Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-03-08
MEN a pETEcTlyE KNOWS


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Waning blades who spend Lots OF Money
But have no visible Source of Income.
IRE Ned Yak ssA. - t's-
'HThe number of chesps sweils VINO are
floating about town nowis greater than ever
before in the history OF New fork re
marked Central Office detective yesterday
as he lighted fresh cigar and leaned
against FIRE plug on Broadway near twen-
,S.seyenth street "Ceses come up IN pohce
courts constantly, and at short Intervals we
are called upon to look up certain young
men about town who excite suspicion Dy
their prodigsl habits and apparently mex
haustible supply of money. People are 81
vays astonished when it comes to light that
young men have been stealing, emoezzhng'
or forging, and yet you or |, or any man
with reasonably wide acquaintance among
men, can sit down soberly and pick out i've
or six men among those we know who are
individually and unquestionably spending
more than their incomes. They must do
one of two things, run in debt or obtain
money by some dishonesty, and because 1t
is nobody's business to look particularly into
the affairs of such fellows, they escape de-
lection until some accident or their own IN
discretion gives them away. Take the case
of this man, for instance, who is In the
Tombs now under half dozen indictments
ftom big dry goods house in Sixth avenue,
and who is likely to spend many years in
Jail on account of his populations. Well,
for several years saw that man everywhere.
He is good looking chap, with blonde
beard, and he always wore light overcoat,
fresh gloves, shiny hat, and frequented the
Brunswick aud other fashionable cafes.
Every night about theater time you would
see him bowling along Broadway sitting
erect in a cab and looking like young mil.
lonai-. He is afable and pleasant, and spent
money as though be had the national ireis'
ury behind him. He was popular bo.h with
men and women, and no one ever stopped
10 wonder how clerk in Sixth avenue
dry goods store could afford to spend SILL
600 year.
The more you think of what | said a
few moments ago aboutthe number OF young
men about town the sources of whose in
comes are at least suspicious, the more men
YOU can call to mind whom you have rea-
sonable grounds to suspect of similar prac-
tees. Not half an hour ago saw through
the windows of DelmoDico's cafe nice.
looking young fellow with blonde balr and
a yellow moustache entertaining four friends
at dinner. He was in evening dress, and so
were they. Two of the men who were din
ing with him are the sons Of rich Wall street
men have race horses of their own, and
spend $4,000 a year without feeling it.
That dinner at Delmonicos will cost any
where from $40 to $50, and krow for a
fact that the man who is putting up tor 1t IS
receiving only $500 year. He is a man
aging clerk in a brokers' Office, and has a
wife and two children OF course, it is easy
enough to say that he may have made a
lucky speculation down town, but the rules
of every brokers' Office forbid the clerks
from specializing, and the chances are that
be never gained his money in a legitimate
way. He lives near the Union Club IN
Tgenty-first street, and his domestic expen'
Sos are not less than $1,000 year. 1ol
could imagine what he spends outside il you
saw him night after night, as do throw
ing money right and left. You may think
it is only question of time when bis source
of income will be expo.ed, but that Is no.
always the case, for where one employer ex'
roses the subject, hundred hush the hing
I'D, and no one outside of the small circle
in the Office ever finds out the dishonesty OF
the employee" =,
What has oil this to do with cheap
swells?'
81 include these men in the category o.
cheap swells, though they hardly describe
what nean by the term. The cheap swells
| have in mind particularly are the ones
who have no incomes at all to speak OF, but
who wear fasbioable clothes, frequent fash
ionable resorts, keep up no end OF style, and
are really tullhedged and experienced Grim
inals. There is gang of these petty swim
dIers and we'll dressed beats, and one OF
their leaders was brought into unusual
prominence few days ago by card from
bis mother, in which she warned all trades
men and others against trusting her son,
an announced that she would no longer be
responsible for the bills contracted by him.
This personal was kept in the papers for
many DAYS, and it created good deal OF
stir. Have you ever seen the young man?
Not to know him.
HE has the face of an infant, mild, 10
uocent, and confding. He is one o, the
most ACCOMPLISHED beats in New York, and
he wears better clothes than the riches men
in New York. Associated with him until
recently was an English Jew, who believe,
is wanted on the other side. TINS fellow is
! -na,trvely the shmiest and most disagreeable
swell have seen. He wears the most fash
ionsble of clothes, and wanders about town.
He no longer dares to show his face in
Delmonicos 5, but he manages to keep up an
exterior connection with the Brunswick,
the Fifth Avenue and the Windsor. He
was never known TO pay for a drink or q
dinner, and his address was unknown till
the other day when l was looking for a
criminal sneak near Ninth avenue and then
| found that this blooming English swell
lives in a small room in a fat house half
populated by negroes.
hShll another member Of this festive
crowd is an Englishman, who is going to
seed very fast Just now. He was formerly
very exclusive, but hasn't been able to boz
row for some months now, and it is begin
ming 10 tell on him. l might 60 on indei
nitely. l could give you the names Of q
dozen of these young blades who spend
their lives in idleness, are always correctly
dressed, and apparently have nothing to do
but enjoy themselves, and will all of them
be in prison for some sort Of criminal IT.
regularity. Perhaps the most curious cases
are those of young men who belong to good
families, and who find it more fun to be
criminal than respectable. They are usually
the prey of the less fortunate members of
the gang"
AMERICAN POLITICS.