The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-04

matter how many different kinds OF
fool he may have made of himself, he
never emits a bleat when it is all over
On the other hand, many of the chaps
who unanimously blow in great sums
of money that they never turned hand
over to earn, but simply inherited, dis
play the yellow that's in them when
they reach the end of the coil, and
make all hands that know them weary
with their contriteness. The man who
has the nerve and the force to accu-
mulate his own pile never becomes a
moaner after he has spent it, and dis
covers himself to be possessed of -only
the buds on his back
The only man 1 ever met who inner
tied his money, spent it like water, and
was game after he went broke, was one
wen Carl Brill, young fellow well re-
membered by many Californians who
were young, painfully young, with him
back in the sos. He was a young chap
Of the incorrigi'ble scapegoat sort. He
belonged to a Philadelphia family. and
was artly educated at oxford and
partly at Heidelberg say partly, for
the boy was fired from both institutions
for deviltry Of an unmalicious. though
exasDerating. character. His father
was a rich man, but he cut his scape-
grace son off without a dollar when he
died. Young Brill struck California the
year after the war, and when he turned
up at one of my grape ranches in So
roma county, the manager gave him a
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chap, fine looking and accomplished.
and if an aunt of his hadn't died in
Philadelphia about six months after he
went to work in this vineyard of mine
he would have been better off.
The. aunt left the boy s2.00O.0O0 in
government bonds. His sisters got all
of the old lady's real estate and per-
sonal property, so that young Brill
inheritance. A lawyer came out to the
didn't even have to go east to get his
coast by way OF Panama, and the first
thing the timekeeper of my ranch
knew anything about his luck this law
yer man plunked into his hands a GER
tificate of deposit of an even two mil
lions in the bonds of the most solvent
country on the map. 1 happened to be
at the ranch at the time, and I felt
rather sorry for the boy, for I knew
he'd go right to the devil at lope.
When he had finished his first talk with
the lawyer he walked over to my Of
fee. and said:
Cap, this is a pretty good job I've
got here among your vines; 1 don't
want to give it up, but this money
they've left me mas made me a bit too
hefty to work for the present, and
wish you'd give me a vacation for a
year or so, with the understanding that
I can have the job back when 1 need
it.
''Of course assented to his PROPOSE
ton. 1 didn't make any attempt to
talk to the lad regarding prudence and
carefulness, and all that sort of thing,
for was only about Is years older
than he was, had a pretty fair
fling myself when 1 was his age, and
knew perfectly we'll that an independ-
ent young fellow with money is going
to let out what's in him anyhow, talk
or no talk.
well, the way this Brill boy went on
after he left the ranch was a caution.
I knew that he was due to do some
sprinting when he got hold of that
money, but he beat all of my calcula-
tons. First he went to San Fran
cisco trainer of pugilists and took a
three months course of sprouts to get
himself back to the hardy physical
shape he was in at college. At the end
Of the three months, trim, hard and fit
as a fiddle, he dawned upon San Fran
cisco, which at that time was filled with
bright, companionable and frankly dis
reputable men and women. most of
them from the east coast. These Ger
tainly had a fine thing in young Brill
when he fell among them; not that the
boy was by any means a fool, but
simply because he liked them and show
ed his liking 1t took him about a week
to provide his people with ornamental
gear with which to bedeck themselves,
and to implant joy in the bosoms of the
SWEETEST tailors, modistes, hooters, jew
elers and haberdashers in San Fran
cisco.
when they were all fitted out to his
liking, about 100 of them, Brill practi-
cally chartered Southern California
stage line and took the crowd over the
southern section of the state for about
a month. The commissariat consisted
of about a dozen coaches, filed chiefly
with damp stuff of the sparkling kind
and a frst-class brass band was at the
head of the procession. The sensation
this nomadic gang of jewellers created
was immense. They had different ways
of acting on the trip. In passing
through one town, for instance, all
hands would dangle their legs out Of the
coach windows, bawl carnival songs,
pave the streets with emptied bottles,
and hoop like a parcel of Modocs. The
very next town, perhaps a dozen miles
away, would get an entirely different
sort of deal. Banners bearing the leg
end, San Francisco Sunday School