The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-09
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Gambling in Leadville According to
the Dramatic Prophecies.
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Gambling in Leadville According to
the Dramatic Prophecies.
From the Philadelphia Press.
WHO is that elderly party over there2"
asked.
(Which onel There are three or four Of
them"
80 the Zone with the white silk stove
pipe hat"
q character"
YES He looks it,"
"He's one of the institutions of Lead vile.
He's been helping Col. Kitchen out lately
by acting as night clerk of the hotel
Kitchen
"Just for fun, suppose, without any
idea Of paltry lucre as a remuneration"
well, | don't know as to that. Possibly
he's down on his luck bit, and is tding
over his shoal water by this means"
This conversation was carried on between
Leadville friend and myself the after
noon of my arrival in the Cloud city, while
we sat in the office of the Hotel Kitchen. sur
rounded with perpetual snow. and yet look
ing out of open doors and windows upon a
landscape as picturesque as the Alps with
out feeling the cold a particle, so rarefied is
the air at this elevation two miles above sea
level.
ONCl1b MAJ D VEL w
looked carefully at Uncle Nat Daniels
and was interested in him at once He was
tall, over six feet, with a head slightly
bald, as l discovered presently when he
took off his hat for a moment and wiped
the suggestions perSpiration from his
head as though it were summer at the
seashore instead Of autumn above timber
line, with winter already looking over the
mountain peaks into the valley. gathering
4 k,r,r . he q
the Arkansas river. Both his hair aud his
beard were gray, the latter cropped with
scissors evidently. and standing out almost
as stiff as porcupine's quilts to the length of
about half an inch, possibly q little less
His face wac kindly looking, accented with
a slight cunning. which added to the int ). -
| est felt in him rather than detractn z
from it.
His hat, tall white beaver, or silk, was
brushed scrupulously. his boots were
polished Immediately, and his clothing
generally, while not exactly loud, was what
might be called breezy, and fitted the old
gentleman-for he must have been nearly
40 wears old-both in figure and character,
! markably well.
as he a gambler" | asked.
"Wel, no more than nearly every man
here is" was the reply. HE is not pro-
fessional. though he plays good, stiff hand
at poker, and is hard man TO run up
against. This is pointer for you in case
you have a weakness"
go, never fear | know the reputation
Of Leadville too we'll to run up against any
Of her poker players
They tell a good story of Uncle Nat in
the lively days of several years ago, which
maybe you would like to hear"
"All right Let 60"
well, you know, Leadville got an awful
reputation in 70 and so, and"
when did she lose itf'
There, now, don't get sarcastic. If you
think you can tell this story better than |
can. suppose you pull the throttle"
That's all right. Pm num-"
LEADvILLE'S HARD NAME.
"Well, as | was saving, Leadville got
hard reputation il 1879 and 1880. and for
several years afterward-indeed, it is still
the case-the perfectly proper people from
the east, who came here Sightseeing, could
not go away without having seen il all
low life, wickedne,S, gambling, aud 50 forth.
Tnat was in the days of the old Clarendon,
you remember, OF which Mary Hallock
Foster treated in her Assembly Ball.
But, branching of to this, what do YOU
think OF the nerve of man who will open
aud maintain such a hotel as the Kitchen
here almost on the summit Of the RockiesN,
"Oh, that's all right We had "a tip-top
dinner, 10 be sure but | want the story"
sure. Wei. six or seven years ago.
maybe a longer time, a party OF the most
perfectly proper Yankees from Boston came