Omaha daily bee., 1910-08-07
FLIP MONEY TO The BIRDS
Famous Spenders Who Set the Pace
on Broadway.
CHEEKY ONES HELP THEM ALONG
More or Less Painless Operation Of
Separating Them from Their
Money--Tricks of the
Great white way.

Money-Tricks of the
Great white Way.
Nearly all Of the fools who are troubled
with a clot OF money in the breast pocket
seek Broadway eventually, placing them
selves into the hands OF specialists for the
operation Of removal The work is done
with neatness and dispatch and frequently
| in an almost painless manner. Even II the
patient Is afflicted with millions he will be
given absolute relief along Broadway
The roster OF Broadway spenders is as
long as the little finger The names of
new ones are being added each year. and
insofar as certain institutions of folly are
concerned, it is we'll that such is the case,
for the old ones. after periods Of a greater
or lesser brevity, fail TO answer the call.
II you are a person of tact you will not
go along the Great White Way inqulring
after the spender of yesterday. Rest con-
tent with the general statement that the
dead past has buried its live sports. Broad
way knows them for moment and then
they are gone. AS time wears on they are
forgotten, and even the distinction of serv-
ing as horrible examples" is not theirs.
The Great White Way has no time to di-
gest moral lessons.
Such names as Walter Farnsworth Ba-
ker, Graham Policy. j. Waldere Kirk,
Harry G. Moore, James Rhodes John
Campbell Smith and Malon Walton Rus
sell are recognized by but few persons to-
day. 1t was but recently, as years go, that
they were associated with the most reck-
less sort Of prodigality They startled
Broadway for a few days or months or
years--these forgotten men. But when
their money ran out they dropped back into
oblivion. The scenes of their ertswhile
activities are concerned with them no more
I There are new favorites and new fortunes
ready for dissipation; fresh material is
waiting.
Yet they were valiant spendthrifts-some
Of these youths, each Of whom tried to stir
up bigger commotion than his pre-
decessor. While their money lasted they
were the uncrowned kings of the merry
merry They fitted briefly their course
where the lights are brightest, the gayest
and gddiest crowd in Christendom scamp
ering at their heels. Then, after a time,
things began happening to them with much
suddenness. Their White Way friends fell
away. Bankruptcy came swiftly and death
or imprisonment, or just blighting indigency
followed. The career of a spendthritt is
hiariously simple and its climax is as trite
as 1t is inevitable.
Harry Was "a Hummer.
There was Harry G. Moore who one
bright afternoon few years ago set him
self the task of cutting dizzy swath up
Broadway Mr. Moore had money-bales
of it--which he had acquired legally, II not
laboriously. How much he had no one
ever knew. He never stopped to count it.
He was too busy in the department of dis
lburcarnopfq II a fhnnpht
trouble banking his fortune and writing
checks when he required the coin. 1T
would be absurd" he once told solicitous
friend, ito deposit my money when I'll be
needing it so soon" He carried bills Of a
large denomination in his various pockets
and one OF the drawers in his apartments
was choked up with gold certificates.
When he had spent such money as he car
ried in his clothes he returned to his rooms
to get more.
"Ah, yes, Harry was a good fellow" say
such few of the gay district people as re-
call him at all, but no should have kept
his stuff in bank. He could have lasted
six months longer II he hadn't carried 1t
around as If it we're waste paper" But
then, perhaps, he knew best. He probably
wished to have it over with quickly.
1t was duh month for Moore when he
I get VI S1OUUO OF S5JIVVV 11c
wanted to set the pace for the Broadway
prodigals, and he did. Moore was strolling
} down Broadway one evening with some
friends, when his attention was arrested
! by display in the window OF a jewelry
, store. With his crowd of hangers-on he
entered the shop. He began by buying $40
stickpins, bracelets and the like. Then he
amused himself by purchasing articles for
which he had no earthly use His little
shopping expedition became saturnalia of
, spending He bought gold watches. sol
} itaire rings, diamond brooches, gold
: flagons, jewel-incrusted cigar cases, cut
glass punch bowls-everything that caught
his eye he bought
, "shal deliver them?" asked the ex-
! cited jeweer.
Deliver nothing" said Moore. What
would 1 want with all that truck in my
apartments2 I'll take it with me-"
He and his friends loaded themselves
3 with the stuff. This is souvenir night on
Broadway" said Moore II want the gang
e to have something to remember me by"
From cafe to music hall ana back again
: to cafe they wendell their opulent way
: even as stevenson's whimsical youth with
S the tarts At tables where gay women
d were dining with rollers" not so high they
e left presents. Moore put gold watches into
: the pockets of casually encountered John
MES, adjusted fine necklaces over the heads
. of pretty chorus girls and placed diamond
!, rings upon the fingers of women he never
!, had seen before. Then he ordered cham;
N payne for everybody.
Moore's crazy generosity became con-