The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-09-13
THE SON OF a SENATOR LOSES
$4,000 PLAYING BACCARAT
AT NEWPORT
WILLIE'S FRIENDS BABBLED
STORY REACHED WETMORE SEN
IOR, AND FAMILY RELATIONS
ARE STRAINED
BOY QUITE ABLE TO LOSE

Has n Fortune of His own From
His Mother-PIny Was at the
Nautilus Club, Where Big Sums
Have Been Won and Lost I'm the
Play.
NEW YORK, Sept n.-Willie G.
Ketelas won $4,000 at Newport one
night last week The next night Willie
Wetmore came a cropper' at the same
game and lost $25O00 at the Nautilus
club.
And more: Willie Wetmore's father
who belongs to the best club in the
world, the United States senate. learn
ed that his son had lost $500 at a
single sitting at cards. Either the
younger Wetmore had not that amount
of money in his pocket and had to ask
his father for (which seems prob
able-or else some of Willie Wetmore's
friends babbled admiringly about his
losses, and the babble sounded in
George eabOdy Wetmore's ears.
Anyway, there was a very stormy
interview between Wetmore father and
Wetmore son. When the interview
ended Willie Wetmore swore he would
leave his fathers house, Chateau-sur-
Mer, and never again enter it. This
proves that the younger Wetmore felt
much aggrieved, for Chateau-sur-M -Mer
IS a very beautiful house indeed and
one that no young man Of good taste
would care to leave.
Willie WetmOre is about twenty-five
years old, a smooth faced, good-looking
young fellow, with many good quail
ties. Once 1t was announced that he
was engaged to marry Miss Daisy
Letter, whose father has lately been
selling and mortgaging some very
choice corner lots in Chicago to pay
his sons experiments with wheat. The
elder Letter paid out several millions
for his son, and therefore is in a po-
sition to sympathize with Senator Wet
more. Mrs. Letter denied that her
daughter was engaged to Willie Wet
more, and that was the end Of that.
WHERE IT HAPPENED.
The Nautilus club is on Bellevue ave-
nue., near Bath road, Newport, most
conveniently situated to the Casino.
For the Casino soon pals on the gilded
youth. Richard A Garfield is proprietor
of the Nautilus club, having succeeded
to it in the winter of 1896, buying it
from F. A. Abel, who was, and prob
ably is so largely interested in the
Brooklyn Base Ball club. Mr.. Canfield
a most Obliging and polite man, is well
known to those who have pursued the
elusive roulette ball, who have tried
to guess whether the next card will
win or lose, or who have played red
and black or baccarat in New York
or Saratoga as we'll as in Newport. If
Mr.. Garfield knows you, you need have
no money in your pocket to amuse
yourself in any Of his club houses. If
he knows your father, he IS as ready
TO take your fathers check as yours.
Rich young men, or sons Of rich men,
60 to the Nautilus after the dances or
dinners they grace by attending. The
play has always been high at the club
Baccarat has always been a favorite
game Of the younger players. And a
very enticing game it is-if you hold
eight or nine often. AS every one re-
members, baccarat has often aroused
even the languid interest Of the Prince
of Wales, and so 1t is not surprising
that Willie Wetmore became sufficient
ly excited at it to lose $25, 900.
Young Mr.. Wetmore is not the only
heavy loser at this fascinating game
and in this hOspitable club. In 1896 a
young gentleman now distinguished
both in politics and in the volunteer
army, son of a father more distin-
guished, lost $4,000 in a nights play
at the Nautilus, and another of the
same fashionable set lost $4,000 in a
nights play.
Yet another son Of a distinguished
father lost $4,000 after several days
play there. Another season this same
young man proved he can be self-con-
tained as we'll as reckless. He went
to the club house very early one morn
ing, and as he was handing his sticI
and hat to a waiter, he called to the
roulette dealer in the next room: "Ter
dollars on the H." The little ivory ball
by happy chance, stopped in the l.
hole, the young man pocketed $3.50, ant
he did not play again that summer
HE HAS MONEY.
The very few to whom Willie Wet.
more's loss is known say he has plenty
of money Of his own, inherited from
his grandfather, but it is all in trust
This statement is really O. splendid
compliment to Grandfather Wetmore's