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clipper as ever before, and since the epi
sode mentioned he has never been known
to have been within haillng distance of
his uppers.
At Saratoga Grannan's s Success has been
simply marvellous. His winnings in a
single day have been known to have ex-
oeeded 10000 Fiction does not record
SO wonderful q career.
The recent unsuccessful attempt Of Pres
ident Walbaum to run Grammar of the
Saratoga track is we'll known.
What the young plunger will do in the
future is purely problematical, but the
long heads On the turf predict that he will
come to grief.
4 Modest Pittsburg Phil.
Pittsburg Phil is modest young man
and objects to the notoriety he has gained
by reason Of his success
"Why should be picked out for a mark
and my actions SO faithfully chronicled"
this young man has frequently asked.
Phil came from good old Revolutionary
stock, one Of his ancestors having owned O
bull that was captured by General Wash
ington at Valley Forge. His ambition
broke through the restraints OF factory
drudgery, and he nibbled at the golden
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bait hung out by the poolrooms OF the
Smoky City.
Fortune or good Judgment favored the
young speculator from the start Of his
meteoric career, and the luck-as 1t is
called-that pursued him soon gave him a
local reputation that was greatly enhanced
when the poolroom owners, having learned
to respect his money, decided to bar him
from .Aeir resorts
Cast out In the world, with nothing to
spend but money, Phil went to Chicago,
and again he duplicated his phenomenal
success and brought down on his young
head the wrath Of the Windy City pencil.
ers. Phil was too big for Chicago and
came to New York.
The Pittsburg Phil or George E. Smith
of today is clean cut young man, always
well but not extravagantly dressed, affable
with friends, but not at all forward. In
the evenings he frequently drops into the
cafe of the Sturtevant House and studies
the entry card for the morrow's races
At such times he is surrounded by sew
eral friends, who carefully treasure the
suggestions the young plunger makes and
invariably follow his advice. Phil will
sip seltzer or light beer at these informal
conferences, but he is not man to drop
into dissipation.
On the race track Phil flocks by him.
self, as the saying goes, and depends upon
his own reasoning to draw conclusions
He is frequenter Of the paddock and an
excellent judge Of form If he has one
weakness, it is the control sentiment ex.
ercises over his reasoning faculties. This
has cropped out recently in the determine
tion he has shown to make winning
jockey out of the imported article known
as Swash. His vain pursuit of gain
through Derfargilla may have been the re-
suit of sentiment, or maybe it was o series
of errors in judgment.
Phil has prospered finely and now owns
nice home in Harlem. At the close Of
the racing season Of 1899 he was reputed
to DO worth $500, 600. His rapid climb to
tho realms wherein millionaires swarm
was checked when he became the owner
of q racing stable. 1t appeared that the
possession of bang tails had bad inau.
ence on his reasoning powers, and the re-
suit was that during the last season he
was generally credited with having lost
about 100000. This may or may not be
true
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-09-01
STREET MUSIC.

of the carriage unstrapped a mandolin
from his back. Soon the great crowd was
listening to Summer Will Come Again, "
which the young woman sung with all
the grace of professional, being accom-.
panied by the occupant of the carriage on
the mandolin, which he handled in really
excellent style. Several songs followed, the
couple being handsomely repaid by the
hotel guests The sweet faced young wom-
an and the invalid carriage with its bur.
den then proceeded on. Few who saw the
couple knew that they were husband and
wife. Harry L. Blake is the name of the
mandolin player, says The Enquirer. He
is about 40 years of age, while his wife is
at least 20 years his junior. He was a
brakeman for the Oregon Navigation rail
road company and lost leg while en-
ployed by that company, besides sustain
ing other injuries. They have travelled all
over the country, he and his wife enter
tanning thousands in their travels.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-09-01
Why Senator Hearst Believed in Luck.

Why Senator Hearst Believed In Luck.
"The late Senator Hearst once told me,
said newspaper man, "he regarded his
possession of an immense fortune nothing
less than miracle. was forty-nine years
DID," he said, "when the row made over
the discovery of the Comstock silver mines
set the whole coast wild. l had been dis
appointed in the work had been at, and
found myself pretty nearly broke. had
enough to buy horse and the outfit, and
started over the mountains from Califor
mia with the boys. That broke me, and
wasn't feeling happy, because I'd worked
and struggled and speculated good many
years, and it struck me as rather rough
that man of my age should have to start
out, as l did then, like young fellow
There were about ten or twelve of us in
the party, and as l was blue they let me
alone rather, and my mustang being worn
down stopped on the trail, put my arm
through the bride and picked out q rock
to sit on.
"The rest of the boys rode on, but / sat
there. There wasn't any reason why
should particularly, only did. The whiI
l had was a willow switch I'd pulled
from tree as | rode along. AS | sat
there 1 switched the dust of the trail and
thought, shall go with them or shall go
go backp l switched and switched, and
thought and thought. l saw behind me
all the hard work I'd DONE all the chances
I'd taken and lost on, and felt old and used
up and no good. Ny sense told me to turn
back and make my fight where l was
known. There was safety in that anyway.
"But I'd been camping night after night
with the boys ahead of me, and it made me
lonesome to think of parting company with
them. So after switching and switching
the dust on the trail, and feeling weak and
human because yielded, l mounted my
horse again end road on after the party.
got to the Comstock, and in six months
made half million dollars. That is the
foundation of what I've done since. Now,
why shouldn't have turned back when
hesitatedS 1t would have been sensible,
conservative to do that. But I didD,t.
and because didn't won. If you're ever
inclined to think there's no such thing as
luck just think Of me. ."-St. Louis Globe.
Democrat.
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Beecher Died Laughing.

When Henry Ward Beecher was dying
he broke out into loud and continuous
laughter.
"What is it, Mr.. Beecheri" asked his
wife as she bent over him.
"Oh, oh, oh, had such q funny dream.
/ saw such queer things. Ha, ha, ha; 1t
makes me laugh to think about it. Such
funny dream"
Then the dying preacher, still struggling
with his mirth, sank into that sleep which
has no dream. Detroit Free Press,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-09-01
HE HAS FACED DEATH
Postmaster Hesing, of Chicago, Has
Had Five Narrow Escapes from
an UntimelY Tomb.

"When boy, at the unlucky age OF
49," said Postmaster Hesing Of Chicago
to Tribune reporter the other day, II
had my first encounter with possible death
My mother had started to put me in
school In Germany, and we took passage
across the Atlantic on a sailing vessel.
We were 81 days out, and when off the
coast Of Newfoundland suddenly found
ourselves befogged and hemmed in by ice
bergs. For 80 hours the ship drifted help
lessly, and every moment we expected to
bo ground between the icebergs that we
knew were towering above us, but which
we could not see. Women were ON their
knees crying and praying, and can dis
tinctly recollect tho feeling Of relief when
the fog lifted and we had an unobstructed
sea before us.
Il camc back from my trip to Germany
in 1861 and then had even worse expe-
rience. My mother was again with me,
and we had taken passage on the steamer
Bremen. Before we were half way over
we encountered terrific storm. The life
boats wero swept away, the masts were
broken and carried away, three or four
sailors were washed overheard, and final
ly the captain announced that there was
no hope of reaching harbor, and we had
best prepare for the worst We were saved
as by a miracle
"The third time that / faced death was
on my wedding trip. With party Of
friends my wife and had assembled Mount
Vesuvius to view the crater and were de-
scending in carriage. The whiflietrees
broke and the carriage became uncontrol-
liable in its descent until it was miracu-
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-09-01
MEN OF NERVE
FROM THE TURF
PlunserS Grammar and Plttsburg Phil De-
SCrlbed Just as They Are.
MONTE CRTTOS OF BOOKMAKERS
Grammar Backs His Own Opinions and
Wins or Loses Indifferenty-Pitts-
burg Phl's Up and Down Career.
Two Remarkable Gamblers Por-
traYed with a Fidelity That Shows
Both Sides of the Picture in Vivid
Outlines,
For The Saturdoy Tribune.

! Such frail looking boyl Riley Gran
nan, the new plunger at horse racing, has
not yet reached his twenty-fourth year.
His small dark eyes seem to laugh at the
awful thinness and anxiety of his face.
Although he is about feet ~ inches In
height, he cannot weigh more than 1s6
pounds.
AS he lifts his hat for moment he
shows fairly well balanced head, but
neither his forehead nor his features gen.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-09-01
CARD SHARPERS.
How Three Clever Rogues FIeeced
Wealthy Business Men in the
Worlds Fair City.

Albert Guyon, Benjamin Norris and
Charles Dunno are as clever trio of card
sharpers as ever manipulated deal. For
months they have just been reveling In
the unsophisticated city of Chicago, but
the police found it extremely hard to get q
case against them. They carefully picked
out prominent men in business for victims,
who would not care to obtain the notori-
ETY. that would attend their prosecuting
the gang. By selecting such citizens as
preferred losing thousand or two to hay
ing the world know they had been robbed
at poker the trio was safe, and great havo
been the profits. They snapped their fingers
at the police, who, in the absence of
complaint, were poweriess in the matter,
and lived on the top shelf, and it was not
until recently that they were arrested.
Morris Is the steerer. He lounges about
fashionable hotels and makes 1t a point to
scrape an acquaintance with well to do
men who have the appearance of liking a
hand at cards. He tells them of an "easy
game he got into the other night" and
how much he pulled out Of it. Then an
invitation is offered the sucker" and If
he accepts he is bound to be sorry. Dunno
is the dealer, and Guyon makes the fourth
hand in the game. Within the last six
months these rogues have made fortune.
NJ. L. Sanford of 3S Wabash avenue is
recent victim. The gang played poker
with him and took over 5000 from him.
A. Fredericks is another loser to the ex-
tent &C s225. c. S. Stokes, the bicycle
manufacturer, paid $1,000 for his ac-
quaintance with the trio. Frank Avery,
o business man, lost similar amount
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Sanso-Honesty should be the best
policy.
Rodd-C Certainly; but why do you say SOP
Sanso--Because it hasn't been used
enough to make 1t the worse for wear
Munsey's Weekly.
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The wearing of rings by men should be
a matter of careful consideration. They
should be distinctly masculine in type.
The deep setting should be usually fol-
lowed. The high feminine settings to
show of the iewelsis of course offensive.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-09-01
ONE WAY TO LIVE.
Woman's Loyalty Is Well Illustrated in
the Case of This Handsome
Street Singer.

A comfortably constructed invalid car
riage, pushed by a sweet faced young
woman who would have been taken for a
daughter Of the occupant Of the carriage
rolled up ON the pavement in front of the
Sixth street entrance to the Palace hotel
Cincinnati, the other evening. The corri.
dor of the hotel and tho pavement were
thronged with guests of the hotel All
were watching this curious couple. The
carriage stopped, and the young woman
took position alongside it. The occupant
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-09-01
Ages of Wen Known People.

From Echols' American Celebrities we
learn the ages of certain persons, to wit:
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, 55; Mary Ander-
son. 80; Susan B, Anthony. IL Maurice
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orally indicate that ruggedness OF charac-
ter which one would look for in man
who could carve success out of such bust
ness as bookmaking.
Only five years ago this boy was run
ming an elevator in Louisville hotel.
Starting out with q capital of So, he Is
now master of bank account that could
not be bought for S250,000
Many Of the old "bookies" say it's all
''luck," but pluck and good Judgment
have really carried this young fellow to
the top of the gambling ladder.
"I've told my story so often" he said to
a reporter the other day, THAT it's thread
bare. There's nothing left to tell. You
know this business. Today you are up.
Tomorrow you are down. l have won
thousands on race. on an idea, senti
ment, liking for horse's performance or
whatever you like to call 1t. Again, have
lost thousands on what is called inside in
formation Judgment doesn't go far, as
a rule, in horse racing, yet without its ex-
ercise bettors go broke There you are
three points, sentiment, knowledge and
Judgment, and in my case the greatest of
these has been sentiment"
just then the race was started, and
Grammar quietly seized pair OF field.
glasses and seemed to watch each horse
every foot Of the way.
Here's where he gets his best points"
said one of his friends. ''Hc caught $780,
600 in single race in Morris park this
spring from q previous days watching.
He caught $12, 900 at one coup at Graves
end in the same way. Here he has cashed
tickets outside Of his book winnings for
$50, 0,000."
Grammar first sprang into prominence
two years ago in the west, where he man
aged to run q shoestring into $50, 900.
This was the beginning Of his sensational
turf operations, for he at once proceeded
to electrify the ring by his wild wagers
and managed 20 part with his earnings
in about as short time as 1t took him to
gain them.
Last spring ne appeared on the block at
Shoepshead Bay, and at that time he was
reputed to have $780, 900 behind his game.
He quickly became notorious by reason of
what his fellow bookmakers called his
rashness at laying odds. But he prosper
ed, and because Of the advantageous fig
ures he chalked up he won big play.
Grammar had heard much of the plung-
ing of M. +. Dwyer and yearned for his
Hlay. He said many things about the turf
Aagnate calculated to provoke him into
tting duel The first round resulted
lictory for the Kentucky youth, and
ttened his roll with $4,000 of Mr..
PRS money.
(apid interchange of courtesies fol-
with varying success to each par
pit, but one day Dwyer laid $50, 600
pnan's book on Stonenelle, and Ri
temporarily swamped. In few
pnan was back ON tho block as
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-09-01
HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS

VNHE ELK CAFE, l25 and l27 Franklin ave.
Il nue.. Rates reasonable.
The morning call., 1894-06-28
THE BREAD WE EAT.

The consolidation Of the leading -four
mills will probably be followed by the
adoption of new improvements in the
manufacture of -four. Our mills have
already made a reputation which has
secured for them preference in European
markets over Minnesota flour, but they
do not claim to have reached perfection :;
and bread-eaters are now becoming so
choice that nothing but the best kinds of
-four sell. In France there is scale of
grades by which -four is tested; -four
which Is not classed as belonging to the
high grades is not easily marketed.
Housekeepers who bake at home buy
from the grocer a sack of -four, which is
made into loaves as long as it lasts. Bakers
use several kinds of -four, which they
blend in certain fixed proportions: the
rule is that two brands of spring wheat
should be mixed with one brand Of winter
wheat. But every baker has bis own
rules for blending. Some will only use
the product of certain well-known mills
and weigh oat the ingredients of each
batch of loaves as carefully as if they
were medicines. This care is rewarded
by a steady fidelity among customers !;
people who get accustomed to one kind OF
II
who gets q reputation for making very
choice bread is master of the situation and
can command his own rate of wages.
Graham bread. which is achieving a de-
served popularity. is made from the entire
grain of the wheat ground up together so
as to include the gluten. All white bread
contains some gluten, about 50 per cent be-
| ing white wheat -four and 10 per cent Ora
| ham -four, but doctors generally advise in
vaIids to eat what is specifically known as
Graham bread in preference 10 white
bread. There is lady in New York who
makes good living by baking Graham
bread. She gets her -four. which is ground
| by particular process, from the Genesee
mills, she makes it according to a recipe of
her own and bakes it herself Each loaf
as 1t comes out OF the oven is wrapped in
paper. sealed. labeled and dated. She sx-
plains that this is done to project the crust
from contact with dirty hands. For these
loaves the demand is so eager that she can
not supply it though she charges her own
price.
Rye bread is made of rye. either whole
or sifted. Ordinary rye bread in this
The morning call., 1894-06-28
CA ASiMIR-PE

The French Parliament elected NJ.
Casmir-Perer President yesterday. 1t is
generally admitted that the new French
President is what is termed a strong man.
He is not one Of the colorless candidates
whose election would possess DO other
meaning than that France had secured a
nominal head to the Government. Unless
responsibility temDers the mind and pur-
pose OF the new President. his election
means a firm policy, both at home and
abroad. The anarchists who imagined
Carnot TO be in their way will find an
even sterner foe to deal with. A Paris
dispatch says that Casmir-Perier repre-
sents both the bourgeoisie and aristocratic
society. Ills political ideas are illustrated
by the remark that in America he would
pass for an old-fashioned Whig. When he
was Premier he showed vigor in the eff
fort to suppress unlawful gatherings that
won him the support Of Conservatives and
the Extreme Right. OF course, the Radi-
Gals regarded him as the least acceptable
of the candidates presented. His election
was a declaration, not against anarchy,
for such declaration was not needed, but
against anarchists. 1t means that the
active foes of organized society are to be
hunted down.
Iu a general sense, Casmir- Perier has
been considered in this country as the
representative of the war party in France.
This impression has doubtless been cre-
sted by certain force OF character ex-
hibited by him in President Carnot's Cab
met.
But the close political relations he held
with Carnot imply conservatism in respect
10 foreign relations as we'll as domestic
affairs. His recent resignation of the
premiership was thought at the time to
indicate differences between the Preside {
and his Prime Minister. but it is more
likely that as an aVowed candidate for the
Presidency at the expiration of earn ot's
term. he preferred to sever relations with
the Carnot administration. If in his polit-
ical character he bears any marked re-
semblance to American Wings, he GER
tainly should not be considered as in
fayor Of the next war on general principles.
The morning call., 1894-06-28
DON CAMERON ON SILVER.

There is now and then an act performed
by public man which seems inspired by
high sense of duty. Such an act is
Senator Cameron's advocacy of bimetal-
lism. In so doing he comes cut of his
class and the financial atmos phere be
breatbes. A large capitalist himself,
one would say that his interests
would keep him in line with other capital
ists' He would imagine that there was, at
least, profit for him in making money
dearer. Pennsylvania is always counted
as a gold State. All its leading news
papers are for gold. Even the Democratic
Record, OF which Colonel Singerly is
editor and proprietor, finds a difficulty in
admitting that friend of free coinage
may be both honest and intelligent
In his letter to the National Republican
League convention in session at Denver,
Mr. Cameron places silver first among
political issues. To the demonstration of
silver he traces the present industrial de-
preston. "Ihe single gold standard" he
says, seems to Us to be working ruin and
violence that nothing can Withstand"
Again ne says: Yet if England succeeds
IN her obstinate effort to destroy the value
of silver for coinage, nothing can save us
from papeF." The kind OF paper" be
refers to is fat money. paper which is not
redeemabIe in anything. Paper nominally
redeemable in gold, but practically ire
deemable for the lack Of sufficient gold, is,
as Dir. Cameron says, the fOrerunner Of
irredeemab!e paper.
How close We are now to a currency
practically irredeemable may be perceived
in the fact that the treasury is carrying
$500, ,000,0 in treasury notes and $780,
100000 in silver in one form and another
on less than $4,000, 600 IN gold. President
Cleveland has just declared it to be the
unalterable purpose OF the administration
to "keep the quality Of our money at the
best" which means that all other kinds of
money shall be ultimately redeemed in
gold. How this is to be done no one pre-
tends to know. By the simple process of
presenting currency at the treasury the
less than s70000,000 now available to
redeem silver with may be drawn out.
Partial payment in silver seems the only
resource iU case of run on the treasury.
The morning call., 1894-06-28
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.

The COlusa Sun expresses an appre-
hension that California may not be better
served 10y a successor Of the Southern Pa
cifc Company than it is by that company.
TIE Sun wants 10 know If ii would be
better TO have a New York or Boston
company own the roads and take all the
profits out OF the State. In point of fact
the bonds which have been issued against
the Southern Pacific system absorb all the
profits under the present management II
the high transportation rates collected
were invested in the State, the exorbitant
charges with which Industries are now
burdened would be OF some benefit TO the
people at large. But nothing is dis
tributed in the state except for necessary
labor and supplies. The people are con-
stantly reminded that the company cannot
afford to do this thing and that thing
which ought to be done. The immense
drain imposed by the necessity to pay In
terest on the bonds keeps rates high and
the company poor. 1t cannot reduce the
interest account by one dollar, but when
reductions must be made the employees
suffer. Now a word about these bonds.
1t is known that they were issued largely
in excess of the cost of the road. A sec
tion which cost $4,000 a mile wonld be
bonded at $4,000. The $4,000 in excess
is supposed to have been divided among
the projectors. Some of these bonds have
been sold abroad, and others have been
hypothecated for cash. Whether sold or
hypothecared, the interest must be paid.
The money extracted from California in
excess of the reasonable cos: of service
goes to pay these bonds, half of which is
water. The proposition now is to make
the portions of the system which was built
with public money pay its debts If the
road cannot pay, the creditors will take
what property is in sight and devise legal
measures to collect the balance from the
men and the estates that have absorbed the
Government subsidy. When a mortgage
on farm is foreclosed the mortgager does
not get release for his debt on the ground
that his successor may be worse farmer
than himself.