Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-04-08
WITH PHOTO Ora lis
FROM seen I'M THE III. AY

I Broke. Dead broke. Are you sur.
prised?"
Say, what kind Of a joke is this 2" a.
Broadway laughed ruefully. It's no
joke to be broke, Bob; but it's even
worse than that with me. I'm in
debit" d AZ Ill n
Sin debt!""I ;2.5 s3E1 y.5s
"To the extent Of about fifty thou
sand dollars e
well. what have you done with all
your money! ,ts$
Put it back into circulation where
it came FROM" Broadway answered.
signing h igs &.
5""You mean Wall street,,
Vi '''No; Broadway" sst q {.
Investments gone wrong
II never invested any money. The
only thing ever did was to spend it."
St"But you couldn't spend all the
money you had! X SIS &
1T was easy. Everyone seemed
glad to take it, II! .s, a.
$"Buts supposed you had an enor-
nous income. !" 5 ,:,
".Well, that's what they all thought
and still think That's why I've been
able to 60 along and run head over
heels in debt. owe tailor, bills, boot
bills. jewelry bills, flower bills. res:
taurant bills. I've got a stack of bills
in that room there that would make
Rockefeller complain Of the high cost
OF living, and I can't pay them be-
cause I'm broke. Flat 4 .5s5 !. IL broke!
It's hard to believe, isn't 1t p
Why. you always led me to believe
that you were a millionaire? e. iS
Not exactly that. But l did not
deny the stories that, somehow, got to
going round. Maybe ] lied a little. At
that. I would be worth million by
now If I'd 1 had any business ability.
with the bank roll had to start with"
When came here to New; York
and started to burn up Broadway, five
years or 50 ago, ] was worth two hum
dred and fifty thousand dollars. There
| was cash, real estate and my small in
terest In the chewing gum factory.
First thing l did was spend the cash,
then I,sold the real estate, then i
sold my interest in the factory.
81 had no use for anything but cash.
s. Ny Uncle -Abner bought me out
land cheated me- He paid me just a
hundred thousand, a measlys hundred
thousand, for my share Of the prop
erty out of which he's since then made
q dozen fortunes. hear the gum
trust offered him million dollars for
the plant and 1.-THE good will last year"
Jones' Pepsin!''
Yes; Jones' Pepsin, made "a in
Jonesville. It's the Oldest gum On the
market. Ever chew it?" {
sS5" 70.
81 Don't .' It's awful. It's terrible 1',la
stun Z Al. 5
~ well. 90 on. What happened.
then % Ia f
81 could scarcely waitto get hold of
that money and get out Of that town:
] wanted New York; nothing but New
York. 4 had heard about New Y orb; I
had read about New York; I'd been
down here as kid on visits. talked
New York, II dreamed New York. Why.
from the time / was a kid, in knicker-
bockers, to the time left Jonesville.
everybody IA called me Broadway
That's where 1t began II M 8
ftI thought 1t started here"
No! when u was a kid in Jones'
VILE. That was my name. Broadway
Just because ] wore patent-leather-
shoes and put on a clean collar, now
and then. That's the kind Of q townit
Is. q }E5s' Y a, b, NJ ., 3Tl3sa5ij
1--we lived up to the name, guess.
! know every newsboy, policeman, ac-S
tor. chorus girl, wine agent, gambler
and bartender on the! street. I've been
to bed just one night in five years be-
fore six o'clock in the morning and
that was when I had toothache and
my face was swollen. It was notfthe