The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-12
THE M|LLIONA|RES ARE ALWAYS BROKE Object to Being Burdened With
 Cash ARE OFTEN EMBARRASSED Millionaire Is Compelled to Borrow $2 to Pay cabman That Did Not Know His Face-Several
 Instances.
From the Chicago Tribune.

From the Chicago Tribune.
 The millionaire chemically is proke. He never has more than $2 or 5 in ms pocket, and often hasn't car fare for two. He comes down town in his auto at noon and signs a check. He has his box of cigars in his desk and credit at every shop in town. What is the use of peihg burdened by carrying money?
 By being without il he protects himseh from the small borrower, who is con- stant nuisance. If he carried money with him he would not know what to do with it. for he regards it as a nuisance to pay cash for his luncheon or for any puf- chase he may make. It is so much easier to sign a check for his luncheon and to tell the salesman to charge and send the goods he buys.
 The millionaires, more than any other class, are addicted to the telephone hapie They telephone to the cigar man for their cigars-to be more accurate, they have their secretaries telephone for them They send their secretaries over to tneir haberdasher to buy ties for them, aha shirts and collars or anything else that they need in a hurry.
 Of course the private secretary always has everything charged and the need or money is done away with. When cash
 
 is given.
 Sometimes millionaires are greatly em- barressed by being broke mlilon- aire borrowed $2 from me one night last week because he was compelled to cal cab driven by a strange cabby ana ne didn't have enough small change Tn ms trousers to pay his fare. He was at a downtown restaurant and had ordered ms machine to call at midnight. On it's way mt down. The millionaire could not keep the young woman with whom he had dned standing at the curb, so he escort cd her back into the restaurant ana uh- der the pretext of going to the phone to call cab slipped over to my table and touched me for $2. Of course he got It.. ] always carry more money about witn me than any of my millionaire friends.
 Those who have not extensive credit have to carry money with them. The less credit they have the more money they are obliged to have in their pockets mere are only one or two shops in town at which I have an account When l buy elsewhere l pay cash. Naturally l am obliged to carry with me great deal more currency than the man who can buy and sell me ten times over, but who has accounts at every shop in State strret or whose name is a guarantee of pay ment at stores where he is entirely un-
 
 known.
 All the millionaire is obliged to do is to identify himself to be able to carry home the most valuable jewels in State street in his coat pocket. He can come down town in the morning. drop into Jewelry shop. and buy a $50.o00 diamond necklace for his wife. drop it into his side pocket and take it home at night without part ing with oue cent of the $2 or S3 he may have in his trousers
 l. ogden Armour seldom carries more than s4 or $5 with him, and Harold F. Mccormick, whose father-in-law is the richest man in the world, and who him self is forth tens of millions, rarely IS able to find much more than bunch or keys and a knife in his pocket.
 w. Vernon Booth sometimes might pc caught with A s10 bill in his pocket, but the usual amount to be found in his clothes is nearer the price of q single theater ticket.
 Montgomery Ward is another Chicago millionaire who rarely carries much cur rency with him, and the same is> true of