The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-01
THAW WHITE CASE POINTS
 LESSON FOR M0RALISTS
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 Thaw was born in Pittsburg In 1870, one of the elder children of the seven that came to Mir. and Mrs. William Thaw The father began life as a poor mechanic, but by great shrewdness and unfagging industry in the coal and coke and iron business accumulated for tune of $i0,000O 900, which has since his death grown to $50,000000,
 William Thaw for years before his death lived apart from his family in a was always surrounded by convivial men and women. His wife. always de- voted to church work and charities, was distressed but accomplishing.
 The first thing of note that Harry Thaw ever did was to begin smoking cigarettes when he was a lad in knick- erbockers. His mother tried to stop him. but could not. When he went to Wooster University in Ohio, in 1887, his addiction to this form of smoking was so great that the other boys nicl1named him 'The Cigarette Fiend."
 The fledgllng millionaire became noted for his attentions to girls especially to girls in theatrical troupes, and oc- casionally he got into scrapes on ac- count of them. Once he got into fist fight over a girl He was always lounging about Sthe Wooster theatre or the hotel in which the show girls stayed. On one occasion he persuaded all the girls in a comic opera company to wear garters and bows of the col lege colors during the performance The act made hit with the students.
 Young Thaw was sent to Princeton in 1894, but he did not take life seriously enough and he never was graduated He made many friends. who still refer to him pityingly as a good fellow. When he left college in the early sos he returned to Pittsburg and devoted himself still more seriously to having good time.
 Long before this. of course, he had learned to drink One night he walked through big plate glass window in the Hotel Imperial in New York. He paid well for the window, of course. The incident was considered a great bit of humor No important arteries were cut, and the young man was considered to have had a very good time indeed.
 Drinking Bouts in Pittsburg.
 His widest escapades while drinking happened in Pittsburg. He would visit the local Tenderloin with a party of friends, close up a house and fairly wal low in champagne.
 Young Thaw often came to New York on visits to attend to the important busi- ness of having a good time, but he never forced his way into print until he ar- rived in Paris in May, 1900 and gave a dinner that cost s5o,000 in honor of Liane Liane de Pougy. Nellie Neustretter, Anna Robinson, La Belle Otero, Cleo de Merode and other noted beauties. The dinner was served in a restaurant In the Champs Elysee, the most expensive in Europe. kept by man who was once chef of the Czar. All that Thaw Insisted upon was that the dishes and the wines should, be the costliest possible. In this project he had the hearty cooperation of the pro- prietor. The souvenirs were trinkets of diamonds. pearls and sapphires.
 This dinner gave young Thaw fine status in the world of people who spend all their energy in having good time. He returned to Pittsburg presently and further distinguished himself by losing s40.OOo one night in a game of poker. At o'clock next morning he wrote checks for all the other players in the game. The cashier of the bank refused at first to honor the checks, having heard that they ware for noker losses. but Harry