The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1885-09-12
BTOadnTimS New York Letter,

community loF, years past. Anc ponce
know them. we'll. Judges nod to them
on the street Police captains and ser
geants are not above leaning against a
lamp-post TO have pleasant conversation
with them, and with city officials gener-
ally they have more than a passing
acquaintance. Ask any Of these worthies
after they have got through conversation,
"Who was that man you were talking
with? and they will answer, "Oh, he's
a sporting man, and this may mean
that he is prize-fghter gambler or a
thief.
The wretched thief who was killed last
Monday, after robbing Texas crook of
$500, was thief and swindler from his
boyhood. He took to villiany of all
kinds as naturally as ducks take to water,
and he has assisted in fleeing more poor
dupes than any other scoundrel of his
class in New York. He had an able
ally in his brother, and the only thing to
be regrettedis, that when the Texan killed
Tom Davis he did not finish his bother
Theodore at the same time. One of the
evils of this kind of robbery is, that you
can afford to waste no sympathy on the
victim.
A firm in New York calling itself
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lars to Texas, Alabama, Oregon or any
where else, running about as follows:
"Doar Sii-We have been informed by a
person in whom we have the utmost re-
lance that we can put implicit trust in
your honor. By a process known only
to ourselves we are enabled to furnish
the enclosed bills at the rate of ten for
one. Should you desire TO do anything
in our way call and see US. P. S.)-
This is strictly confidential" Enclosed
was good United States Five Dollar
bill. The victim Immediately goes to a
bank or a merchantile house to get it
changed, and it is instantly changed
without question. He gathers all the
money he can get and hastens to New
York and there he meets the gentleman
who is to make his fortune The nego-
tlation takes place in the room alone
with the dupe and swindler, but adjoin-
ing the regular Office there is always an
other room with a confederate. The
money which the dupe secs counted out
is go3d money, but after the count is
made, by the aid of confederate the
bag is changed, and instead of bag full
Of first-class counterfeit bills, the dupe
finds when he gets to the hotel, two or
three bricks, some rolls or packages of
tissue paper-"only this and nothing
more" He has no remedy. If he goes
to the courts. the question is asked,
"What did you expect to find in the
vllise?" He dare not say counterfeit
money; so that losing his money in this
nefarious business the poor wretch has
no remedy, as he is outside the pale of
the law. His only chance for satsiac-
tion is to do as the Texan Holland did,
and blow the top Of the williams head off.
A few more examples of this kind, and
the saw-dust game, which has fourished
for years, will soon become "Lost Art"
The name of sporting man never was
an enviable one, but when the sport, for
lack of other business, takes to picking
pockets, and all other meancr forms OF
theft, it is well enough for the public to
know that, in defining sport, he may
not be thief, but he certainly is not an
honest man. Mr.. Holland may not be a
model man for Young Mems Christian
Associations to pattern after-the fact
that he carries loaded bulldogs in his
trousers is very much against that pre-
sumption. There is know doubt but
that he is better acquainted with peni.
tentiaries than with bible classes, never.
theless, he has done New York an essen
tial favor and | take this public oppor-
tunity Of returning my most grateful
thanks. I hope no harm may come tC
him for letting daylight into Mr.. Davis
And even if this unfortunate adventure
should land him in the States Prison, hC
will still have the exquisite satisfaction
of feeling that virtue is its own reward.
We are in u fever in New York tc
know if the Queens Cup is going bacl
to "IiOld Hingland," Now that som,
scholar has informed us that "Genosta'
is the classic for Broom" we are askin,
ourselves if it is the intention of this ad
venturous Briton to do as Admira
Tromp did, and hoist that signifcan
emblem to his masthead, as his privat
signal. The disposition on all hands i
to give our British brother fair play
9 with Tom Sayers' toast, "May the bes
, man win" / do not wish to be consid
q cred as finding fault with the model G
y this British racer, but, taken from
"
[ yachtsman's standpoint, she is u queer
!, looking craft-nothing like her has eve
/ been seen in these waters before. Draw
r ing as much water as a good sized shiI
n she has scarcely the beam of large sal
: boat.
:. In no sense, except as racer, does sh
n answer Webster's definition of a yach
d The Genesta is mere racing macLin,
c no gentleman would think of using he
). for pleasure. In any kind of a breeze
h is impossible to walk her deck-you Gu
r only sit down, or lie down, and hold ol
IS This may be fun for those who like tn;
: sort of amusement, but, for myself,
would rather be excused. For the tin
- being, everything seems to be sunk j
"a the yacht race. A week ago, and thel
a was an ill-defned fear that the Genesl