pro. duction, and under the tutelage of a drink-sodden actor, wnu, however, fant when sober, becomes the most sensational dramatic NEVER i HOUGHT10 WED HER, Potter meets her, revives her old love, and she nally promises to give } salt to him on her return from Europe, whither she ts just about to depan’ por, ter in the mean (me having married the woman in whose divorce case he h " been corespondent. Beto yivia's return, however, Potter'a wite, waite ann drunken automobile escapade with one of ‘1s friends, to whom ashe had trans: ferred her volatile affections, was rim over by a train and killed, | Alter Potter's protestations of love, Sylvia expects that he will then marry | her, but on hr. return from Burope finds that he has no such Intention, where- upon she tells Mr. Potter very distinctly and thoroughly what she thinks of him and what kind of a cad he 1s, He marries the daughter of an immensely ricn brewer, and slie ‘the old actor who had developed her dramatic ability. | Young Patterson has had the environment from Wiich he 6hould be @ble wo, speak authoritatively, Ile is the son of Robert W. Patterson, editor of the Cnt- | cago Tribune, and a grandson of Joseph Medill, founder of that great news. | paper, and was born in Chicagw Jan, 6, 18%. He prepared for Yale at the Groton | school, where President loosevelt's sons are preputing for college, and epent several vacations as a cowboy out Wert, He graduated from Yale jn 1W1, and was a momber of the Alpha Delta Phi and Scroll and Key sooteties. THEN BECAM!: A SOCIALIST | After a short period as a newspaper correspondent during the Boxer uprie- ing in China, he became a reporter on the Tribune, then assistant Sunday editor, | and then a. editorial writer, When twenty-three years old he was elected to the Ailinols Lglslature, being its youngest member, At the expitation of his term he | returned to the ‘I'ribune, and for nearly a year was in charge of the editortal | page. Patterson became an ardent advocate of E. F, Dunne, and when that gen- | tleman was elected Mayor of Chicago on a Municipal Ownership platform ne} appointed Patterson Commissioner of Public Works. After @ year he resigned, | feeling that he was making no headway, and could make none under existing conditions—againat (he evil and corruption surrounding hie office. He then announced in an open letter Nig conversion to Socialism, and took | the stump in an endeavor to excite a soctal revolution, A® a means to this end, he next became editor of the Chicago Daily Socialist. Several years ago ne married the daughter of Harlow M. Higginbotham, one of Citieago's richest and | was brill. actress of the day, a most prominent citizens, and for many years @ partner of Marshall Field; also |Catl’s roommate, captain of the eleven, | a highstand man and the general all- the President of the World's Columbian £xposition, aS ee (Copyright, 1908, by the Reilly &|to the presidency of the Coaching clu | Britton Co.) jagalnst Phil Huttoon, whom he had| "A LITTLE BROTHER OF THE | never liked. tid RICH, But old Mr. Dunbar had lived his | youth so that his ago was bare and re- | Wourceless, and he dragged his days Wearily and sated, driving behind his CHAPTER I. A Dead Aristocrat. LD Mr, Dunbar was dead, and his | ft horses and drinking hls port, to the | O wasted body lay stretched out | STAY® | under the coffin giass In the old-| Something of the lass'tude which fashioned parlor of the old-tashioned | chracterizcd the old man was aiready cppareu: in his heirs, the two ‘orphaned | grandchildren, Katherine and William! Ingraham Ducrolx Dunbar, known | his class, at Yale as "Boosy Billy.” | The girl wes very tall and very) slender, with shadows under her eyes. Her appearance was of over-refinement,| inanimateness; sho w. slightly country house on the Hudson, A candle at his head and a candle at his feet | threw deep shadows from the clumsy, upholstered furniture upon the thick carpet and the heavy, brocaded yellow curtains, In his youth Mr. Dunbar had been a conspicuous man of fashion, and in his ald age he had been wont to sit alone! stooped. She moved with slow indole |{0% me,” she laughed; Vand for your se and won my seat easily. T was December Corn. in his brary after dinner, a decanter | ance, staying most of her time indoors, | “¢'" i ea bs aa wal to find him In {thrown with Lassiter Ellis, the captain, 5 maincthevcentresc? of port at his elbow, musing over the | oven guring her ‘summer montha in the| Ment it wow ‘ sn't a bit go,a son of old Harv lis, ‘That was LSTA SIE Lona cA a memories of the zenith perlod of his! country, | aera ee aTRIaper SLAC TH eae Tene Newhatrtedinedtand! tl ee FON Ue ao eae Mfe when as a young a ee an Brother and sister, dressed in new| ‘The tall, graceful lad put forth his sought for thore, I miade the eleven | yioc% on Main st were of brick pe houses or ax had achieved | Mourning, were altting with the body supple strength, sweeping the canvas body again, T became prominent in the gut jn all of Darbessille. Ue only pee aoe rncys ath a duchess. Until his!ot old Mr, Dunbar on the night betore|cratt ahead with long,’ steady, even |class, as prominent as any one perhaps. | vate house of bri ae eae feath her miniature stood upon his| tho funeral, |strokes, She marvelled, a8 many other | and oming year L room with Cari Castle, president of the bane Gressing table ‘The string of peatis he “What he left doesn’t amount to |people liave marvelled, at the friction | Wilmerding. Think of that—Carl Wil-\ mander of the local Gi an had given her now nightly adorned the | much nowadays,” Billy commented |iess accord and perfect harmony of his | merding, Who) some day will be head of father ot N ‘ sl arnvaihe andere fair, unviad neck of her American | crossly, “We haven't much luck, any-|movements. the Rouse lof wilmerdingiin| New Yorks: |eounty, 10 : granddaughter-In-law, whose fresh ple way, Here I am with another year! "Oh, Paul.’ sho exclaimed, Gil yt could ave alked about this to Se Ho Perret Han blood had rejuvenated the vigor,| At college, and there you are out two|atter a silence, “I am very proud 0 EA Loe dhe Se hates ung Paul just as her splendid dower had swelled | Years, without @ man in aight you can) you—n wees au ae eu ane what body has done fo Ct nate the fortunes, of the noble line. J afford to take, We've just got to hang| strong Ane Ae Teateg $60 RAE I amt jundred dollars a! Pott tee eainy he sald sadly Nn bis last years the old dandy found | together, old girl, unt!! one of ua mar-|mere envelope, Mit Neotel tue NO ‘and J had hoped | id few vital prominences to cast thelr | ries well, Bhi | self, ee A itaatiiad: PPLE soon, She i ng. ba shadows across the memory of his long| He poured out for himselt a third | Pos Ae one eid @ aveldge in’ which and ¥ ' 1 years in America. Here, perhaps, he | sass of his grandfather's old port. They a He f transferred across the City | I'd never have touched Pa ne good’ t might discern the dim outlines of the irl was displeased. af Be recday trom the station P ‘othe | thing; and so I want you Feed to starlit broad wooden piazza of the old| “Yes surely we ought to marry well,” | aio. guture.”” | Brown me this wir He. pause 7 Grand Union in Saratoga, where he had she sald, “for there is no better family | ." he laughed, send- n whem Is! bard wit! first avowed himself to that pretty | In America. But, Billy, you will Saal Loulsvilie woman, whose husband after- | your prospects if you don't give up ward became so inordinately jealo PafaaseL 4 40 much. Really.” , e there stood the Dunbar fancy dress ball} “Please let up on tha Katherine: @n which he had spent half a year's In- | he drawied. “Drink has absolut eome. It had been famous thirty-five| hold on me. I take it only for so- ago, but now was forgotten by lability, I can stop like that’ = tmanned hie A@nganen whanavar T want jAnd the Lord h jand hi efor THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 1908. THE VERY LAST WORD IN LIVING SOPY RIGHT BY THE REILLY PTON CO. WS, to, about you, too. Hf you don’t pull you self together and drop your die~ ued he he ¢ 1 tell you what, Ka a darker red cree} and animati ing his voice, to the Prom with me next winter, We'l have the box with Carl Wilmerding Lassie Wilis, You ought to make ar im Lassie was taken with you, all right, when he was up here.” “Don't be ridiculous, Billy. In first place, we'll be in mourning ‘th rmore, when I marr: man, not a child; and, besides, Lassie and 1 would never get on at all, Th year he thinks only of footvall and rowing, After he graduates it wil! be race hi polo poules, the slaugh- als, and what men ik suppers’ with ac hy, ing into sian, the him cali 1 know his typ The lad poured another giass of port “Well, he's worth playing, even if he wine {ea long shot. Every other girl In town is after him, Old Harvey Bills has anywhere between one hundred fit and two hundred millions right no only Knows ve when he dies, Oh, 1 know what you’ What if he is ‘common You're asked biggest steel men in the country don't interrupt me. going to say, and ordinary not to anid marry the old rooster, but Lassie; and i} “But "I dislike to he'll pass anywhere. He is an outdoor waste iivirlenis to be sure, but that’s nothing Wi wouldienve ainst_ him.” un eno Ache “His mother kept a boarding house ) yeti for common laborers in Duquesne. 'Tha* i ald Mr, Castle, slow is well known,” said Katherine, gon- friendships cemptuously. ou most.” “Oh, forget It," answered Billy, Im- erupted; ‘how patiently, “Everybody else has—eight of ten years ago, You're behind th they would probably keep you times, Iassle’s the best match left in = — Ia good deal. hours are New York, now that Anita Devereux’s late in New York, especially fory got Carl, Why, as a matter of fact, | JoseeH MEDILL PATTERSON = ing map who has tich friends, the Wilmerdings aren't such an old ! You've neve! been accustomed to the | family. I suppose grandmother in her | Patt of us as the soul.” The pleasant- “when you get Into one of excitement of the pace, and it might younger days would have looked on | "ess faded from his look, as his mem- r Yes, evidently the throw you off your balance. On Sy Side Carl cwilmerding? 11) dusthlaw) youl| om conned nun) Backs (oy itsieatly days s for me to go with yous] yia's account I want you to be a little | look on Lassie now. But what a bally is A eeeraeet TWorerne al Doar," she added, ly.) older and more. steac down before nes she'd have been if old Carl 1. had jyggae jie Ue eo MLTR ye : plunging Into that wnirlpool, But | proposed and she'd turned him down. ge table for my board, tende vu of my don't worry, f yow have it in you, | You oughtn't to be so damned partleu- | ana washed windows for es ow dif-) you'll win in the end, If the way Jar,” he complained, “Noblesse oblige, | tutored for clothing and books they ar Ing expe: W Uttle roundabout now, it'll you know.” I'm the prouder of you for it, yr a a ecod ty Beene the long run Katherine laughed with @ sneer. | dea 2 gicl broke tn, quickly, “It):° *% Bood f lat a minutes the “Billy, ft seems so much worse for a|is something to be proud of, to be glid SPN opening offered! me Mn & n. Winally man to think and talk this way than of." Pe bEr ALI bet PENS Werk cout breath. “Very for a girl, who, after all, has no other | ‘'Ye-es, ence, perhaps, take it, itm ead anywhem. 1] you wish it I| way to get along.” While it Sit is a bit hue MSht—L really might become a million Saari TE prone “Rot, Kate, pure rot, you to come to the Prom with me. Mobkt girls would like the chance to be in the party with Lassie Ellis, with Carl Wilmerding and with Paul Potter, around, lttle-tin-god-on-wheels of th campus this year, He's from Indiana, poor, but he’s really a nice fellow for all that,” CHAPTER II. Hermes in Flaunels O low muddy waters reaches of the Wabash. man and a young girl sat idly in lying horse pastures, upon the “Come, my Hermes in flannels,"’ she; said; “the sun ts low. Hurry or It will be dark before we get home.” He took up his paddle and moved It lazily through the water. “And even if it 1s," said he, “what then?” “Cold looks followed by hot words Ing the Hitle tu Hpools swirl i reful a(t, “against continued over-indulgence alr nan perhay In Rosetti, Wordsworth, Emerson and ig youbnva the German ymehody ought t0| my ser and you needn't drear a '¥ NO} play the hos flame of culture chat you shali ever ve allowed go s that 1s roiling over our priirte towns.) with else” He frowned In mock stand crediis, and we'll all be eating canned goods| jealous) his eyes were dancing collector. | think you ca rete The Bede fag mneh a , how you frighten me"! ness well enough after Si tig add, that I am worrled way is cheeks “come I want a what he'll He's one of the I simply ask an afternoon in July a young a canoe, slowly drifting between | of one of the upper i 1 al US UE HE Castle, "LE want to gall me to get up eary every morn- He looked beyond her to the faming) i a, ion ing and walt around with the othor "ed herlaon, wit Bia eN ATE a teers nae TT Gig aaNet servants until the rich young fell I can only get a muttered, | 1M) ie aly Se one nd four minutes before chapel time—they'd | nothing.” eae ey Almighty God that you will never spe been taking thelr beauty sleep, and then, | corners of aw and his young mouth |” , Ht to make up for their lost time, we had drew down fyto a hard, straight line. IRGC eGR RU OE mel Seer ed }to rush back and forth between them Do you want so much to go to New) 8 Bina atapleR ens Mpe: One margin and the hot, dirty kitchen, so they| york?’ she as tly, Speculation ts gambling, and I will not | wouldn't be late, All T ever got from) «Git so mi niaed athenvadds Sylvia a gambler for husband. them as I shot the coffee cups between og. “tn some ways, that is. You si 1 his hand upon the Bible Paul their sleekly brushed heads, were curt | icitten, you comp problem t tl é 2 jnods and hurried good mornings. When | ittie.." She winced as Tay yaleall e two men shook hands. “Il am | thes started out to run for chapel, I! 1, «i, don't misunderstand,” he} § have you for son-in-law anid lett htt ate, eRe ane Hae explained quickly. “I wouldn't go tol ay he Continued To-Morrow.) lsiirunialoeharal=thatetiwan iparteot | New wore oe vieavonzeltiey] Cota mates the eame life, But I didn’t have to run, Of that, without you to chapel. I was excused because { y swon the gate to her front yard she faculty knew I was different, of a diff / to-night, we s erent class t for ever and ever an remember.” othal until das he told of the “But 1/80! His face bright turning point in his college life had a good body.” She smiled at him as he said this, so true it was, and so yold “And I knew if I could) elk It's n silly. a bet the girl's father has ag | of false pride. | afford the time to try for the freshman| crew I'd make ft. I managed to find CHAPTER III, “T suppose that has air’ mate Cari know my room of answered Car) Wilm: Wiidmerding son ) Castle Interrupted quickly, Wildermerding. dling _the the New York Paul me in He a broker's that se a aloud, Tam old to live, and I for my last days » that that le smallest bit stand in the way of my husband,” sald the old man, \ s wisest tor you not to K. w of its strong nen have ed there, It is for you first to become the power in Darbeyville and the then expand, go to Indi napolis or Chi- cago, and | man enough to rise What Else Please? be time to go | a AN OF STEALING HS QAUCHT a GIRLS Set MAN DROW AS Th SAVE COMPANIGK ~— Waits for Him in Street and Rowed Yawl Through Squall, : Tries to Choke bui Were a Second ‘Too Him, Late. ; “Where's my daughter, you villaint? Sefore the eyes of his four g com- sil COM= | cried Philip Magreno to Joseph Rossi p 4 young Walter Weln : ‘ mine A at & o'clock this morning, "You've if n yr away! Where have you Shoe, two miles a iL aee ; hidden her where's my money?" I n Wis £ 1 Wiliam andy unt young man's BR 4 nm, was a threat rs Rosst wn the steps Win up just as hig streng of his home, One itundr nT ' and With stre n Was started for I win owns a fort t when the old \ led OMe " sat hing house x \ ue nearly all nig in-out from behind No. 3 he stoop ind seized him. Roth voune t ro members ofthe The two w SAIRERR i Besin Yacht ¢ Yosterday th sidewalk, the elderly Magreno took four girls, Meta and Lille Rupke, try y choke the ite out stens, of No, und When Polloeman MeGown came feseie ant M out ang 1 them wea day i down "Ly Wit a Magrono, he Lower F wives becan a C 1s mM, it ‘ ter hidden der py young men d 1 and then he told the pos ' ntil squall pa Wen lan his st nan, standing at the bow n He suid trent ing raft, tried to lift the anchor oy oO * and th some eks hig ard, e@ lost his balance, THe grabbed sixteon-yen ita, hed Wildly at the little flagstaff, bat ity) been going with who was snapped off close to the socket ana he town, tumbled in head foremost Bostelman to Re Deinman coukin't swim a liek, Bos telman expert swhnmor, but he ie auld Sta erane has ie jew and is wu HEE weak ‘ and, Wa ltod atone ht L Pipa ane Une Ms bays azar to ind the house, and La £ Diy nt mi nd the y drifted f and Rostelman ty ane sy Deane Ocal ea anc vowed y large photos headway as he toug reach SRT ATTA SARITRa ie @ veer i Ue South i Senne! Wt was a group tn the centre of which women knew nothing abor ngs sat the smiling Ros ed and and they ¢ t help, but the two yo Me aes iN \, aa q hie Rupke girls, who are clever with the é RAKE nae a £ Ite (ANNE As vars, humped into the dingy which was) a ae We, a ei to work towing at the stern of the My Girl and Riau ali eae Lc 3 for the struggling pair in the | !t before Rossi's und again at te dd to assault t youn man. Hostleman was alrendy exhaust-| Rossi sald he knew nothing of ‘the and Weinman had lost his head ens 1 youts of the girl or the money. \. He elitebed his partner about |He sald he took Marie ont for ay street the neck with a grip that strangled ,car ride uy afternoon and eerly him, and the heads of both of them {in the evening walked with her to of lier home and there went undér as Weinman, hanging on like) within a block palled the weakening left he: © had said nothing to him a dead weightt, Hostleman down. up and iabout having any money. he went down again, still lo toget! he 83) Ds taken to t st on bye ‘the Rupke irs, shouting enco eon cGown and a general alarm Nhe Rupke «iris, shouting eni semen eon miu ment as they came were making the | as steift fairly jump through the water, — | i Vightink blindly under water Be thove pot where ie had man broke Weinman's hold. All in, he LURE Me WH HRA HORS came to the surface. Miss Meta Rupke miracke would’ give lim dropped the oars and caught him b : ald just as collapsed all t Hea] | behind,” gasped Bos- |} elman, as he he hiwiarin ‘9 tern of the row at ier V a Weinman Went Down | ng Weinman’s head had showed | WeTese URW Ave Alien uAItiegiided) bs | eowicl oe Nb) 'N PARIS he plucky yo women, made for | ay ne a4 are im, but he 83 peer eae than { rived here to-day incognito from Spain Wek % par 40 ite lunched with friends in the Bols du v Bt i ‘ 2 Boulogne and jeft later in tt fay for i s eeguined the launch and the Isle of Wight via Boulogne, Where en they cruised about for Gwenty he ix fo join Queen Vietovis W.DaysCo. CUSTOM TAILORS will open for business to-day, Moa- day, August 24th, placing at your serv the most skilful cutters clusive mat rials, authoritative styles—and all at hon- est values, Charge Accounts solicite Part payments accepted price. No discount for cash. If venient to call, write for Booklet 68 a complete set of samples. 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