The evening world., 1889-07-15
WON $4,000 AT A SITTING.
JIM REsCHLER's WONDERFUL LUCK IN
PHIL DALIS GAMBLING HE'LL.

bNahNu
Who Has Been Almost a Tramp, but
Discovered tho Little Piitsburs Gold
M~inc-Twelve Hours with the Tiger.
A short lesson in bookkeeping
In account with Phil Daily. Long Branch:
July IL. George Law, by cash ....... $40, 900
July 10. Jim Hcschler, to cash ...... $35, 900
Profit and loss 81, 900
Phil DAILY would never Iisk his reputation
for n pnltry $50, co.," confidently asserted n
Hoffman House habitue the Other day, when
II was being bruited about That millionaire
George Law had been inyeigled into tho
gambling palace at Long Branch and feeced
to the tune of $50, 900 while lie was inc
briated.
1t seemed to be quite generally under
stood. however. that Law had visited Phil
Days place at g the Branch " with some of
his sporting friends, and had come away
$50. 900 poorer than when he went in to buck
the faro tiger.
The play is always fer big stakes at Long
Branch and Phil Days PENNSYLVANIA Club is
the haunt of the most reckless of high roll
ers. II is a long lane that las no turn, how
ever. and the turn was calleu Saturday night
by Millionaire " Jim =" Reschler, VINO halls
from the boundle.s West ana was ex-senator
Tabor's partner in the Little Plttsburg gold
mine.
Reschler arrived ut the Branch late in the
week, md was stopping with a friend. Feel
ing n little on Of sorts he did not go 10 the
races. but sauntered, a lonesome and a bilious
man. into the various lesorts of the Avenue
He dropped into John / alv's Long Branch
Club. but there was no life t~here-only Just
enough to make him n loser of 800, after
W, ich he quit. The same state of affPirs was
found ut the Pennsylvania, which is now
nnHnr thu management Of Tom InllV--
Jolly i'll name anu nature-nnd the suave Ed
Marks.
What's the limit z" says the Colorado man
langnidly.
Two hundred TO doubles and a hundred
to singles" answered Pete, the dealer.
Resch er bought 81. 900 worth of chocolate
cololed chips and placed the limit. This
WIS ut 8 O'Clock in the afternoon, and his
stuck of chips began To grow at once.
Players left the other tables and crowded
around 10 see tie duel. This was at 3 in the
intern on. aud twelve hours afterwards, when
the Westeiner yawned and looked at his
wa'ch for the first time. there was more
than $50, 600 worth OF chips on the table re-
fore him, most of them in pure white disks.
TO which had been given a special value OF
II. 900 each; for the occasion. to avoid the
use of a bushel basket.
Reschler played on two hours longer. hut
without life or apparent interest. For twelve
hours he won every time except on the " case
card, and his repeated break on that last
| Pluy III III U u III b"tdI ~ lANllt.
During the following two hours his fortune
waned, and fifteen of the little white discs
passed back to the dealer.
Then. at 5 O'Clock in the morning, Reschler
arose, stretched himself. and with q request
to the dealer TO count mp for HIM, got into
his coat. He had won S35. 900.
Come again" said the imperturbable Tom
Jolly. as the. door was opened obsequiously
by the well-tipped porter.
Oh. Ger, ainly." returned Reschler. I'll
give yon your revenge later in the season. Ed
Walcott did You pretty we'll last senson. but l
guess I've beaten him" and the d, or closed
on jim Reschler and the banks $35. O0O.
Senator Ed Walcott. of Colorado. made q
winning Of &26. O)0 at the Pennsylvania last
summer and this is what Rechsler referredt to.
Reschler 10 a man more than fifty years of
age. He is of middle height. swarthy- skinned
and wears a big, stiff iron-grsy mustache.
He ran AWAY from his Arkansas home and
went in search of fortunes with the Fortv-
miners. He struck luck and had made a for
tune when but a youth. He began to gamble
early and lost Two or three fortunes which he
had grubbed out oil the gold diggings before
he was ,wentv-one. But he became one of
the best known min ng experts. In 1878,
dead broke, he landed In Denver. He left a
wife in 'Frl,oo, and, fortune still frowning
upon him, he pushed on to Leadville. In
1879 his wife died, aud Reschler went way
down on his luck"
At this time Reschler cleaned out the Little
Church saloon for a grub stake, and while
here an HsSayer named Met alf, hearing of
him. employed him at u small salary till h
had saved a little aud then he opened an as
say Office for himself near ex-senator Tabor's
store in Wild Horse Gulch.
Pete FinerIy. an old miner, persuaded
Reschler 10 go prospecting. They had little
luck, md Tabor once gave them their dinner
when they were S arriving.
Later they found n vein Of $40. 900 gravel,
which developed into the Little Pittsburg
Nine. out of which $50, 90, 900 worth of gold
was taken. Finerty is dead and Reschler
may crafty his gambling propensity as much
as he likes without fear of going broke.
His winnings are the larges ever made at
Phil Daly's at a sitting. He has returned to
Colorado.