El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-05-06
By COL. WILLIAM WAYNE BELVIN.

Railroad millionaire; recently beggar and in
mate Of BIackWes Island workhouse. Now on his way
back to responsibility and fortune)
7 HAVE been wined and dned BY the royalty and
/ nobility of Europe-and 1 have eaten a Migrants
fare in the Workhouse Bac- sels Island
I have hoated loans for governments - and I have
begged the price of meal from strangers on Broad
have been associated in business with some OF
the greatest men this country has produced - and
have thrown in my lot with paupers for dime.
I married the most beautiful and accomplished
woman on the Pacific Coast and she divorced me
I have been gentleman and vagrant, plunger and
manner a millionaire and derellcL
The man who first said They never come back
- . v-orse liar than Satan, and has done. mis-
chief To-day the Of hfy-three Just out OF the
workhouse, without funds without nome with only
my wits capital ana my sIoch-lh-IIaue' nnu II
necessary to start all over again I'm going to do It
This is swan song!
But how did it all come about: what were the
.,,ees Of nv decline and falT? What did l. a OF
education and refinement OF Imagination and ideas
an avmilonaire, learn from the level OF the bread
ii1 fine streets the park bench that was my bed as
800 as the kindness Of the policeman held out!
- on Broadway The coins that dropped into
NV 0utstretched hand few, but the lessons borne
non me we're heavy The first OF them, AS ye SOW,
so shall reap
because my story may others now floating free
IN the high tide Of fortune from one day pounding to
Dieces on the shore, l willing to write H.
How is your money "persnective"? That IS an
important question. Ny lack OF true money perspee
80 mt as the great Of fall. In strict
Justice it was also the base Of my successes:
Inst my money perspective" long -efore was
.v-eDtvone When was eighteen my father gave me
SSn 00O to start business had been through Bethei
.o'5e1ov and the Miami Military School mad com
Ioted in record time the course at New YORK Dusl-
80 College And vet l started out with my S1UVUO
ns S 6eoiIelv no more real business ideas than the
lace college boy has at that age. mad learned
Ioreo1s but l had more knowledge OF Wnat they
1+ or their practical application than nsh IL Is
IL common fault of educational methods.
.9ed in the tobacco industry IN DanVlIe' va
IIt3Ei1 wear had cornered the tobacco market OF
" co,tb and my original capital had grown to $780,,
Ine gen my father died and my share OF his fortune
UOO se0O 900 With this 100000 l went to Seattle
was was and speculated heavily in land and railroad
VESTS as+ There l came under the notice OF Henry
Willard nut - +- than a hundred
. I'D meant nothing to me. / was only TWENTY-FIVE
3ba beneficial check Of proportion was LOST 10 ne
ana tnS Ike no allowance for vanishing point
-, wizard filled I went down with him!
we" Ne long ago walked through Long Acre Square
- coI5 and raining. / drew my thin coat aroma
II va wondered where would sleep A uAlcao
me ~ in front Of RectOr's. Out Of it stepped busl
oIeT nan with whom had put through aeal
nee ,etted each of half million. From the TAXI
tha1 came vision in furs and Jewels
recognized her She was an actress
at one Of the music halls-a woman
who had already wrecked two men