, 1889-01-18
CAPRICIOUS FORTUNE.
HOW THE TICKLE MISS FuRTs WITH
THOSE WHO COURT HER.

inc SIeat AiAJOriGy OF San1Dlcrs Are IN
fortunate-BIg Winnings from Small
stakes-A Fly Tenderfoot Who Bet
$1,000 on the Black.
"Tho caprices of chance or fortune,
whichever you may call 1t, are singular,
to say the least" remarked well known
gambler to aNews man, in recounting his
ups and down at roulette, faro, poker
and various other games. mot long ago
1 made a nice little winning at faro, and
was cashlng my checks, when q rather
seedy looking fellow, with q gaunt, nun
CRY face, asked me to give him 20 cents.
/ didn't know him from q crow,b but
having won out pretty well, 1 tossed
him n white check and told him to go
and make q winning. What do you sup
pose that duck done? He cashed the
check, took the quarter, strode over to
the tub dice game, placed it on the six
rattle and won S45 the first turn of the
wheel. GIVE me the money" no ex-
claimed, and away he went to get the
first square meal no had probably eaten
In a week. Ho might have made that
same play n hundred times again and
lost every bet, but some people "a fall
into tho river and they'll come up with q
fish in both hands,"
= CONSULTATION NECESSARY.
"Tha reminds me-" said another
knight of the cloth, "of an incident that
anne under my observation last week at
q gambling house on Sixteenth street.
A fly tenderfoot from the east, who, it is
said, had won $25, 900 on election, saun-
tered up TO the wheel and asked the
dealer the limit on tho colors.
Amy amount you want 10 stake
was the reply.
"'All right; there's 81, OOo,' said the
sport, putting ten $500 bills on the black.
Just flip the ball and see what she'll do
coolly chirruped the fellow.
Tho dealer, who had picked the ball
out of the pocket, stayed his hand. He
looked at the money, sized up the player
to SEQ If he was bluffing and had a cable
tied to it, and seeing the fellow meant
business and had u big wad left, wilted
and refused to roll. By this time fifty
people had gathered around the table,
those on the outside craning their necks
over the shoulders of those In front of
the daring stranger, who, with the ut
most ang froid, drew a cigar from his
pocket, asked tho dealer for n match,
carelessly scratched 1t on his pants,
lighted the cigar and looking impatlently
Mt the dealer, remarked:
"'Go ahead; win or lose. Give us n
roll and SEQ what my luck is today
Tho dealer still refused to turn, and
tho fellow was about to take up his
money and leave when tho proprietor
came over, and after a little meditation
old the dealer to roll the ball and he
would pay the bet If he lost. The little
ivory ball was sent spinning around, and
after making ten or twelve circuits
struck the pockets, skipped over the
metal edges, and finally, after bobbing
first into ono and then another, dropped
In three In the odd red. The house fad
won the money. The stranger shook the
game, bought $ 1000 worth Of chips and
tackled faro with Indifferent success.
"Anothcr well known gambler Dor
rowed 500 Of u friend, and sat in a game
of faro on Holiday street. Before 1
o'clock he had won $4,000, broke the
bank, and would have won the proprie-
tor and dealer had they not closed up
and jumped the game. Two days later
this Same gambler didn't nave a dollar,
but tho following night he borrowed $50
and won SO, 100"
A CHANGE IN M
1.-The funniest play I ever witnessed
came up the other night" Clipped In a
third party. "a young fellow whose up
pearance was suggestive of q railroad
fireman or brakeman bought $40 worth
of chips and tackled the wheel. In q half
hour he had lost S65. He was consider
ably discouraged, and was about to leave
when he turncd to the dealer and said:
You can't beat me for IS on the colors.'
49, iA"N w NlAho VI CIllDo leu IOl
previous deals, and, throwing a So gold
piece on the red, he straddled tho double
and single Os with the chips in order to
protect himself against the percentage.
The ball went spinning around and had
made several circuits when the fellow
switched gold piece to the single o and
transferred tho chips to the red. In ten
single o. He lost 90 cents In chips and
won Sl75 off the s.. He exercised a
whole lot of sense then, for he cashed in
and got away with the money!"
However" soliloquized tho sport,
gambling don't pay. In the instances
stated the parties won by n scratch, but
fifty others lost. These rare winnings
remind me of the freaks of fortune in
tho gold mines of California. Every
body heard of tho Floods, O'Briens,
Mackeys, and n few more fortunates, but
the world never stopped to think of the
thousands upon thousands who lost.
Most of the money which supports
the ten or fifteen gambling houses
in Denver Is won from poor laborers,
who take $40 or S15, the earnings
OF q whole week, and try to win q
fortune. The mount they draw is not
enough to protect them. They simply
play their money against the thousands
OF the bank, and they arc bound to lose
In the end. Occasionally some fellow
makes q winning, but, if no stays long
enough, 1t will break him. The only
ones who make money out of gambling
are the proprietors of the houses. 1t Is
q costly amusement for the players.
They rustic around for q week or month,
earn $40 or S75, as the case may be, and
lose 1t. They might as well march up
and hand 1t over to the dealer, for he is
sure to gobble it in n few hours. Den
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