Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1884-07-31
QUEER GAMBLING.
The Amusing Performance OF Cab
Horse Travelling Up IT'LL
The Brokers Of the stock Exchange
Risk Couple OF Hundred
on RIOT Midsum.
mer Day.
T"DuranlaPs" New York Letter


One of the most amusing cases of gamb.
ling that ever saw was in Brona street. 1t
was about o'clock one summer afternoon,
and there were several hundred brokers
wandering about in front of tho stock eS-
change ana talking about the day. 1t bnt
been pai ticulal1y stormy day, and the pel
were idly CHATTING in the shade, whcl m Old
cab horse started from New street ny Broad
to the corner Of Wall street. This. LOCK OF
Broad street is bit Of IA hill The cahran,
vino was sitting on u hre-plug on tile upper
corner, whis.led to his horse, which was
standing in the shal, block below. Thu
horse wandered up ten OF fifteon feet and
then stopped The cabby whistlel again.
The horse strugs lai up fifteen or twenty feet
more. BY easy stays Lo finally arrived at
tho top of the hill. The performance amused
the brokers, who yeliel to thu horse t. stop
and 20 on. The annual would obey them
spasnodicaly, but in tho emil he hcede his
masters whistle and went on.
One of the most popular young brokers
caught an idea, and III .!nins along he OK
planned it rapidly to tho boys Then ho took
his hat, collected So from eacn OF them, eS-
planned the matter to the driver aud led tho
oil cabhorsc back to the lower corner, turnei
him around AMI placed him in a position to
travel UP the hill along the curb again. Tho
brokers then ranyoi themselves alon5 tlh
cllrbstone at any distance apart that slited
their fancy, AMI tho leader cf the scheme
rot piece of c,alk from ono Of tho BUCKET
shops and marked ont lines along the curb
stone at tine distance OF about tno feet apart
Each of the brokers chose one of these ln!cs
aud stood by it. Tho pool, which
amounted to nearly $2Aj, was to go 10 tn"
man near Whose cha,l narlI the hlb Ok the
roar wheel of the cab stopped, the hub Ia re-
main opposite the c.!alA-HalH for thirty
seconds 10y the watch OF an oiiicid TIM
keeper The cabnan was to receive 81 !or
whistling to tae best OF lis ability, an' If
the horse sot to the top OF the block without
stopping any where he was to .2.ew tho trial
until too weary to 80 tina length OF the block
ii it kept him awake all night
Here was the spectacle OF nearly loJ mon,
fully tLte-quar;ers OF t:lcin OF Gignilio! aI-
pearancc and we.l-.Icjacd and prosperous
locking, and many Of them apparently S.
date, ranged along the curbstono shouting
wildly at each other and gcs:iculatins VIC
lently toward tao horse, Ths tmc-kccp,r
sat on the roof Of his cab, with MS hat on tho
back OK his head, a cigar in his mouth al!
watch in his haud'. The brokers were per-
United to yell at the boast, bat un!or NJ cir
cunlstunces to touch HIM. Tao c.O;n"n
whisilcd. The brokers yelled "Whoa" with
force that brought the people from the
ncigLborin., streets to learn the nature OF the
row. The horsI stood stoc.: still. Tbs cabby
whsted. Another terrific yell from tho
brokers Then, with jump, the Lols,
started on dead ga!ioo up the bill, spilled
the timc-kcep,r fro. tue top 4 the cab AMI
wont around the coruer of Wall stree with u
bowling mob Of POO men aHl boys after him.
1t was roasting hot day, AMI the dust
was choking. Still the brokers kept at 1t.
The beast was brousht back aud started
again. After two more trials he amblod
ninbly up the hil, anl then su ldenly aid
stubbornly stopped and couldn't DO nado to
move by the widest shout, of the mon about
him. lie stayed moro than half a minute
III this place, ana a dispute arose between
two brokers as to who had won tie 900, l''
cause the hub hal stopped between their two
chalk marks. They iii?pod quarter AMI
the winn5r took I. crowd Of men iato DBL
monico's opened Ii case or two Of VINE, aai
l;avo tho cub driver SO 10 take him homo