The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-12
COSTLY WHlM 8.
Mllionaires Who Have Spent Fortunes
 On the Merest Fancies.

From the New York World.
 No man is more careful, as a rule with his money than your millionaire. He would never have made his fortune if he had not acted on the principle of taking care of his pennies But when a very wealthy man dies and leaves his fortune to irresponsible heirs, then 1t is that the money flies.
 We have all heard of the man who uses five-pound notes to light his pipe with, and most of us have put him down as a myth. But he really exists. At a fancy-dress ball a younger mem Der of the well-known Bleichroder banking family lit his cigarette with a note. not for five, but for fifty pounds. The sequel was rather amusing. An attache of the Austrian embassy, view ing this childish bit of swagger, called Bleichroder "a young ass." The Juve- nile millionaire resented his remark with a blow, whereupon the other sailed in and administered a we'll deserved thrashing. When the police stopped the fight the millionaire was found to be the possessor of two beau tiful black eyes.
 III FTdflCe l0eIt IS d law Dy WhltH the family of a spendthrift can
 for an injunction to control
 expenditures. Such an injunction Wa , recently obtained by the relations of youth named Lemaire. It appears that the boy-he was hardly more-was at Cherbourg, during his military service. when chance took him into a menag- erie Greatly pleased with the animals 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 youth wrote a check for that amount, and so became the owner of largo and miscellaneous assortment of saw age pets 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 outvie 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 be- fore 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 exc cuted to scale In solid silver, and al- ready fill a large room. Their cost to date has been G65,000. Speaking of silver. the Rama Oodeypore, Hindo prince, not 1f of helmet, cuirass, buckler and ga
 lets, made entirely of virgin silver,
 edges being decorated with 22-kal gold Another Indian prince ordere last year in London a complete set of bed room furniture. all of solid silver. The four-posted bedstead alone &C., counted for ton of silver, and the total cost of the order exceeded G15,- 000
 It is not Hindo magnates only who go in for costly articles of personal use. We read with amazement, not long since, of the Sultan of Morocco's golden camera. The Khedive of Egypt's pet extravaganza in harness. His four horse set for state occasions has buck les and ornaments of solid gold, and cost 814000.
 Rich women are not behind men in weird and amazing extravaganza. The wife of a certain Chicago millionaire has a scent distilled from a rare vari- ety of water lily which costs her e5 a drop. It takes over a hundred tons of the lilies to make a small bottleful
 Another millionairess, namely. Mrs. | Cornelius Vanderbilt, actually closed one of the most important theatres in New York-the Knickerbocker-for | 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 home. The fact that she had to pay f70n I for the concession, besides salaries and other expenses. running to another
 6 300, did not trouble her in the slight est.