The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-11-09
BIG BETTING AT THE END.
MANY MEN At THE HOFFMAN HOUSE
BACK THEIR OPINIONS.


Money Wasered ss Late as . O'Clock Last
Night ON MsIori,ies ia Th,. ana Other
3 a'es and Also on the General Result
A long hotel corridor. with raudily painted
walls. ornamented with noted pictures By
famous masters. Fill this corridor with
pushing. suralng. struggling mass OF people.
Scatter among this thronC hundreds Of the
bcst-known men In Now York. String along
the walls the shrewdest detectives from the
big white building In Mulberry street. Pic.
ture men with damaged silk hats. rent over.
coats. frnyed collars and torn ties. struggling
and shouting. with hands hold aloft clutchins
big wads of bank notes. FIJI this'corridor with
noise and din that tho savage Carthaginia
OF Hamilcar never oaualed.
When you havo done this you have before
you the corridor OF the Hoffman House as it
was last night. There havo been times during
the campaign when large sums Of money were
wagered and when big crowds surRed to and
fro in the tiled corridor. But last night sur
passed all previous times Money In qunnti-
ties unlimited sought takers OF bets OF almost
any nature. Mon rushed here and there.
eager to place their banknotes at well. nigh
any risk.
A close observer Of the bettors remarked
TINT never before had he seen crowd OF spec.
ulators no matter how shrewd they might
have been. who gagged the run OF tho election
and anticipated the news 80 accurately as did
the crowd last night. Al Voorhis started the
evening betting ut 6:15 o'clock. He wagered
%@ via syn Won hs bc Ct George
Hardly had this bet been made when from
s ssTss" wan men p s1%S Ge e 5000 the
s Smith bet EookmakSr Mahoney even
slaesd 5000. He rot two Il so f bets % "ne
S %sI a. and s,0 one s$Doo bet that Cleveland
$50 bots that cleveland would Win. '-" WV
fhs PARTIES Hn H said th9t Pm
the st. james Hotel ~ the same me- neops. '' a.
srai result. At ociesk to i" was H asked ask i' !y
,eS s,Gn men Sn yen.s ke RTyss
o'clock the betting turned suddenly to tlevo-
lands sa, majority in ri; Sty Sol ticLensfsin
this city. With even money on $1,000 major.
plunged heavily. taking ali the bots. they could
them to nns k 5P tS $780, 400
smith offered $1,000 .ysn that Cisyolsnd
m mould h wss o9S majority in this city His
There were elearllytwo rings betting against
eG ors al fSs Ss bs in
majority staggered the smaller bookmaksrs.
They asked for even money on 1900 MAJOR
ity. They got It: Then tho big men offered
amount that Clevelant'a majority in this city
would MOI. exceed 1900. They offered any
number OF $4,000 bets that tho majority
would be within 1000 Of their figures
Tho smaller hookmakerR got scared and
money on 5000 majority for Cleveland. TheV
got It. Tim Mnhoney made two bets. one OF
$500 and ono Of 81 200. that Cleveland wonld
carry the State by 5000. Then 10000 majority
was asked and granted. G. II. Bancroft bet
$l.OOO with Aiahoney on that majority. Othor
asked for l5.OOo. then 10000. then 10000
majority. They got even money on that. and
there we're more offers than they could cover.
weakened. and disappeared. wondering what
combination they had been bucking against