The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-05-29

When q portly man, considerap ply
mast middle age, entered lne I'D
hotel last Wednesday aAt IaeL;Star Al
a0proached the desk to reglste ,r.a- "a
berf Jamison Arroll, VINO was PLeS -,
INC behind the desk, handeQ nm 80 -
without giving him more tnan q !H-1a
ing glance. The arrlEa1 x,oo- and reg
sa4cbels down on the 1Ioor anu iS9
= 1I6en ArroT turned the book around
to write a room numoer oPPoSlrSi Nc .
1aroe he looked hard at the Wrltlhg-
J-her1 he looked up, across the couhtS,II-
aGeel The worlds little, AFTER all
isn't 90 he exclaimed
Before him stood man w. writ
inc about the BOer war Tor the bo 81
POST. had slept and eaten win. rlye
years later he had met this same Lla -l
all unexpectedly 1 on LooA in ArroiTs
anaTtments. was a picture or hlnSel
and this man, taken on the mo 49, -
"SmaH?" The arrival TePeaiieG he he
question 'T should think II i,
added, and, dropping the pen, He
clasped hands with the hotel man.
The same name may be seen on tne
registers of nearly All tnS 9iI md
in the world II is scE@"4SO 10
bold. It reads:
81 walter Van CORTLAND. Nowhere !
For ]. walter Van Courtl laISIv ne f5e
r,iI1ionaire by birth, poSSlpLy IL
X-o~Id's Ioneliest man by accident Gliu
traveller Ma1tG by choice. is a veritabie Man
From Nowhere ,- Of his
,,f- q real IMAM without country
FinaIIv. ne is a living exponent u
Mat George Barr McCutcneon p S;i-
traved in his book, BreWsIeL Co
iio1SS which. dramatiZed, proved 80
Iol-IIiar only there is this dlIterehce.
/ brewster had to spend ms 10. 4i Iurn 4
/ within a certain time; van ea,.a =
/ simply intends spending MS peioi
He Only ROams-
Dr., in London, educated at OXFORD,
] married when he was Is, "Iuow 80 ).
when he was 80, losing ms pa 49, -
| by death when he was ~ SIS
/ older. and having neither orot40Ix,. ri3
/ ~ at,,ii5Te,, nor near cousins, }. w ait
- Van CORTLAND looked ahead at the
sorizon of futurity which life presentee
for him, and wondered Will - Az
~. neTt. Never having worked, II elo
- ~. C-c,r 10 him to work then. Al
/ vvavs having had more IMAM o,,is
| money. thanks to the carry sPeC .1S-
tons and later thrift OF hiS of ~
Re hardly realized the value OF Cns
ne e re realm at all. 1t was there
for him to spend-there IN Ine ho ilSlol
a~d Liverpool banks-dolars upor
dollars yielded from EarlV t5 H;n for.
refreshments that eliminated IN Loi
tT,nate deals in South African mines.
At the age of 81, Van CORTLAND hao
sold his fathers estates in and aoou,
T,Ondgn. He even ndO oASPoS~,
property holdings in Scotland ana d
.sVhen 1 get to be man., ne mas
once told his father, "if | have money
enough TO keep me, I'll sell everytnlnes
and nave no business to bother win;
| 1t was a bcyish resolution, mace
/ Soon after his oxford sheepSk1n nae
been handed him. But now, aged 81
ne adhered to it and has no business
Il know what I'll do he solilequized
s.rlI travel. Travel till the money l:
all gone
Task Like Brewster's-
Rut ]. Waiter Van CORTLAND, world
tramp and champion lonely man, die
not find it so easy to spend all HI:
money. even when it was doing moth
ling but lie in banks and accumulat'
interest. Many q man would hay'
launched into dissipation Van Court.
land, raised by the creed Of the Churcl
of England, but having for years fan
ed to attend one service, yet had n
temptation for the gilded life H
played poker during few years an
won and lost. He visited Monte Carl'
and played nearly even-
Then he grew weary OF poker.
in the same lot where lie the remain
of the travellers father and mother
| there is another stone and on 1t Va
N CORTLAND directed that only one wore
be Inscribed. That word was Mar
! guerite-" They say, in the novels an
on the stage that some men love on
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