Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-02-16
sPENDING HIs NiILLION.
A Young Man Whose Father Turned him
Out OF Doors, but Made Him His Heir.

IL was immensely amused yesterday
afternoon about O'Clock at spectacle
| saw on Fifth avenue remarked clerk
in popular uptown hotel, as be leaned
over and looked at the reflections Of his
diamonds in the polished surface of the
desk. "The spectacle attracted a good
deal of attention, and l felt justified in
standing on the corner ana waving my
hand majestically at 1t as 1t passed by.
1t didn't notice me, but have already
forgiven it."
"What was it"'
at was young man about u years of
age, who has been fixture IN our bar
room for four years. You may have OBJ
served in the papers within the past two
weeks a notice of the death OF a dealer
in plumbing supplies, who was eccentric,
and lived over his shop to the end OF his
DAYS, despite the fact that he accumula-
ted million. His only son had aspira-
tons 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
none Of us has ever been able find.
During this time he was the laughing
stock of the whole place. He talked with
the hall boys and the porters, 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 perpetually trying to initiate them.
His shoes were invariably run down at
the heel. his linen fFayed, and his coat
sleeves too short fOrhim. We guyed him
numerically, but he took it all with the
most naughty mien imaginable, and now
he is evidently taking his revenge. He
has fallen into a million by his fathers
death, and to-day l caught him doing the
grand. He certainly isn't over four feet
and half high, he wears a pug nose and
a pair of huge ears, and his whit
ish hair is cropped short. When caught
sight of him he was bowling up the ave
nue. in the highest 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 of a
fire engine, and huge red body. 1t was
yanked along by a housekeeping plebald
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 f1oOr-sat his
nibs. A single eyeglass dangled over his
breast, his elbows were akimbo, and every
time the horse shook his head
it looked as if he would yank the
Youngster off his feet and toss him
up as though thrown from a bean
shooter. Beside him was big fOotman;
and both OF them were talking atfably as
they climbed up the avenue. The horse
had a sort of pile-driver action with the
fore legs, and the heavy chains on his
harness ratified loudly. That young mil
lionaire is the biggest man in New York
to-day, and he will continue to think sc
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 reflection
of his symmetrical head in the mirror be-
hind the desk, and then fell to staring the
guests out Of countenance with mechani-
cal intensity,