Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-01-29
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White.
This man worked. Every day he
did days work in his offices. 1t is
said of him that he applied himself
with diligence to his profession during
the working hours of the day through
out his career. His visible works are
proof of this. He could not have
achieved such results without intense
application. He was lifelong produ-
Ger, a constant creator His works
live after him. The good that he did
in producing masterpieces of archi-
lecture for the enjoyment of all who
see them cannot be inferred with his
bones.
On the other hand, Harry Thaw
was an idler., He was exceedingly fond
of cigarettes. In his boyhood he made
a trip to Europe to buy supply of
cigarettes. He was sent to college at
Wooster, o. The Wooster brand Of
cigarettes displeased him. One day he
disappeared. He wired back to the
college president that he was off FOR
Europe to get some cigarettes He hal
been there the year before and had
smoked a certain brand which suited
him. Three weeks later the boy re-
turned from Europe and reappeared
at the college, with several trunks
full of cigarettes.
Your mother thinks you should de-
vote yourself to studying, said the
college president. What brances do
you prefer?"
"Penmanship and lawn tennis for
mine," said young Thaw through u
cloud of cigarette smoke.
Thaw conceived that his mission in
life was to enjoy the money provided
by his father, who was worth about
$25, 100000. The elder Thaw died in
1889, leaving a peculiar will. He stip-
ulated that his son Harry's allowance
should be only $4,000 a year until he
reached the age of tuirty-five, when he
should receive $5,000,000 but that If
the executors believed him at any In
tervening time to be capable of han
ding his income properly he might he
permitted to enjoy the full income OF
his interest in the estate, which was
$4,000 a year. Mrs. Thaw and the
other heirs took pity on Harry and
consented to let him have his full in
come right along. He was then only
eighteen.
Thaw became spender. He first at
tracted newspaper notice by giving a
remarkable dinner in Paris. All his
guests were women, and all beautiful
women, the most beautiful to be found
in the gay French capital. Each guest
received as present costly jewel.
The dinner and it's accessories cost
Thaw $4,000. Later he gave similar
dinner in New York, little Evelyn Mes.
bit being the hostess. avelyn select
ed the guests and tried to Guido
Thaw's Par sian dinner in the beauty
collection.
The Thaw-Nesbit escapades in Paris,
London and New York finally created
such unwholesome notoriety for the
Thaw family at Pittsburg that the
young mans mother permitted him, at
the immature age of thirty-two to wed
the former artists model and stop the
scandal So Thaw got his bride and
kept his income-that is, until he
could spend it. Young Mrs. Thaw took
lessons which were supposed to fit
her for polite society in the millionaire
class, and she aspired to shine as a
social queen in Pittsburg. From time
to time the lights of Broadway lured
the couple to New York. The Thaws
had lost their premier place on the
front pages of sensational journals
when came the tragedy of last June
And this is the man the "unwritten
law" seeks to save from the gallows,
that he may continue the dissipated
life his imprisonment terminated