Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-10
MONEY WON AND LOST.
Mike Dwyer the Heaviest Winner on
the Presidential Election.
HE IS AT LEAST sSO,OOO AHEAD.
Some Others Who Happened to Pick Out
the Right Ticket.
GAMERS AND LOSERS BY THE SLUMP


Tsp ECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATCH.1
NEW YORK. Nov. 9-Just how much
money has changed hands on the election
will probably never be known, as
| some of the big bets were made recently,
but it is certain that in this city alone the
amount wagered exceeded s500,0OO. There
were so many big bettors that il would be
difficult to say who staked the most, but
the persistent plunging of Mike Dwyer
makes it very probable that he put out the
the largest amount of any individual
Mr. Dwyer made some bets personally,
but the most of the money he staked was
placed for him by two representatives.
One hunted up the Republicans in the
downtown financial center, and Joe Vendig
haunted the Hoffman House. Both men
had big rolls of thousand-dollar bills and
as soon as a Harrison man squeaked he was
beset. The downtown man bet mainly on
the State at the prevailing odds, while
Vendig bet on everything. The variety of
bets made by this man would have confused
less self-possessed man.
A Small Man With a Big Nerve.
Venuig is small, modest young man,
whom one would never suspect of great
nerve. 1t required cool head to keep
calm in the jostling mob that filled the
Hoffman House during the betting nights
Vendig kept his wad in his inside waist
coat and never produced it until the stake
holder was on hand and the preliminaries
had all been arranged
OF course nobody knows Just how much
Dwyer WOE, but it is placed at $50, 900.
He is reported to have won every bet he
made.
Jim and John Mahoney were also big
and persistent bettors, and were always on
deck when Harrison money appeared at the
Hoffman. Their united winnings should
reach at least $4,000
Edward Murphy, Jr., of the State Com
mittee is reported to have won S5, 900, most
of it on bets on the State. John Carroll,
the Tammany man, is said to be about
10000 richer, and j. j. ODonohue is
S30, 900 ahead.
The list of winners reported tonight is
extremely long, and the fact that the losing
list must be fully as big makes it apparent
that good many citizens have other
reasons than partisan predictions for
mourning the result.
Billy Edwards Has 700 Left.
Billy Edwards has 81, 900 on deposit in a
trust company alter paying the State bets
to-day. He will hold this until Friday or
Saturday.
A jocose Republican pasted on Tuesday
night on a bulletin board uptown: "Harri-
son carries New York State by $500 major
ity." The paper remained on the board
about ten minutes before the hoax was dis
covered, when it was torn down. In the
interval it had been read by large number
of people, who quickly spread the news.
When the joker went to the Gilsey House,
not long after, he found men betting that
Harrison had carried New York, on the
strength of the bogus bulletin, for which he
was responsible. He wanted to break in
upon the betting group and confess
that the bulletin was a fake, but
was restrained by difidence, coupled
with fear of broken bones. Conscience
stricken, but unable to make up his mind
to intervene, he saw money staked as re-
suit of his joke. When he reached the
Hoffman House he found the news that |
Harrison had carried the State had gotten |
there before him, and that money was already |
changing hands on the strength of it. Even |
in that stronghold of Democracy some time |
elapsed before the canard was exposed.