Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-08
SPENDER HART
QUITS SPENDING
WIFE C0RRALS HIM AT THEIR
HOTEL
Miner seotty's Rival Is Advertising
the Order of Coyotes and New
Brand Of Sparkling
Champagne

Ocean Park, the beach town, Wednes-
day saw diminished star when 1t laid
eyes on A. Oscar Hart Of New York
and Mexico.
Hart threw money to the birds and
boys in Los Angeles late Tuesday after
noon and in the evening repeated his
performance at Venice.
Now he has quit it and has surrend-
cred to his wife, who vetoes all future
expeditions of this kind.
He and his party had sampled cham
payne literally for two days and the
train of admirers that followed the
Prince Bountiful from place to place al
lowed hopes to grow as the supply of
champagne in the buffets decreased.
Hart had the thirst of the desert in
his throat when he started on his liber-
ality excursion Tuesday, but with a de-
pleted supply of coin and enthusiasm,
he rested at the Decatur hotel, Ocean
Park, all night until he was rounded up
by his real friends later
Wife Says Nay Nay
Mrs. Hart a young matron, who
seems powerlesS to stem the tide of
1iberality which her husband has
started, sat in tears in her apartments
at the LankerShim last night, hoping
that her husband will be separated from
his new-found associates so that she
can take him to surroundings where
Scotty's fame as a spender Is less wide
ly spread. These hopes were realized
Wednesday night.
Hart and his party favored automo-
biles. They took to a street car to es-
Cape the crowd that followed them
when they distributed violets and
money to saleswomen, shoppers and pc
destrians on Broadway, but the last
seen of the meteoric miner Wednesday
was when he was driving an auto
toward Los Angeles at full speed.
In this car Hart was persuaded to go
to Venice last night and Wednesday
morning it carried him to other spots
where money lasts but little time
when handled by a spendthrift.
That Dark Brown Taste
Hart awolSe Wednesday with a dark
brown taste and looking more sallow
and angular than he ever did. He
emptied but one small bottle of wine as
an eye-opener Wednesday-this accord
ing to a clerk at the Decatur-but he
made a liberal payment for it.
He told the bystanders who he was,
how he made his money in the mines
in Mexico, and announced that he would
slip into Los Angeles quietly and try to
forget it,
He doubtless, say the Lankershim at
taches, will remain henceforth under
the watchful eyes of his wife. They
have not given up their quarters as yet.
On the night of February Hart
made his debut at the Decatur. With
him were Charles Rudolph of New
York and H. L. LuVeFt of Newark The
trio spent quite bit of coin then, but
did not splurge in a manner to suggest
what was coming to Broadway.
An Advertising Dodge
Hart appears to be advertising a new
order which he calls the Noble Order of
Coyotes. The password seems to be a
yell as near the coyotes as a human
being can shape it. 1t is necessary to
cross the index and middle fingers of
the left hand and cross them over the
forehead in order to become a full-fedg-
ed coyote and also to gulp down a quart
OF champagne. These requirements
have suggested to many who do not
known Hart that possibly he is paving
the way for a new campaign of adVer-
Using for the brand of champagne and
that the house" pays for the liberality
that startled Los Angeles.
Hart will not say who he is, nor will
his friends. They prefer to let their
records speak and to live in the memory
of the walters, bellboys, barkeepers and
pedestrians who have suddenly had
wealth thrust on them.
There IS one faker in Venice who is
aggrieved. Hart took from him a paper
silhouette and all that the new Won
der paid was the regular price, Is cents.
The attendants of the cate in Hotel
st. Marks will call his name blessed for
many day, however. He paid 500 for
his meal there, tipped the walters with
IS and $40 bills and paid IS for one glass
of beer.
New York telegraph inquiries about
Hart Indicate that he is not so well
known there as he is in Mexico, where
he is said to own two mines that WELD
him $1,O00,0O0 income annually.