£45,000 FOR AN APPETITE.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1553, 24 September 1912, Page 6

£45,000 FOR AN APPETITE.

.Forty-five thousand pounds is the n?3(f« niticent answer just returned by Mr. James Bucbanoikßrady, a New York'millionaire, to the question: "What is tha value of an appetite that can be {ratified without dyspeptic pangs?" Mr. Brady, who is vice-president of |-h» Standard Steel Car Company, is known, throughout the United States as "Diamond Jim." For many, years a dyspeptic, fra.vent lire months aco to St. Join's Hospital, Baltimore", where, sfter prolonged treatrnsnf, the doctor* operatic! oa him. Recently the doctor who kept constant watch over his nittls .muoiini'eil. "You.are cured. Eat and drink what you phase." Sceptical, Mr. Brady gave a banquet to which he invited a number of financiers and railway magnates and their. wives. The menu was of tho mo«t elaborate kind, and the host partook generously of every course, lo his astonishment. Mr. Brady found kirn;clf perfectly well nest niornins. aud subsequently tavt another banquet worthy of liuoiillus. "Nextmorning: he again awoka without a pang of dyspepsia. Mr. Brady was so overjoyed that, he , immediate!? notified' the St. John's Hoj. pital of his intention to present; it with .£15,050. The hospital authorities, na. naunco tint t.he money will bo devoted to the ward where' stomach and kidney trouble"; are treated. Since this announcement, Mr. Brady has been kept-busy explaining to tho interviewers what a misorable thing lit'" is without, the ability to ■digest,meals. He also issued invitations to t third banquet ia celebration tf his recovery.