The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-08-02
He MADE MILLIONS
But Warns Young non to Beware Of Bet
ting and BOokmakerS.
A Talk With "Plunger" Walton,
Who Made Himself Famous by
His Racing Bets In England
Some Years Ago,

was n OF the party of Washington
correspondents who visited Cape May last
week as the guests Of the Pennsylvania
Railroad company, writes Franz Carpen-
ter. While there we stopped at the Stock
ton hotel, which is now kept by Walton,
them man who made himself famous by his
horse racing bets in England some years
ago. He looks like anything but n horse
racer, and has given up betting and set
tied down to keeping hotel on the same
scale that he played the bookmakers.
Picture to yourself n well-flled-out man
Of medium height, with a big, round head
and a complexion as fair as that of the girls
of old Ireland. Let him have eyes as blue
as the shies of Greece, wreathe n pleasant
smile about a well-shapcd mouth, and
you have some idea of the ''Plunger."
He tells mt that no man ever got any
good GU OF honey mad on horse races
He does not like TO talk Of his own horse
racing experiences, and says he has not
bet on n race since 1884, and that he has
Gomez Town To legitimate business. He is
a nan with history, and l
of his story. He talks of tens
and in the enterprises where he has fig
ured he has played dollars as other men
play cents. IL made" said he, 'Si0.0O0 "A
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 his time ! mad S1sO.0OO n year,
and | got one fee of $4,000. have never
been anything but a m~oney-maker, and
since | have been old enough To work., L
have made at least $4,000 every year."
"Tell me something Of your policical
experience" said |.
II was a candidate for sheriff i'm Phila-
delphia in 1872. There were two other
candidates, one a man named Leeds, and
another, Harry Bingham. o the MEM
Der of congress. Well, Leeds was elected
and the next year they nominated me for
recorder OF deeds. l went into the thing
systematically. organized GOO election dis
tricts, spent $4,000, and was elected.
Shortly after this / tool charge of the big
hotels at the Centennial Exposition and
owned the Continental and the Globe. Ii
was a hot summer and the people wouldn't
patronize us, n i 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 l lost $4,000 10y il. ! hen
bought the st. James hotel in New York
and made II pay, got into trouble about
the purchase of il from the owners and i'm
1881 found myself down with nervous
prostration.
II concluded to go to Europe. and | was
worth at that time about $4,000. went
To Bohemia and got cured, and returned
to London on my way home just about
the time of the Derby. / went out without
intending to bet a dollar, got interested
and made there what the world would
call a fortune. ! first put n hundred
pounds on one of my friends horses nj
five to one and made five hundred
pounds. i put another hundred on the
horse of another friend at 6 To I and he
won, and this gave me COCO more. l now
had f1,10O. took Gl,0O0 OF IL u put II
on %Iroquois at o to I, and ~Iroguois brought
me i'm $4,000. Shortly after this i put
$1,000 of this on Peter at the Royal Hunt
Cup against SIS 900, and Peter won. A,
the ST. Leger ! put $4,000 on Iroquois
against 5000 and l again won. After
other winnings | backed Foxhall for the
Czarowitz and put up $4,000 against S4uO,.
900, and Foxhall walked in. / then backed
him to win the Cambridgeshire for $780,.
600, and he stuck out his tongue n won
IL. 10 was SO with other ventures and my
winnings all told to 81 ,UuO,UUO
j had gone into betting as an amusement
and | was thunderstruck when i found
upon my return To America that i was
looked upon as "A horse-racer, IN had he.
come famous AS The PlunRer.' / don,
like the title, nor the reputation. j am q
nan of family, and l expect to earn my
money from now OH by the sweat OF my
brow and my brain. My advice to young
men and Ia old men who are investing ~
races is To let the bookmakers go Wesl
and till the soil. and 10 make racing I'M
profitable by not ~patronizing it,"