The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-04-14
GOTHAM GOSSIP
(B Francis Phillips, Copyright, 1910, By the National News Service,
 New York;

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 By the National News Service,
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 New York. April 14-John w. Gates, the multi millionaire oii and railroad magnate. who Is partial to playing high stakes in speculative matters. got back into town the other day from Palm Beach and told an inter estIng story on himself. When he reached the Florida resort, he called for the head-waiter and told him he wanted the best of his staff to serve him To the old negro who filled these qualifications he gave explicit in structions:
 Now. george, I want to be served we'll I want you to bring me always the best of everything. If your work is satisfactory I will give you five dollars a week extra
 The waiter entered on this contract with enthusiasm and for several weeks drew his salary with regular 1ty. For one luncheon. however. much to the financier's disgust, new wait CT turned up. MT. Gates demanded an explanation, without getting any intelIigible response He appealed to the head waiter, with no better satis- faction further than an indefinite statement that the absent one was waiting on somebody else. Finally George himself was called to his own defense He put up the following plea:
 ..Hyah am de explanashun, sah: You big folks. you goes down to de club to gamble. Well, we niggahs we has ouah little game O. craps I put up all de money I got frum you, sah, an los it. Den MT. Gates, I put you up. sah. an' I done los you.'
 The other evening Percy Rockefel- Ter. who has the reputation of being nf ha PnPEefa11ar fam fly undertook to show some friends from Germany some of the sights of the city. especially those along the Gay White Way" Around midnight the party dropped into one of the lob ster palaces on upper Broadway. It was Q rainy. miserable night to be abroad and the young millionaire was dressed in knockabout suit a shab- by looking brown overcoat and a hat that had seen service. The boy who checked his belongings recognizing him as a patron of the establishment, looked sympathetically at the care worn hat and whispered to him:
 Say, I think I can fix it so's you can draw a better hat when you go out You look like good fellow and I hate to see you wearing bum lid like this-''
 The millionaire whose identity was unknown to the lad. smiled and thank ing him for his offer, said he thought he would do with his own chapeau. After Rockefeller and his guests de. parted someone informed the young ster who the man in the unprepossess- ing clothes was and he almost had a fit "HulIy Gee, I'd never got wise !. to it from that hand-ne-down he gave me to put away for him. I thought the poor fellow wuz in need of some thing better
 Another pseudo nobleman with more brass than pedigree took the count this week and is now a duly enrolled member of the Down and Out Club |" Posing as a Spanish Count. he cut a giddyl pace about the city for months and had manys smart Inatrons tur1b- ling over themselves for the privilege of entertaining him. His fascinat- ing manners and great culture made a deep impression on more than one susceptible maiden. and it is believed by the police would have won for him an heiress before long had he not been exposed at this time. His real name is said to be Rafael Toledo and his home Tn one of the South American Republics He had a card with a name a yard long and a wardrobe that would have done credit to a Prince of the realm While he was in the heyday of favor nothing was too good for him. Hotel managers kowrowed to him with the obse- qutence due a potentate and shop keepers begged him to patrOnize them. His newly formed friends and credi- tors were shocked when the mantle Of nobility dropped from the counts shoulders and he was shown by the police to be an imposter. Tn one of the criminal courts this week he was sentenced to two years for larceny, to which was added a year for inducing two young men to swear falsely for him. Toledo is the fifth fake noble man to be unmasked here this win ter. The police say about two dozen others are still at large in Gotham, preying upon those who worship such things
 Worry over the seizure, by the creditors of her late husband of her beautiful mansion on Fifth Avenue and all it's art treasures, is believed