The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-11-21
DUTCH HANK.
His Goodness in Adversitv and
His Rema kable Insight.

"Dutch Hank" said a gambler of
prominence in albany to a Jour-
nal reporter, Twas not only the test
hand at poker who ever antied up in
u big game, but he was higl,-lOned
and straight. You could shut your
ewes, if you were sitting with him,
without running the risk of being
turned over by crooked work. They
tell me he pi ed up a snug little for
tune of 500. 600. I've seen him with
half that coin in hi- fist, for he al
ways travelled with a big Doodle TO
back his hand. He'd discount all
iceberg for c%uolness, he wOult. The
little Dutchman would drop ST. 1000
or 1900 at a sitting without wink
ing an Eye, and when dead broke
would get up with a story tina,
would make a horse laugh. It's a
pretty frIgid rooster that will see $$2D,
OW go Into the mole and nev.r peep.
That vas the stuff Dutch Hank was
made Of. Square? A fairer man
Dever cut for deal. But you couldn't
do him up on any racket that ever
was invented. Nobody ever dowued
him on a cold deck or u fancy shut
A4Cs ollIO w al IL ui vi q Tx pCl
FROM Chicago. who mad been making
himself a millionaire at the expense
of the best Of us. Dutch Hank
t tckl-d him in the Bower house,
New York. Tat was his hangout
on his periodical voyages to the me-
tropolis. Well. the Chicagoan was
slicker than a weasel. Hank held
cracking good fists aud didn't want
for luck when he drew to ill, but
somehow or ether the chap from
Chicago raked in the pile i'll the fin
est style nt the art. Dutchy only
made a face OF two and took his CRU !
el. He had dropped a couple of
thousand. The Chicagoan when
aver a pot anne his way coOily pulled
it.Over, and piIing n bi | on the |
others held it down with a little gold !
weight. 1t WAS a pr. tty little orna- |
ment with a diamond In the top.
The game kept on, Hank being the
lnser at every turn.
"Finaliy, before opening his hand
he said: My friend, shust sp"sen
you put dot sinner there into your
pocket. Dot dia nOnd he hurts my
eyes. I vos blind in q already and
can't see out of the odder.' Hank
meant that he wanted the diamond
removed. The Chicago gambler re-
monstrsted, but Hank Insisted in his
own good natured way, saying that
he couldn't play until the sinner was
out Of sight. He carried his point, of
course. From that point luck
changed. Dutch Hank quit the
game the winner # nearly ten thous-
and. The weight used by the Chi
cago gambler was an ingenious re-
t~1ector, 80 placed tina it revealed his
hand. He read the re-
feclion with a magnifying glass
which he used under the pretense of
being nearsi2hted. Dutch Hank was
the first one to tum lie to t e trick on
which the Chicagoan had o three
or four hundred thousand"
WAS Dutch Hank known in Al.
bany p
Ives, to some extent among the
gamblers. He never bothered
with small fry. In the old Tweed
days he used t., come down to give
the Legislators lessons in poker. He
touk many big rolls out OF their
pockets. The fraternity will be sorry
to hear that he has passed in his
He was as jolly as Charley
Backus, with whom he was good
'riends and on the stage would have
made his fortune. He had a face as
as a mask