The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-11-16
A Private Secretary's Amazing Story

This S a true story of unearned a
related the New York repre-
rtttsburg millionaire living the metropolis forms
document because private secretaries do not often talk freely
with reporters For obvious omit the Of the
OF pitiable experience.
rotary lis in his thirty
$1,5OOOOo from indus
try founded by his late father hadheaded Irishman The
business valued s45OOOOOO is close corporation admin
fathers will executor and the sole
erest of the heirs 1t has arranged under trust
there steel this business
and it out of employers
hands his income absolutely assured.
81 remember when eight just after his fathers
death employer to New York He full of health
ambitious prominent of affairs
He established office and devoted certain amount of time
daily to the of the financial side of the business
HE handsome and possessed fascinating
sonality, required
few whirl which him to
forget fashionable
in Fifth hotel before the first he
only to the office
"The bills that told the story
poyers reckless fe First they dinners respectable
friends respectable Then
flowers the hotel of popular His first
check signed with unsteady hand made to the order
notorious long
a pearls.
$4,000 furnishings Central park
which months
ands of dollars then that
extravaganza And noticed bill
larger
His gambling bill became He bought stable
of horses investing 100000 leased yacht which
cost 100000 year to maintain.
"My young going pace full
His riot has reduced him miserable moral ply
steal wreck He is confirmed drunkrd scarcely night
passing that he not carried or babng 70 his he'd
He knowledge, than 100000
during the past He is utterly unhappy His family and his
he will kill himself in Even his club fellows fight
him because they
NIT which will the believe
employer is insane and pick a newspaper without
sensation of fear that the
of his.
"The office that he a proudly established today
clearing house for his nfamy and the duties myself
socaes auditing
His valet tells that lie has Al suits of clothes with
after box of Shoes hats coats all
such rubbish and he spends cursng his valet tailor
cause he has nothing to He drinks the finest
smokes the most expensive
because these
of this wretched man that more than 100
young of the fallen
of his wealth He has today in his young
country acting
who until fate her in his accompanied
her tours by her mother He has turned the head of this girl
with shower of costly gifts and that the
is not with her daughter my employer
will the girl 1 s purpose.
II have heard of
pity for his I pity young wealth
There is chance that his will
therefore chance that he will able
physical wreck Fully third of the
the he gain little
plus of vitality than he enters upon debauch which
tortured. wreck day
breakfast he rarely lunch
but while partially intoxicated in the
Ing he himself with ndgesbe
stefan has him will years
tnues the riot He realizes this maudin weps
his doom when sober but rapids of
patton with greater abandon than
Nothing really gratifies appetes. Nothing
pleases him. His sometimes
think that his hardheaded
his
he would have structure
the winds and set his boys feet
road of honest toll manly noble
Those the secretary What can be added
to this amazing