The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-19
THE LIMIT p
vv RE PLAYED 1T, AND WON
$4,000.

Ns- Rechsler OF Denver 10 '-o
AI - u7inniugs Said to be the Largest
Tor Taken from Long Branch
Bank.
pD.,srH July 14-Handsome
LIZ IN, and suave Edward Marks, who
-, -. s,,cceeded Phil DAILY as proprietors oil
raw 9.-,o,,s Pennsylvania Club, did not go
- very early this morning. Millionaire
T,,sobIar Of Denver, ex-senator Iabor's
gu. in the Little Pittsburg mlne'
GU +bor, ND. When they did finally
AeP' .ho yvesterner had S35,0OO of their
'i99s y, his pockets. He won 1t at faro
hou' sioge of about twelve hours.
=. ora time during the night Reschier was
. o.. "a about $4,000 Reschler cashed in
a. - hig armful of chips which fortune had
'IO lie transferred to his side of the table,
"a ,r.s promptly presented with a check
for $4,000 I'D ro,,,
1o,lv the imperturbable.
81 sbou,du't think you'd want to see me
lain a. this rate" responded Reschler.
.~Tb.t,s what we are here for, put IN Mr..
Msrks. lRughlngly. on al Ju0' 90 =
r. win as We are"
&c wiz IIt o. accented an invitation to have a
80 ~ vine. and, after pleasant Good
eios walked out The sun was
,,ro. III, red over the ocean as he left the
Guy sl oGsr arrived at the Branch from the
4 Htt5, stte1. mart Of the week. He came
W S;s;t an old friend, who has cottage
bara He didn't get to the races yesterday
sfternoon as he felt somewhat lndlsposed,
brt instead went over TO Jonn Daly s
Long Branch Club. he loSt several
t.9ra5 there. and concluded TO change
b;s base Of operations. He went over
- +ba Pennsylvania Avenue Club, had
el;+tIa dinner in the cafe, and then strolied
banj[io into the department devoted to cards
- cbiDs There were but few people
rrssant Almost all the sports at the
Branch had gone to Monmouth Park
. Rescber took q 81 900 bill from Bug roll
and bought five stacks Of chocolate-colored
checks at so a check.
'What's your limit" he asked or SPHINX
Fl ike Pete Smith, who was dealing.
Il ssTwo hundred to doubles and q hundred
Fl TO cases answered Pete.
Reschleg at once put down his amount of
Ii limit They have some pretty stlft players
n al the club, but it isn't every day that q
Fl man bets the limit from the start, and the
Ii people In the room gathered about the
table AMI looked ct him with interest
Il Reschler's luck was remarkable from the
n Start. and he soon had a Ing pile of checks
in front of him. He got warm and took of
ri his coat. One of the walters hung 1t up
respsctfully, 'Sort of reminds me Of old
81 times out west" said Reschler. He played
no particular system, but placed his money
81 wherever the fancy took him.
About II o'clock, when he had been play
ing several hours. ne made proposition to
the dealer to put the limit up u little higher.
He wanted to bet $500 instead OF 5000. The
dealer referred the matter to the proprie-
tors, and they accommodated him. Resch-
Ter plunged, and, contrary to the rule when
uau raises his bets, he continued to win.
Instead Of being paid in big piles of chips,
he received one white check, upon which q
vaiua ion of $500 was put By this time
Reschler had quite an audience The play
erS at the other tables had left their places
and were standing about looking on, and
every new conner was attracted to the spot
where big Jumps of money were changing
from one side OF the green cloth to the
other. About 3 o'clock in the morning
Reschler was about $50, 900 winner.
Then luck shifted around in favor of the
house. and in two hours Reschler had re-
turned Sl5,0 900 of his winnings. He saw il
81 90 calmly, and at the end of deal "reck-
oned" that he had had enough for one night
He called for his coat and asked the dealer
III to count up his checks. They called for
$4,000, and the Westerner smiled as he
+ pocketed the check which was handed tc
4 him.
ed Walcott did pretty we'll last season, -
he said 'but I've beaten him. What dc
you think of western sportsf'
They are the people," answered Jolly,
placidly.
Rescher is man over so years of age
lie ls Of medium size, wears a heavy mus
tache and has a swarthy skin. He was but
lad when he went from his home in
Arkansas to the Pacific coast in 49, he
mas had life Of adventure. When he was
youth ne made great deal of money out
OF the gold mines in California, but his
collars faded away. He became one Of the
most noted mining experts in the country.
ne made several fortunes out of gold mines.
put lost them all. He was first up and then
down. ''''--
In 1878 he lost all his money, and went to
Denver, leaving his wife in San Francisco.
IN Denver he had pretty hard luck, and, a
year after his arrival there, he drifted on
70 Leadville There he learned of the death
Oh ms wife. That discouraged him. 1t be-
T n known to Assayer Frank Metcalf that
IseschIer was an expert miner and Metca!f
employed him. After working as an
assayer for while. Reschler bought an
assay OUTFIT and went to place called the
root Of the TALL in Wild Horse Gulch
liner 1here be fell in with miner named Pete
ri1erty, ana Reschler gave up assaying
gold W pA''l00O Lux
dhey mad hard time, and one day when
fuIey were out OF provisions they went to
%. a ". Iabor's store and asked for a
sfuu STAKE Tabor refused to help them
a. HrSt lie said he had been doing nothing
ass Out grub stalking" people. and he
lever got anything for it, but Reschler
t5 uA7I T 50 understandingly about his chances
fooJ 1aooI yielded and gave them some
nv rUV "a ana bottle of whisky. They started
~ 'He mountains. When they had eater
t tLo 1000 and drunk the whisky they Laid
themselves Tn down and slept all night. =
VII lLe next 7S morning they went YEARLY to
%orA. Flnerty after while threw down
Il or, PicX and declared that he would work ne
Iiser, out Reschler kept on. Presently he
"a aI b 70 Flnerty. Say, Peter.n he cried
%a We showed him some specimens. donit
t taa. !; ioo gt ike pay gravel?" Pete agreed
s s"S II uld, and they started for the nearest
oosayer, where it did not take long To dc,
tOr 'nat the ore was worth S3O, 600 to the
M, tua1 was the way the Little Pittsb,,ro
- tue was found. Resehler received a ba &
evsa est IN the mine. Before tie coin was
er rIausted they divided $50, 600 600 Fin.
sCoioIIoo uead Walcott, now senator FROM
e9s nC Su1 VINO was here last summer vor
Ier 49, out lost part of it back. Rescb,
III says he is going west in nc -eosoli