The evening world. Newspaper, January 5, 1921, Page 21

/ J WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1921 How to Squander $2,000,000 And Die Poor “Coal Oil Johnny”’ Tipped Cabby $3,000 for Block Drive Leased Hotel One Day for $8,000 Bought Out and Trouped With Minstrel Show Wealth Came From Oil Lands and Cash Left by an Aunt When He Was 21—Was Broke at 25 and Until Death. . Marguerite Mooers Mafehall, wnole died when the ; his aunt fust before Coprright, 1021, by the Prem f gi A 8a oli Hoe ar Oil had heen discovered twelve, P of age n the fa OAL OL, JOHNNY” iw dead, Dd it was in trying to light the fir at The most pleturesque of With oll that Mrs.” McClintock 1 t most pleturesque Of her death, It was through lighting princely spenders," whose the fires of senseless extravagance real name was John W. Steele; who With the proceeds of the oll that is sald to have run through nearly oeaey Steele came to grief, two million dollars in about four epee Sev adel Bh atent Snel years: who bought. a hotel if he ©ted country youth, with a wife and * disliked the clerk and wanted @ Small baby, found that a sum esti- to fire him; or a minstrel show, if [ted at $00,000 was tucked away In whe had made friends with the per- Nis aunts safe, The dear lady had formers; or an engine and train, if Bit ne trust, 8 banks oF io true Sea e er anlee compat Before we criticize “Coal hs Ol dolinny” too harshly, let us stop cubibie said bis $8,000 diamond ring—ended his life at seventy-seven, in one end of a little railroad station in Fort Cr Neb., where he lived and worked wife yearned for d think just how wisely we would ve handled a cool half million in cash, with hundreds of thousands more in pr ct, if such a sum had . ay 1 into our laps at orphaned and earned perhaps $50 a month. — {wenty-one, without & stroke of work There is a saying that the Ameri- jYSAyvne 6! ' can transit from shirt sleeves to ey i Te : ; Naiurally’ enough, "Coal — Oi! shirt sleeves is usually accomplished johnny hit it for the bright lights ae Benerations, About fot which, for him, seemed to burn in years wad time enough for “Coal O}1 Johnny” to run this gamut. At twen- ty-one, in 1864, he came out of Oil sinid Philadelphia. One wendere that the dear town should er have de- served qhat adjective after Johnny hit it. He had with him a ehum named Seth Slootm and the contents of the Widow McClintock's safe At the sta tion he was met by W. H. Wickham of New York, who offered him $1,000, 000 for the MéClintock farm, with’ 000 in cush to Hind the barguin, ‘Th “ms to be no exact how much he did spend in his wild career, but according to one story, be: ides t million or more with which he n, he rv ved cash “in bundles’ the manager of hts aunt's oll Also he borrowed uma on prospects, ind two million ssems to be a mate of } enditn half be from farm, Hy invested largely in d ind in clothes, according to contem- porary yan He had a lordly way 0 cing into a saloon and buying drinks for every one who would swallow them—with as many He encores as the audience desired. is sald to have of clothes morning. He moved from the small hotel which ordered $8,000 one tailor wo from in e x ELE WHEN Re MAG Mis eLiNG: _ Creek Valley an American Princ; ="FYortunatus, who thought that hi = possessed a bottomless purse. Early in 1868 he filed a voluntary petition in bankruptey. Never since has he known wealth, or even moderate af- » fluence. in he had first atopped to the vative and aristocratic Conti There he considered that the in charge had not recognized sufficiently his Importance. He 4 the landlord to dismiss the clerk, and hen tried to buy the hotel whent the But he had one ereat time as tong Teaent, was refused, He succecded ks it lasted, and he made his n Out went the clerk, in went Johnny @ synonym for “blowing one’s roll. He was born of poor parents near . Sheakleyville, Mercer County, Pa., in 1843, but at an eariy age went’ to live with his uncle and aunt, 2 ‘ and Mrs. @foClintock, who a y 1 as landlord, Tt sors were guest in the p and food no was placed on the outside rybody In the city to share pitality, On that one day Johnny” is supposed to wey $100,000. thrown open, use on minstrel the Skiff and fallen on evil oe days, and went on the road with the 14 mpany, In Utica he gave the ‘ sompany a supper at a cost of $1,000. * Then he bowght an engine,sleeper and baggage car and went junketing in He tried to buy Chi- e of en Crosby aristoers at that ¢BY BIDE DUDLEY: shy 5 F Opera House, when. the rte. Coorrieit. 1981, by the Prove P Cusenits orercat ta fils show, 3 Wo ‘ sient ous , He wi 1 to take a cab tn Phila- HE Women's Betterment League geiphia one rainy day, but the driver of Delhi had just been called to raid it was enaged, Johnny toswed order in Hugus Hall by -hima $500 bill and the cabby deeided Promptress Pertle when a little 10 forget his other customer, An- maiden with a smile and two fever Other cabman told him wife wanted a diamond ring. v ype o the listers on her lips tripped onto the ‘N give you $3,000 for stage and held up one hand. your cab," “Friend members!" she sa \d_ Johnny, ‘ “Why, Ellie! Is it you? You bet.” promptly replied the “) astonished Promptress eabman, ie , Th huh!” Drive me 1 the or @ "Have you some message for Fohnnan wmuent the: trl owas EAB tinporeRntcone ied, he said, “Now, my tboy, you ‘Then go to it by all means!” an Nave your ‘ean Mick and keep As the Promptress sat down Ella, ¥OUr $3000 to get your wife a dia belle Mae Doolittle, Dethi's noted Mont ring eas, held up a sheet of paper He spent money ut Tis the message of love.” she @s freely as on him ing | “{ hope you are wll ears. friends—the more o} tbiow Yever mind the ears,” said Mrs. characters surrounded hin, or Cutev O'Brien, “Give us the scan- any one whom he picked dal” chaner uaintance magnificent Miss Doolittle needed no further pr s mds, silverware 0 urging. Shaking her petite munka ry flyers of folly at doodle. skirt, she advanced a step, hway well as on Broad cleared her’ throut with yous Street, Philadelphia, “hawk,” and read the following poem But the off farm dwindlea ‘ Oh, ladies, gathered here to-day, duction and Johnny's Invish exp: Iam 40 very happy, Ait ne e ap hin. re a 4 < 4 A his b nes. [h 1868 he LP T'm to be married in lovely May Hilion of bankruptcy in which he wa ’ And leave Mother and Pappy shown to owe no leas than $82,789, 7 \ P, Silas Pettibone is the name COTS | uauoras Jewelry, Moiliiand Of him that I wilt marry, That was the end of Johnny as « r id chose razor Man of wealth, He t The tonsorial artist whose razor Man pf wealth. i \ keeps sper Men's faces from being too hairy, he neve ° we My sister's child, Teeney Ricketts, Waces and | i 4 bs St hoverty. Seve i 4, She swallowed too big an oyster, Initied that ne mtarion akent hor “tla velsWe had to call Dr. Prickett, railway in he which } ft When she became too boisterous, wee aout $50 0 But getting back to my betrothat Mr, Pettibone is very sweet, "Yin still tucky +» New J must hurry to my home. And I've f Mother is cooking some pigs-feet See happy wis the pootess that she ma if Va actually sang the Jast line In GB (la be worrs|n mit major, Then she rushed over and is, I'm making a con kissed Promptress Pertle at the sume and feeling Ane. 1" time upsetting the iniqwell on. the cer Instead hampa, table and frightening Mrs. Gobast s the dif MoKinsey, who is subject to epilepsy All good sports and revellers wil bie On her way out she fell over Boney, be glut t onl Ol Jonny lived the Hugus Hall tomeat, but no one {0 t old before t was hurt blight of Prohibition settled on Ame ‘The ladies were astonished at first nee Teves Hath rntPhen: the realization of love's und running seventeen wiyoung dream foreed Its way into their automo Of him and hfs im heads, they applauded with great tator—thero’s one born every min gusto, ite—it may be written: “It's u great ¥ All were pleased, life, if you don't weaken!" Cane 7 sked ‘YOU CAN'T Go OUT LIKE = THAT | \ \ YOu NEEDN'T. WORRY | HAVE NY. STOCKINGS ON bes Beat It!. WHATS WRONG? by The Frame Patstinls (Tie Now Yor Brenitus World) Coprright, 1921, YOU FORGOT To You SAY You HAVE YOUR STOCKING On 3’ S t there. 4 business man who seted all day ~,, L_ - oo with hig private secretary; the man- ly bookkeeping geems tye thing = Seance =H ——— ager wio employs scores ‘of girls aa me how to get in debt, if that's gétting ? - 5) ° 9 ~~ nenenty, clerks, oF uny other man who gre anywhere,” whimpered Mra Jarr, "Ho ’ out into the world. “In fact, the ; ; ; 2 I don't ace any good in bookkeeping. vai y Ee NIT svallinic swale 0 time to NO PLEASURE FOR Why Doesn tRe ducing Reduce 3 } GLIMPSES iNTO ae teen Type po time 10 "wnat 1 meant to say was that tf TOURISTS IN HAYTI eee oe NEW YORK SHOPS ‘And right here Mr, Fischer yiv- one keeps accurate account of ‘one’ ses ae ed aE aces lly aketchied the difference between income and one's expenses” —— began y ‘S in Hayti are . x . ported theatre gow. the Wfe of the drummer when ‘mother asl itive ckwd fon tne Geanbe ’ ( Cheat on Your Food displayed in one of our was a girl” and the hustling, bustling ee Tern, out Mra. Jarr: totersnpees > ; No'soon- ie { y Scales shops is especially no salesman of to-day nim, ’ et RICHI. NO #08 ) Lie About Your Seal Saba eee aer aie ‘in the old days the drumm “This isn't one's expenses,” ste re- % noo eid eon it es Consume Sugar and Butter helpraraies An longih. “Dh rf Mt ' a nme ea “ marked, “It's the whole family’s hordes of beggars besiege the * Kk eng c “Time hing heavily on his ha " ‘ ‘ ‘There's my expenses and the children's hare tana theta aireets “oy an? a tra "i: my s buyer remarked “Ob, yes, in played cards, he Jounged about the ‘ winre ond the main stieste ou Can’t Eat Your Cake and Have Your Figure 3 ?uver temirked “Oy yew in Nile Inn’ and ll the pretty itia expenses and the house's @xpansgs and bs $ sane ” bc he ’ " a to " roy we old fa ee, °: " etefor I've how town the traveller is usually - Too, Says Expert. the ground by only about an thane you) + vaikea “hye Fe 4 aapeh! taaney Sr iene Mpiodae anxious to get back on board 1 : ting’ Next a and the Je is sure to scores of pretty faces grected his salary.” ! e Dean. eatin Next day 1 lunched at hi 7 me oh or 5 ship to ‘escape them, The By Marguerite Dean Club. “He did not’ ses ine. 1 watched cepted in New York be tain when It arrived. And the drum “That isn't what 1 was trying fp ex- ft. 1081, hy the Pree J "i ; eee : . abe mer in turn was glad to idle away pain," bear) ware tly Chamber of Commerce of New York Eyeing World him, What did he have? Two cock lo and she ought to {he longuboure Oy Ankitie: etrolie about ee Santon th a none Chat wien Port-au-Prince, the Haytian secret is out TAAMEHElA’ tee Lakee meee Gotan ghee the town telling the ‘dear young one keeps books one can ge whit ex- apital, realizes the bud re- At last we knew why there {) Hes ERAS Ia RWI ree bk el thing! “all about’ the big Wghts ME onyes may be unnecesmry and cut sults of this evil and rq so many heavyweight guidel of bee: nince of pumpkin. ple Selves de boii aca Maiuat cont ‘ arede. them out . t in ‘i top t C ome Hebe New York many maidy Ah sup atc Btreo. Two Haueu “ leveloped on extremely simple ; aoe 2 ane red the Iawyor-dp- Rad lanl sunneceueary.® rpliea to Pub a stop, toll . erent “hat afternoon ‘he came Back tO ox, the only touch of color SORE ete tne to-date Salesman, stew, Jarre. “Nor clothes, nor rent, nor furees there are only 200 could rebuke as scathingly as she dil TA Hebe mil one (aWrT LWA: 18 Pua eid waiver hier vatrvatione huve heen made in ad. ink you can do any better with the Americans in Port-au-Prince him when she said: “He's fat a him. ‘What did you have for lunch” ss i wage 4 vance, his thie lb planted to. a nit money # Nace you ty wo Fee we The one hotel in town patron weunt of breath.” Eyery second won You know me, old scout,’ it i : ute. ‘He dashes into town, gets in house and me how much gi book zed by Americans at th none me talks ducing mt yd kK lining very attra © > touen with the men he wants to meet, 4 via 0 sala Macdare: (oat Sie mae we e AD: SRO. ATES So Peo Phere pings eo « x — makes appo: ents, makes his sales ‘ow, liste . 4 . buse of the mountainside cusses her “methods, ates tha SE aie aa tt Have you seen the feathe TDR ae an tax Raceeli pr us get away from the mattgr we overlooking the sea, and far e is a little sister to the marty ar three ra. they will pick 5 vhere this programme Is e discussing, “I only suggestes you enough from the city t 0. her proportions, however admir- ip dead—on the street, in 1B BOA SEED tin ave ‘Of course,” continued the p household accounts in the, New vugh f y to pre- her fp h 7 ir at ” They the “| do not mean that trayellin no you could see how we gtood. vent the inroads of the be ably corseted, carry no suggestion of ha tax | natch al tien are all angela, Oocasionally we business house can run hout ars, But, unfortunately, the the sylph—at least, sare the « Guard f Girth i ne ad a ‘i 7 get a man who is in the work just gross Larrfiomol nae sually gets disco rile: dno! ¢ the ares jh \ Aeron ee aici a, the fun be can get out of bis n you keep the books, usually gets discour- ception and not th the dietetic derelictions of women ete Ha ae anda’ this S Sarr vetoed. Wit Tae ed before he reaches the 3 rug and the bone and the hank : win friends,” he confessed he oman (wh tling over more money to spend T wouldit't be 1 und turns bacle hair’ at which Kipling scoffed tr fay | recounted to one ton 4un who js at the top worried. But keeping books won't help 3 days of his youth t F ty how Se nnn © , to d tally on the if rything ly dear and one ®aan’t ~~ eos here SF crird MeAAaeee halty eho hid iad th blondes or brunettes or enough money, 1 think if I keep _ Dat the description wo! Lhe ad cat!’ she sald to me. gg zp ee x the house 1 have trouble enough with- ‘Iuing Si phywical ideai of tie smart wonyan of Please Strangle fhin too," admitted Mr, Ficcher, out keeping books and Hf you think , : not advise a severely ye ys ‘there are some salesmen who repre different you keep the books and you Flying Squadrons 25) eels: 1 biniply ett tons of Ol Me Qicick ly] 2? wiry steeple We ones, Sant go Bee hy agen Dipti and avold the favtenin . hat ave om oe known os "Now, my dear, never mind about 2 Chase Smugglers way ao wouid-iv witowy figure MUCH aA: pousIble, Ai exigency of acoromiter do- {PM We expect {M8 keeping the tocks or keeping: he MUGGLING over the Dutch and the rotund Humpty-Dumpty Hatter of MMon sense sirin, hothe lant team f . q ly who pose in house,” remarked Mr. Jarr soothingly, S Pantah frontiers, which the Ger mnie A little self-denial 2 suburt mpelled Ot t del gow ny, «men who have “Just try to keep your temper.” Simply be ~ thelr owners cheat re . Feaented at wntial fiems for "#7 could keep that easy enongh,”* man Gove nt had ne to ‘They do nor play fair with the une a a@ physician WISTS GAtE Anse cats are 1 fine, happily ‘L replied Mrs. Jarr. “But when —T have great effort to suppress, n gq strain at losing a gnat-like pounrt the food follies of fat ' men, 1 wish you could atten f to keep the house and keep doolad, toa, flourishing “on a colossal ecale,’ ang #2d swallow a camel in the form of Cream," te "6 100 per cent ‘ Ht the Na- oUF annual banqueta and meet these (ty too much” < heart eals of sweets and starche attonty vutter 0 ne! . men with their wives. w “Wall, never [ . edge and connivaneé of many Goy- ‘The seeret, as 1 remarked ut—out |] » not eat cream sauce on y Markus, the reat ong see if he can trace any “L won't let them yo," add Mra! Sarr, ernment officials, according to reports 9 the current | of Vogue, which et White bread ts ese, WhO wi future divor thie that ae . “You wanted me to keep accounts and , a : why she—and Indec “ Is fattening; do not indulge your and had to catch the last train home. '! " t n hook, and | have put everything down red to be outhidding the Govern- meet with il] success in the popular nelf in candies, cakes, heavy go when Othello bu NE inestic life of the sileaman in It, and it adds up to more than I nent for the ald of dishonest officials indoor sport of shr s the shadow, pastries, sweet OM In fat gemona'e Wedehumber to declan hia jn ge” cae at heasttclt woRe? aye spent, and that's worried ma” nd th eritable army of customs All fat that appears on the body tening; don Your silad snssionute monologne before he wtifled A Ubew ane on ate foot “Phat should be your last worry,” must first go"in uth,” that is with mayonnaise 1 how men on dhe road who writ romarked Mr. Jarn “If it added officers on the borders have permitted the Lightweight Law 4 lid down ‘Drink water between meals, but fiat Uno Mane of ening wae cOpaet rpeclal letters to thelr wives daily. Tothan yc apemt and you eaw Fou millions of marks’ worth of tobacco, the best anti-fat expert in New York, do not drink much wa muP TUE en fe hoDk That Ce ey iin ies ladon with itis fon were facing i deficit" —— { cigars, ¢ coffee and sugar the man who charges a cute little fee meats, ew your food thant 1s to OXt hix pansion and Dox: them and where there are children "And Tcan't get the same amount ss the border duty free within Of $ nen eon two hundred met Jnl the Brat process ae if toni wnothered before the ‘daddy drummer’ never forget them, When add it up" taterrupted Are i c is bexun in the mou ato ime to shudde ; wave great faith in the Jace, "Every time T a st few months,’ “T had a man, the son of a multi- pleted properly. Special diets sh Aftorw wi arned th at MIAA tr vatlive ae sman,” ooneludes My a different remult pe squadrons of customs offi- millionaire, who weighed pounds never € god in without th i iacher n 1 think in some “Kine!” said Mr. Jarr. “It’s results cers have been orgunized by the Goy- und had never done any work,” theex- vice of a physician, and r fo aet rea riagt she haw just a much yeason to that count! Getting different Tee ent “to catch the smugglers’ pert reealled, “He camg to me to re- examine you frequently to sec tS un his wife suite adds some Interest and excite. rid lo have so thoroughly duce him, He sald he Mended to eat yeu hot losing too much or \ . And of courm: there ky a great deal ment? ra do their operations thet only toast and tea, ff him that dar ng your health n Mr. Fiseher’s lant foment. After “Then you get Interested and ex- Hounto onelpts ropldly falling that was too drasti insisted, — ire trying to lake it off t 1 ed Moor compl Yo why ehouldn't the drammer sigh; cited!” gaid Mrs, Jarr, passing over hack to nothing, for custom controlis — “our times bn ¢ «iil he did not nt You can't eat your with th 1 wish the doomed "LT wonder who xhting her ciga- the book. “What 1 need ts n6re again only on pupe! logs a poumd, 1 said, “That man is cuke and lave your figure toa woman, rette NOW?" money,” ' f H . { pene. Wee noe eee Ce > 7 . aaa : y Maurice Ketten STOCKINGS ON YOu SILLY! OEE THEN CALLED INVISIBLE Copy ett, USH! awee one out of men. Then to Fischer, at Travellers’ Cor tional men’s knows mor thelr lives man in thi “Yes, 1 ebildren, 1 salesman, So there you have the “professor side of it” and the practical “lawyer le of it People have always made more or { SF COURSE NOT. ieee Ton, of tn, wareing, micas THAT'S WHY THEY Jana tis supposed amours, Por years eee ieee = ARE bis been put on a par with the 4 wit meets no Cheer Up! You Wives and Sweethearts of “Drummers” Prof. Man Who Knows Says ‘‘Modern Travelling Salesmen Make Model Hustands, Stick to Bilsiness and Meet No More Temptations Than Other Men.” By Fay Stevenson. ~ en. Prof. Rudolph A. Binder, director f the Department of sociology at New York University, has delved Into gtatintios and stated that divorce proceedings fdllow the, marriage of Asnociation, statements, hig offfee, No. 27 William Street, nd just let me say that the drum- mer makes one of the best husvands on earth. He is generous, kind and always crazy to get back home to real comforts, He loathes hotel life, mechs and se to his being fitful to hie “Migs Bry PADE! wifé—E know him to be just as faithful and loyal to the bonds of ISS BETTY FADER, who ehrie- marriage uy any other man, In fact, M tened the monster oll painting if I had to name the business man of President Wilson on exhibt- who ja moat devoted to his wife, whd Won at the Treasury Building at appreciates his home and adores hie Weehington,. has been Gestgnated “the prettiest girl in the whole Now, Prof, Binder's gtate- that every ninth travelling Sy ROY L.MecARDELL salesman on anywhere in the: O49, 1921. ty The Pree Funtiahing De, United States is a divorced man and RS. JARR looked up from her his further contention that the drum- task with knitted brows, "Ob, mers have ten times ax many do- deart” she said, “T have been mestic rows it the fern whom he trying to keep my household accbunts: wtates huve only one divorce out jn the New Year, but, what good? does of every ninety-two imarniages, is jt do except to worry one? When I enowsh to make any little wife who didn't keep accounts I didn't see where has packed her drummer-hubby's the money went to, and now I am suitcase and waved farewell to hin ,eeping accounts and am seeing Where bait are rnysecssag set more it R008 to Mt'a all the samet P temptations thin the-averuge man, “Sure it’s all the same,” hfe aa doesn’t he?" | asked Mr, Piseher. Mr. Jarr. “Bookkeeping only t us “Lm not #o sure aveut that, He where we are, but don't tell us hew to WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1921 Binder’s Charges Refuted — “ “PRETTIEST GIRL” IN U. S. TREASURY. 191, by the Pre Tublishing Co. New York Brening World.) Special to the wives and sthenrts of travelling sales- every nine tra elling sales- the reseue comes Charles they for the Southern Association and the Na- inci! of Travelling Salen- who probably ¢ drummers personally and nd hwhits than any other puntry, ye seen Mr. F h Prof, Binder's cher told me at should shout ‘a travelling Treasury Department.” - ae ) his “sweetheart in every more temptations than the | a