Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-02-21

IS said he purchased several hun
bred of. these tickets and attended a'great
many very select affairs in company with
Oscar Folsom, George Talbot, or some
other crony. They never wore dress suits,
They knew too much for that.
would have ruined Mr.. C~leveland's
chances for the S~herifalty, and besides
would have made him too conspicuous.
l asked a gentleman to-day who knew
Mr.. Cleveland we'll for many years at But,
fslo, what was his principal amusement
when he lived there. BE replied: =.
"'PinsecIe,' with an occasional game OF
'forty-six,' 'rounce,' or Pedro These
games are fsvorites with the German
Americans at Buffalo, and nearly every
saloon is provided with small cubby boxes,
in which are placed double-decker tables,
one for the beer glasses, the other for the
cards. Mr.. Cleveland's f~svorite resort,
when engaged with a quiet game with his
friends, was Louis Goetze's establishment
on Pearl street, two blocks from the City
Hall. He would sit there for hours,
laughing and joking with his friends
and enjoying himself far bet
ter than he has ever done
since. Four OF them would be sitting
around one Of these little tables night after
night. Occasionally you would hear n
of them call ont 'Pinocle, but generally
the only sound heard-when they were not
telling stories would be as the bottom OF
the beer glasses struck the top OF the table,
which was the signal for the waiter to ELL
EN- up again"
"Why did Mr.. Cleveland never do any.
thing for his old friend Dan Lock Wood?'
"You ask me a question which no
Buffalo Democrat can answer. Mr.. CleVe'
land has ignored Dan entirely. Since
the week of Inauguration Lock
wood has not been in Wash
ington, | am informed. He came here
then and found his old friend so changed
that he scarcely recognized the man who
had made him politically. Dan expected
10 be offered ONE place commensurate
with his services. | doubt il he would have
taken the best place in the diplomatic ser
vice, but the tender of a mission would
have been appreciated. He was not only
ignored in the search for diplomats, but
was not even consulted with reference to
any of Mr.. Cleveland's appointments. Nat,
urslly the Democracy object to this cool
treatment Of their leader. Mr.. Cleveland,
it must be remembered, has not in any in
stance remembered his old cronies and
friends in conducting his present office.
He burns the bridges behind him
~ .
| have lust had a long talk with an old
member of the Atlanta Constitution stat
about Sam Smals, the revivslist who has
Joined hands with Sam Jones in the Work
of converting the sinners OF Chicago, and
who has recently closed a long engage
ment in outstanding C~incinnstisns.
Sam Smalls," said he, has many more
possibilities in the work he has entered
than has Sam Jones. Smslls is well edu
Gated and is a better speaker than Jones,
He ia about t~hirty-six years old, medium
size, and has a natural flow Of oratory.
During all the time he wrote tho old 81
papers he was the hardest driDker in AT,
lanta. He is an expert stenographer snc
made lots OF money, and he could 60 on
spree without stint. At the time he was
converted he held the position OF court re
porter 1t $1,000 a year, and made as much
a. newspaper work, although he would MOI
apply himself more than halt the time
dow did he come to be convertedY'
asked.
mo one knows what the influence WAS.
Smslls had been drunk two or three days
He appeared On the streets at midday as
drunk as a lord, and was put in u hscE
ard taken home. A few hours later
a hsndbill was circulated announcing thai
he would preach that evening. Everybody
almost, laughed at it. Sam Jones had
been preaching in Atlanta for severa
days and the people were much excited
and ready for almost any surprise, bu'
they did not think ii possible that Sam
Smslls, whom they had seen hauled away
drunk that day, could be 8 converted man
But at the appointed moment Smalls sp'
peared, two of his FIVE little children were
with him, and they stood beside him as be
delivered O beautiful sermon. That was
the last of his dissipation. He gave ur
his position and began 10 travel with Jones
His language is pure and his ideas clear,
Jones has a good many thoughts OF resI
worth and much force Of oratory, but he
has no refinement or education,
the time he addressed the people Of AL
bany, before the recent election on the
subject OF prohibition he gave q full illus
tration of his style Of speech. He told the
people they would not carry prohibition
but they could if they would try, but they
would not try; that they blamed and talk
ed, but did nothing You remind me,
said he, of a little steamboat tina: comes
in at Rome every once in a while. 1t has
a boiler two feet long and a boiler four
leet long. Every time it blows its steam
is exhausted and it stops.'
WAS Small q good liver
"Yes, he Kept his family well, but he &C
cumulated nothing, and az the time OF his
conversion was badly in debt He is pay,
ing his debts nov. Recently he pat a no,
tice in the Atlanta newspapers, stating
that those whom he owed would confer a
favor By sending in their bills, and he
would pay them ss fast ss he could. BE
owed about $4,000 around the city and has
liuuidated $1,000. He made money il
bulk, and spent it in bulk. l have often
seen him spend a hundred dollars in treat,
ing q crowd at q bar. He would buy
champagne by the case aud openi it promis'
c%uously, and hire a line of hacks for his
friends on a nights spree. In 1879 he
was clerk OF Senator Voorhees, exodpC
committee. He took all the testimony in
shorthand, but did not write out O line a,
the time. When the committee returned
here, Smally began to get out his work,
but suddenly disappeared. After a while
be turned up in Atlanta, aud it was nects,
sary for the Senate to send the Sergeant at.
Arms there, arrest him, fetch him 10
Washington, lock him up in a room at the
hotel AID guard him for three weeks, till
he got his work done. 1t We perfec, when
completed and needed not q touch OF re.
vision. When bis friends called upon him
in his room at the hotel they used to slip
little tVo OF four ounce bottles OF whisky
into his pocket, which bottles sam would
empty when the Sergesnt-st.Arms turned
bis back. He made $3.50 ont of the
#o'k AM LETT the city in debt"
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