, 1888-11-11
Losers Paying Their Bets.

New YORK, Nov. 1O.-The interest
so long centered on the work of
the campaign is now transferred
to the settlement of bets. fhe extent 70
which gambling on election was carried
exceeds anything ever known before, and
the men who did not have anything
risked on the result are scarce. There
were a good many settlements made to-
day. But most of the bookmakers and
sporting people hold out for the decision
of the referee. There was not a little
| squealing among the losers. They rallied
at Brice, Kings county, and everything
else that they could think OF, including
Mayor Hewitt and President Cleveland
himself. The men who bet on Cleveland
late on election night were tie maddest of
all, except one man who, on Wednesday
night. bet $50 against 81 900 on the ster-
eoptican mans assurance that Harrison
is not elected" The Wednesday night
loser is not to be comtorted, and bitterly
accuses the innocent stereoptican man of
being in league with the gamblers. The
| winnings of two election ~plungers have
been revised BY the men themselves.
Col. Swords gains amour to Just $40
900, and those of Frank Hunton TO
$68, ZOO. lie was on velvet, having won
$1S, 900 on Cleveland's election four years
ago.
National Committeeman Fessenden of
Connecticut, turned up yesterday as a
winner, and is $lS,00O ahead. The in
teresting part of this is that he bet ON the
general result, and not on his W state.
Senator Quay gains still remain a mat
ter of guess work. He only smiles and
says he has ''won some" A close friend
says he knows of about 500, 900 that
Quay has bet, and that there are syndi-
cate speculations and outside wagers be-
| sides. Most all the Republican campaign
managers won some bets, though Secre-
tary Fassett confined his to suits of
| clothes and such trifies. John S. Clark
son won $40, 900 or $4,000; Garrett Ho-
bart of New Jeranv. the same, having,
like Eessenden, IL hs own state alone,
and wagered on the general result; Harry
Beard of brooklyn, won $4,000; Den
man Thompson pulled in about $4,000,
and Ed. Gilmore nearly as much.
Stephen B. French, president of tue po-
lice board, besides the cash ne scoops in,
takes great pleasure in the fact that he
will not have to pay any %tailor's bills for a
year. He and Judge MARITIME made an
interesting bet, the loser to pay for the
winners clothes for a year. He put on a
new Irish frelze overcoat to-day and will
send the bill to the Judge. At the corner
of Broad and Wall streets this morning a
refined, neatly dressed man was selling
Harrison ROSTERS from a big clothes bas-
ket. He wore a costly black diagonal
coat and trousers of English stripe, and
through the handles of the basket was
thrust his silver headed cane. About ten
feet from him stock a crowd of men who
seemed to know him well. Shout, you
pay the $780," they cried. And he shout
ed. He wasn't to be bluffed, but every
now and then he glanced longingly at his
watch. He shouted half an hour, sold
some twenty roosters, and then passed
the basket over to a professional street
crier. What's that brokers' name?"
the reporter asked his friends. Den
MIS-" they replied. The unfortunate was
asked to give his name, and he mourn
fully said: Mud" In the office of
Jameson. Goting & Smith, brokers, in
the Mills building, the reporter was in
formed that a fellow broker will surprise
New York Christmas day by attending
service in Grace church in a dilapidated
linen buster, and that if he doesn't he'll
have to pay $25. Bob McCaully, who
lives over in Jersey City, and who weighs
40 pounds, had a free wheelbarrow ride
through Jersey City this afternoon. Bob
| Hoagland, who weighs $40 pounds,
wheeled him. The ride was two miles
long, and all the brokers in town made it
interesting for Hoagland.
CHICAGO, Nov. l0.-Henry G. Levi,
proprietor of The Hub clothing house,
will begin the work of saving half a cord
of wood in the great show window of his
store on Wednesday morning next at 10
o o'clock. This little piece of manual labor
has been forced upon him in this way: A
few days ago he got into a political discus
sion with Col. 7. II. Keefe. He felt sure
that Cleveland would win, but the colonel
would not have it that way. They pro.
posed to settle their dispute with a bet,
the terms of which. after considerable dis
c%ussion. were fixed as follows:
A wager is made by the undersigned on
the election as follows: H. G. Levi agrees
to saw half a cord of wood in the large
| show window of his store if it is decided
that Benjamin Harrison is elected presi-
dent, each piece of wood to be handed to
him by Col. Keefe, and if Cleveland is
elected the colonel is to saw the wood,
either party declining to fulfill the wager
to forfeit to the other 500 cash.
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