The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-21
PERMITS IN CROWDED CITIES.
Eccentric People Who, Though Worth
 Millions, Live in Poverty.

From Tit Bits.
 Not long ago there died In New York Samuel Dunlap, an octogenarian who, al- though he could any day have written a check for d million, and yet have re- mained rich. lived for forty years with a housekeeper as sole attendant, on the eXpenditure-apart from drink-of a work ingman. During all this long period he was only known to purchase one suit of clothes, cheap pair of gray trousers, and two top coats. He had four straw hats in sixteen years. and for the last of them he paid a shilling.
 Mrs. Ealden his housekeeper used to cut his hair once a month and she had instructions to save the hair and put it in a mattress, "as 1t was a pity to waste It., and when MT. Dunlap's frock coat showed signs of wear she cut off it's tails and converted 1t into a jacket For the last eight years of his life this odd man lived entirely in the back room of his house, and spent his time in drinking whiskey and champa gne-his one extrav agance-of which he would often con- sume five bottles in a single day.
 similar eccentric was George T. Cline, of Chicago who left over S1000.000 at his death a short time ago. After the Worlds fair MT. Cline bought hotel of seventy five rooms and lived there alone in a sin gle room, occupying his time in playing the violin. For days together not
  would repair to a cheap restaurant and eat meal which cost him five pence, and for which he provided the tea. He all lowed himself twelve shillings a month for food, and, aside from his beloved violin. found his principal pleasure In seeking out Irshmen with rich brogues and buying food and liquor for them in order to hear them talk
 In a tiny, creeper-covered hut on the summit of a mountain In Pennsylvania there is living today member of one Of the richest families In America, man reputed to be enormously wealthy From years end to years end this hermit of the hills spends his days alone; he does his own cooking and housework, washes his own linen in a neighboring stream, catches his own trout. shoots his own game cultivates his own vegetables miks his goat, and makes his own bread. He never receives or send a letter, never sees a newspaper, and holds no commit nication with the outside world with the exception of an occasional chat with a young farmer, who brings him flour, eggs and meat once a week.
 Another millionaire hermit, who a very few years ago died in Moscow, was MT. G. G. Solodovinikoff, who had made a fortune variously estimated at from four to ten millions by colossal speculations on the Bourse. So many and varied were his investments that 1t was said the handling of coupons alone gave employ ment to ten girls. And yet this lord of millions, who might have rivaled kings in the splendor of his palaces, lived for years in a tumble-down two-storied cot tage surrounded by sordid and rotting furniture For weeks together he never put his head outside his front door, and he spent half his time in his dressing gown. When his will was opened 1t was found that he had left the whole of his
 
 poses. from building schools for girls to providing cheap lodgings for the working classes
 St Petersburg recently lost her most remarkable character in the person of 9 millionaire Count who, in spite of his i'm mense wealth, lived a life of the most sordid poverty and self-denial. His figure clothed in rags was familiar spectacle in the streets of St. Petersburg and many a sympathetic passer-by pressed aims Into the hands of the man whose daily in- come was estimated at a thousand pounds.