The evening world., 1902-08-22

Leo, the Boy Plunger, Who Never Paid
to See a Prize-Fight, Now Sports a
Tuxedo and Is Reputed to Have
Amassed a Fortune of 100000,

with the time when prize-ights were
leld at Madison Square Garden.
Coney Island, the Broadway Athletic
Siub and other places in New York
City. Wherever there was a heht
there was Leo. How ne got in no
man could tell. How he kept from
getting out no ten men could tell. He
was there every time, he knew every
body and picked up many a dollar by
his ability to carry messages from
play to play for newspaper reporters
In less time than other boys con-
sumed in like service.
RISE OF THIS "CoPYn BOZ.
They tell Us that when the prize
lighting game wal smothered in New
York Leo took 70 the race tracks.
Men In whose veracity we have conf
dence assured US that he is worth
5000 900. We fear these men have
been misinformed, but, inasmuch az
Leo 10 known as the boy Plunger,"
there must be something in the re-
ports Of his wealth.
Burdened with money % he may
be, the habits of frugality engendered
by strenuous days on Park Row have
not deserted him. This was made
plain to us at a late hour last night
when we discovered him in the Grand
Union Hotel eating a doughnut and
drinking a glass of lemonade. We
say he has not lost his frugal habits
because he was eating but one dough
nut. Had he been eating two dough-
| r,,Aa ~ Xhn N-a-1 Ty-t1- uA
might have concluded that he, too.
had been stricken with the mania for
spending money 80 prevalent here.
THE SARATOGA DowAGER.
In our previous communications to
The Evening World we have over
looked what Mr.. Powers calls the
! Saratoga Dowager. Our only explana-
tion is that we have not been looking
for old ladies. because, in all truth,
there is no more interesting character
than the aged female of the Saratoga
visitor type. 1t would appear that
the older a woman gets the more dia-
monds she is privileged to wear when
she ONE to Saratoga.
This is the place where they carry
weight for age, so to speak, and the
diamond merchant is the handicap
per.
The aged female aforesaid IN gem
orally robust. She wears the best
teeth that can be turned out of the
dental parlors, and her diamond ear
rings average five karats apiece. She
wears a diamond brooch as big as a
ba~ll-player's hand and encumbers her
fingers with circlets Of gems that re-
mind the observer of a big railroad
yard on a dark night, so brilliantly
do they reflect white, blue, red and
green. She Is more alert than the
precious stone bearers OF half her
age and just as interesting.
"JACK" CHINN's "ARsENAL..
Col. Jack" Chinn, the bad man
from Kentucky, was standing at the
edge Of the Broadway pavement
wrapped in thought and q long over
coat, for 1t was raining-as It has
been doing right along In Saratoga.
TWO natives were discussing Col.
Chinn.
I'll bet he's a walking arsenal
now" said one.
you know many men have sworn
to kill him. He is compelled to Be
alert at all times, with one hand on
his revolver and the other On hi
knife. He Is cool as steel
Just then an automobile started on
the side of the street with q series Of
reports Hike q gathng gun. Col. Chinn
jumped clear across the sidewalk.
dropping things from his pocket e.
he went. One OF the citizens FASTENED
to help the Colonel to recover his
property. He picked up q whisker
comb, a silver flask. a bunch OF keys.
a corkscrew, a lucky copper amulet.
a package OF chewing gum and Q
horseshoe nail.
rs this all you lost, Colonelf"
asked the citizen, hoping that the
K%entuckian would reveal that he was
berett Of a gun or at least a bowie
knife.
Dog gone it," replied Col. Chinn.
IN bet I've lost all them tobacco
tags | was saving to get a razor strop
with" MARTIN GREEN.