Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1900-1903, 1902-09-04
MAD MlLLloNAIRE's ExCEssES
American Doctor, Worth $1O,ooo,oo0,
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Living the Life Of a Satyr.

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Living the Life Of a satyr.
In paper on detectives read by DR.
Martin w. Barr, chief physician Of the
Pennsylvania school for predetermined
children, before the summer school of
philanthropy, recently, remarkable
instance was mentioned by him of de-
generacy that has caused comment in
London and continental scientific cir
cles, says the New York Commercial
Advertiser. Lit was the case of an
American multi-millionaire, who is at
present living in far eastern countries,
and leading az life of such satyrlike ex-
cess as to be almost incredible. At
tempts to learn the identity of this de-
generate American have been fruitleSS,
and DR. Barr has taken the greatest
pains to conceal it from the public for
the Wisest possible reasons.
According to DIR Barr this man is a
neurotic. 1t is estimated thai his for
tune is in the neighborhoOd of $1000O,-
600, but no attempt have been made to
have him declared an incompetent; he
is left free, to run his course. His fam
lily are refined, socially prominent.
Whenever they speak of the Sons
course, they refer to it as his nervous
ness" They will not admit that he
has deranged intellect, though he has
left friends and position here to take
up a life among the "hanins," the
gravediggers and social outcasts of the
far east
He was physician, rich, hand
some, cultured, Of aestheic tastes"
said DrsBaFr in his paper, "a graduate
of one of the most prominent medical
colleges in America, and a man who
had made a pronounced hit as
specialist
His fortune enabled him to secure
every medical appliance known to sci
ence, and for some years he enjoyed
phenomenal success. Wine and wo-
men proved his baIle. He sank lower
and lower. His excesses no longer toll
Grated at home, he drifted from capital
to capital OF Europe and finally estab-
lished himself in Japan with a harem
w TIL an appetite still unsatisied, he
exniDited new phases OF moral degene-
ration, causing his body to be tattooed
with. wonderful skill, every picture a
work of art. His back bore huge
dragon the shading of every scale
showing. perfection of detail; this on
revisiting America with utmost yani-
ty he shamelessly exposed. He was
turned out of the clubs. Returning
to Japan, he bought performing bear
and wandered from place to place clad
in the garb of a hanin, exhibiting him
self, his bear and his harem and dis
tributing photographs of each and all
in endless variety.
This past master of vice. said, DIR
Barr, shocking both Europe and
America, and astounding even Japan,
next hires a squad lof japanese boys,
practically buying them outright from
their parents, who attired In full uni
form, are trained in military exercises.
10 these are opposed an equal mum
Der of monkeys dressed as Chinese sol
diers, and the war of China and Japan
is constantly renewed for the enter
tainment of himself and his harem,
who watch in an ecstasy Of delight the
sufferings of the poor brutes. Re-
wards are offered. and the more bloody
the contest and the greater the atroci-
ties the more intense is the gratifica-
tion.v