Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-09-01
THE SAME OLD GAME,
With a New Application Peculiar
to Chicago.
"WHEAT UP" AND "WHEAT DOWN
A Chuck-a-luck Layout With a Certificate
Of Incorporation and an Alleged
Capital Of Three Hun
dren Thousand.

CHICAGO, August 3l.-For some weeks
past three mysteriously- acting men have
each morning gathered in a basement in
Board of Trade alley and spent the day ex'
perimentipg. They would get together
around box, ..and one Of them giving ira
whirl, the other two would say wheat
up" or wheat down" Then woald fol.
low a consultation. The mysterious meet.
ings have occurred day after day. The box
has been whirled and whirled: wheat mp
and wheat down" hAvo-been ~ "a
Shouted Some Millions of Times.
There haveIfollowed little consultations un.
til all record of them has been lost The
mysterious triumyirate was set down as
conspirators-Irish lnvicibles. But they
were too we'll dressed. They acted like
thieves; but, aside from the whirlings
which took place and then the consulta.
tions, there was nothing to cause suspicion.
They acted something like lard experts,
but they made no analysis. The trio, in
fact were Morris Martin, whilom bunko.
man; c. l.. Campbell, a hOrse.trader, and
Jim WolCott, Board OF Trade member,
for the ponce down in the shoes. They
were simply
Inventing n New Game.
Yesterday, at Springfield, the trio took out
Incorporation papers ior the Phoenix grain
and stock exchange, with capital stock
of $30O,00) 1t is the first time on record
that gamblers ever had the hardihood 10
go to Springfield and blsndly ask for letters
of incorporation for chuck luck lay out.
The PhwniX grain and stock exchange is
not TO be a bucket shop, as one naturally,
from its name would he led TO believe. II
is 10 be gambling saloon. wherein Mar
tins new game is TO be played. The new
came, it is said, beats faro or roulette; it
even goes ahead OF craps. 1t is really q
species OF chuck aiuck. The name of the
concern, the letters OF Incorporation, the
pre- tended $500, 900 capital,
Are Blinds.
They ere clever lodges to avert police cs-
pionage The layout Is simple. There is
a box. In it are placed cards upon which
are printed the words pork" wheat"
oats and corn" The box is whirled
There are two places where the cards can
lodge. II wheat fes up, the fellow who
'speculsted" on the bull side of wheat
wins his money; if the wheat card drops
down, the bear Spectator takes the
money. 1t is, in street p..rlance, a great
fake. Martin always was slick one. He
was clever enough, when in partnership
the boss But it takes
Far Higher order of Talent
to inaugurate new game of chance than
10 operate with the old ones. Martin when
he opens his new "chance shop" will not
have card around the place. There will
be no betting on color, nor "coppering' OF
kings or queens; nor any lay-outs; nor any
green tables. There will not be any chips,
either. The windows will be wide open,
and there will not be any heavy doors
will be opened up in the basement in
Board of Trade alley where an extensive
pCOlroom was. There VIM NC huse s'i'
auu DIaCA siEu as IOlIOWS:
..PhGnix Grain and Stock Exchange"
There will be the box, of course and the
lit lie pasteboards with the wheat, pork
corn" and lard printed upon them.
There will he man to do the whirling, 10
be sure, and man to scoop in the money,
bet none OF the horrid features OF gam
bling hell. All gamblers alley is in fer
mqut over the new shop. The sports from
one end to the ether Of the city are amazed
at the simplicity Of the scheme, and are
Gu lgeling themselves that instead OF fight
ing Carter Harrison and "heeing' the
police, they did not think OF Martins fake,
Meanwhile the three inCorpOrators are
pushing things for their opening next
week. The city is being flooded with
paper. The little pastebosrd cards are be-
inc prepared by the hundred thousand.
Tie room is being filled with benches and
other furniture. Martin is likely to go
down in history along With Poker Schenck
and the French monarch who discovered
whist,