St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-20

z MORNING. JULY 20,
ing. Outside of Percheron horses SEN
ator Palmer rams to Jersey cows. His
butter costs him 81 pound, but he gets
50 worth OF fun out of every pound, and
the eighty cows which he keeps are
perpetual source of amusement to him.
wish could give you a picture of his
barn. The cow stable is as well lighted
as parlOr, and the floor back of where
the animals stand is so clean that you
could drop a cambria handkerchief on
it and pick it up without soiling. The
woodwork of this stable is polished yell
low pine finished IN oil. and it is as well
finished as that of many cottages.
Senator Palmer is careful in his treat
ment of his cattle and horses. and he
has rules pasted up in his stable for his
i men. A whip is never used on the
/ horses and no loud words can be spoken
/ to the cows. A regular record is kept
z of the milk each animal gives, and each
COW has its name and its page in the
herd book. 1t takes steam engine to
| do the work of these cow stables. The
T hay is raised to the second story by
steam. The oats and corn are ground
i into meal in the same way, and the
Z water is pumped and enSilage cut up by
Y steam. Senator Palmer believes in
modern inventions. He blows out his
tfstumps by dynamite in clearing up his
land, and he has pond in front of his
log cabin home, the water OF which is
kept fresh by the pumping of steam
+ engine.
This log cabin of Senator Palmer's is,
judge, fifty feet square. he lives in it
throughout the summer, and he tells me
it is way ahead of castle in Spain.
There is a wide hall running through
Its center, and on one side of this is an
immense sitting room or parlor, filled
| with antique furniture which Palmer
got at the old Vermont homestead and
brought out to Detroit. On the other
side OF the hall is dining room, which
| must be fully twenty feet square. This
is also furnished in the style of our fore
fathers, and if you take meal with the
senator you will find he has the most
delicious ham in lis larder and that his
spring chickens are tender. He has
good cook, and it is recommendation
for the man to know that he keeps his
servants long time. Some of Mrs.
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 Pennsyl-
Yania Railroad company. While there
we stopped at the Stockton hotel, which
is now kept by w. Walton, the man who
made himself famous by his horse rae
ing bets in England some years ago. He
looks like anything but horse racer,
and has given up betting and settled
down to keeping hotel on the same scale
that he played the bookmakers. Picture
to yourself weIl-flled out man of
medium height, with big, round head
and a complexion as fair as that Of the
girls of old Ireland. Let him have eyes
as blue as the skies of Greece, wreath a
pleasant smile about well-shaped
mouth, and you have som0zidea of the
"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 expert
ences, and says he has not bet on
race since 1884, and that he has come
down to legitimate business. He is
man with history and | wormed out
of him something 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
die, $4,000 year as an oil broker at
sthe time of the Oil excitement, and [
acted as agent for Sam Pike when he
bought all the whisky i'll the country
just before the tax was pat on. AT this
lime made SlS0000 year and l 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 $4,000 every year."
"Tell me something of your political
experience" said l.
j. II was a, candidate for Sheriff in
Philadelphia in 1872. There were two
other candidates, one a man named
now the member of congress. Well,
Leeds was elected, and the next year
they nominated me for recorder of
deeds. | went into the thing syS-
tematically, organized 600 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 a 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 Penn
sylvania railroad stock, and | had
at one time $4,000 shares: 1t
COO by it. 1 then bought
the st. James hotel in New York and
made it pay; got into trouble about the
purchase of it from the owners, and 1881
found myself down with nervous pros
tratiOn | concluded to 90 to Europe.
and was worth at this time about $780,
600. | 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 intending
to bet dollar, got interested and made
there what the world would call for
tune. first put hundred pounds on
one of my friends horses at five to one
and made $500. | put another hundred
OH the horse of another friend at six to
one, and ne won, and this gave me 1900
more. now had Ell, 100. [ took 91 900
of it ana put it on lr0quois 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 $4,000, and Peter won. At
the st. Leger put $4,000 on Iroquois
against $4,000 and [ again won. After
other winnings backed Foxhill for the
Cesarewltch, and put up $4,000 against
$4,000 and Foxhall walked in. l 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 VEN
lures, and my winnings all told
amounted to million dollars. I had
gone into betting as an amusement, and
was thunderstruck when found upon
my return to America that was looked
upon as horse racer. and had become
famous as The Plunger.' L don't like
the title nor the reputation. l am
man of family and [ expect to earn
my money from now on by the sweat of