The herald., 1895-10-13


| the wire at the bottom OF the fan and
the holder of the duplicate numb to
that on the blade scoops the pot.
The usual stake is a dollar on each
blade, but the game can be played with
out limit. Some hightiyers play 1T as
| high as $40 blade and with $40 in each
! pot the amount that can be lost or won
! in half an hour is so big that checks
| have to be given to Iiquidate debts. The
| ordinary pocket roll of the Wall street
man is not big enough for the purposes.
| One lucky chap won $500 IN an after
| moons play at the game, but this was
an unusually large sum.
Five men played the tan one whole
afternoon and none of them quit more
than $40 ahead or to the bad. Each took
a mum ber and stuck to it all through the
play. The sixth blade was left blank and
whenever it won a jackpot was made,
the stakes being doubled. The advant-
age of this game is that there is no kitty
to be fed, no room rent to pay and the
PLAYERS are absolutely certain OF an hon.
est deal.
Isidor Wormser and his diamond offer
fruitful field for the men who like to
gamble. MIR. Wormser mas a collection of
diamonds second to none IN the street.
The headlights he wears In his shirt front
have been the subject of many wsird
tales. 1t is asserted that he can walk
along a dark street night time and read
a newspaper with ease by the light of his
sparklers.
Sometimes Mr.. Wormser comes to town
with only ten diamonds on his person.
Again he appears with sixty. On the lat
ter occasions his Jewels are of the clus-
ter variety. Pools of ten are formed on
the number of'diamonds the banker will
wear. 1t costs IS to buy chance in this
pool and the man who comes nearest the
mum Der POCKETS the pool.
f1pnuht ha uould md n q
clever job on his friends, and get sure
thing on the pools. He walked over to
the IL station at which Mr.. Wormser
boards the downtown train and rode
down town with him. While chatting
about business matters the clever man
made a careful count of all the Wormser
diamonds, and secure with this informa-
ton prepared for q grand coup.
For The sake of enlarging the pool and
drawing others in, he bouhgt three num-
bers, one representing the number of his
actual count. There was S175 in the pot
that morning ami the schemer hugged
himself with joy. Visions of doing the
same thing every morning and reaping
untold wealth passed before him. Hs
felt as if he had discovered gold mine.
When Mr.. Wormser appeared on change
there was the usual rush TO see the off,
cial count of the gems. The clever man
alomst tainted when he saw the banker.
On the third finger of each hand was
cluster ring that he did not have on dur
ing the ride down town. That Knocked
his chances. into smithereens, as il sent
the total twenty-four above his "sure
thing" count. 1t seems that Mr.. Worm ser
keeps quite a stack OF diam onds in pri-
vate drawer in the office safe, so that he
can readily increase or diminish the
number OF his gems. This the clever
man did not know. He acknowledges
now that to beat the Wormser diamond
game is almost an impossi bility.
The jumping bean is nice game that
is as exciting as horse racing. In fact, it
is more so. as there ls absolutely no
means of getting line on which way the
bean will jump. The players of this
game enter their beans just as horse
owners do fer sweepstakes. The bean
is the little South American affair with
a tiny worm inside. The squirming o.
the worm makes the bean jump one way
or the other The bean with the liveliest
worm stands the best chance of winning,
as it gets over the most ground.
The game is playeo in this way: A
circle about an inch IN diameter is
drawn in the center of a large sheet of
white paper. Another circle. six inches
away from the other, is drawn. The big
| outside circle is the starting line and the
| little circle is the finish. The bean that
| lands inside the small circle first is the
| winner. 1t costs 81 to enter bean In
| this race, but when two beans are making
about equal headway for the small circle
| big bets are often made as to which will
win. If the bean jumps the wrong way
and insists upon going in an opposite di-
rcetion to the small circle, che owner can
lift it back to the starting line. But nc
bean can be touched after it has once
starred in the right direction.
Another form of pool gam bling which
| is the favorlte system among the Wall
street men, as there is a chance of a big
winning for small Investment, is on
the numebr of shares that will be dealt
in during the day. Each chance costs 81,
and sometimes there is as much as $500
IN the pot. The winner of this feels that
be has done pretty good days business.
Since the advent of the bicycle craze
many of the brokers have taken to rid.
ing the wheel. and now they buy theil
wheels on the gam bling plan. Thi:
scheme is not confined to Wall street
alone, but it has attained the height o.
its popularity there. This is the way
they do it;
A cloth bag is filled with slips of paper
mum bered from 1 TO $50. A man thrust;
his hand in and pulls out number. II
the number is l, he plays one cent int
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