Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 309, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1912 — MAN HAS $500,000 STOMACH [ARTICLE]

MAN HAS $500,000 STOMACH

Diamond Jim Brady of New York Content With a Thirty-Cent Meal. New York. —Diamond Jim Brady, the world’s only possessor of a $500,000 stomach, eats 30-cent lunches. Sometimes, just to remind himself of the old days, he goes to- the Astor house and,spends from 80 cents to sl. “But,” he said, “I can get all I want for 30 cents.” This fact became known when an Investigation into the amounts spent by rich men *-for meals was undertaken following the complaint of a “much .worried wife” that her husband spent $65 per week for luncheon. Brady recently gave to Johns Hopkins university endowments and funds approximating $500,000 in grateful acknowledgment to the surgeons for giving him a new stomach. Previous to that time he had been as famous for his gastronomical achievements as for the blazing diamonds that adorn his waistcoats, shirts and underwear. Asked what he spent on an average for luncheon, "Diamond Jim” answered with alacrity that the amount was from 80 cents to $1 when be went to the Astor house. “If I send out for something to eat,” he continued, “I can get all I want for 30 cents. I am spending more today because I am entertaining three friends. This meal will probably cost $6.50, and it’s a good one. "I think that a man can get all he wants for six dollars a week —that Is,

all that’s good for him. With a dollar luncheon I feel better than the man who spends ten dollars for a midday meal. If I send out from my office I get a sandwich and a glass of milk. That’s a pretty good luncheon even for" a man as big as I am.”