The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-09

quently snapped up my money at each game.
1t was these games that took my first earned
money away, and the only way | saw of
getting it back was to study the different
games and to get up tricks to deceive those
experienced gamblers. This was a pretty
daring thing to attempt to do, but | got up
the tricks and worked them on different
occasions, never allowing the contestants
to catch me and always scooping in a big
pot.
HIS FIRST $1,000 IN WINNINGS.
Each evening | made a study of the
cards, getting up new tricks all the time,
and in this way | won 81 900 which bet on
a cock fight This was one of the largest
and most exciting bird fights that ever took
place on the Ohio. People from all parts of
the country were there and money was as
plentiful as water.
after a long and terrific fight my bird
killed his opponent, and of course | won.
This lift of money enticed me to go to
travelling through the small cities, which
did, playing the cards in some Of the largest
houses and always coming out successful in
each game.
HIS FIRST NEW YORK EXPERIENCES.
II came to this city in 1888, aud it was a
beautiful city then for gamblers. | visited
the different houses in Ann street, Park
row, Bowery, Nassau and Barclay streets,
and played with such men as bill" Har
rington, Frank Stewart, Jack" Harrison,
Nose Hamer, Sawyer Ryanders, Tom"
Hyer, kite" Halsey, Frank Granger,
Schuyler Haley, Colon & Parsons, Spauld-
ing, Suffering Jake" Gibbons, Dick Ten
Brooke, George Irving, George Hopkins,
Cornelius Van Sickle and John Frincke,
Those men, who with their families
mingled with the highest of society, con-
trolled the gambling profession,
Colt q Parsons kept a large house and did
the most business. This was at No. s Bar
clay street, and was patronized only by
very wealthy politicians and wealthy cotton
merchants from the south, who used to come
up here in the warm weather prepared to
drop large sums of money. Tom Hyer kept
a respectable place at No. 40 Bowery, and
had man named Dr. Brown for drawing
card. / had no trouble in getting into
games in the different houses, and always
got up from the table with fat purse"
TIE FASHIONABLE GAMES.
"What games were played in those days."
"All Hoyle'S gaines and few others. The
ones played most, and are still on the
tables of the houses in this city, are seven
tlve and three up, and the various orders of
solitaire, whist, cribbage, thirteen the odd,
ten to take, faro-roulette and vingt-et-un,
Will an extra EdllS hLOWH do bulIIl -Ole.
This last game might properly be used as
chess 1t is played in the same order of
mathematics as chess and by two or moro
persons"
ROULETTE THE BEST BANKING GAME.
(Which is the most profitable game"
'All are profitable games to tho house,
but roulette is the best banking game"
Did you ever see any person beat this
game of roulettem
YES, and it is a very hard game to beat
1t was in Tom Hyer's, on the Bowery, one
Saturday night in July, 1888 dropped
in on my way down to the hotel about -
o'clock at night. Big Tom was at the
wheel himself, and he was pulling in the
sheckels by the dozen. A boss carpenter
coming from the bank early in the after
noon, with over $400 to pay his men,
dropped in and thought he would take n
few hacks at the wheel He did 50 to his
sorrow He played roulette until midnight,
dropping every cent of his money.
after losing that amount he asked the
pugilist, who was packing up his money
preparatory to closing, TO loan him S..
liver refused to do this and tied the money
up in bag.
LAS he did so he took hold of the bag in
his right hand and held it out straight from
| his body. I'll bet no man here can hold
| out this bag for two minutes he said.
The carpenter Immediately took the bet
! and said: Il will not only do that, but
will walk to the door and back three times
| before | let it down.
There was over 81. 100 in silver and gold
in the bag. Hyer accepted the proposition
and the carpenter took up the bag. He
went TO the door aud back, and when he
got to the door a second time 1t was open
and he ran off. Hyer ran after him, but
the Bowery was crowded, and the bag and
man was lost to sight.
"With the great excitement that Hyer
caused a policeman came running up and
the house was Immediately locked up, and
no Information of the affair whatever given
to the blue coat, as it would be the means
of breaking up the gambling. Hyer never
saw the carpenter or the money atterward.
1T WAS THE LAST GAME.
"This was said to be the last game of
| roulette ever played at No 40 Bowery.
| With the exception of "Stuttering jake
Gibbons, ali these gentlemen are dead now,
and only three of them died wealthy"
QUARRELs WHEN GAMBLING.
"Did you ever have any difficulty over
any of your games~
eyes; | have often had little quarrels
now and then when l would win money
| from poor men who would want me to give
| it back.
But the worst trouble | ever got into
was at Memphis, Tenn. While down there
| became acquainted with notorious gam
bier named Darg He used to canvass the
south during the winter and come up north
| during the warm weather.
1.-The previous summer he was on his way
to Newport when he thought he would stop
in this city He put up Mt the New York
hotel, where he left $4,000 in money,
jewelry and other valuables and his slave
to look after them.
| "While PLAYING a game at Cotton q
| Par-ons', Tappan and a few others Of the
abolitionists induced the slave with the
valuables to come out OF the hotel, and they
shipped him to Canada. Darg felt very
sore over the matter, and went for the
South direct
| $44, 900 ON THE TABLE.
| "Well, at the game in Memphis which he
induced me to play there was $4,000 on
the table, when l, in conversation with one
of his confederates, discovered that there
was over the regular number Of cards in
the pack. l called Capt John Russell, a
fearless, honest and upright man, who used
to run boat down the Mississippi in my
early days, and who understood every
game l told him to take the stakes, and if
there was more than fifty-two cards in
the pack wanted all the money.
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