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How New York’s Champion Lobster
Palace First - Nigh ter and Every-
Nighter Went Down Before Broad
way Lobsteritis, and How Science
Has Girded Him Afresh for the Fray
{{T-'yIAMOND JIM” BRADY, so efful-
I gent an aurora of Broadway
that whenever he enters a
New York lobster palace, of which he is
dean and patron saint, he glitters like an
Iceberg in the land of the midnight sun,
has a brand new stomach, and for this
choice hit of bric-a-brac he paid $250,000.
All this has recently been told in pub
lic prints. But now conies the "whys?”
and ‘‘hows?” ami "what tors?”
Lobsters did it. Plain lobsters; that.
Is, they were plain until served both
live broiled and Newburg to Mr. Brady.
Everybody knows “Diamond Jim" suddenly
discovered that his noble stomach refused
to work for him in a safe and sane
manner, that Is, sulked and kicked and
growled and bit and scratched and fought
until he wont to Johns Hopkins Medical
College in TalJn ore where the great sur
geons mad • h'.m a brand new stomach.
But how many people know t took
seven thousand six hundred 1 ..tors to
ruin his epicurean stomach, v brh for so
many years ■•• as eternally .d rned with
sunset vests an t glitterin'" diamonds?
“If Mr. B.ady had uien a drinking man
he never would have lived through it,"
said the physicians. But "Diamond Jim"
doesn’t even drink tea or coffee.
Os course tue lobster must stand the
greater share of the blame, but careful
research Into Mr. Brady’s remarkable
gastronomic history brings to light that
other things also assisted the 7,600
lobsters in getting his stomach so peevish
it cost him a quarter of a million to re
store its good humor.
According to statisticians, who have
been figuring on. the scores of years
"Diamond Jim" Brady has 1.. :i daily, and
sometimes oftener, dining in th. great
lobster palaces along and around and
about the Great White Way, both in
lonely grandeur and with large parties of
all sorts of people, from chattering show
girs to soletnn-i isaged millionaires such
statisticians declare that something like
the following is responsible for the de
struction of one perfectly good stomach,
the proud possession of Mr Brady
Lobsters 7,600
Nude ciamsf 42,000
Shrimps 16,000
Soft-shelled crabs 21,000
Escargots 18,000
Welsh rarebits..... 1.938
Golden bucks 7’2
Blue points 32,000
Worcestershire sauce 8 gals.
Tabasco 3’ 2 quarts
Paprika I 1 * lbs.
Mustard 4 lbs
Ketchup 12 gals.
Gaf tronomically speaking, the life of
Mr. Brady for the past score of years
reads like an epic of Lobster Square,
an Odyssy of the Great White Way, a tale
of epicurean effort, a Gargantuan lyric an
a Brobdignagian ballad, that only an O.
Henry could word-weave into proper
verbal succulence.
Away back before the palaeolithic time
the first living things were little tiny
stomachs that wriggled about in the mud
of the new-formed earth. Later they
grew legs and arms and fins and tails and
heads and finally man evolved. All this
shows the importance of the stomach.
Rockefeller offered a million dollars for
a new stomach. Constant leaning over
to clip coupons is said to have ruined
Rockefeller's stomach He didn’t have
as much fun losing it as did Mr.
Brady. He didn't even win any
thing by oitng it. But the late
John W. Gates, the widely beloved
"Bet a Million" Gates, made much
money by it. It was well known in
Wall Street that John D. anu John W.
were close friends. Then came the wide
ly spread announcement that John D.
would give a million for a new stomach.
Shortly after that Gates would allow it to
be mentioned that Mfr Rockefeller had
found a man who would give up his
stomach for the million and the opera
tion would be performed.
Wall Street would believe that, but it
wouldn't believe that John D. could survive
the operation, and stocks would go down
like an elevator with no means of support.
Then Wall Street would hear that the
man had backed out and there would be
no operation, whereupon stocks would in
stantly soar.
And wasn't it peculiar that at the time
sto ks soared Mr. Gates always unloaded
a lot of stock at the high-water mark
figures, which he had thoughtfully pur
chased when they were down?
It worked several times.
Diamond Jim Brady determined some
twenty-one years ago to eat all the
lobsters there were, to simply annihilate
the tribe of lobsters. Has he succeeded?
l'< rhaps not, but lobsters ebst about five
times as much now as they did twenty,
one years ago. for information concern
i: - what happened to the supply ask Mr.
!■ ad Now he's back with a brand new
stomach and good for another twenty-one
years. By that time women will be wear
ing lobsters instead of diamond tiaras.
Any one who can start with a nickle
and make millions, as he did, is de
’"mined. He got his title through the
same sort of determination. It was the
t suit of a sartorial and precious-stone
duel with John J. Ryan, horseman and
P‘'‘ n -cr It happened in the days before
Judge Hughes but that is a sad story.
It happened at Saratoga. Ryan ap
peal'd in the ring wearing white shoes a
.wide panama, a pearl-gray suit, a diamond
stick pin about the size of a walnut and
oui diamond rings so heavy that it was
I..I'’’ 1 '’’ li -mg a dumbbell to get his hands
up to ins vest pocket.
Brad; didn't have more than forty or
o i h : m oU iT\hi dol ' ar \ WOrth Os dia ®onds
on n.m ,n this round and he went to
the ropes. But in the second round he
came up strong on the aggressive, wear
ing a suit the shade of milk chocolate.
Ryan looked at him. Brady nonchaian’tly
threw open his coat, revealing a vest of
still lighter chocolate silk, emb tidered
with threads of gold and buttoned with
diamonds as big as a knob on a closet
door.
Ryan was sparring feeby for air in thjs
round, but in the third round Ryan ap
peared with a suit of Caribbean blue, a
soft blue hat adorned with a sash buckled
with diamonds and rubies and with dia
monds on his shoe buckles. Every one
pitied Brady, for they could see he would
be knocked out. But he was not. Just
as nonchalantly as ever he removed his
coat because of the excessive heat,
turned about and allowed Ryan to see his
waistband. Around the top of his trousers
was a belt of ten karet blue-white dia
monds, and to these Brady had hitched
his suspenders. Ryan gasped, fell uncon
scious and took the count and since then
Brady has been "Diamond Jim.”
Once again “Diamond Jim" strolls into
the lobster palaces with chattering show
girls and others, or in lordly solitude.
Once again he orders the largest live
broiled lobsters in the place, jabs a fork
into it and stows it away in his new
stomach. A happy ending indeed for an
ordinary $3 lobster to be gently stowed .
away in a $250,000 stomach.
Rumor has it that the tally is some
thing like this:
Old stomach 7,600 lobsters
New stomach (to date). 47 lobsters
Professor L. K. Hirshberg, A.8., M.D.,
M.A., of Johns Hopkins, likens John Kon
kins to the magician in Aladdin, who went
about giving new lamps for old, inas
much as it gave Mr. Brady a new stomach
for his old one.
, As s°°“ a8 , Mr Rra< ly was brought to
Johns Hopkins," says Professor Hirshberg
his physician. Dr. Plaggemyer and the
other doctors of the institution gave him
painstaking as well as pains-removing
treatment, f irst of course came the care-
.® xannnat i° n . then a supervised diet
‘He had to cut out his lobster before the
experts could cut out his old stomach, or
u rn. P . a J? °L k ,hat llad becom e useless. ,
with this diet a careful washing out of
the stomach with the stomach tube one
or two hyperdermic injections of a certain
drug, routine massage, alcohol baths and
no .M.sters.
"Many surgeon. who had previously ex
amined Mr. Brady declared at once there ..
should be an operation. Thev were con
vinced until the Johns Hopkins treatment
that cutting into Mr. Brady s guile. or „ lz .
zard would effect the desired relief Not
so Dr. Plaggemyer and his consultants.
They soon proved to Mr. Brady's and their
own satisfaction that cutting out m&yon
naise dressings, lobster Newburg and
tabasco sauce was as good as cutting out
a stomach. The course of events proved
this to be true.
"After several months in the Johns Hop-
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‘Diaruond Jim ‘awoke to the realiza- . J/ phant with the
tion that his stomach was gone.’ ’ fe **>*. new stomach
kins Hospital, Dr. Flaggemyer and the L; ,<5 s S’: t * le *°^ st ®>
hospital physicians found that Mr. Brady use down and out.”
was well; that his digestive machinery was 4y
working as smoothly as in former times. W;/ //
and all of his striking organs were again
at work." / jy
Mr. Brady has returned and the Rialto / f *
is overjoyed. He gave a dinner at which f
he ate a whole lobster to celebrate his
complete recovery.
