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W STOMACH' 4r' —— —...... z />fW ■ Zw Z-?-- 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 $250,000 stomach. Rumor has it that the tally is some thing like this: Old stomach 7,600 lobsters New stomach (to date). 47 lobsters Professor L. K. Hirshberg, A.8., M.D., M.A., of Johns Hopkins, likens John Kon kins to the magician in Aladdin, who went about giving new lamps for old, inas much as it gave Mr. Brady a new stomach for his old one. , As s°°“ a8 , Mr Rra< ly was brought to Johns Hopkins," says Professor Hirshberg his physician. Dr. Plaggemyer and the other doctors of the institution gave him painstaking as well as pains-removing treatment, f irst of course came the care- .® xannnat i° n . then a supervised diet ‘He had to cut out his lobster before the experts could cut out his old stomach, or u rn. P . a J? °L k ,hat llad becom e useless. , with this diet a careful washing out of the stomach with the stomach tube one or two hyperdermic injections of a certain drug, routine massage, alcohol baths and no .M.sters. "Many surgeon. who had previously ex amined Mr. Brady declared at once there .. should be an operation. Thev were con vinced until the Johns Hopkins treatment that cutting into Mr. Brady s guile. or „ lz . zard would effect the desired relief Not so Dr. Plaggemyer and his consultants. They soon proved to Mr. Brady's and their own satisfaction that cutting out m&yon naise dressings, lobster Newburg and tabasco sauce was as good as cutting out a stomach. The course of events proved this to be true. "After several months in the Johns Hop- Bff Es Asr>? • i/dlio /itw ,-msISRiC S / i Os \ V,? —1 / jWHi— ■••7 I I A \ J J &..■:*■ ~' JfaW??W tj I '■ / ■''■ " ■ I«bL \ SiS ? WW <W flMfjl il ' ‘ \ X/ f* l td&JUto Hl ll ■ OIL/ gKa | gum Tgs»W? > •$T ’ ■•'■' >' « $■ ■»ir ■ IWKy * '«* '■ HAVKhL IHh H 2jF u A** “Back triwr- ‘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.