The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-04
ruEIR UTMOST TO SPEED
NV RID THEMSELVES OF
FORTUNES LEFT THEM.
WIRE RECKLESS SPENDTHRIF rs

,rbs Mas Who Broke the Bank at
Monte Carlo" and He Who Clean
- windows With Champagne. A
sporting American.
rbare is @ man travelling about the
-,rId at the present time who is do
hia utmost 10 rid himself speed
i ILs Of a fortune left to him by his
s4.b.r That is Charles G. Gates,
aa Of the late John w. Gates, the
~ sOmous fnancier, and he declares
no. he gives away $1,00O,OOO a year
~ tins alone, says a London ex-
~ 81 can't take my money
Smoy with me when l die, so l am
1oino tn burn it while | live" said
Gates recently.
John w. Gates founded his huge
fortune by introducing barbed wire
the market at the age of FL. He
SaId more in one day than could be
Donpfactured in a month and after
ord founded the Consolidated Steel
and Wire Company with capital OF
s20 600. 900. He was one of the
graatest gamblers of modern times
ond oil over the states was known as
I1Rat A Million" Gates. On one occa-
s,op he played a game of poker with
loo Letter in an express train be-
twaen Chicago and New York and
won a jackpot of $4,000 by bluff
With a pair of mines. In 1900 he
hacked Royal Bluff for the Goodwood
cun because the animal was the prop
srtv of a fellow countryman. He
nlunged so heavily on the horse thai
ia Drice was shortened from % to
IN 6 to l. He won no less thar
100000.
1.-THE Jubilee Plunger."
Ernest Benzon, an Englishman
hotter known as the Jubilee Plug
ar" is said to have gambled ava!
s125O,OOO in one year. Before h'
came of age the court of chancery, tt
keep him out of mischief, sent hin
on a. sea voyage, but the vessel put
ting in at Melbourne he succeeded
in mourning Notwithstanding
s125,0OO lost at cards-amouting
to S325,O0O. After reaching his ma
iority he risked large sums on thu
widest gambling chances, but it wa
by backing horses and betting OIL
pigeon shooting that he squanderet
the fortune he inherited. An after
noon at pigeon shooting never COS
him less than $4,000. When hi
fortune had gone his fathers trus
tees took his affairs in hand ant
eventually made him an allowance
of about $4,000 a year.
''MOnte Carlo" Wells.
Charles Wells, who some time ag,
was arrested on yacht in Falmout
harbor on a charge of fraud, was
notorious spendthrift, and was tn
hero of the popular song, THE Ma
Who Broke the Bank at Monte Car
To-" He lost by gambling man,
thousands of pounds. At Monte Car
10 he was fairly fortunate, and tn
story of his coup at the gaming ia
bes he has often told himself. H
started with a capital of $4,000
and invariably bet on run" o
series" at both the roulette and tn
trente-et- quarante tables, bettin
either the minimum stakes or tn
maximum stakes. By following thi
system he took during one after
noon all the 100 and and all tn
1000 franc notes supplied to one c
the trente-et-quarante tables, an
play had to be postponed until tn
officials had fetched a further 100
900 francs to the bank"
A young Englishman, who foun
fortune in the Yukon, spent his NOR
'ey in the most reckless manner. II
would buy up hotels, and hire specls
trains for an hour at time. In
town in California he put up at
large hotel and surprised the owne
by asking him what he would tax