The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-04-26
COSTLY WHIMS
u,t,ionaires Who Have Spent For
tunes on Mere Faneies.
(Answers)


He would never have made MS LOT
tune If he had not acted on the pEln-
ciple If taking care of the pennies
Rpt when a very wealthy man dies
and leaves his fortune to irresponsible
heirs. then it is that the money nies'
We have all heard of the man VINO
uses five-pound notes to light MS pipe
with and most of US have put MIN
down as a myth. But he really exists.
At a fancy-dress ball, young member
of the well-known Bleichroder bank
inc family. lit his cigarette with note,
moi for five, but for fifty pounds. the
seouel was rather amusing. An at
tache of the Austrian Embassy, view
ing this childish bit of swagger, called
Bleichroder "a young ass Inc
juvenile millionaire resented his re-
mark with blow, whereupon the
other sailed in, and administered a
well-deserved thrashing. When the
notice stopped the fight the millionaire
was found to be the possessor OF Two
beautiful black eyes.
In France there is law by which
the family of a spendthrift can apply
for an injunction to control his Wild
expenditures. Such an injunction was
RECENTLY obtained by the relations CT a
youth named Lemaire. 1t appears
that the boy, he was hardly more, was
at Cherbourg, doing military serV-
ice. when chance took him into me-
nagerie Greatly pleased with the AMI
male on exhibition, he went to the
proprietor and asked what he would
sell the whole business for.
"One hundred thousand francs,
was the reply.
Without moments hesitation the
vouth wrote a check for that amount
and so became the owner of a large
and miscellaneous assortment OF saw
age nets, which he had not the faintest
idea how to control or manage.
American millionaires are credited
with all kinds of eccentricities and
really fiction could hardly out-vie fact
with regard to their whims A man
named Fleischmann is so devoted to
baseball that he keeps two teams at
his country place, where they play
before him every day that he Is at
home. Board, lodging and salaries are
all on lavish scale. Another, named
Sands, has a passion for models OF
cathedrals, abbeys and churches'
These are executed to scale in solid
silver. and already fill large room
Their cost to date has been G65,OOO.
Speaking of silver, the Rama OF
Oodeypore, a HindOo Prince, not long
ago ordered from an English firm a
complete suit of body armor consist
ing of helmet, culrass, buckler and
gauntlets. made entirely OF virgin
silver, the edges being decorated with
22-carat gold. Another Indian Prince
ordered last year in London com
plete set of bedroom furniture all OF
solid silver. The four-post bedstead
alone accounted for ton OF silver
and the total cost of the order exceed
ed G15,OO0.
It is not Hindoo magnates only VINO
% in for costly articles OF personal
use. We read with amazement not
long since of the Sultan OF MOROCCO
golden camera. The Khedive OF
Egypt's pet extravaganza is harness
His four.horse set for state occasions
has buckles and ornaments OF Solo
gold and cost 914,OOO.
Rich women are not behind men III
weird and amazing eXtraVagances'
The wife of certain Chicago million
aire has a scent distilled from rare
variety of water-lily, which cost her
.e5 a drop 1t takes over nundreu
tons of the lilies to make a small DOT
tleful.
Another millionaire, namely MRS
Cornelius Vanderbilt, actually closed
one of the most important theaters In
New York-the Observation-Disclosures a
night in order that the company
might present the first act of the play
"The Wild Rose" at an entertainment
she was giving at her Newport nome
The fact that she had to pay 4 'oo
for the concession, besides salaries
and other expenses, running TO an
other $500, did not trouble ner III
the slightest.