The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-10-05

srHE news that Walter G. Adams had declared HIM
self a bankrupt calls attention anew TO the
- curse that is commonly believed to lurk In
gamblers gold The that is earned by gambling
Sticks" according to common adage. and by
another informed that what comes easily goes
In the same way.
icy king. who starting his earning life brakeman
a railway train ended with fortune OF S2O000OO
Adams, after serving term in Sing Sing for swim
ding, said angrily to friend who wished to effect
reconciliation with his alienated family;
Don't talk to about them. hate them ALL
They waste my money. They'll never have any luck!"
The whose heart filled with hatred for his
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 he
uttered the millions he accumulated by fraud
melting away much faster than gamblers gold usually
vanshes For besides having the rate of vanishing of
gamblers gold dishonesty and accumulated at
the expense OF misery in wretched homes its speed IN
laid upon whatever his family handled
After years, Walter Adamss share of the mill
ions has gone late Winter snowhank mets under
hot April q soap bubble vanshes when blown
by impatient child He has gambled away gam.
bler's gains.
OF their several husbands for each has had two
and one has been twice divorced, the other d.
to OF them will be dissipated in the Great
White Way for she has gone abroad, intending to go
upon the STAGE and Of unscrupulous managers
will star "Al AdamS's daughter" long a rag OF
her fathers money remains.
Nor has Mrs. Adams, the policy kings" widow, been
exempt from the Ill luck that followed the ilganed
gold nor the curse Of the old gambler himself for
much Of her portion has been wasted in litigation and
in huge fees psychic" persons whom she employed
to follow her children and try to keep them
company.
Mrs. Lillian Rosenthal, mourning the murder of
Herman Rosenthal and grieving at her dest
tuition which followed, said: None but bad luck fol
lows gambling"
Pat Sheedy, gambler Of international notorIety and
friend Of the late big Tim" Sullivan of tragic fate
said while the gambler lay his death bed: mo boy
h1t Efra N1fhir
but bad luck waits him in the other" Pat Sheedy
died poor. Herman Rosentha left his widow In actual
need The dissipating OF the Adams millions is but
another proof OF tho truth that is in common saws
Trace the measurable truth in history Of AL Adams
and his family
While AL Adams brakeman on a freight train
OF the New York New Haven & Hartford Railroad
he called easy money" he met Zachariah Simmons
Simmons, watching the gigantic system of theft Of
BOSS" Tweed conceived the idea that another means
OF building up fortune could be devised by wringing
the pennies from the poor and ignorant Simmons
established policy business and recognizing Adams
a soul as unscrupulous his own. took the brake
blind to the misery his penny vlarny wrought in
wretched homes He only knew that these small
tricklng streams formed river of gold that empted
into his pockets Taught we'll by his instructor he
soon pushed Simmons out. Simmons left cursing
Adams:
Make the money" he said as he slammed the door
until the pennies his former partners table
ratified, "and ii choke you'll 1t did, in way for
as Adams's fortune and grew, the pile Of poor
men, pennies and about him, and though he
had them changed again and again gold the piles
but suffocated him.
That's the man that steals from little children. ;"
said his neighbors, and AL Adams shrugged his shoul
ders. The shoulders covered with fur oyercoat
earned by what known as his "kindergarten
games He sent his agents to the boys in the public
schools and enticed them into roulette games. He