The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-03-27

"Doan tried to hedge. He felt that
the twin $40 note was a good curio,
worthy of framing, but that the price
| of 5000 was too much. After a lot. of
diclsering, during which Paddle threat
ened to sell the banlSnote to an imi-
tator of Doan who had place farther
down the avenue, Dolan paid Paddle
$3.50 for the double-header
| paddle was honest to the core lie
knew that the plate printer who lost
the sheet would be compelled to pay the
government 500, which was the face
value of the bank notes. SO he hurried
back to the money factory, put on his
working clothes and lay low until 4
o'clock. He heard the plate printer who
had lost the sheet raise howl. He
knew him by name, but didn't dare to
refund the money to him at the time for
fear of trouble with the authorities.
THAT night when he reached his
room he placed s100 in an envelope and
got a friend to hunt up the printers adj
dress in the blue book Then he got his
friend to address the envelope to him
and to register 1t at the postoffice with
a fictitious name and address in the up
per left-hand corner
1.-The next day Paddle resigned his
position as laborer, and hearing that
liquor licenses were low in the state of
New Jersey, he took a train for Jersey
City. After some hunting around he
found a Dutchman who had little dump
near the river who was anxious to sell.
Paddle spent day or two sizing UP the
proposition and then closed the deal for
an even hundred.
ITO make a long story short, inside
of four years Paddle owned the build
ing outright. He tended to business
and got an Irish boy who could read
and write to look after his accounts.
Now comes the marvellous part of the
story Paddle owned not only his own
building, but also three or four lots
adjoining. between his place and the
river. The Pennsylvania Railroad
company had need of the whole block
for some purpose in connection with
the tunnel under the Hudson river.
Paddle made em pay through the nose
for it and put all his money into Long
Island property.
This was the year before the boom.
When Paddle had sold the last of his
holdings, he found himself a million
aire. He acquired the dress suit habit
and learned to wear a tall hat He
then developed a penchant for theatre
properties, and today he owns chain
Of EN-. The little Irish boy he hired
for his Jersey City place is still with
him, and signs all the checks There's
a good reason for it-Paddie never
learned to sign his own name. In his
head office in the knickerbocker build
ing over the roll top desk in his
private room is hung a plain oak
frame 1t hung for the first time in
his little dump in Jersey. The frame
bears name plate, upon which is in
scribed these words: The Triplets;' and
within the frame is what Paddle calls
his 'sixty-dollar bill +"
DO you mean to say that Paddles
success. In life was due to the fact that
he committed larceny. or because he
didn't know how to read or writer
asked the boolsmaker, as the city edi-
tor concluded his story.
IF you want my personal opinion as
to the reason for Paddles rise in life
I'll give it to YOU observed the news
paper man as he surveyed the array
of three empty bottles in front of the
booknaker. Its because, from the
time of leaving Dolans place on the
day he found the sheet of notes, he
cut out the BOOZE
Th' rum bug is a fierce one re-
marked the central Office man, as he
drained his glass, and beckoned to
Nine. Ross