The morning call., 1893-07-22
A GAMBLERS FATE
Money and Then Life and
All Is Lost.
Henry Stade AccumuIates Compe.
tence and Yet Dies Alone, For
saken and in Poverty.

Another life has been offered to the
M0loch Of stock gambling.
Hidden away in dark cellar. shut off
from the busy world, and yet very close to
mammon's S shrine. Henry Stade died. No
body knows exactly when, and apparen tly
no one cares.
In little alley, running from Summer
street underneath the California Market
and ending in cul-de-sac, Emanuel
Magg holds sole control. He is under
contract to remove the three or four tons of
garbage that accumulates each dav about
the market, large portion of which is sent
down into the dark recesses of the alley
way by means of a chute. But Maggi is
thrifty, and it has been his habit to care
fully collect all the packing-cases and
clean straw and utilize them in more hos
pitable manner than treating them as
common refuse. A small room, which
opened off the underground aleyway,
was used by him for the purpose of storing
such belongings o. this kind as he chose
to save. Naturally. the place was damp
and musty and itServed his purpose. Yes
terday afternoon an od0r Dermeated the
alIeyway so strOnrly thet Emanuel got 6
lamp and made search OF the entire
place.
g,asan s8tarin,g he little stcreroom tbe
sight that met his gaze was sufficiently
horrible to force him into tie outer air and
seek aid. stretched out upon q mass of
straw lay the body Of man in an ad-
vanced stage ef decomposition. he must
have been dead three or four weeks. Clothed
in poor attire and with all the marks of
Qd
stances the only means of Immediate iden-
tifieation had to be looked for upon his
person. A 5-cent piece. well-wOrn ring
and several other trifles conveyed nothing
In pocketbook were some papers, how
ever, that revealed the scent and the once
prosperous Henry Stade was given rest
ing place among the city's poverty-stricken
dead.
Among the papers found upon the body
was certificate (No. 5S2) for 100 shares of
Combination mining stock, the firm of
Deane, Blow 81 Co. figuring on it as trus-
tees. The date upon it was October G. 1887.
Both mine and stocKbroking firm are
passed now almost from human knowledge.
They belong to past era.
receipt for an assessment paid on fifty
shares of Andes stock and signed by Reh-
fisch 6G Co. was also evidently kept as a
mementO of bygone days, but tramisSory
note for $1,000 made by T. Won Luesecke
seemed to indicate kindness i'll re0uited.
The note was made January 3. 1881, and
fell due ninety days after date. Ten dol
lars had been paid upon 1t in 1884 and the
same amount in 1885 and that was all
Behind these fragmentary scraps of
knowledge regarding the dead man lies
story; not anything particularly startling,
but interesting again as illustrating how q
sober-minded man NAV be led to squander
his money ana wreck his manhood
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working man. He came from Hanover.
Germany, and at the date mentioned occu-
pied the position of gardener for the late
Milton S. Latham, at one time Governor
Of this State. For about three years he
remained in that gentleman's employ,
with every credit to himself. He put in a
term of service with D. w. Cbeeseman,
and later still was gardener for Henry
Schmiedell. During all this time Stada
drank nor, indeed, dissipated in any way.
When he finally left Mr.. Scbmiedell he had
anywhere from $4,000 to $4,000 to his
credit in the bank.
How it came about nobody seems to
know, but the stock-gambling craze seized
hold Of him. Those were the days when it
was quite usual for any one with spare
market did not 60 his way, and little by
little the accumulated savings OF many
years slipped through his hands. He
aw0ke one day to find him self penniless.
Whether his unlucky experience on Pine
street had soured him or not certain 1t is
that about that time Stade entered uDon
new phase of life. He would work for a
snort time in saloon or about res:
taurant, but never for long. Where thS
rear portion of Goldberg. Bowen & Lieben-
Daun's store on Pine street abuts Oh the
Calliornia Market there used, few years
ago, TO stand a very small saloon. Its
owner was close friend of Stade's. and
Ihe latter assisted for some time In rum
mug 1t. When this old landmark disap-
peafed Stade was worse off thar ever. He
WORKED for short time in the country on
farm, but he drifted cityward again.
lhough getting shabbier day by day he
never asked assistance from those who
nau known him in the past. About one
yoai ago ne made his last trade in stocks,
selnng ~ snares of Yellow Jacket through
henhscn q 20. Then he had all the appear
ance ., DeIne thoroughly debilitated and
PaItiaIy pafalyZed. A month agO-very
shortly before his death it must have
been-Otto Arnold of the London and San
francisco Bank met Stade on Montpomerv
street. He looked i'll and very shabby
but although Mr.. Arnold had known HIM
for years-ever since the time when he
was gardener for Milton s. Latham-he
passed on without word.
Very shortly aftsrward he must have
crept into the lair underneath the market
and. lulled into endless sleep by the noise
of the busy traffic overhead. have passed
earth's bonndary-line.
A Reception.
The congregation of the Twenty third
street Baptisr church will give reception
70 their pastor Rev. Robert Whitaker, In
the church onnext Monday night