The age-herald., 1901-07-18
LORILLARDlWAS FOND
 OF SPENDING MONEY

Meteor or Louis Fva-er a game of ten- pinss or mere auibble ever a game Of billiards or pool, there was always large stake Immediately placed on the result. and nothing pleased the Prince" more than te win his brothers money.
 Because the Belments had a ballroom Pierre Lorillard bought a lot adjacent to his house at Fifth avenue and Thirty sixth street and built a ballroom. There were three reception rooms, the dining room and the ballroom off te the left of the house. now given up to trade. Ills house was the first in which champagne was served from great glass pitchers holding many quarts. His canvasback ducks and terrapin were specially hunted for him. Invitations to his dances which were never evercrewded, were as eager ly sought as for a. drawing-room. He went in for every form of sport-yacht- ing racing, pigeon4shooting. fishing and field shooting-not so much because he had & strong predileotion for any one except horse racing-but because he thought gentleman in his position should lead in such matters. Personally, he was rather indolent and extremely luxurious in his tastes. Perhaps one req son why he succeeded So well in every thing he did was because did not care much whether he won.
 Sometimes Lorillard's cunning over reached itself. He was having game of bluff at Delmonic1s with MT. George Ossood about their yachts, vesta and B1eetwfns.
 'Tll race you to England"
 Good! I'll sail the race in December.s
 Make 1t s1o.Oo0 0 side"
 But the talk would have amounted to nothing had not MT. James Gordon Ben- nett asked that the Henrietta be let ins Lorillard knew that the Henrietta was the slowest boat and raised the wager to S3o, o,000 each, sure that he had at least one of his opponent beaten before the start He shrewdiy sent the vesta on the south- ern passage to take advantage Of tho southern seas and lighter winds, but Captain Samuels steadily held the Hen rietta on the steamer track, and won cleverly, much to Lorillards disgust. He did not sail on the Vesta, nor did MT. Osgood on the F1eetwing, and cheers were given here and in England for Mr. Bennett, ''the only man who sails his own boat"
 On one occasion after a night of heavy play at ''bac"-not tobac-at which he had been a big loser, gayly caparfsoned mule with jingling bells, was driven by the Country Club house where the play had taken place. On one side of the wagon was painted in big letters:
 "Chew LoriIlards Plug"
 gratulations and good wishes. Miss Hill-
 "Pierrer exclaimed one of the party, ..IIere, quick! Here's one of your traps going byt"
 "Yes," was the slow rejoinder; 'f it wasn't for those traps couldn't afford to pay you other donkeys $50Oo for single nights fun"
 Of late years Pierre Lorillord dropped almost completely out of sight, so far as his old friends and haunts knew him. He was quite aware of the ravages his in- curable disease was making on his health. strength and good looks, and was too proud to follow as an invalid where he had always been the leader of men. His summers were spent among comparative. strangers on the race tracks of England, and no one knew exactly when he came or went. He got the greatest comfort ouE of his Florida houseboat, on which with a few old cronies he generally passed his winters.
 Almost simultaneously with MT. Pierre Lorillard's self-effacement from fashiona- ble life, although he was occasionally seen in the Union and Knickerbocker Clubs, Mrs. Lorillard retired from the world which she had so gracefully adorned and devoted her life to charitable work. Her famous beauty is unimpaired, but in the heavily yelled woman who drives about in a modest little brougham and occupies a very unpretentious house in Washington Square few of the rollicl1ing, happy-go- lucky nouveaux riches of today recognize the beauty who ruled society in the last generation. If Tuxedo Park remains as monument to Pierre Lorillard 1t may be said that busy creche down in the East Side tenement district will mark Emily Lorillard's last days work
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