Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1885-04-01
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inerriek De.id Ia San Francisco Post
'-lLe iact ls.7 said IA keene, tAs great
Ne~ YORK rival L Jas Gcald, a. be re-
la1eI ais 9s1al tacl urulty under the
gen al ilh luaee Of cle II sam Warts
4ln1srs l3l i1us ago, '-th~ f4et l. that 40
matter hos clever aud thorough ; mans
- stem ef sloek operating may oe. tasre -
a. xays occurring ,osns lislie a ifoFseen and
apparen ID lasizuihcanl Circumstance that
is forever knocking the best laid plans
Into a cooked hat-"
'.As ho~f 70
~ ell, for instane-. about a year ago l
was doing a good deal in Lake Shors, and
counted CA making big cleanup. dis
covered, however, that there was some
hid.iea influence Ia the market that was
always against me. f. sdn't esacty de-
feat ny plans, but il lessensd the profits.
1 soon -aw that there Vas some other
operator Who VAS kept Informed as 10 my
m vsmen's ia time 90 make me pay for his
XIV edg-."
Broker gave you away| said several
''Nof a. all nsver save sn order IN
afvanee, and besides / - 4, ~ now, half
a-d0zen different brokers, and also gave
.cr,ss' aud dummy orders in plenty.
One day while / was standing at the win
do~ OF my uptown place, cogitatins over
this ate OF affairs, an elegant private
eoure Z owe past and stopped } - areu Z
be rner from my door. l. conta
riehsy dressed lady and a Tagge.-iooking
girl. Tie latter got cut, rang my ba.e-
meat bell aud was admitted. l sent for
my mau-ss rvant, and inquired who the
girl mi sht be.
'''She comes for the wash, SIR he said.
"'Doss sue generally come in a coupe?
/ inquired
"'Why, no, sir said the man, very much
surprised; her mother, the washerwOman,
is very poor
Just fhen my own carriage drove round
for me, and as Il passed the other | could
see the lady eagerlys sorting the sOiled
clothes in the coupe on her lap. This *
cited my curiosity, so had my driver fol-
low along behind. Pretty soon the coupe
stopped, and the dirty little girl got out
with the bundle and went into a brown
stone front on Twenty-ninth street The
coupe then kept straight on down TO Wall
street and stopped in front Of "A brokers
office. where the lady alighted with my
entire lot of sOiled shirt cuffs in her
hand"
"Shrt cuff ?" cried the entire company.
Exactly; shirt cuffs. l saw through it
all in "a moment. You see, amor rather
was-a great hand while at dinner or at
the theater in the evening TO think over
my plans for the next day, and TO make
memorandums on my cuffs 10 consult be-
fore starting down town in the morning.
Ny washer woman had found this out, and
had been quietly 'coppering' my game by
means of my cuffs for over year"
"Well, by Jovev' said Sam Ward, paus
ing for single instant in the sacred my IS
/ terry OF salad dressing.
aus the cold fact" continued Keene,
" In less than eight months she had
cleaned up over 500 900, and was washing
my clothes, at least the cuffs, in an $50, 0,0jC
house. She had diamonds and horses un
til you couldn't rest"
"Fou didn't make any more cuff MEMS
after that" laughed several.
swell, not many-just a few" said the
great operator, holding his Burgundy VI
TO the light. - | believe kept it up about
month longer, at the end Of which time
l had raked in the washerwoman's bank
account, AMI even hal a mortgage on the
brown-stons house. Il was a queer coin.
cidence, wa ,n'J ltg But, perhaps, the in
/ formation she found on the cuffs after thai
wasn't "a exact as it had been, somehow
nor as reliable"
And the King of the street emptied hi
glass with an indescribable wink tina
.-s.-=@ =s-s~s,. ~no =ss S5SFs au Sarlem
=aiTer li=e ? cat who had just swallowae
/ % mouse