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'If had been given the world in that
precious moment of my happiness,
would have handed it to Jessie and her
friends as a little mcmento of my joy.
Since this was impossible, | did the next
best thing. A noble and spectacular idea
burst in my brain with all the brilliance of
a skyrocket.
"The dning-room had closed and we
were in the lobby of the hotel. Sur
rounded BY all the loveliness in the world
as | thought backed away and made
a little speech.
"In this most happy moment of my
life,' | said rather thickly, l suspect, 1
want to express a tiny trifle of the hap
pipess that Jessie has given me by her
promise to be mine. And So
81 opened the bag and held it high in
the air.
ait is too precious a sentiment to ex-
press in words. | am going to say it
with diamonds. Girls, here's luck!'
81 shook the little bag and out came the
diamonds-they had been ny mothers.
Down they ratified on the marble corridor
like hail : diamonds worth thirty thou
sand dollars! And in an instant the floor
was covered with scrambling show girls,
including my precious wife-to-be, pulling
and pushing and fighting and clucking like
chickens over bag of corn as the spark
ling stones bounced and rolled about the
corridor.
an delirium of champagne and joy
4 / stood and laughed as they tore each
others hair and filmy clothes. have since
wondered just what | was laughing at"
fCl Ipa5 nv American Weekly
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CaswelTs wonder in this respect was
little late in comng-twenty-fou hours,
to be exact. In that brief space of time
many things had happened. For one
thing. Jessie was no believer in long en-
gagements. and at the crack of dawn she
and Dan were spinning through Massa-
chusetts in search of minister. Boston,
however. is not the place for whirlwind
courtship, as there are annoying laws pre-
scribing a two-day interlude between the
application for license and the marriage
ceremony.
So the happy, sleepless couple pro-
ceeded by racing car to Rhode Island,
where an obliging and somewhat aston
ished minister united them in bonds of
holy wedlock.
All this had been gay and debonair and
quite in the spirit of Miss Millay's little
poem-from one point of view. 1t was
not until the bride and groom reached
their hotel after mad ride back to Bos
ton, that the unpleasant features of the
split second romance began to be appar
emit Some prying newspapermen, with an
eve to a good story, were waiting at the
door of Boston's most lavish bridal suite
with some disturbing facts.
In ten bewildering minutes Caswell
learned that his blushing bride was ten
wears older than he had imagined her to
be: that she had been married years be-
fore: that her first husband, Mr.. Ollie
Disbrow. had considered shortly after that
marriage that he had justification for
numbering one of Jessie's gentlemen
friends that a jury, in acquitting Dis
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other quarter of a million dollar Install
ment of his fortune, he made another
break for Broadway. Heroes of New
York's topsy-turvy night life are usually
sensitive when they are booted from the
limelight and sometimes long to show the
parasites and grafters and gold digging
show girlo who have turned their backs
on them that a Broadway CANCEL" as
spendthrift young men are called, may be
down, but he is never out. Not while
there is money to spend, anyhow. So
poor Dan returned to hear the cringing
batteries of those he knew would turn
again if the occasion warranted, and to
look for new places to sow his wild oats.
This period was filled with temporary
reformations, common to all of Broad
ways "angels" In one of them he
married Miss June Castleton another
"Folies" girl, who alone had befriended
him amid the derision that followed his
first financial collapse. June had been
staunch in the face of Jessie and had been
forced to leave the "Follies" because of
the eccentricity of her sympathy. There
was something appropriate about his sec
ond marriage and, as nearly as those af-
fairs 90, il was quite a romance. But it
was short lived. Presently June was
suing for divorce and Dan was employing
all of his former experience in the diff
cult business of spending money faster
than he had spent it before.
There was some rumor of reunion
with Jessie, but that competent young
lady settled that by getting married on
short notice to a sympathetic Chicago
gentleman and leaving the stage for
domestic career. Dan continued to burn
up Broadway until recently, when he was
stricken with typhoid fever. Five years
of excuses of all kinds had so weakened
his resistance that the disease was quickly
complicated by pneumonia and he died,
with his grief stricken mother at bis bed
side.
As during his entire rocket career, she
was still almost the only friend he had;
he had spent a half a million to gain
others; of them all, she alone remained
During his career as Broadway's Easy
Mark and Walking Checkbook, Dams
golden text and raison d'etre was Miss
Mllay's verse, printed at the top of this
page. There is another verse, quite as
easily learned, by Robert W. Service, that
ends with:
Time has got little bill.
Get wise while yet you may.
For the debit sides increasing
In a most alarming way.
The things you had no right to do,
The things you should have done,
They're all put down. it's up to you
To pay for every one.
So eat, drink and be merry,
Have a good time if you will,
But God help you when the time comes
To pay the bill"
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brow, had evidently thought so, too; that
Jessie had nine-year-old child, and other
facts that shattered his fiery-colored hon
eymoon before it had fairly begun.
Suddenly the exciting, thrilling romance
he had been having lost its bright hues
and young Caswell dropped from the pink
clouds into what seemed to be large vat
of soup. At the moment, burning his
candle at both ends did not seem to be
such fun, after all; and, quite sober, the
unhappy bridegroom began thinking o.
his mothers certain distress and his
guardians probable reaction. But Jessie
again was equal to the occasion. In
few well-chosen words she ordered the
reporters out and so soothed and COM
forted her distracted husband that in a
few moments the honeymoon was going
along as we'll as could be expected.
She explained that Disbrow's jealousy
had been thoroughly unfounded and that
the murder it had caused was just simply
an exhibition of bal temper that couldn't
be helped. There had been a divorce, one
of those awful things so painful for
sensitive girl to think about, and wouldn't
Dan help her to forget? Conscious of his
duties as sympathetic and understand
ing husband, Dan kissed her tenderly,
ordered another case of champagne, and
the honeymoon was on.
1t lasted three months. 1t cost Caswell
the whole of his first $3.50, 900, and all he
could borrow During the course of it he
did all of the things that impressionable
Young men consider glamorous, including
travelling about the country in the Fol
lies" special train and participating in all
the after-midnight parties given by the
girls-and it is doubtful if anybody ever
had less fun and more actual unhappiness
during so short a time At the end of that
seepless three months, young Dan wa
out the following items: One wife, one
quarter of million, all the memberships
he had formerly possessed in the most eX-
elusive Cleveland clubs, the regard of his
former friends, and, most important of all,
his healthy constitution.
In exchange he had three months head
ache. a bale of cancelled checks, the men,
orv of three months almost constant quar-
reiing, the hearty and unmitigated con-
tempt of the parasites he had befrlendej,
an unpleasant reputation, ami divorce
suit to defend. The moment his money
ran out, his so-called friends ran out. In
deed, his appeals for railroad fare back
to Cleveland were met with gibes tele-
graphed collect by the backslappers who
had been drinking his champagne few
weeks before.
OF course, even at the staggering cost
of a quarter of a million, Dams honey
moon with the "Follies" might have been
checked against experience, excepting that
\ nerson who sets out to burn his candle
at both ends usually does it thoroughly.
As soon as Dams divorce was granted
he had filed a countersuit in the mean
while-and he was in possession of an
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felt? And when he announced
what the little chamois bag
contained, the pretty little
show girls were so ecstatic that
a great exhiliration surged
into the young mans brain.
"Let's Seen they exclaimed
in one giggling BREATH" Cas-
well wrote in his account of
the little dinner party. "They
swarmed about me like bees
around a hive, buzzing their
admiration. | felt very popu-
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-18
Young Dan Caswell
Who Squandered a
Fortune With the
Show Girls in the
White Lights of
Broadway,
Ends His
Career at
Twenty-Five

"My candle burns at both ends,
1t will not last the night.
But ah, my friends, and oh, my friends,
1t gives lovely light"
Edna St. Vincent Millay.
A ND the question provoked by Miss
~ Millay's charming little verse is:
'Does it?"
After burning the candle at both ends
up and down Broadway for five stormy
years, young Dan Caswell is dead. The
pampered young Cleveland millionaire
succumbed in a New York hospital re-
Gently to simple case of typhoid, which
his system, weakened by excess, was UNI
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and ratified down the marble corridor
the hotel hE-damonds floor
with crambng show girls including wife
pushing fighting uckng like chickens bag of
of CaweH spndtht told by him
story of his life in this magazine.
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able TO snake OH.
Pneumonia set in and
DESPITE the efforts of
the best specialists in
the country, CaswelPs
candle of life flickered
out.
Readers of these
pages will remember
the story of his expert
ences, written by
young Caswell when
the flame was burning
brightest and while he
was still the husband
of Miss Jessie Reed,
the "most beautiful
show girl in America"
then the chief attrac-
ton of the Ziegfell
"Follies."
Now with Caswell
dead at rs, it is worth
while to consider just
what sort of a run the
young millionaire did
get for his money in
Broadway's little all
night world, where he
reigned for a few
blazing months as a
4" 'Follies' girl hus-
band" The career of
this unfortunate youth
is an excellent illustra-
ton of a short life and
a merry one-and how
empty AMI disappoint-
ing and fatal it was.
Hardly anyone now
adays commences life
with more advantages
than Caswell enjoyed
from birth. He had
been left more than a
million dollars, the
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-03-29
State Coaches
Plan Organization

Lincoln, March 2s-At a meeting
Of a number Of Nebraska college
coaches at Wesleyan university this
afternoon steps were taken for the
formation Of State Coaches associa- :
ton. Bob Russell. coach at York.
was chairman OF the meeting. at Is
planned to have a big meeting here at
the time of the high school track
meet, MAY .. TO which all the high
school, college and university coaches
In the state will be invited for the
formation Of a permanent organlza-
ton
The object OF the association Is TO
bring the coaches OF the state I'm
closer contact for mutual benefit and
10 work. out an organization with the
object Of helping 10 develop physical
education and athletics in Nebraska
better than In the past.
Earl Johnson, Who has charge Of
physical education IN the grade
schools at Lincoln. made a speech on
physical education In the schools and
w. II. Haylett of Doane spoke on in
termutual sports. Lon Graft of Peru
college. Earl Parminter. coach at Cot.
ner college; a. d. Durham, represent.
ing Wesleyan. and Coach Browne of
the Lincoln High school attended the
meeting
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30 ;Jackrabbits
Out for Track

Brooi<ings. S. D.. March 2s.-Fiftv
men answered Coach Ekbere.s first
call for track material at South Da.
kota college yesterday. Among these
are numbered eight letter men of last
year: Captain Martin, stellar runner.
vaulter. jumper and hurdler; Kelley.
VINO holds state mark in the high
hurdles: Biegert, relay: Cady, dashes
and relay; Chase. two miller: Gamble.
nigh. jumper. Ambroze, miller. and
Ekern. weight man.
A large number of freshmen track
men are out which gives the coaches
hopes for an excellent year in 1926.
Many OF the men who won monoHrsms
in 1924. have not yet reported
Coach Ekberg plans TO take Martin
and Kelley TO Drake university to
compete In the broad jump and hurdle
events respectively. The same two
men Will go to the Central 4. A. L.
meet which will be held At St. Paul on
April 20. and In addition. a half.mile
relay quartet will make the trip.
The remainder Of the schedule is as
follows:
Nav 1-Dakots relays at Sioux Falls
May s-Creishion university dual meet
al Omaha.
May i6-unlversity of South Dakota
dual meet at Brookings
May - and ii-conference meet at
Sioux City.
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7unney Easy
Winner; Beats
Pittsburgh Greb

st. Paul, March 2S-Whateyer
doubt existed as to the superiority of
Gene Tunney. American light heavy
weight champion. over Harry Greb,
former holder of the title, was dis
jelled today as a result OF Tunney's
decisive victory over the worlds mid.
dleweight titleholder here last night.
Tunney gave Greb az thorough a
beating In their 10-ronnd no.deeision
bout as he ever received So com
pletely was Greb outclassed and out
fought In six of the 10 rounds that
he resorted to defensive fight after
the third. and thereafter was guilty
OF persistent holding and stalling.
varied only by rare flash of of
fensive fighting which Tunney quickly
terminated by a devastating body at.
tack.
To Greb's credit. he showed re.
markable assimilative powers in
standing up under Tnnneys vicious
attacks
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Chapman to Claim
Kaplan's S Title

Boston, March 2S.-Charlie cardio.
manager of Red" Chapman OF Chel.
sea. featherweight who recently de.
feated Johnny Dundee in Boston, an
nounced today that Chapman would
claim the worlds featherweight
championship. His action Is based
on the claim that Dundee. who laid
down the featherweight mantle sew
eral months ago. again is in competi.
ton and would remain champion un.
til actually defeated by boxer in the
class. Kid kaplan of Meridien. Conn,
chosen as a result OF a recent tourna.
ment in New York, has been gener-
ally recognized as featherweight
champion.
Chapman was within the limit of
the featherweight class at the official
weighing-in time and so In defeating
Dundee, he took over Dundee's
claims to the title" Cardio said.
State boxing commissions cannot
make world champions, and Dundee.
because he is still in competition, re-
mained champion. until he lost to
Chapman Monday night. Now Chap
man will claim the title because he
has earned It,"
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CHANGES MADE
IN JUNIOR LOOP

Albright Merchants were awarded
the franchise OF the Case Landscape
team at a meeting of the managers
OF the Junior Omaha Baseball league
held last night at the City hall. The
Landscape mems franchise was de.
clared forfeited when their manager
failed 10 put In an appearance at the
meeting.
The loop will open April 10 with
the following games: Albright Mer-
chants against the Baseball Head
quarters. kaiman insurance Agency
against the Paxton Billiards and the
American Business college against
the Twenty fourth Street Merchants.
The same dollar baseball which the
teams used last season was adopted
az the official league ball The man
ayers decided last night that no more
meetings would be held before the
opening of the league season.
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1t Is going to be hard for the Packer
mentor TO make his decisions.
"Chalie" Dunn. Reeves. Kratky, and
Smith have almost einohed their
positions but Wakefield. fast little
first baseman is going at great clip
TO hold his bag against Roy Holden
and Kalstrom.
Fielders are plentiful with Alex
ander. kratky. Mangan. Bernstein,
kulawik and others. and Lowry is
going to have good crop OF fly
ehasers.
Unless something good turns up
soon II will look like "Dode" Reeves
will have TO do an Iron man stunt
to uphold the Packer pitching staff.
Young Owens has fell short of ex.
recitation but has time to come out
OF II.
Catching honors have simmered
down TO Olson and Smith and these
two will probably take turns behind
the plate
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-03-29
Bluejiays Ends
Spring Football
Practice Easter

~ PRING football at Creighton uni
versity will continue until East.
~ er. Chet Wynne. head coach, an
nounces. Wynne plans to send two
teams, the Whites and the Blues
against each other in a real game
near the end of the spring practice.
The Bluejays have been working
out nightly for three weeks. and the
result Is even now apparent. The
men are fast whipping into shape.
and with two weeks more of train
ing, should return to the Hilltop
next fall in excellent condition.
From the manner i'm which the
freshmen are disporting themselves
nightly on the big oval. 1t seems
certain that some Of the 1924 letter
men will spend a good deal of their
time on the bench this season.
Mcconnell. Servoss, O'Conn0r and
OBrien are freshmen who are put
ting up battle for tho guard and
tackle positions, while Miskouicz,
Hayes and Moylan. yearIings of
1924, look good at the wings.
The veterans have better
chance In the backfieId, for with
Captain Bertoglio, Keane, Lower,
FitzGibbon, O'Connor, Raney, Hick-
ey and McDermoft back from last
years squad, frosh has 10 show
world of stuff to pry into the ball
Juggling crew.
Diesing. Preneyost. Doyle, keenan,
and Tracy are former freshmen who
are making determined bids for back
field berths.
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baseman was removed TO a Pitts
burgh hospital where he died Sat
urday afternoon.
Wilcox was promising base.
ball player. Only e6 years old,
Jimmy" was considered ready for
the maior leagues after another
years duty i'm the Western. This
coming season was TO be WilcOxs
last year in the minors, providing,
of course, he improved as he did
In last two years. lie was IA
protege of Hans Wagner.
His death Is a blow to the 1925
chances of the Omaha club i'm the
Western league. Wilcox was a
hustling ball player. lie was n
third baseman who wasn't afraid
of work and who could hit. He
batted over the 300 mark last year.
Omaha friends of Wilcox-he had
many-join in extending their SYM
pathy to Mrs. Wilcox and her
daughter. Helen.
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-03-29

yYyORD was received last night
w of the death of James Will
cox, Omaha third haseman.
Jimmy" died at ls:40 Saturday
afternoon in Pittsburgh hospital.
Wilcox joined the Omaha club
three years ago. He came from
the Southern association. During
The time he was with the Buffaloes,
Jimmy" developed into one OF the
hest third basemen in the league.
Last season he played good base
ball. About the middle of the sea-
son, Wilcox injured his side slid.
ing into third base. He was on the
bench for n short time, then re-
turned to the game and played a
big part I'm the Omaha club win
ming the Western league pennant.
Last winter Wilcox became iii
with pneumonia and little hope was
held for his recovery. lie recoy-
cred, however, only to complain of
his side. The popular Omaha third
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Benny Hill Enters
indianapolis Race

indianapolis, March 2s.-The entry
OF Benny liiil, Los Angeles. In the
annual 5o0.mile automobile race at
the indianapolis motor speedway
May 30, was announced today.
Hill has participated in several
races on the local track. Last year
he finished in NTH place. His best
performance OF the season. however.
vas at culver city, Cal. on Thanks.
giving day. when he established a
worlds record OF 12e miles an hour
FOR $50 miles.
Hill Viii drive an eight cylinder car
manufactured in California.
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-03-29
NURMI AGAIN
WINS EVENT

Pittsburgh, Pa. March 2s.-Paayo
Nurmi sauntered into town Friday
morning. slept a bit In the afternoon
and Mt night sauntered through a
two-mile game with his playmates.
Jimmy Connolly Of Georgetown and
Verne Booth OF the Melrose Athletic
club TO a a.minutes - . - seconds time
The Aho antelope took the race n
the easy fashion which makes him
accustomed boredom, then engaged In
an animated conversation in his na
tive Finnish with Hugo Quist.
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-03-29
.'OTED HORSES
BURNED TODEATH

Orlando, Fla. March 2s.-Six noted
orses In winter training here were
urned to death today when one Of
The 10-stall frame buildings of the
White stables was razed by a fire
undetermined origin.
II the six horses is estimated at $780,
900
r. l.. Parrin of Cincinnati lost his
wear colt, Aetna. and 2-year-
Id colt. Somebody. each valued at
approximately $1,000.
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-03-29
Annual Coffroth
Race on Tap
This Afternoon
Sixteen Thoroughbreds Will
Compete for Richest
All-Age Stake
Event.

San Diego, Cal, March 2S.-Sixteen
of the finest thoroughbreds in train.
ing at Tia Juana race track are en-.
tered for the Coffroth handicap, over
a distance of one and one-quarter
miles, to be run tomorrow Rated as
the richest stake for horses Of all
ages, the Coffroth handicap. with
$50 900 added, Is expected to net the
winner about 1000.
Chilhowee. the famous Kentucky
horse. Is assigned top weight of 12S
pounds, with Sunspero, carrying 121
pounds, as the next top weighted
horse
The complete list Of entries. to-
gether with the weights and jockeys
in the order of post positions, follow:
Phusla, 1f9 fO'DonneiD.
Cherry Pie 120 fMcAfee1.
Atherstone, 104 tWskeofD.
General Thatcher. III fBarnes).
chihowee, 12s tLangl
Spread Eagle 80 lMeHugh).
Lucky Play. liz fWalls).
Sunspero 121 Mooney.
Firm Friend. 100 tHoagland).
Fabian. 80 (Griffin).
Rock Heather es &c. Johnson).
All Over. 105 (Martinezl
Paula Shay. 95 (Mortenson).
Cherry Tree, 11s tBsker).
Spic and Span. 104 fElston).
Little Chief lis tTapln).
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BOROTRA MAY WIN
INDOOR NET TITLE

New York. March "A new ma.
tional indoor tennis king and possibly
the first foreign racqueter 10 attain
The hour. will be crowned in the an.
nual tournament opening here to.
morrow.
Vincent Ricards. youthful holder of
the title. for the last two years. will
not compete and with no other mem.
bers OF America = ranking first 10 in
the field, OF Sc starters. tennis follow
ers see strong Indications that the
title quest of Jean Borotra of France,
winner of the 1924 Wimbledon tour
nament will be gratlfled
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-03-29
TEAMS ARRIVE
FOR CAGE MEET

Chicago. March 2s.-Teams from
Oregon. Washington and Florida
have arrived FOR the national ba asket
ball interseholastic tournament which
begins Tuesday at the University OF
Chicago. A number Of western teams
Will arrive tonight. including one
from the Dixie Ilish school Of St
George. Utah. 10 miles from a rail.
road. Several men on this team had
never seen a train before their trium.
plant trip to the state tournament
at Salt Lake CITY
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-03-29
Service League
to Help Land
Tennis Court

uyHE Omaha Mems Service league,
an organization composed Of the
Il consolidated noon clubs. has
joined With the Municipal Tennis as.
ISOLATION In its fight for centralized
tennis courts, Secretary Harmon ot
the association announces.
This will be big aid 10 the tennis
body. aud the organization expects 10
have results To report IA Omaha ten.
mis- fans some time the first part Of
April.
The association i still working with
cit, authorities on site for the cen.
trallSed courts. hut ~ yet has failed
10 agree upon n suitable location.