St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-04-24
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winning ever known to be got in New
| York AT single sitting.
The $4,000 went into nice home,
but in after years bad luck marked Tom
for its own, and home and everything
else were sacrificed. aud Tom died
few months ago a pauper in the aims
house at Schenectady.
The biggest single winning ever made
on roulette number was the result of
Tony MOrse'S guess. Tony Morse, for
a time, was hlgh-roller Ia Wall street.
and thorough gambler at heart.
1t was said that sl5,00O,O0 formed
his wealth once, but he died poor.
lie entered Da.y's game one night aud
said 10 Rube Vassar-the man whom
the Vsssar college Vassars offered
10000 if he would stop dealing bank
''Rube. I've got four one-hundred-
dollar bills here. all own in the world.
II you say so, I'll put them on a num-
Der and you can turn for them. for 800
alone is no good to man or beast.
The limit at roulette then was $3.50 on
colors, or $40 on a single number, which
made the limit all around 1860, as the
| wheel paid 50 for /. Nassar told Morse
that he couldn't take such bet as that
without consulting with Mr.. DAILY, but
Daily came in just then, and, on hearing
of Morse's offer, said: Let 'er Eo."
Nassar sent the marble spinning
around in the wheel aud Morse put his
! four 500 bills down on the nine. The
marble went dancing around and then
| began TO slow up. Ii seemed 10 be
| thinking. and acted as though il were
undecided where 10 go, but finally
dropped into No. 9. and the game
! paid Mr.. Morse thirty-SiX times 800, or
| Sl4 900.
james Fonda, who lost 100000 az
! gambling IN ten years, and who, IN the
| closing period OF his career as heavy
| bettOr. sued John DAILY on the ground
| that he had been defrauded in the Daily
| game, was once in terrible straightS for
several weeks here. He was literally
| without food or lodging, and the benche s
| in the parks, or the sands at Coney
| lslaHd-it was in the SUNNI er
were his only resting places.
/ He had begged or borrowed
| until his friends had said that they
| could do no more for him. In answer to
al urgent appeal, however, one friend
| did 90 to COney Island and take him 81 0,
| telling him at the same time that that
was positively the last. Fonda had ha d
no food that day and had slept on the
| sand the night before, but, with a gam
bier instinct, he said that lie would win
| his breakfast.
He entered a gambling house, looking
| for a faro bank, bat found none, and 50
commenced to pay roulette. His friend
watched him until he had lost $50 OF the
$40. and then sat down in corner dis
gusted There he stayed for an hour,
| when he was surprised to see lookout
| for another wheel 20 over and stand at
/ Fondas wheel. Thinking that SOME
thing might have turned up. he fol-
lowed. and nearly fell when he saw
| Fonda with chips to the amount of
81 900 in front OF him, begging the pro-
prietor of the game to give him better
limit
lie the friend) urged Fonda to leave,
telling him that he certainly had not
only the price of a breakfast, but the
start of fortune. but Fonda refused.
No" he said, luck has come at last,
and I'll break the bank"
He kept on playing and quit two
no urs later without the price of a
reakfast.