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colony OF broadway
Irving w. Childs, who
by at the age of 26. 1t
which Broadway feels
Icy or parental inter-
bn death, takes away q
Childs would have been
roadway " he had not
O.Uc0 from his millionaire
hm Henry Harriron Childs
b, and even had he not
money away with both
18th the age Of man and
fortune, he combined a
|youthfulness, a gay reckless
baby-lihe faith In adventure,
and romance and an Aladdin
X which gave Broadway god
laugh every time he appefed
b jaded, sensation-weary steet.
lung Childs died of pneumnia.
Fell an easy prey to the diseasl be-
BE his search for pleasure AMI ex-
ement had completely exhausted his
erves and vitality.
Broadway called Childs-moreln af.
Election than In ridicule-the Grand
Young Boob" BY which Broadway
meant that anybody could get honey
from him at any time and haze fun
In doing 1t.
The youth had great ambition to
be detective. When the benevolent
sheriff. Hamburger. gave Innocent
pleasure to many imaginative Million
aires by appointing them his deputies,
Childs was one of the very firstin the
line of applicants. As soon as lie was
appointed he had gold badge studded
with diamonds made at Tiffany's and
q pair of solid gold handcuffa The
outft cost him $1,000 and he displayed
1t on the slightest excuse.
Policemen and detectives, of whom
he knew scores, made harmless spend
ing money by permitting him to make
arrests for them, after they had mark
ed down men for whom they had war
rants. Childs would pay from 800 to
$500 any moment for the privilege of
laying his hand on criminals shout
der and saying: II arrest you in the
name of the state of New York." snap
ping the gold handouts over his pris-
oner's wrists.
When no criminal was available 1t
was necessary to resort to indirection
by introducing him to somebody as
mr.. Irving Childs, formerly of Scot
land Yard and one of our keenest
amateur detectives-does stunts that
make Sherlock Holmes look like
fiour-fiusher"
The new made acquaintance could
always borrow all the money Childs
had about him and he seldom started
the evening with less than $500.
His spendthrift ways would long
ago have broken him had 1t not been
for his luck in speculation. He would
bull or bear the stock market in bro
kers' Offices in the uptown hotels with
spectacular success. Wall street was
too far downtown for him to go to the
he used to say, 80 he made It
come to him; and 1t did. He usually
determined his trades by the toss Of
. coin.
Another understands indication of
a system behind Childs' playfulness
was his refusal to sign checks except
inside the doors of a bank. He had
accounts at a hundred hotels
and restaurants.
Put my name where fifty people
would have chance to study my sig
nature and forge It," he said, and
me detective! Not on your life!"
So he would have waiter or a
clerk sign his name for him; every
body knew him and knew he was re-
sponsible for his debts.
A woman wearing handsome furs
could borrow any amount of money
from Childs on two minutes acQuain-
lance. This idiosyncracy more than
once caused speculative friends to
dress waitress or chorus girl In
hired furs and introduce her to the
young man In order to share with her
the price Of champagne dinner
The Grand Young Boobs" favorite
indoor sport was giving chop suey
contests. He would frequently take
six, ten or all the members of chorus
to a Chinese restaurant and give
prize of 500 to the damsel who stow
ed away the greatest quantity of the
stuff.
Childs was separated from his wife,
who was Gertrude Westfall of Brook
Ign. They have one child. Childs
eloped with his wife. although there
was no opposition to their marriage
Recently after she obtained a legal
he won her back, but lost
her again when he drifted into his old
ways.