Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-10-08

and cash into the pool rooms ali yslllus for
one horse put the boobies On their suary ana
refusal OF their money followed. me
opentors also smell q mouse and closed down
nfckels had increased 10 nearly . hn,srss
dollars in the interim
How THE eREES-Eyrp MONSTER Hrlrs rHyx.
"A fertile field for the Lads Is the Jealous hus-
band or lover. IL one Of the bows can re,
chance TO deliver messages for q wife that IL q
bit inclined 10 Airt or for q Young woman who
has several Young men anxious 10 marry her
and doesn't want one to know that she Is VIII
Ing to the other he 10 Just in clover. In tn.
nrst place, the fair young woman her,elf is
anxious TO Zee the messenger bow so that she
can be assured that shs will not send him With
a note that may fall into the wrong hands
Then jealous husband or lover is quite liable
to arrange with a messenger bow 10 let him zee
the notes that may be intrusted 10 his care, End
when people are Jealous the question Of dollar
% two for such information doesn't enter into
the jealous mans cslculations
The opening OF the fall racing season out
at Benning Is another windfall FOR the
lads and Is always hailed With delkht.
The class OF regular patrons are for the most
part lavish with their money, aud especially 50
when they win from the pool sener. The
companies furnish messengers to 60 about the
racing grounds and. IL you wish. take your
money to the bookmakers and put II on any
horse you NAV indicate for straight or place
Telegraph boys have been frequently arrested
for giving bogus tickets to the patrons, which
purported TO be those that were Issued by the
bookmakers. but cases OF this nature are rare
out at the local track. The temptation TO steal
is very strong at such q time and the worth of
the lads lie substantially established il they come
through with clean records.
BoGUs Fool TICKETS
speaking Of bogus tickets at race tracks. the
case Of the boys arrested last spring at Morris
Park, n. Y, is recalled. That case demonstrated
how shrewd their pernicious surroundings made
them
Their plan on the whole was an inseniously
simple one. 1t seems that a boy connected
with one Of the New York CITY Offices had beou
sent by printer TO . pool seller at the track
with package containing TO- 900 blank pool
tickets to Do used in business when necessary
The lad. With the well-lnown curiosity Of dis
trict messenger boys, had opened the package
ana had distracted sbeut 40 tickets from tie
lot. OF course among IL, oos ticksM 2Se were
net missed. The stolen Tickets were distributed
among four boys who did duty at the race
rrck. When q customer gave them an order 70
take to the pool selle1 the lads would An out
one Of the stolen tickets tust a. the boekmstsr
would have done, so that to the purchaser the
ticket looked perfectly regular. The ratio of
winning pool tickets Is said 20 be about one In
Ave. so that nearly every bogus ticket was g
blank. and the buyer. ~ long as his ticket didn {
win, was none the wiser
IN case ticket did win fits purchaser would
hurry to the betting ring. There Was . refusal
TO cash IL and Q row, but when all the tels-
graph boys were questioned all denied any
knowledge of The bogus ticket. or anv knowl-
edge of he person no held il. or Of having
been given money by him TO purchase the
ticket. As telegraph bows look ss much alike
IN uniform as two Peas In a pod. and hardly
any one thinks Of taking the number of a boy
IN case OF accident, II naturally was impossible
to tx the guilt on any particular lad. In fact.
only the other day two boys at a race track were
arrested for using bogus tickets, but both sue
ceeded in proving l. case of mistaken iden-
tity and were discharged from custody.
DELrvERED AT THE WRONG HOUSE
"a rather humorous story iu Connection with
racing, concerning two brothers. young mar
ried men Of this city, viii be in place here as
an illustration of how quick the average mos
senger boy IL TO take advantage Of an oppor-
tunity to make little money. The minds Of
the two men In question approach the solemn
problems of life in two diferent ways. One
seeks enjoyment from business cares in PLAYING
the races and 10 frequent visitor to Jackson
CITY, while the other finds rels fation in society
through this difference came q curious mis-
take. The names OF the two are singularly
similar, and SO IL happened that telegram in
tended for the lover Of the races was delivered
to the wife Of the lover Of society. Being duly
authorized she opened It in the presence Of the
messenger boy and read as follows:
"'Piay Old Jim-Jams to win
81 don't know what this means said she In
a puzzled way. Maybe Il 10 one of those cipher
dispatches that my husband occasionally re-
ceives'
Then she looked at the envelope again and
exclaimed:
That's not for US, IT IL for our brothsr-in-
law
The message was at last properly delivered.
But mean~hile the messenger boy. having
caught the tip, got some Of his comrades to-
gesher, with ss much Is els, played the horse
and won something like $65. The brother to
whom the dispatch wss intended aud who wss
finally located is said TO have pulled in some
thing like es00.
I'VE do all We can to select the most trust
worthy boys for race track business" con-
cIuded the manager. I'VE send about forty
boys daily to the track during the racing weeks
and draft them by twos and threes from the
various Offices Of our company in the city.
Naturally among these lads occasionally are
found dishonest ones, but when you think that
out Of 800 boys We employ only one or two
have been found to be dishonest, think that
we are dong pretty well under the ciroum-
stances"