The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-02-04

were $50 800, for little over eight
hours' play. From that day to the pres
ent writing no one has ever started an
unlimited game in San Francisco. In
New York about % years ago John
Morrissey and four other men put in
$4,000 apiece and ran it up to $3.50, 900,
but Ben Wood "a brother of Fernando)
broke it, and carried off $4,000 OF net
earnings.
Colonel Ross was full of dry'humor.
On one occasion in Virginia City he
WAS partner with Joe Stewart and the
late Abner Gentry. They went to bed
at 2 a, M, leaving him in possession OF
the game with $4,000 in the drawer and
$4,000 in the safe. Col. "Dick" Mesick
got in there about that time and before
daylight had won every dollar of it.
Sab" took things philosophicslly, but
Stewart was disposed to growl little.
Ssh, don't say word, Joe," said
Colonel Ross; lit gives tone to the
game"
On another occasion he and his part
ners were good deal annoyed by the
presence OF new game near by which
drew away some of their best customers.
One day "check guerrilla" came to
Colonel Ross and told him he would un-
fold plan to break up the rival concern
il Ross would give him $500. So the
colonel, who despised dirty trickery,
asked him how he proposed to effect the
destruction of Phsraoh's host.
well, I've got the combination of the
safe, sure. can get key fakir to pick
the lock of the outer door and open the
inner room where the safe is. Then
can snake the box and put pig-eyes on
the cards, and you can go in there and
break the bank without losing bet I'M
less you want to-"
Old Dick looked at him moment and
then asked:
''Do you say you can get into the
rooms. after the game is closed, without
difficulty"
The sport nodded an affirmative.
And then you know the combination
that unlocks the safe a'so?"
"Yes."
And they lock up all their money in
there along with the tools?"
The sport assented again.
"Well, if they keep all their money in
there and you know the combination
what do you want to bother me for 1?
What the DEVILS the matter with your
going ahead and stealing it?"
Rynders died in Oakland, last July,
worth about $l80.000, all of which he
bequeathed to hi5 niece who kept house
for him. He was rs years old and had
not gambed dollar for 20 years. 81
am too old to take chances" he said to
me one day on the ferryboa when
WAS 40 or 80 years old could make money
and did not fear to risk it. Now my
money is tied up in gas and water stocks,
and l don't care to disturb it,"
Moses died gambler as he had lived.
He never knew the value of money, and,
just as he began to find out that old age
and poverty were not a happy combine
ton, stroke OF paralysis carried him
off.
Ned was the black sheep of an aris-
tocratic jewish family in PHILADELPHIA
His mother was Miss Gratz, sister Of
Miss Rebecca Gratz, whose life yarn, as
told by Washington Irving to Sir Walter
| Scott, furnished that clever writer the
| foundation for Ivanhoe, the most brill
liant romance ever written.
Ross married, nearly 80 years ago, the
widow of Willis Coles, who was book
keeper in the sheriff's Office under
Charles Doane and Charles S. Ellis.
Mrs. Coles kept boarding house on
Dupont street, near Pine, then a re-
| spectacle LOCALITY. Among her boardere
were Belle and Agnes Land, now known
far and wide as Agnes Booth. There
| it was that Charles Hosmer. then rich
and prosperous merchant, met Belle
Land. She is long since dead, and may
l be permitted to repeat the old motto,
"De mortius nil nis bonum?'
Mrs. Coles was the sister of Sterling
A. Hopkins, vigilance committee po-
| lfnnx h skk ko1 i
S. Terry. then a justice of the supreme
court, and got stabbed in the neck for
his pains. David @. Broderick alone
saved Terry from being expatristed for
this and Terry showed his gratitude by
shooting Broderick dead in duel. Had
Sterling Hopkins died of his wound
David @. Broderick would have been
alive today perhaps and the best friend
the Pacific states ever could have had in
the United States senate.
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