The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-15
IS A SQUARE GAMBLER.
"BuCkSkin Alice" Of Denver and Her
Remarkable Career.

For Fifteen Years She Has Made q
Living on One or other Side Of the
Green-Covered Table, Meantime Ed
ucatinR Her Two Children.
From the St. Louis Republic
Mrs. Alice Ramsey, well-known in
many a western mining camp as one of
the nerviest gamblers ever known in that
section, paid a recent visit to Denver, the
first in some years. Mrs. Ramsey long
ago came to be known as "Buckskin
Alice" an appellation not at all fitting
to the peculiar piece of femininity who
bears it. She was thus named by the
miners of Leadville when the city was at
the zenith of its prosperity, the reason
for the nickname being found in a suit of
buckskin in which she was then wont TO
appear while "bucking the tiger"
The Uenderfoot who first hears Of her
exploits and her odd nickname naturally
expects to see muscular sort of an in
dividual with qualities and manners be-
fitting woman who has had to deal with
the toughest members Of the male sex on
the western bOrders-a big Amazonlc
kind of a female, uncouth in her bearing
and with many marks Indicative Of her
thinks the stranger, could not but leave
its impress firmly and prominently upon
every line of her features and render APP
parent at glance the manner of living
Naturally he couples with these charac-
teristics a large, coarse frame, sur
mounted by a big masculine head
Nothing could be further from the truth,
as was found by a correspondent who
called at her hotel in Denver on the oc-
casion Of Mrs. Ramseys recent visit to
that city. Instead of the raw and uncul-
tured specimen of the female sex which
he had anticipated he found a modest and
unassuming little woman, gentle TO a
marked degree and rather refined in her
instincts. Mrs Ramsey is trifie below
medium stature ana POSSESSES handsome
figure.
Alice is a confirmed gambler, and has
actually made a liviug-aud a good one,
too-at this precarious calling for years.
She is entirely free from the disagreed bic
prOcliviJies of the ordinary female with a
spOrtive turn TO "Buckskin Alice"
such tendencies are as repulsive as TO any
mother in the city But she has an IN
comfortable passion for risking her cash
on the turn of Inc card, which She does
wi h as much nerve and skill as the most
accomplished male member Of the frater-
nifty. To her the merry chink Of chips as
they are deftly stacked on nine spot OF
a faro layout, or are nervously fingered
by the excited player. is sweeter music
than the most delightful strains born Of
PadereWsks' magic touch or drawn forth
by "A Sousa's wOndrous band. The dun
whirr OF the roulette wheel as IL spins
about, and then with the dropping OF the
bali which decides the fate Of the money
on the board, In itself monotonous
and disagreeable is TO "BucksNIn
Alice" most enhancing melody.
Alice is mistress OF aluOso every kIuu O.
game. but her chief source Of pleasure is
The festive draw, which she plays with
the knowledge of the fine points Of a
Hoyle and the dash and spirit Of Billy
Doutsch She can sit IN a game Of draw
as long as the best OF them and has dealt
this game, as well as faro, many time In
the mining camps and frontier towns
During her varied career 81 ups and
downs Mrs. Ramsey has come ln contact
With every class Of society from the most
exclusive circles Of So. Louis itself-lu
which city she was born down 20 the