Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-28


curse that is commonly believed to Turk in
gamblers gold. The money that is earned by gambling
never Sticks, according to common adage, and by
another informed that what easily goes
in the way.
4. Walter c. Adams is a son of AL j. Adams the pol
icy king" Who starting his earning life as a brakeman
a railway train, ended with fortune of 100000
exorted from the poor and credulous in policy shop
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. l hate them all
They waste my money. They'll never have any luck!"
The whose heart 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
hand less than seven years ago. Under the
that turks in gamblers gold and the family he
uttered, the millions he accumulated by fraud are
melting away much faster than gamblers gold usually
anishes For besides having the rate of vanishing of
gamblers gold, dishonesty won and accumulated at
the expense of misery in wreched homes its speed in
disappearing is doubled by the AL Adams himself
laid upon whatever his family handled.
= After years, Walter Adamss share of the mill
ions has gone a late Winter snowbank mets under
a hot April sun, soap bubble vanishes when blown
by an impatient child He has gambled away gam
blers gains.
The share that came to his daughters has gone by
way of their several husbands for each has had
and has been twice divorced, the other d.
and separated from her husbands What remains
to one of them will soon be dssipated in the Great
White Way, for she has gone abroad, intending go
upon the stage, and of INSCRIPTIONS managers
will star "Al Adams's daughter" as long as 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 of the old gambler himself for
much her portion has been wasted in litigation and
in huge fees to psychic" persons whom employed
to follow her children and try to keep them out of bad
company.
Mrs Lillian Rosenthal mourning over the murder of
Herman Rosenthal and grieving much a her desti
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, tragic fate
said while the gambler lay his death bed: mo boy
ought ever take any but the straight road Nothing
but bad luck waits for him in the other Pat Sheedy
died DOOR Herman Rosentha left his widow in actual
need The dissipating of the Adams millions is but
another proof of the truth that is in common saws
Trace the unacceptable truth in the history of AL Adams
and his family
While Al Adams was brakeman on a freight train
of the New York. New Haven & Hartford Railroad
dissatisfied with his lot and seeking then what
he called easy money he met Zacharah Simmons
Simmons watching the gigantic system of theft of
"Soss" Tweed, conceived the idea that another
of building up fortune could be devised by wringing
the pennies from the poor and ignorant. Simmons
ss abshed policy business and, recognizing in Adams
n soul as INSCRIPTIONS his own, took the brake
man into his policy shop. Adams from the first
blind to the misery his penny vilafny wrought in
wretched homes He only knew that these small
trucking formed river of gold that emptied
into his pockets. Taught well by his instructor he
soon pushed Simmons out Simmons left cursing
Adams:
ratified land may it choke you!" 1t did, in way, for
as Adamss fortune grew and grew, the pile of poor
mems pennies and about him. and though he
had them changed again and again to gold, the piles
rose higher and higher until they oppressed and all
but suffocated him.
That's the man that steals from little children"
said his neighbors, and AL Adams shrugged his shout
ders The shoulders we're covered with fur overcoat
earned by what were known his kindergarten
Ngames" He his agents to the boys in the public
schools and enticed them into roulette games. He