The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-01
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But in the Dodge case the order seems to have
been to take out the negative and keep him
permanently in sight.
Some years ago wellknown firm of import
ers became involved in difficulties with the gov
eminent on account of alleged frauds in the
payment OF custom house duesS The matter
came before the courts and the trial occupied a
great deal of time and large share of public at
tention. 1t resulted in a compromise. the i'm
porters paying the government an immense sum
OF money in settlement of it's claims, thereby
virtually acknowledging the fraud. The devel-
opments of the trial subjected the frm-whose
members had always been noted for acts of
ostentatlous plety-to a great deal of hostile
crltcism from newspapers of every kind, and.
In oroer to influence public opinion, the inn
pofters determined to offer brides in the shape
OF money or advertisements to the Journals
whose influence they feared 1t was not long
peIore the rumor spread among advertising cam
vassers and the publishers of small weekly pa
pers that money was being put up" and they
hurried to the Office to demand their share OF
the spoils The duty of substituting the press
devolved upon junior member of the irm-a
young man of undoubted pety and the strange
spectacle was presented Of this pious young man
bargaining with reporters and advertising agents
for editorial leniency.
Among those who fastened to profit by the sit
uation was the shrewd publisher of large week
ly paper. who suspected that one of his competi-
tors had received check in payment for COM
mandatory articles 81 would like to secure your
advertisement for the Weekly Catapult, said the
publisher.
But we gave you check for $10O What more
do you wantp said the religious young gentle
mo, that was the Boomerang" retorted the
"Ah! so it was,n said the pious young
man. Then, seeing that he had betrayed him
self, he coored and exclaimed, nervously:
Well, put the advertisement in and send us the
bill"
To those who recall the affair that refer to it
is unnecessary to mention names. Those who do
not recall have leave to guess.
There is another class Of business men. not
generally recognized as such, whose methods
curiously resemble those of some of the shining
lights just mentioned / was in the lobby of
the Hoffman House the other evening with d
| friend, when we were Joined by well-dressed.
| agreeable young man, who shook my friend cor
daily by the hand, asking "How the world was
using him."
Very well, indeed" was the answer "and
| how is luck running with you2"
| Fairly WE'LL" replied the other man. as he liz
cigarette. Il have been following the flyers all
| summer, and have come out winner to the tune
| of couple of thousand"-I afterward learned
| that 1.-THE flyers" meant race horses .sAs soon
as general business brightens up I'll flash two or
| three schemes on the confding public. I've got
| some splendid racketS can work as soon as
| notice people around with money enough TO
make 1t worth while to deal with them But
for the last year, every one has been so poor that
| even the best schemes under the sun wouldn's
work l tell you, when it comes to any mans
biting at any racket I put out in the line of
| gambling, he says to himself: We'll, if I've got
| TO choose between eating and gambling TODAY
guess LII eat So long; I'll see you later, per-
| baps."
Then he strolled off, and my friend, who had
| been regarding him with an amused smile
turned to me and said: 9TH at fellow always
| makes me laugh He's a sort of well bred bunko
| steerer He's of good family and has number
| OF respectable acquaintance. Yet he is a con-
hrmed crook, and, although he makes no secret
OF the fact that he gets his living by fleeing his
felow-creatures in various ways he still manages
| to maintain a certain standing among men, and
| is recognized by great many people who would
not dream OF speaking to an ordinary confidence
man."
| 'And what sort of schemes does he flash upon
the confding publc9" inquired.
| "All sorts of things said my friend Some
times ne adyertises in out of-town papers for an
| elderly gentleman to help young girl make a
| living on the stage. He is pretty sure
| to get dozen answers from fools in
different sections of the country. TO each of
them he mails the photograph of lovely
female face and requests money enough to enable
| the young girl to go from New York to the
| elderly fools rural residence In many cases the
| money is sent; and the dupe waits in vain at the
| railroad station of his town hoping to see the
mythical stage-struck female alight from an ar
| irving train It's the photograph that does the
| business Then he has ali sorts of schemes for
winning money at horse races you heard him
| say that he had been following the flyers all
| summer. It's bad lookout for the greenhorn
who is induced to put his money into that young
| mans hand for investment on sure thing He
used to do mysterious business in Nassau
| street during the last boom in stocks but the
| rapldlty with which margins melted away in his
| ONCE made him unpopular with his customers
| his blind pools were not only very blind but.
| they were so deep that no sounding line ever in
| vented could find any bottom in them. All the
money that was put in, somehow, stayed in the
| pool This resulted in his transferring his tai
ents to other fields of usefulness. As L Just
said the curious thing about him is that with all
| his orookednesslhe contrives to keep up a semi
7ariah that you would expect man of his class
| to be-"
This sharper watches the state of business as
carefully as do the magnates who, by greater
ability, manage to fleece the public a larger
scale. He holds his new schemes in reserve,
waiting for the proper moment to spring them
upon the world, just as the conductors of larger
speculative enterprises do. His motives are the
same as theirs and, to the best of his power. he
homogeneous about his preserving a certain re-
spectacle connecticut
Another species of crook has been giving the
police good deal of annoyance lately. IL is the
sgrisly crook" who nfests the down town dis
tricts, and who Is generally the immediate execu-
tor of the impious enterprises of the dandy
crook" He is ready for anything-'sandbag-
ging," 'safe- cracking" burglary. or any other
otfense in the category. l shall some day inter
view one of this character for the amusement of
my readers. GEORGE PARSONS LATHRoP.
Grants Anecdote of Braxton Bragg.
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