Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-08
BIGGEST IN THE SEA.
The Richest Unmarried Man in All
the United States.
How Children Are Made to Support Lazy
Parents-Child Actresses and
Act0rs-LOst Baronet.
He Acts as Waiter In New York Restaurant.
Farnell Coming to America to Get Rieh
Boulanger Ditto

Correspondence OF the Gazette.
NEW YORK, March 4.-The question OF
making fortune in the big cities is one
shat may well puzzle the seeker of
wealth. 1t has just been announced that
a man in Brooklyn who claimed years
ago that he had invented lotion which
removed wrinkles, has died and left an
estate OF nearly million dollars. Here
was nostrum pure and simple. and the
whole theory OF the success was based on
the credulity and ignorance of the public.
He sold glycerine and sugar for a dollar
bottle, and 1t cost him three cents. He
| spent about f1ve-eighths of the ample
margin in advertising until his wrinkle
| remover was established as q patent
| medicine. A more novel instance is that
| Of q man who has recently assaulted the
| nerves of sensitive New Workers by
placarding the whole town with pictures
of an amiable old gentleman, distin-
guished by side-whiskers, with q club
the size OF flour barrel. Wherever the
/ public looks its eyes encounter this man
killing insects, which are apparently
about the size of mosquitoes, and which
are labeled with every physical mis-
! fortune imaginable, from rheumatism
| and insanity to a broken leg. The adj
! vertiser lives on Fifth avenue, has estab-
! lished dozen branch offices, aud is one
! of the most gorgeous figures ABOUT town.
/ Apparently the number of fools who be-
/ Ieve that disease consists Of insects, and
! that they can be killed with q club, is
/ rich and numerous.
-.
| A marvellous chapter OF latter day life
| could be written about children who SUD-
| port their parents. They are of all con-
ceivable kinds, and there is no limit to
| the industry that they display. III New
York, for example, stories Of pathos and
brutal ssnhumanity might be turned up in
every direction. Instances of diseased,
deformed and crippled children, who are
obliged to exhibit their deformities i'll
public TO support lazy men and women,
are numerous. A few days ago n dwarf,
seventeen years OF age, but phenOme-
nally stunted and shrunken, died in one
of the city museums. The death was
due, in the physician g opinion, TO long
hours and the bad atmosphere which the
dwarf had endured. Every day the little
unfortunate was Gagged. along with lot
of monstrositIes, in superheated room
from in the morning until IL
breath Of fresh air was unknown. The
dwarf's salary was 500 week, and he
had earned that for nine years. His
mother drew the money, and she lived in
Harlem in comfortable house, driving
down TO the museum with a horse and
phaetOn whenever she felt like q trip
through the park. Her two sisters, a
drunken husband and two loutish boys,
both out of their teens, lived on the saw
ings Of the dwarf. The society for the
prevention of cruelty to children never
thought of interfering here, any more
than it does in the case of numberless
other children under sixteen years who
are exposing their shTivelled arms,
dwarfed figures or diseased-racked bod
les in museums that lot of lusty para
sites may live in idleness.
There are q number of child actors and
actresses who are drawing salaries of $50
to 5000 week. l can name FIVE or six
of them on my finger ends now. Every
one has q 'personal manager and
some relative as an attendant to and
from the theater. The children are not
allowed to spend money themselves, be-
cause il is feared that it will get them
into extravaganza habits. The public |
does not stop to think what it means to
take bright child and chain it to the !
that mob Of incompetents may live in
laziness.
In a talk 1 had with the proprietor Of |
museum he showed me a broken-backed |
pony that actually paid for the support |
OF family of eight people. The beast |
was advertised as a wonderful cross |
between a drOmedary and q horse. |
1t had met with an accident when /
only few weeks old, and the spine had |
curved upwards so that the poor little !
thing had hump like q camel. The |
coat was allowed to grow long and the |
name was tousled over the eyes. The |
pony was scarcely able TO stand more |
than four hours out of the twenty -four, |
and any man tho knows anything about
horses, or who had any heart for dumb |
animals, would realize that the humane
thing TO do would be to turn the mon
strosity out to pasture or put bullet
through its head. It's exhibition with a
lot of camel trapplngs in dirty cellar of
q museum is on a par with the whole
question of exploiting deformities, mon
strosities and the miseries OF juvenility In
public.
Turning to extreme wealth, of course
the death of an Aston has led to much
Aston talk. William Waldorf Aston,
who, by the death of his father, be-
comes one OF the richest men IN the
world, is too we'll balanced and con-
ventional to have become a figure for
such publicity as is devoted to his
cousin, John Jacob Astor, Jr. While
william Waldorf Aston has become heir
to something over 500, goo 900, Young
fJsck'' Aston, son of Mrs. William
Aston, the leader of society, is the
prospective heir to about half that
amount, and being a callow and there
fore entirely available youth, it is he
who attracts the larger share of current
social comment. He 10 looked on by
ambitious mothers as the greatest prize
in the social field, and during the sea-
son just passed the battle to secure
him for a husband has waged hot and
swift, but to no purpose. To be sure
he has had a fist fight over a very
pretty young lady, but 1t is doubtful If
his interest in her was more than
momentary, and it Is said that he
IS sorry now for making the fuss he did,
thereby calling down upon himself much
II Is diff1cult to say how the
young man will handle the immense for
tune that will some day be his, for up to