The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-07-13

r,.., e oats ana corn are ground into
.nea' IN the same way, and the water ia
sSanped and ensilage cut up by steam.
1naeo, falmer believes in modern inyen-
, ,v.s ne blows out his stumps by dyna-
.s - ciearing up his land, and he has
rvnu "a 'front.' OF his log cabin home, the
Ne. a'el oI which is kept fresh by the pump
ing OF steam engine.
MS log cabin of Senator Pa,mer,s
jloge' nifty feet square, He lives in II
'.niousnout the summer and he tells me il
way ahead of castle in Spain. There
woe nail running through its center
anu On one side OF this is an immense Sit
slg-.oom or parior, filled with antique
.uiaii1ufe which Palmer got at the old Yer
mont homestead and brought out to De-
..ois. On the other side of the hall Is a
uinipg-room which must be fully twenty
rect square. This is also furnished in the
style OF our forefathers, and If Won take a
meal with the senator you will find he has
the most delicious ham in his larder and
tnat his spring chickens are tender. He
mas good cook and it is q recommended
non for the man to know that he keeps
his servants long time. Some of Mrs.
faimers girls have been with her for
years and the senator is as careful of their
comforts as of his own.
was one of the party of Washington
correspondents who visited Cape MAY last
week as the guests of the Pennsylvania
railroad Company. While there we
stopped at the Stockton hotel, which is
now kept by Walton. the man who made
himself famous by bis horse-racing bets in
England q few years ago. He looks like
anything but horse-racer, and has given
up betting and settled down to keeping
MOTEL on the same scale that he played the
book-makers. Picture to yourself we'll
nied-out man of medium height, with a
big round head and complexion as fair
as that OF the girls of old Ireland. Let
nlm have eyes as blue as the skies of
Greece. Wreath pleasant smile about a
well-shaped mouth, and you have some
idea OF the s'plunger." He is gentleman
from the ground up. and he tells me that
no man ever got any good out of money
made on horse races He does not like to
talk OF his own horse-racing experiences,
and says he has not bet on q race
since 1884, and that he has come down
to legitimate business. He is man with
history, and I wormed out of him some
thing of his story. He talks of tens of
thousands in the most modest manner and
in the enterprises where he has figured he
has played dollars as other men play
cents. I made" said he, $4,000 a year
as an oil broker at the time of the oil
excitement and 1 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 made $4,000 year
and got one fee of $4,000 / have never
been anything but money-maker. and
since have been old enough to work /
have made at least SIS, 600 every year.
Tell me something of your political ex-
perience," said /.
81 was a candidate for sheriff in Phila-
delphia in 1872. There were two ether
candidates. one a man named Leeds and
another. Harry Bingham, now the men,
Der of congress. Well, Leeds was elected,
and the next year they nominated me for
the recorder of deeds. / went into the
thing Systematically, organized 800 election
districts, spent $4,000 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 ashot summer and the people wouldn't
patronize us and / made nothing. / tried
to get even with my losses at the hotel by
buying Pennsylvania railroad stock, and /
had at one time $4,000 shares. 1t went
down, and lost $500, 600 by it. / then
bought the ST. James hotel in New York
and made il pay, got into trouble about the
purchase of it from the owners, and in
1881 found myself down with nervous
prostration. l concluded to go to Europe,
and / was worth at this time about $780,
600. l went to Bohemia and got
cured and returned to London on
my way home just at about the time
of the Derby. went out without intend
ing to bet dollar, got interested and made
there what the world would call a fortune.
I first put a f100 on one OF my friends
horses at five to one, and made $500
put another hundred on the horse of an
other friend at six to one, and he won. and
this gave me f6O0 more. l now had Ell 100
took 1000 of it and put it on Iroquois
at six to one, and Iroquois brought
me in $4,000. Shortly after this l put
$4,000 on Peter at the Royal hunt cup,
against $50, 600, and Peter won. AT the st.
Leger I put $4,000 on Iroquois against
$4,000 and / again won. After other
winnings / backed Foxhall for the Caro-
WITT, and put up $4,000 against 100000.
and Foxhall walked in. l then backed
him to win the Cambridgeshire for $3.50, coo.
ana ne SUCK out MS touBuc aiiu WIN u.
It was so with other ventures, and my
winnings ali told amounted to $l.00000o.
I had gone into betting as an amusement,
ard was thunderstruck when l found
upon nv return to America that / was
looked upon as horse-racer, and had be-
come famous as 1.-The Plunger." l
don't like the title nor the reputa-
ton. am man of 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
10 old men who are investing III races is to
let the bookmakers go west and till the
soil, and to make racing Improbable by
not patronizing it,"
what do you think of Cape May?" l
asked.
81 think it's going to be the greatest sea-
side resort along the Atlantic coast was
the reply. 81 made 500, coo off OF this hotel
last wear, and am going to make $4,000
this wear. ] bought il for $50, 900 when ii
was losing money. and when put Soo,oO0
ON it in repairs they said 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
snring travel am going to build sun
parlor 400 feet long, and I'll put $4,000
more into fitting up this place as spring
watering place. The Hygeia hotel, al
Eor,ress Monroe. makes $4,000 year.
and there is no reason why Cape May
Ill. all