The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-02-15


After the banquet the party drove to
downtown motel, where one of the MEM
DeTs insisted on paying for some cham
payne that had been ordered YeungIing
declared 1t was he who was giving the
dinner, and would not have anyone else
settle for anything. The other man was
equally as Obdurate. and after he had
ilquidated a bill for 500 Yeungiine ex-
cuSed himself, got up from the table.
walked out and never spoke to any of
the party afteTWard.
As long as he had money he insisted on
spending II, regardless of consequences.
ne had standing orders Tor flowers with
every dealer in the city; daily wine or
ders were placed a different hotels and
When he could find no easier means Of
squandering his money he would surlip
INTO cab, ride to the oyster market in
W est street purchase many barrels and
send them to his friends.
On one occasion a TREND asked him for
a match. Yeungling produced it, and
ABOUT half an hour later there was a
similar request. The two We're sitting IN
the GllSey House at the time. The Young
man pardoned himself, and, driving to a
nearby grocer, ordered $500 worth of
matches sent to his friend.
one night L saw Yeungling borrow more
IMAM 500 10 lend 10 friends The follow
ing Gay ne PAID 1t, and that night gave
a dinner at downtown restaurant. The
meal amounted to $500, and when Young
ling reached into his pocket to get the
money he found he did not have it by $50
Don't let that worry you" said the
waiter, Jokingly; YOU chech Is sOOu-
answer; whereupOn he gave his check,
and the following day was compelled to
borrow money to make it gOOd-r He went
absolutely broke giving the dinner, and
much to the establishment of his friends.
for they judged from his actions that he
was still a millionaire.
Most of Yeunglngs fortune was spent
on an actress, ana she yet has several
thousands of dollars worth of diamonds
which he gave her
g . g
There was no occasion for surprise at
the stories printed the other day to the
effect that Perry Tiffany had gone into
bankruptcy. j had been expecting it for
a long time. but was aStOnished to find
the amount SO small-a meager $500.
There was a time when Tiffany, too,
ranked high in the class of spenders. but
since his marriage he has not squandered
SO freely The young man was generally
known as high nver,' and he spent
much money on social functions. His
wife did and still moves in. the best cir
Giles at Newport and Bar HarbOr and at
LenOX and the other SWagger places, but
young Tiffany dropped out of the social
swim year or two ago, and since then
has been more frequently seen on Broad
way than he has been at Newport.
Tiffany, however, differs in many re-
spects from Yeungiing, insOmuch that he
is only temporarily embarrassed, for
some day he viii come into an indepen-
His friends have generally. regarded
own right, but, ike other young men who
have had fddS tor spending money, III
fanny has lived on parental income.
Fred Lester, who was at one time one
of the best known clubmen in New York
and a .'spender' whose reputation cove ed
two continents, is clerking in broker
office in lower Broadway
Eight wears ago he was worth some
thing like s3,UJ0,0o0 in his own name, but
it flowed as rapidly as water over Nj
agara Falls, and three years found MIN
without a cent.
he Il 50 a
of something like $4,000 to himself He
had invited large party of friends
eighteen in alto accompany him on a
hunting tour through New Jersey-atter
which there was to be "a big dinner at
one of the Lakewood hotels. Plates were
set for 19, and after a huge banquet mad
been ordered Lester called a waiter and
said ne wanted a single pOTterhouse
steak and some picked beets- me dining
began to glance around him, and some
What are you looking fOr' Fred %
why he answered, pointing to the rear
of the room, there is d man back there
who threatens to kill every one here
The party to a man glanced in the di-
rectiOn indicated by Lesten As they ala
so he reached into his right hip pocket,
quickly extracted pistol and fired 1t rap
idly under the table. As he did 80 he
grabbed the beets in his other hand and
splashed them over his own face.
Immediately the entire room was
thrown into a panic. and several men ran
discovered Testers revolver under the
table, and it was concluded he had COM
mitted suicide. The hotel physician was
summoned, and a kind young woman be
gan to rub away the beet gravy. thinking
it was blood, from the millionaire's face.
Soon the physician arrived and bent over
Lester, who was supposed to be dead he
simply opened his eyes. and gazing into
the doctors face, exclaimed:
Lord, but they're a id long time
lester was sned for $1,000 Judgment
was rendered against him, and he paid.
It required him just one year to rid
himself of half his money, and he went
to Cairo, where he married a young Eng
lish girl. He brought her to New York,
and after living with her six months the
young woman LETT him on the ground that
she could no. stand his mode of life
Six months later Lester was Denniless
At this time the Lexington avenue cable
road was building, and after ne had bOr-
rowed to his limit he went to work as a
common laborer. One day the contractor
in charge went to the foreman under
whom he worked and asked him the loan
of man for "A few minutes. The foreman
picked out Lester. The contractor gave
him "a bottle of wine and told him to take
it to his wife in FOrty-ninth street Les
ter reached the house to find that the
contractors supposed wife was his own.
A suit for $4,000 for the alienation of af-
fections Followed, but It never became a
matter Of publicity. and the contractor
compromised for $4,000
Lester took the money and went TO Lon
decamped from New York ten years ago
with 100000 OF his fathers wealth. They
spent the sZ5,000 together and Lester re-
turned to New York, having been en-
ployed@ almost ever since as a broker
clerk.
Winslow married wealthy young
woman in London but she lived with
him only two years. At the end of that
time she sued and secured a divorce. His
money gave out and he became public
charge. He was arrested as a Vagrant
thirteen times IN one month Ambassador
Bayard paid the fine each time out of
friendship for his father, but finally
magistrate at Bow street declined TO any
longer accept the money, and WinsloW
was sentenced for two years. He should
gain his liberty some time during the
present month.
4: o @
Another of those who made money fly
in the Tenderloin as long as IL lasted was
Walter Stewart, the son of a Tennessee
planter Ten years ago Stewart was
worth Si,ot9,e95. He came to New York
one Saturday, and the following Monday
was worth 100000 less, having become
infatuated with a young woman who re-
heved him of the difference in u single
night
Stewards favorite pastime was to en-
gage a few hundred seats for a theatre.
distributs them almost any place and
tnen enjoy himself by buying drinks fc-
the entire party. On one occasion he rent