The Indianapolis journal., 1896-06-14
SPENDING S5O,OOOA YEAR
THE TIDY SUN sQUANDERED ANxU-
ALLY IN A NEW YORK SWELL.
Done with Little Effort, and Not "a Bi-
where the Money Went.
New York Journal.

New York Journal.
How TO live on $4,000 year seems
simple enough-cruelIy and sarcastically
simple TO the thousands OF toilers who are
now living on - a week and newspaper
tables d'hotes: but how TO live on $4,000 a
year and have nothing TO show for Il at
the end OF the twelve months except a
tangled retrospection and a nine months
refusal a little hollow-chestcd grave
in quite corner OF lovely cemetery Is
another question: question which. IL Is
safe to presume. would keep Butte SMASH
more and other biscuit-brcwing scientists
guessing for a long time. Brt IL can be
done. and is being done to-day, right here
in New York city. by round-faced. boy
ish-looking young man. who has been
spending $4,000 a year for the last twenty
three months. and who has succeeded so
well that he has not even a pair OF bi-
cycle stockings or a golf stick TO show for
his Investment
Fifty thousand dollars annually Is a pref
ty snug sum; il is what the VanderbiIts
pay Chauncey Depew for governing their
enormous railroad interests, and II is the
amount that Uncle Sam gives each year TO :
the President OF the United States for
running this Republic. Both Dr. Depew
and President Cleveland have managed on
their salary to lay up a little for a rainy
day. and they have lived reasonably well
besides. But this young man. who scrapes
along on half a hundred thousand each
year, has not put one talent I'm a napkin
and from the viewpoint OF the ordinary
citizen he has not lived very well,
His income is something more than sls5
day. and the sun never goes down-or
rises, rather. for he does not retire until
n he Ia
not spent IL ALL or near enough so that
he can readily catch UP the next day. It
rs not such difficult thing as IL would ap-
pear az first sight, either-not when you
know how
HIS VALET HELPS HIM.
His twenty-three months apprenticeship
has made him terribly proficient. He be-
gan reaping that which he did not sow
after the death of a relative. who left a
fortune large enough TO make a percepti-
BILE cavity In the national debt II he had
chosen to apply it for that purpose. The
young man, however, is making a hole In
II about rapidly the combined Efforts
of Cleveland and Carlisle could, and he
hasn't even any one to censure him.
His first step I'm his efforts 10 live up to
his income was to get bachelor apartments
in swagger building in the Tenderloin.
For those he pays $1,000 year rent and
probably q hundred or more Tor light and
wafer. The chief item OF furniture I'M this
apartment is his valet. which costs him
$50 month, or. allowing for what the man
can borrow when his master is not look
ing, 500 monthly.
At this rate IL can readily be seen that
he would fall far short of fulfilling his mis-
e has eua Of Of rooms Unx he IN bg uptown
hotel. for which he pays $500 month. and
in order to help along he fails to appear II
either the. bachelor apartments or the ho-
"A
between $50 and $50 for his forgetfuiness.
He does not keep a stable, because he
trouble by patronizing liveries and cabs.
His livery bill for January and February
was $500. With these excellent opportrnl-
ties for filling pauper's grave he Is not
content. and so he has called TO his aid
that noblest spender of them all. the SOU
brette. Not a night goes by that he does
not send a bouquet costing from SO 10 $50
according TO his caprice. That item OF
flowers alone stood him 5000 last year.
ANGEL AMONG ANGELS
After the theater there is dinner. at
which he is invariably the host and some
times the soubrette and few OF her
friends are his guests. and sometimes the
entire company of which she is a member.
The check rarely falls short OF So. and Is
never less than SIS. so that with her as
sistance and the assistance OF her friends
he gets on very nicely. He Is not MEM
has not that avenue of expenditure open to
him, but he belongs TO an alleged Bohe-
mian affair that has sprung UP since the
local reformation, and after the dinner has
been eaten and paid for he has little dif-
fculty in disposing of additional nuggets OF
his days allowance.
II is a hard. fast pace this young man
has to go to spend $4,000 a year. with his
limited resources and IL requires many
stimulants. In the haggard green OF the
dawn he goes home-or gets home some
how-and sleeps the sleep or the heavy
headed until IL o'clock a. m Inen ne
awakens or rather opens his eyes: The.
awakening, process is accomplished by aid
of stone jug. which his man invariably
places at the young mans bedside each
morning. The little jug holds the. best.
quality of rye whisky that Is distilled, ana
IL requires between ten and twelve long
pulls at the jug before ne Is I'm training
and fit TO begin the days programme.
At noon he gets dressed and breakfasts
at the Waldorf. Delmonicos or the st-
| ton. in which he eDdeavors 1eeDiy 70 re-
| call the engagements OF the night beIorc-
Generally they consist OF "rlsc y. NC sne
I ans Pass Tavern and the Casino where
| the gloom OF the morning Is dispened IN
| the bubbling and sparkling cneer OF the
By o'clock he is ready 10 dine again.
| and sometimes, even at this stage OF the
game the undivided attention OF his valet
| is needed TO get him dressed After din
| ner which, as is the case with the one
which follows the theaier; ne to 5eioom ls,as r5
| the usual performance Is repeated. Win
occas sional variations
He numbers many friends In his assets.
| 70 he sure. faithful. clinging friends. who
| will desert him the moment his bankers
| send word that he has overdrawn- But he
spends $1,000 a year ana they are al %