Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1877-07-14
From the Card.Table to the pulDi,

the following from Sea Cliff. Lone
Island; The interest in the Sea Clif
meetings has been greatly in.
creased since yesterday by the
arrival on the grounds of Mr..
C. p. Burlington, who. although
still young man, was for years one Of
the most notorious gamblers in the
West. One year ago this month he was
converted by Mrs Van Colt. of Dayen.
port, Iowa, and since that time he has
been a most earnest worker in the cause
of Christianity. The story of his life.
could it be published in full, would be a
thrilling romance. He is about 80 wears
of age, and was born in Bradford, Penn
! When $ years of age he was sent to
boarding-school at Oswego. Here he
was indicted by his schoolmates into the
mysteries of small games of chance.
One OF his first experiences in these was
the losing of his iack-knife. Deter
mined to make good his loss. he perse-
vered in his petty gambling until he was
the possessor of twelve jack-knives. At
the age of II he was sent to Waverley.
n. j., to school, and here he conducted
his gambling operations on larger
scale. He soon made the acquaintance
of professional gamblers, and was by
one of them taken to Pittsburgh, and
there was introduced to the fraternity,
and initiated into all their secrets.
Joining himself to one of the most skill
full of these, he travelled West with him.
and, being young and apparently inno-
cent, acted most successfully rs stool
pigeon for his companion. They sought
the far West, and became noted in
Omaha. Julesburg, Cheyenne, and the
various termini of the Union Pacific
Railroad, then in process of construc-
ton. In these places Mr. Burlington
Travelled under the aliases of Butler,
Morton, Schuyler, and Elwell. by some
of which names he is still well remem-
bered by many of his victims.
During this wild life he met with the
most desperate adventures. and was at
one time shot in the head in a Julesburg
and abandoned for dead.
His partner was killed in drunken
brawl, and he, having amassed con-
siderable amount of money. decided TO
30 East. He returned to his mothers
home IN Susiuehanna. Pa. and began
the study OF law. Being terribly disSi-
pated, and engaging in every kind of
he soon found himself COM
PEELED to quit town, which he did at
night, going to Cleveland. Here he
'pent night in a saloon in which he
was drugged and robbed. Finding him
elf in a lumber yard. next morning, he
'wore never TO touch another drop of
liquor, an oath which he has kept. To
'ecover his lost fortunes he again put
nto practice his old gambling tricks.
To carry these out the more successfully
lie became travelling agent for sew
ng-machine company. He operated en-
ensively in Iowa, and was well known
n IL in Des Moines as Harry Dunlap,
he son of 4 Baltimore banker. Sunday,
he Sd OF June. last year, ne spent with
companion in German beer garden
cross the river, and on their return in
he evening they intended to visit the
ierman Theater, but instead of so do
NJ strolled, out OF curiosity, into the
lethodist Church, where Mrs Van Colt
'as conducting a revival meeting.
While listening to her Mr. Burlington,
r Knapp, as he was then known, sud-
emily realized the horrible wickedness
the life he was leading, and, moved
an impulse, stepped to the front,
his crimes, and declared that
ON that time forth he would devote his
fe to God He has for the past year
cen successfully conducting revival
eetings in the West He thinks that
2 will ultimately join the ministry
e is thorough gentleman, well edu-
tied, and of prepossessing appearance.
e is the most effective worker that has
4 appeared at this camp meeting, and
doing much good. He is accom-
lnied by his colaborer and former fell
w-sinner, Mr.. G. II. Oliver, another