Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-08

for fur overcoat $3.50 900 for wardrobe,
$1,000 for a little ball lin the Louis XVI
STYLE $4,000 for another somewhat less
pretentious ball, 100000 for decorations on
a ceiling in the palace $4,000 for hunt
for the Grand Duke Boris of Russia, and
sos 600 for a similar entertainment Tor the
King of Portugal.
This was the way the Gould money went,
and now that Boni is at the end OF MS
string he faces utter want. and perhaps
may be obliged to work for his daily bread.
Jewels and Theater.
The foppish Marquis of Anglesey pre-
sents parallels to Count Boni. except that
in favor of the English spendthrift it must
be remembered that he was wasting hi:
own cash. not that of his wife or of his
wife's family.
In two years Anglesey spent three mil
flion dollars. and was adjudged a bankrupt
for another million.
The fads of Anglesey were personal
adOrnment and his theater.
He had S250000 worth of jewelry, and
for a single pearl that caught his fancy
was known to have spent $4,000.
His wardrobe included 227 suits, 362 fancy
waistcoats, 433 ties, 2IS pairs of gloves, 100
overcoats. including one of sable fur that
cost $4,000, $50 pairs of pajamas and 70
smoking suits.
His notion that he was amateur actor
of considerable ability also furnished the
MARQUIS ample IneJnOuS Ol SSltlilS
his pile for he had built in his castle a
perfectly appointed theater lavishly fur
nished
To this he brought complete companies
at high salaries. and kept them for as
long as a year at a stretch. In many of
the plays he took part. and to the per-
formances he invited friends. who stayed
for weeks, and were his guests during all
the period.
When it is recalled that as costly ar
actress as Marie Tempest was once An
glesey's star at one of these plays, the mis-
sing millions are easily accounted for.
Other Famous Spenders.
Max Lebaudy of France, who with his
two brothers inherited a vast fortune from
his father, the sugar manufacturer, lived ON
a bounteous scale during the few years of
life permitted him before consumption got
in its deadly work, and his surviving broth
ers equally given to prodigal habits.
England boosted few higher fiiers than
Barney Barnato who made his pile in the
diamond fields of Africa, figured in mem
orable financial scandal and ended his life
by leaping from a steamer.
The United States has had many big
spenders. The wild recklessness of the
Pullman twins had its origin in the i'm
mense sums of money that We're ever at
their disposal.
Coal Oil johnny made international
fame during his seven months of glory.
JOilIi w SletIe WIS MS name. lie
lived in Franklin, Pa, and his fortune was
made when oil was discovered on his farm
Believing that the supply was inexhaust
ible, he started out on of the widest
tours record
He stuffed his pockets with notes of big
denominations and even pinned them to
the outside of his clothes He tipped with
ten-dollar notes, lit his cigars with twenties
hired big hotels and entertained every
guest free of charge There We're days
when he spent as much as 100000.
In seven months Coal Oil Johnny ran
through seven millions.
'Scotty' Walter Scott of Death valley
who comes east at intervals to spend five
or ten thousand dollars Of the gold from
his mine, is perhaps the most picturesque of
current prodigals.
1t was the prodigal extravaganza Of
James Hazen Hyde that drove him out of
his high office in the Equitable Life AS
surance Company. His sumptuous dinners
at home and in Europe cost such enormous
sums and were advertised SO extensively
through newspaper comment that eventual
ly unrest of stockholders led to the famous
investigations that put all the other insur-
ance companies on the rack