Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1913-10-17

Anew YORK.-The news that Wal
IN ter C. Adams had declared him
self bankrupt directs attention
tc the curse that Is commonly be-
Heved to Turk In gamblers gold. The
money that is earned by gambling
never Sticks" according to COM
mon adage, and by another we are
Informed that what comes easily goes
in the same way
Walter c. Adams Is a son of AL ].
adams, the policy king" who, start
ang his earning life as a brakeman on
a railway train, ended with fortune
OF $2.000,000, extorted from the poor
and credulous in a policy shop.
adams. after serving a term in Sing
Sing for swindling. said angrily to a
friend, who wished to effect recon
collation. with his alienated family:
! Don't talk to me about them. l
nate them all. They waste my money.
They'll never have any luck"
The man whose heart was filled
with hatred for his own. and who
cared nothing for the poor families
whom he had made poorer and more
lwretched, died by his own hand less
than seven years ago. Under the
curse that turks In gamblers gold and
the family curse he uttered the mil
nions he accumulated by fraud are
melting away much faster than gamb-
fers' gold usually vanishes. For, be-
sides having the rate of vanishing of
gamblers gold, dishonesty won and
accumulated at the expense of misery
I'm wretched homes, its speed in dis
appearing Is doubled by the curse of
AL Adams himself laid upon whatever
his family handled.
Sons Share of Millions Gone.
After seven years, Walter Adams
share of the millions has gone as a
late winter SNOWFALL melts under a
hot April sun, or soap bubble van
fishes when blown by an impatient
child He has gambled away a gamb-
Her's gains
The share that came to his daugh-
tiers has gone by way of their several
husbands, for each has had two and
one has been twice divorced; the 9TH
er was divorced and separated from
her husband. What remains to one
OF them will soon be dissipated In the
great white way. for she has gone
abroad, intending to go upon the
stage. and a score of INSCRIPTIONS
managers will star "Al Adams daugh-
ter as long as rag of her fathers
money remains.
Mrs. Lillian Rosenthal. mourning
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thai and grieving as much at her des-
titution which followed. said. None
but bad lack follows gambling"
Pat Sheedy. gambler of internation-
al notoriety. and friend OF the late
~'Big Tim" Sullivan. OF tragic fate.
said while the gambler lay on his
death bed: mo boy ought ever take
any but the straight road Nothing
but bad luck waits for him In the
other" Pat Sheedy died poor. Her
man Rosenthal left his widow in act
ual need The 6issipating of the
adams millions is but another proof
of the truth that is In common saws.
Trace the unacceptable truth in the his
tory OF AL Adams and his family.
Cursed His Partner.
While AL Adams was a brakemen on
freight train of the New York. New
Haven and Hartford railroad. dissat-
dsfied with his lot and seeking even
then what he called easy money" he
met Zacharish Simmons. Simmons
watching the gigantic system S-ii-sft
of Boss" Tweed. conceived the idea
that another means of building up a
fortune could be devised by wiring
ing the pennies from the poor and
ignorant. Simmons established pol
lev business. and. recognizing In
Adams a soul as INSCRIPTIONS as his
own. took the brakeman into his pol
tcy shop. Adams was from the first
blind 10 the misery his penny villairy
wrought in wretched homes. He only
anew that these small. trucking
streams formed a river OF gold that
emptied into his pockets. Taught
well by his instructor. he soon pushed
simmons out. Simmons left cursiag
Adams:
make the money" be said as he
slammed the door until the copper
Sennies on his former partners table
ratified ~ani may II choke youi" II
lid In a way. for as Adams fortune