New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-07-06
SUNDAY MAGAZINE FOR JULY ., I9l,

Rtclame that has three separate managers. One man
runs a daily ma..aGc The SwCcpcrs rush IN, ana by
eight o'clock in the evening Manager Number Two
gives a dramatic performance. Again an lnruSh OF
swccpcrs and at clcvcn-thIrty a vaudeville manager
has the house and his show until four IN the morn
ing Another thcatcr there the Bal Tabarn, has two
bio orchcstras 10 alternate and the initiated can
not pass an evening there viewing regular VaudcNe
performance without spending at least elght or ten
dollars person The real spcndthnit, without even
making a ripple Of excitement, can make II hity' ana
frequently does. II IS not at all uncommon or an AUS
TRAN 10 take two three guests and dcpete ms purse
for thousand crowns 1.-TWO hundred dollars IN an even
ing Indeed in certain set OF Nlenncsc society," this
would bee about the regular evening" and there are 'hou
sands Of them there who accomplish TINS icat many
times a month -,
But Vienna is not much Of a place for spendthrittS
Budapest is better In Budapest, however the spend
thrift usually drops his patrmony by gambling mere
is prevalent idea that Monaco IS the greatest gamOng
spot in the world In some ways 1t IS; Tor II IS what Is
known to the profession a "piker resort BY that
thew mean il has small gamblers. There are no
statistics for spcndthrlfts in Budapest They take II as
matter Of course that If a man has money 1t IS 10 be
spent There is scarcely cafe so obscure that 1t does
not have its gambling In the last winter the only man
who attracted much attention young noblcman
who did fairly well by losing about million ana quar-
ter dollars Of money in one evening S Sltng ne
late lamentcd Misrepresentation couldn't beat that
Yet it is common thing for the real good Hungarian
spcndthrift TO get away with from nifty 10 hundred
thousand dollars in night over the table and otherwise
TT may be objected by the quibbler, however, that
gambling is not spending, lnaSmuCh as a man gam
bling does so with the idea that he making sort OF
crack Drained investment, hoping TO profit thereby 80
Budapest can scarcely be called a Spendthrnt center
from any other viewpoint; although as gambling
Mecca for its section Of the country 1t probably wins
and loses more money every two nights than any other
place in the world, Monte Carlo included, changes IN
week
ID a,., 4, ,-,,,l /, IN la
town Of two hundred and seventy-ive thousand nhab
tants It's conditions are peculiar The Rumanian, I'M
like the Hungarian, rarely breaks into the family lnher
lance; but his system is admirable. II consists IN cut
ting his expenses to meet his profits Say for instance
he owns a hundred thousand acres OF good farming
land and there has been a good year His profit IS
somewhere in the neghborhood OF a hundred thousand
dolasfor the sake Of illustration, although probably
five times that in a prosperous season.
snow says he, 81 do not gamble; but will have
nice time for the next two or three months and he
does according TO his lights. One Prince over there
and there are several thousand Of thcm-Quety disposed
Of four hundred thousand dollars in three months last
season according 10 the statement OF his own banker and
the man didn't drink gamble, or buy ewcIry for hn
self. He just had a nice, quiet time! Rumanian OF
any importance at all thinks himself in tough luck when
he has less than ten twenty thousand a month for
his summer holidays. It IS the rule. The man IS not
regarded rs a spcndthr IT.
There are little shc windows in that town where
they display no diamonds, unless set IN clusters, OF
less than five karats a stone and running up TO twenty
and more. night at the Bucharest opera hurts the
eyes. Three million dollars worth OF diamonds was
purchased by Prince Cantacuzcnc in his lifetime so they
say. Some Of them didn't go TO members OF the family
But the diamonds are there, and when young Ru-
manian wants TO make present to his lady love 1t
affords him fine chance to unload his pockets.
RUT St. Petersburg and Moscow are places where
- widest American spcndthrfts should go
and take faithful course in How to Get Rid of Money
1t can't be taught in a correspondence school, so it in
wolves the fatigue of the trip. 1t is rather difficult to
tell what a Russian well-to-do gentleman spends be-
his eXtravagances quietly conducted; but
there is another class of Russian spendthrifts who
would make Coal Oil Johnny look like garden variety
of chump. The celebrated Bradley Martin ball sinks
into insignicance beside dinner given by private
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