The herald., 1894-03-11
PART II-PAGES 9 TO 16.
A BOOM TIME STORY.
How An Adroit Use Of Blank Checks
Planned Out.

How An Adroit Use OF Blank Checks
Pannsd Out.
NOW and then l hear some one de-
clare that man has monumental gall,
but the fellow using the term has no
conception of its significance. He SIM
ply means it's case of extraordinary
cheek"
1t was a Cincinnati man stopping for
a day or two in Detroit, says the Free
Press, who spoke az above, and when
asked what he knew about "monu-
mental gall, )" he replied:
II Was travelling in California during
the great boom, and one day got around
to Los Angeles and met q chap who
used to be in the furniture business in
my town. He had arrived only the day
before and was fat broke. AS he had
put up at the best hotel thought that
was = case OF monumental GALL but be
hadn't begun to show his nerve yet.
After bit he came to me and wanted to
know ii had any blank checks on east-
ern banks. | had checks on Cincinnati,
Chicago, St. Louis and Toledo, and gave
him six or eight. Everybody was wild
over real estate, and this man took
walk around and got options on three
OlACiOnb AObb1 klfink lllu OlOCh AOt 6SOoh
$l5,0 900 in each case. Some one went up
to the hotel to ask about him, and he
turned around and took au option on
the oaravansary at $3.50 coo for 10 days.
''He wrote out a check for $25, 900 as
cool as you please, and within the next
"a hours had options on the beat bar
gains in town. / gave him dozen
checks in all. and he filed 'em out for
about $3.50, 900. II any of the banks had
been telegrsp phed to he would have been
dished. but he had a way with him
which seemed TO sRtify verybody that
he WAS heeled and was working for a
tenstrike. saw him fill out a check
for $50, 900 and shake it under the nose
of q man who had been Offering nice
bit of land for SAT 900. He scared the
man half to death for a minute, and
then be rushed out and put the price at
500, 5,000."
''But he couldn't really buy any
land ?'
"He didn't want to. He was giving
that locality specimen OF monumental
gall The people we're up oD cheek,
but had never seen face OF hammered
brass. What dye think he did? I'll
tell you straight, and I'll give you
the names of parties to write to il you
doubt my word. Before single one of
his options expired he aold them gut to
a new crowd, and in eight days he had
cleared $4,000 in as good gold as Cali
fornia ever mined.
"Fhe owner of the hotel gave him
$4,000 and his worthless cheeks in my
presence, and felt 80 good over it that he
opened the champagne and brought out
some cigars worth dollar each"
And didn't you make anything ?"
mot blamed red Say, that cues
even depended ON me for his Scent
cigars for tour or five days, aud l sat
around like q bump or log and saw
him rake in fine fortnnel He got out
OF the thing slick and clean without a
suspicion. while had to telegraph home
for miserable little $500, and the land
lord had man Watching me for three
or four days to see that L didn't jump
my bill Pve got cheek enough TO carry
me along pretty comfortably, but when
it comes to monumental galP Pm way
down the hall. I-n sed 10 mix the terms,
but don't any moro. Any fool can
nave cheek, but the other stuf is only
to be found in chain lightning sort OF
man"