Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-07-08
Mistellanrous Grading.
FAMOUS BROADWAY SPENDERs.
How Harry G. Moore Set the Pace by
His Crazy Generosity.

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There is an old theory that the road
to hades is paved with good intentions.
| Poppycock! If you examine a popular
stretch of the road you'll find that the
surface is composed Of hard, round.
milled American dollars, and the bas
relief of the lady always and always is
placed uppermost. The greatest and
+, straightest section of the highway is
made up of a portion of Broadway.
| There are other pieces Of boulevard
and avenue in the world which, for
some, trend the same way, but 1t is no
Broadway that the paving gang works
| overtime and the boss Satan person.
ally supervises the job. There Is more
money squandered along Broadway
and few adjacent alleys of radiance
every day and every night than an able
| receiving teller could take in over a
| counter in a month. Yet, singularly
enough, while unnumbered dollars flow
and flow, the ordinary citizen finds it
| extremely difficult at this point to de-
| fleet much of the mighty current to
| himself. Unless you happen to be
| waiter or hotel proprietor or a man.
| ager of theater or a chauffeur of
| taXicab you might wonder what be-
| comes of it all. It's as battling as one
Of Herrmanns tricks; you have fleet
| ing glimpse of the coin as it passes
| from hand to hand, and that, appar-
emily, is the end Of 1t. You know where
it comes from, but you know not
whittier it goes. Those who are needy
| without being nefarious call the road
the Great Tight Way. There are so
many methods of getting rid Of money
on Broadway that no one feels the ne
cessity of being charitable.
Nearly all of the fools who are trou-
| bled with a clot of money in the breast
pocket seek Broadway eventually, plac
ing themselves into the hands of spe-
cialists for the operation of removal.
The work Is done with neatness and
dispatch and frequently in an almost
painless manner. Even If the patient
is afflicted with millions he will be CIV
en- absolute relief along Broadway.
The roster Of Broadway spenders is
as long as the finger Of fate. The
names of new ones are being added
each year, and. in so far as certain in
stitutions of folly are concerned, it is
well that such is the case; for the old
ones, after periods of a greater or
lesser brevity, fail to answer the call.
If you are a person Of tact you will not
go along the Great White Way inquir-
ing after the spender of yesteryear.
Rest content with the general state
ment that the dead past has buried its
live sports. Broadway knows them for
time wears on they are forgotten, and
even the distinction Of serving as "hor-
rible examples" is not theirs. The
Great White Way has no time to di-
gest moral lessons
Such names as Walter Farnsworth
Baker, Graham Policy, ]. Waldere
Kirk, Harry G. Moore, James Rhodes,
John Campbell Smith and Malon Wal
ton Russell are recognized by but few
persons today. 1t was but recently, as
years go. that they were associated
with the most reckless sort of prodi-
gality. They startled Broadway for a
few days or months or years-these
forgotten men. But when their money
livion. The scenes of their erstwhile
activities are concerned with them no
more. There are new favortes 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 a bigger commotion
than his predecessor. While their
money lasted they were the uncrown-
ed kings of the merry-merry. They
fitted briefly their course where the
lights are brightest, the gayest and
giddiest crowd in Christendom scamp
ering at their heels Then. after
time, things began happening TO them
with much suddenness. Their White
Way friends fell away. Bankruptcy
came swiftly, and death or imprison-
ment. or just blghting indigency fol-
| lowed. The career Of a spendthrift is
hilariously simple and it's climax is as
trite as it is inevitable.
There was Harry G.. Moore, who one
himself the task of cutting a dizzy
swath up Broadway. Mr.. Moore had
! money-bales Of (which he had ac-
quired legally, if not laboriously. How
much he had no one ever knew. He
never stopped to count it. He was too
| busy in the department of disburse-
ments. He even thought 1t too much
trouble banking his fortune and writ
ing checks when he required the coin.
1T would be absurd" he once told
solicitous friend, ito deposit my mon
ey when I'll be needing it 50 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
| spent such money as he carried in his
clothes, he returned to his rooms to
| get more.
"Ah, yes, Harry was good fellow"
says such few of the gay district peo-
| pie as recall him at all, but he should
have kept his stuff in bank. He
could have lasted six months longer If
he hadn't carried it around as if it
| were waste paper" But then, perhaps,
| he knew best He probably wished to
have it over with quickly.
1t was a dull month for Moore when
he didn't get rid of $4,000 or 100000
He 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 a display in
| the window of a jewelry store. With
his crowd of hangers-on he entered the
shop He began by buying ten-dollar
| stickpins, bracelets and the like. Then
| he amused himself by purchasing arti-
cles for which he had no earthly use.