The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-07-13


correspondents who visited Cape MAY last
nesk as tile guests of the PENNSYLVANIA
asilroaG company. While there we stopped
a., Une Stockton hotel which il now kept by
" alton, the man who made himself famous
W ms horse racing bets in England some
years ago. He looks like
ANYTHING But HORSE RACER,
ana has given up betting and settled down
" heeplhg MOTEL on the same scale that he
p.ayea the book makers. Picture to your
ocli Weii-fllied out man of medium height
WIN big round head and complexion as
ialr as that Of the girls of old ireland Let
nm nm nave eyes as blue as the skies of
Greece, wreath Il pleasant smile about a
Wen shaped mouth and you have some idea
VI the "Plunger." He is gentleman from
Cie ground up, and he tells me that no man
Ever got any good out of money made by
nurse races. he does not like 10 talk of his
own morse racing experiences. and says he
las not bet on a race since 1854 and that
ne mas come down TO legitimate business.
ne is man with history, and / wormed
OUT OF him something of his story. He
talks OF tens of thousands in the most mod
est manner and in the enterprises where
ne has figured he has played dollars as
otner men play cents II made,'' said he,
SfO,OOO year as an oil broker, at the time
OF the oil excitement and | acted as the
agent for Sam Pike when he bought all the
whisky in the country just before the tax
was put on. At this time l made SlS0,000
year and L got one fee of $4,000. | have
never been any thing but a money maker,
and since have been old enough to work
nave made at least So, 600 every year.''
Tell me something of your political eX
perience,'' said |.
81 was candidate for sheriff in Phila-
delphia in 1872. There were two other
candidates one man named Leeds and
another, Harry Bingham, now the member
OF Congress. Well, Leeds was elected, and
the next year they nominated me for re-
corder of deeds.
WENT INTO THE THING
systematically, organized six hundred cleo
ton districts spent $50, 900 and was elected.
Shortly after this took charge OF the big
hotels at the centennial exposition and
owned the Continental and the Globe 1t
was hot summer and the people wouldn't
patronize us and / made nothing. l tried
TO get even with my losses at the hotel by
buying Pennsylvania Railroad stock, and l
mad at one time $4,000 shares. 1t went
down and / lost 100000 by it. l then
bought the st. James hotel in New York
and made 1t pay, got into trouble about the
purchase of 1T from the owners, and in 1851
found myself down with nervous prostra-
ton. | concluded to go to Europe and
was worth at this time about $4,000 |
went to Bohemia and got cured, and re
turned to London on my way home Just at
about the time of the Derby. l went out
without intending to bet a dollar, got inter
ested, and made there what the world
would call fortune. / first put hundred
pounds On one of my friends horses at five
to one and made five hundred pounds. [
put another hundred on the horse of an
other friend at six to one, and he won and
this gave me six hundred pounds more |
now had eleven hundred pounds / took
one thousand of it and putt on Iriquois at
six to one, and Iriquois brought me in
$4,000 Shortly after this l put
$4,000 on Peter at the Royal hunt
At the st. Leger, l put $1,000 on
1riquois against $4,000 anu again won
After other winnings l backed Foxhall for
the Czarowitz, and put up $4,000 against
$780, 200 and EoXhall walked in / then
backed him to win the Cambridgeshire for
$3.50, 900 and he stuck out his tongue and
won it. 1t was so with other ventures, and
my winnings all told amounted to million
dollars. l had gone into
BETTING AS AN AMUSEMENT
and | was thunderstruch when | found
upon my return to America that | was
looked upon as a horse racer, and had be-
come famous as "The Plunger'' | don't
| like the title nor the reputation. | am
man of a family and | expect to earn my
money from now on by the sweat of my
brow and my brain. My advice to young
men and to old men who are investing in
races, is to let the book makers go west
and till the soil and to make racing unprof-
liable by not patronizing it"
"What do you think of Cape May!n !
asked.
~ +binlr - ie c,ri,,cr 70 no tho c,ra, con
side resort along the Atlantic coast" was
the reply. Il maze $4,000 off of this hotel
last year. and / am going to make $40, 600
this year. | bought it for $4,000 when it
was losing money and when l put S50,0
on it in repairs they said 1 was fool.
believe that Cape May is going to be the
great spring resort OF the United States
We have as warm weather here in the win
ter as at Fortress Monroe and there is no
reason why we should not have all the
spring travel. | am going to build Il sun
! parlor 4GG feet long, and IL put 500, 0e0
more into fitting up this place as a spring
watering place. The Hygeia hotel at Fort
ress Monroe makes $685. year, and
there is no reason why Cape May hotel
should not do equally weil.''
While at Cape May took ride up past
THE PRESIDENTS COTTAGE.
It is located about two miles from the main
/ city and ii stands bleak and bare on the
edge of the waves. 1t is by no means an
expensive cottage, and at glance l should
say it could be re-duphcated for - 000
There are no fancy furbelows about it.
1t is painted light drab, is of two stories
and has wide galleries running around it.
Mrs. Harrison, understand, has been
much worried over the criticisms which
have been made as TO her acceptance OF it.
and | understand that the President did
not know that the cottage was to be given
until after the transfer had been made and
the deeds recorded
George Alfred Townsend tells me that
his novel entitled alexander Hamilton
aRi Mrs. Reynolds is selling we'll Its
first edition of 1900 has been sold and a
second edition OF $500 is now being Issued.
The book as MIR. Townsend wrote it was
originally 100 pages longer tiaau it is now,
and he cut it down to suit the IDEAS Of the
publisher. The probability is that he win
make some money out of it. lie made
5000 out of title Entailed Hat" and he
once told me that the same time spent
innewspaper writing that be bad put upon
ltlis beck would nave netted him ever
$4,000. He made Loo out OF his book ON
Washington which ne published ten years
ago, and ne has been making 5000 year
and upward on newspaper correspondence
since the war. His newspaper work now
nets him about sl5.Uo9 year.
Ore Or tie brightest newspaper writers
Of to-day Is Frank =. Burr, who is now on
his way 10 London tic write syndicate let
ters. Burr paid Parson Newman SEQ %
write tie deatilbed scene of General Grant
fer his biography OF Grant, and he makes a
great deal # money in literature.
met Morgan II. Wills. the proprietor OF
the Norristowa Herald. last week and was
surprised 10 hear Tim say that the Rsraij
a.
.eils BIC that Williams, tue man who docs
LIZ tht. funny work on Tie Herdli. and