HELPED HER TO RUSTLE
Just before he left England for New York. Mr Charles T. Yerkes, the American millionaire and street-railway king, :e----ceived the following letter:—''Dear Mr Yerkes,-! have seen by the papers how rich you are, and also I have seen your picture, which lopks kind. So I thought I would tell you that my parents are poor, and depriving themselves of many comforts in order to give me a good education. Among my school friends there is a gymnastic club, of which I am a member, and all the girls wear silk skirts ; and it gives me the horrors to feel I can't have one, when I hear the fascinating rustle of their petticoats. Would you send me five dollars to buy one." Mr Yerkes received the unique epistle from his secretary, and to the hitter's astonishment exclaimed : " Send her the money. It will give more pleasure than if invested in any other way." The money was sent, says the 'Lady's Pictorial,' and the acknowledgment was as follows:—"Dear Mr Yerkes. —Thanks so much for the money. I invested it, and can now rustle with the others."
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Dunstan Times, Issue 2087, 23 July 1901, Page 3
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