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

grew and grew. the pile of poor mems
pennies rose and rose about him, and
though he had them changed again
and again to gold, the piles rose high
er and higher until they oppressed
and all but suffocated him,
Enticed Boys to Gamble.
That's the man that steals from
little children, said his neighbors,
and AL Adams shrugged his shoulders.
The shoulders were covered with
fur overcoat earned by what were
known as his kindergarten games"
He sent, his agents to the boys in the
public schools and enticed them into
roulette games. He backed poolrooms
where horse-car drivers and longshore-
men played the ponies at 25 cents a
chance. At one time he was the con-
trolling spirit in 100 cheap gambling
places in New York
AS he grew richer he built block |
of apartments Their origin becom-
ing known, some one dubbed them
"The Policy Flats" He moved farther
uptown and bought splendid house
in Eighty-fifth street. but daily pla-
cards, Here Lives King AL of the
Policy Shops" and Down With the
Policy King" were plastered over its
walls. Adams never had the ma
RAIDERS arrested, because he did not
wish to advertise his infamous bust
riess.
AT last this Napoleon of the power
| 40, ,foIr, Nd hta
Waterloo. Capt Norton Goddard, dis
covering that the poor of the city
were being drawn into evil habits by
the wide-reaching policy shop net;
that they neglected their work to be
at the daily lottery drawings; that
they drank more and worse whisky
after each loss that went to swell the
revenue in the kings" exchequer,
called on Adams, and, showing him
the wrong he was doing, begged him
to cease his wholesale depredations.
Adams laughed at him.
"Meanest Man In New York"
Then l shall fight you" said Cap
tain Goddard, taking his departure,
and when | fight ! generally win"
Adams, secure in his paid protec-
ton" went on with his policy bust
, ness. But some time, somewhere
, such protection" fails He found
, himself facing Captain Goddard over
a police station desk.
, III move my policy shops out o.
your district" Adams said, facing his
, enemy, his face pallid.
nm thn leland n
=. Manhattan into Sing Sing" said Cap
q tain Goddard. In the trial that fol
lowed. Captain Goddard, looking a
). the craven old gambler from his place
@ on the witness stand, said, 'Al Adam!
a Is the meanest man in New York"
i Judge Scott, when he sentenced hin
@ to hard labor at Sing Sing for year
o repeated the branding sentence.
a Adams came ont OF Jail defiant, blu
,. his heart was filled with hatred. H
I. went to the Hotel Ansonia to live. Ut
n tering his curse upon his family.
# AT the offices he maintained a
: West Thirty-fourth street, whic
9. seemed to he the office suite OF
prosperous broker, there were bite
quarrels with his family. Once Their
N was rumor, after high words an
W shrill voices within penetrated tn
If. handsome groundglass doors an
an reaching to the street. that his so
~ had treated him in tile maner fo
IS which q clergyman i'll the west wa
III recently indicted The rumor wa
on that in heat Of quarrel the youni
\ er man had struck the elder. In thi
70. magnificent suite at the Ansonia thel
nd were other scenes and angry voice
OIL Rumors of Murder
In tt did not surprise other CUES
lis when they heard that AL Adams w;
oil. dead Rumors Of murder presse
rst close upon the news. Sheriff Fla
ny burger boldly said q believe !
My was murdered and that the murder
ing is in this room" But the coron
hat found verdict OF suicide. TT
sht meanest man in New York" had tlr,
led OF life, that official said. there's not
ing ing more TO it,"
The curse OF the Adams millions G
he tended from their creator to his cid
per and fayorite daughter. Evelyn Adal
BILE married Robert Arinic, a Mexican m
1t ing operator. 1t was thought the a
Inc bltion OF the Adams girls and of tn