A MILLIONAIRE AT TEN.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3640, 28 September 1912, Page 4

A MILLIONAIRE AT TEN.

HOW HE SPENDS HIS DAYS

At the fashionable resort of Newport-, to which tho majority of American millionaires and their families resort during the summer, little William Leeds, the ten-year-old son of Mrs Stewart Leeds, widow of the •'Tinplate King,” is, according to American journals, living an exemplary life which ether millionaire youngsters should emulate. ‘‘His daily career combines recreation and instruction, and, though he is never pressed, i. • has no time idle.” Invidious emparisons are made between him and other millionaire children now I'm.’';aymaking. So far as one can gather, the young Leeds heir to the £4,000,000 left his mother by his father follows this routine: —Willie gets up and tumbles into his bathtub, under the superintendence of the butler. He takes tho bathtub whether ho wants it or not. At 9 a.m. Willie calls for his own special motor-car, and a special chauffeur of the safe sort takes him and his dog Scottie for a drive. Willie acknowledges- all salutes, but while in the motor-car refrains from any noisy demonstration. From 10 a.m. to noon Willie spends the morning learning the first elements of sea’viwer, Ho has a- cat-boat named Kittle, and under* the eyes of fi trusty old salt- leaffts to splice a rope, swim, And steer. At noon W illio returns homo for luncheon, and eats slowly but surely. After luncheon he reads a “useful book.” Between 2,150 and 4 ho motors to the seashore, and plays in the water just like other boys, while his special chauffeur either holds a reception on his own account in the special motor-car, or reads the police news. In addition, Willie “is driven” twice a week to a convent school to study French.