The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-11-28
PERIL OF RICH MEMS soNa
Detectives In New York Largely En-
!, gagged In Watching Them.

The Turing Of young Pittsburg
millionaire from New York into the
Jurisdiction of the Pennsylvania Courts
In order to prevent him from dissi-
pating his fortune and drinking him
self to death, raised again the terri
bly, trying question as to what the rich
man shall do with his sons.
There have been some very for
tunate rich men in New York John D.
Rockefeller is sample. Not for
years, If ever has he passed an hour
of anxiety as to the personal career
or habits of his only son. William
Rockefeller has less money and more
sons, not one of whom has shown
a disposition to go to the bad The
Vanderbilts down to the present gen.
GRAFTON are clean, decent young fell
lows, with one exception. and he has
been more foolish than vicious. Jay
Gould's oldest son has turned out
man after the fathers heart, while
the other sons are quiet business
men, excepting that one of them has
allowed himself to attain form of
notoriety because of unpleasant dom
estic lawsuits.
The young men above mentioned
are not saints, but none of them have
become rakes, FOUNDERS or drunkards.
Each has stood up against such op-
portunities for badness Us would make
a father or mother shudder II the
whole story could be told to them.
But there are hundreds of rich men
in New York who have not been 50
fortunate in their sons Born to great
wealth; knowing nothing of the get
ting OF money, and a great deal about
the spending of it; reared in luxury,
and without the need of WORK; with
gilded paths of pleasure open to them
In many directions; with no lack Of
advisers to lure them on; only half
responsible to their parents in the
days of youth, and not at all in those
of early manhood; it takes a strong
and courageous nature to withstand
temptations and keep clean. There
are only too many sad examples that
show they do not, says the head OF a
New York detective agency.
There is popular impression
abroad" he said, that our men arc
mostly employed by wives who wish
to keep an eye on their husbands, or
by husbands interested in the move
ments of their wives. This is not so.
For one case of this sort we have five
where fathers are keeping tab on the
movements of their sons. Not for the
purpose of discipline or correction. but
as a safeguard against compromising
evils.
There Is many a boy in this town
who was getting himself snarled up in
difficulties, before whom the way was
suddenly Strengthened out by means
Of which he had Lo knowledge, The
fathers knew the facts and took
quiet hand in developments In nine
cases out OF ten the boy does not
know he is shadowed. In the tenth
case he Is brought up with a sudden
jerk and then there Is all sorts OF
trouble to pay.
Il have heard surprise expressed IN
quite number of cases where the
will Of departed father or mother
provided for the trustseeing of the
portions OF this son or that until he
should have arrived at years of
rather maturemanhood. | am conf.
dent that in every one of these cases
the parent knew more about the life
Of the son than the latter ever imag-
ined. That this step was taken to
protect the son against himself