The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-11-28

$1,000 bed" nobody was surprised to
hear next morning that young Edward
r. Thomas had made haste 10 hiIe me
suite and try the bed. IL was SIMPLY the
newest freak of New York s youngest,
most Industrious sensation-seeking multi
millionaire. II cost Mr.. Thomas some
thing like $l25 night to find out how II
| felt TO sleep in the most gorgeous rev
! bed in town-and incidentally the bed
| turned out. 10 be several inches too snort
for him
But never mind. it vas money well
spent thought Mr. and Mrs Thomas LOT
| they had had their daily thrill OF antlcl-
| patton ard novelty and IL mattered not
( II il turned out d poor bargain. SiahS
! playthings had this Kaleidoscope young
! man OF millions purchased at all SORTS
OF prices that failed TO yield the hopeu-
for thrill. Money spent for fun IS money
Wen invested. is MIR Thomas mo5 ls.,., tho
/ speed limit with his automobile is spe77
cies of folly at which Mr. 1nomas SOU
recoils with horror. In the D9ht o. NE
spectacular record as an autOlst one cali
almost hear him saving: ''Why has nv
1 new Mercedes a speed OF seventy HllieSS
an hour? Ia order to enable me TO craWl
about at twelve-mile rate anu ~ 49,, ~
! has become an auto strateglst az Nh I,i..
| all the metropolitan police held up tnSir
/ hands in admiration. :
Only the other day he mace a eouo ~
| this line that marks him real genius.
I The new Mercedes. in the control or q
! loyal chauffeur, was carrying MN from
/ the GraVesend race track toward lue
BROOKLYN bridge along the boulevard 70
/ the south of Prospect park. at the mod
est pace Of about forty miles an nouI N
/ the dusk Of evening. when MI. 1po III.
observed that an AMBITIOUS person III :.
/ paSSe WintOn was evidently trying 10
outspeed him. He whispered to ms cnaui-
/ feur, wSo pulled back the lever lew
nOtches giving the Mercedes new hIe.
/ The result was noted by the millionaire
with the more satisfaction, as just then
/ he realized that he was not being raced,
! but chased by cops"
He knew that the Winton could not eA-
coed a forty-mile gait. This made nm
easy in his mind while he figured on the
| outcome The Winton was lost N the
! gloom of his wake. Down beside the park
! the Mercedes snorted. scattering BROOK
/ lynites and baby carriages right and left.
/ Mr.. Thomas mind had worked vita the
desired result At he Plaza he WIS
pered to the chauffeur, who smut OH TIE
! power and applied the brakes Just IN time
/ to shoot Mr.. Thomas into the Manhattan
| bound trolley car. Then the chauiieur
! drove the big motor car into the snade,
where il remained until the policemen
in the Winton had sped b. and were
/ safely out of sight. That night MI
/ Thomas could afford to contemplate the
/ $40 600 bed from his seven-foOt cot with
an easy conscience. .
/ A day or two later he gave $4,000 10
! establish a ward in the Manhattan Eye,
| Ear and Throat hospital in memory OF
! his fater the late General Samuel thom-
las and accepted with equanimity the YER
dict of a Jury that he owed James G.
Blaine 1851 for having sold out the lat
| ter's Pennsylvania company stock Tor ihe
i alleged lack of sufficient margins durlnS
the panic in May, 1901.
On the very same day Mr.. Thomas good
| fairy prevented his being charged by tne
clerk at the St Regis with 80 Tor two
/ boxes fun of waste paper. alleged 10 con-
| tain two suits of pajamas, two SUITS OF
! fancy hose billed from a haberdaSher
| whose name doesn't appear ia the direc-
tory. II was the same &c. o. d. package
game" but Mr.. Thomas proved immune,
| with kind assistance of the hotel detect
i've. This is at least one entry for the
credit side of the royal suite ledger.
All these are recent views of Mr.
] Thomas through the kaleidoscope-whic
is the only way in which he can DC
| viewed. His whole career since he iefi
college has been one uninterrupted sue
cessiOn of surprises for the general pup
lie. He was taken into his fathers STOCK
brokers' office and forthwith began tC
! lament the time he had wasted IN col
| lege. He knew Latin and Greek aho
calculums. but he couldn't sell stocks or
! commission Evidently he had no neeo
to dread starvation, for when the Sev-
/ enth National bank got into difficulties
somebody came forward with $lpUeN
and the presidency of the concern I 3i
/ young Thomas. who until then was mucn
! less known in the financial district than
| the favorite apple woman. a.
/ He was only q years old-but he was IN
butter wouldn't melt in his mouth When
gray headed old bankers called and saw
| HIM at ease in the president sWiNei
| chair they didn't need a second glance 10
! assure them it was all right. And II was
! al right. Mr. Thomas-and the $l,0DWO-
! saved the Seventh National.
/ Another youngest bank president
would have lost his nerve completely over
the weighty matter of another character
on which Mr.. Thomas had to take prompt
| action while he was saving the bank. re
was engaged to be married 10 Miss Lindi
Lee. the famous Louisville belle. and was
due to start for that southern city IN
order to be in time for a grand wedding.
| He could not save the bank ana rush 81
To Louisville at the same time. But VINO
| would imagine a blue grass belle listening
to such absurdities as bank troubles with
her wedding day at hand. the trousseau
ready AMI the cake baked?
| Yet from his brand new seat in the
Seventh Nationals presidents cnaiL
young Mr.. Thomas calmly telegrapheo
postponing the Wedding and cancelhne
all the arrangements for the honeymoon.
Yet there were no seismic disturbances ~
Kentucky-not even when the new bank
president suggested that, as he was too
busy 20 go 10 Kentucky 20 be married,
Miss Lee come to New York and have tins
knot tied while you wait. And this Is
Just what happened. The whole of Ken
Kentucky gasped. After the (. r.
Thomas stood high inded in the conf
dence OF his countrymen.
When, presently, Mrs. Thomas put hCl
young millionaire husband up to estab-
fishing racing slable-as was natural.
she being from kentucky-everybody said
she would easily get even for the upset
ting of her wedding plans. All the racing
hangers-On rubbed their hands greefully
thinking what they would do to the cas-
lest Mr.. Easy Mark on the turf At frs
il looked as though Mr.. Thomas was
badly ''stung." He bought expensive
I oil vo1 he, To 1E
| extensively left at the post, and was
SIS coo out of pocket on this Investment
before he made a winning. Then one dal
his cold Pulsus won $4,000 in the great
trial stakes. which more than recon-
pensed him for the series of defeats sui
Tered by the costly Hermis who later fal
exceeded the trump of Pulsus. Since
that time Mr.. Thomas has steadily al
vanced in his knowledge OF turf matters
until his stable now is one Of the best II
the country and his winnings 10 cor
respond.
1t sounds strange but it is true, thaf
nowadays the more one goes into horse:
the more he hungers for automobiles. Mr.
! Thomas responded to this instinct IN
| characteristic fashion No half-hearted
experimenting for him He went to W
IL Vanderbilt and caused that gentleman
nearly to faint with joy by taking the
deadly white Ghost off his hands-th'
machine known in the streets of New
York and along every main country roaC
within 100 miles as devilish in its thirs
| for human blood.
The white Ghost had already half Z
score of victims TO its credit. but Mr.
Thomas was cool and confident In hi'
hands the White Ghost annihiiateC
space as il never had done before. Pres
entity IT scattered a group Of school chill
dren at Convent avenut and One Hun
dred and Thirteenth street. New York
! catching one OF them-tittle Edward Thies
/ -kiling hir9 inS-@4ti'- The miIliOnair,
promptly paid the amount OF
Judgment an laA. o. 49,. iat, father
out this did not foot up TO nearly
| aggregate of so per mile which Mr. Van
derbilt had paid in fires.
Not long aftcrward the White Ghost
destroyed dog. who proved most costly