Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-10-17

anew YORK.-The news that Wal
HW ter G. Adams had declared him
self bankrupt directs attention
to the curse that Is commonly be-
aieved to Turk In gamblers gold. The
money that ia 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 G. Adams Is a son of AL j.
Adams, the policy king" who, start
ing his earning life as brakeman On
"A railway train. ended with fortune
uf $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
.ciliation with his alienated family:
Don't talk to me about them. l
hate 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
wretched. 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
Hons he accumulated by fraud are
melting, away much faster than gamb-
gers' gold usually vanishes. For, be-
sides having the rate Of vanishing of
gamblers gold, dishonesty won and
accumulated at the expense of misery
in wretched homes. its speed in dis
appearing is doubled by the curse of
AL Adams himself laid upon whatever
mis- 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 a soap. bubble van
sshes when blown by an impatient
child He has gambled away gamb-
fer's gains.
The share that came to his daugh-
Tera has gone by way of their several
Husbands, for each has had two and
one has been twice divorced; the 9th
1r 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 O score of unscrupulous
managers will star al Adams daugh
ter as long az rag of her father:
sDoney remains.
Mrs Lillian Rosenthnl, mourning
over the murder OF Herman Rosen
anal and grieying as much at her DIES
Sitution which followed. said, Non
out bad luck follows gambling"
Pat Sheedy, gambler Of information
"a, notoriety. and friend Of the lat
big Tim" Sullivan, of tragic fat,
said while the gambler lay on hi
death bed mo boy ought ever tax
any but the straight road Nothin
but bad luck waits for him in tn
other" Pat Sheedy died poor. He
anan ttosenthal left his widow III ac
nal need, The dissipating of tn
Adams millions is but another proc
AFT the truth that il in common saw
'frace the unacceptable truth in the hi
cory Of AL Adams and his family
Cursed His Partner.
While AL Adams was a brakemen G
4 freight train of the New York. Ne
Haven and Hartford railroad, dissa
Sstied with his LOT and seeking eve
fhen what he called easy money" /
met Hachariah Simmons Simmor
watching the gigantic system Of the
of Boss" Tweed, conceived the i'd
shat another means OF building IN
fortune could be devised by wrir
ing the pennies from the poor IL
ignorant Simmons established a u
icy business. and, recognizing
Adams a soul as INSCRIPTIONS as
own. took the brakeman into his p
Icy shop. Adams was from the fiji
olind to the misery his penny viilai
wrought ia wretched homes. He on
ANEW that these small, trlckli
streams formed river of gold Il
emptied into his pockets. TAU
well by his instructor, he soon pusi
Simmons out, Simmons left ours
Adams
Make the money" he said as
slammed the door until the cop
pennies on his former partners ia
ratified, land may 1t choke you'll"
lid. in way. for as Adams fortt