The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-02-12

There IL story to the effect that John
Chamberlain, the Washington City hotel
keeper, once won $780, 900 from Morrissey
ut this same club house. but as l did not
see the performance l cannot vouch for
II. saw Jack Haverly. the genial the
hours at Hartford, Conn, in 1855.
He had dropped" $4,000 during the
day on his favorite trotter Trou badour,
and tried to win out at night. also saw
Tom Mulqueen win $2l.0o0 at Denver
few years before on 500 investment;
Tom lived at Leadville then. and had
s.gone broke" He came to Denver to bor-
row 81, 900. and by mere accident met a
friend who owed him $500 and repaid the
loan. Tom was not compelled to borrow
that s., 600. Neither did he 60 back to
LeadvilIe. He staid in the spot where he
s'struck i!e."
Ex-Assemblyman Thomas P. Walsh,
than whom no manlier man. truer friend
or gamer sport ever breathed, once upon
time bucked the tiger with varying sue
cess. He has won and lost fortunes. His
greatest feat was to tackle John Morrissey,
Al his Broadway game. some twenty years
ago for a thirty hours sitting. lie lost
$4,000 and retired beaten. but not dis
mayed. He returned for another bout
with the tiger the following day. Fatty
dropped $20,O 900 more and then left Nor
rissey's tiger tor the more congenial one
In the Tammany Wigwam. Politics has
ever since engrosscd his attention.
have endeavored thus far to depict with
perfect fairness the ups and downs Of q
shadows. ] will now digress for moment
and attempt to show the mental and physi-
cal makeup of gambler. to portray the
qualities which go to make success. A
gambler, like q poet. Is born, not made.
The instinct Of gambling il inbred. 1t is
never product Of cultivation. Nature 30
ordsins il that the gambler shall be man
Of bod, venturesome spirit. iron nerve and
perfect health. Without the first two of
these qualities no one can be successful in
games OF chance, and even the last named
Il most desirable blessing. Men devoid
Of these qualities soon feel the wear and
tear Of play. the tremendous stress upon
the nerves and the fever engendercd by
the excitement Of the game. In q short
time they become unstrung. and they lose
that calm eQuipoise % necessary to sue
cess. II they continue to follow the bent
Of their inclinations they are sure to go
broke. physically aud mentally as well as
financially. Nature will not stand tho
draft drawn upon her. Now, all OF the great
gamblers whom have mentioned in the
first part Of this article have conquered
fortune because they possess in the highest
degree the attributes Of character now
under discussion. They also possess an
other quality, which in a gambler I con-
tend il necessary to success. Tn at is a no
bility Of nature which il incapable OF
meanness of any kind. do not apply
this rule to civilians generally, because We
oil know that in ordinary walks of life a
man can win fame (of kind) or accumu-
late wealth by deceiving his sellow-man.
A gambler cannot do il. His fellow
gamblers are sharper than most people.
and soon find him out. Fortune cannot
always be kind to him, and if he once gets
down he can never rise again.
Now, with gamblers believe that their