Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-03-27
SPENDING HIS MILLION.

~. lung Man Whose Father Turned Him
ooe OF Doors, but Made Him III. Heir.
: was immensely amused yesterday
M'ernoon about four O'Clock at a spec
'ac,e i saw on Fifth avenue" remarked
= clerk in apopular uptown. hotel, as
ne leaned over and looked at the re-
hectlons of his diamonds in the pol
ished surface of the desk. 1.-The spec
'acie attracted a good deal of attention,
ana l felt justified in standing on the
corner inc waving my hand majesti-
cally at it as it passed by. 1t didn't
it,"
"What was it?"
lit was a young man about twenty
-FOUR years of age, who has been a fin
ture IN our bar-room for four years.
You may have observed in the papers
wlthin the past two weeks a notice of
tne death OF a dealer in plumbing sup
Plies, who was eccentric, and lived
over his shop to the end of his days,
despite the fact that he accumulated a
million. His only son had aspirations
above his fathers business, and the
father kicked him out two years ago.
After that the boy lived at this hotel
that is. he passed his days and nights
here, but slept in some remote lair
which o n of us has we been able to
find.
During this time he was the laugh
ing-stock of the whole place. He
talked with the hall boys and the por-
tiers, but had a wholesome fear of the
men behind the desk. He would gaze.
at the swells going in and out with the
utmost reverence, and was perpetuallyS
trying to initiate them. His shoes
were invariably run down at the heel,
his linen frayed, and his coat sleeves
too short for him. We guyed him
numerically, but he took It all with
the most naughty mien imaginable,
and o he is evidently taking his re-
venge. He has fallen into a million by
his fathers death, and to-day I caught
him doing the grand. He certainly
isn't over four feet and a half high, he
wears a pug nose and a pair of huge
ears, and his whitish hair is cropped
short. When 1 caught sight of him he
was bowling up the avenue in the finest
style of the art. He wore a white top
coat, white overgaiters, a silk hat and
a pair Of yellow gloves, and sat on top
of the biggest dog-cart l ever saw. 1t
had big red wheels, which looked as if
they had been taken off "a fire engine,
and a huge red body. 1t was yanked
along by a housekeeping piebald horse,
and on the box, bolstered up with
cushions and a footstool or ottoman
on which to rest his feet-his legs were
not long enough to reach the floor
sat his nibs. A single eyeglass dam
gled over his breast, his elbows were
akimbo, and every timo the horse
shook his head it looked as if it would
yank the youngster off his feet and toss
him up az though thrown from q bean
shooter. Beside him was a big foot
man, and both of them were talking
atfably as they climbed up the avenue.
The horse had a sort Of pile-driver ac-
ton with the fore legs, and the heavy
chains on his harness ratified loudly.
That young millionaire is the biggest
man in New York to-day, and he will
continue to think so until. he meets
some other millionaire who really is
the swell, and then he will find out his
weak points in very short order"
Then the clerk looked at the refec-
ton of his symmetrical head in the
mirror behind the desk, and then fell
to staring the guests out of counte-
nance with mechanical intensity.-M.
Y. Sun.