The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-12-01
From the New York Pres

to the Ceiling, and He Went ANA
Won Clean TO the Top.
From the New York Press.
Seattle, Wash. Nov 12.-For a whole
twelve months the faro dealers of Seattle
have been waiting and watching for him.
For the man with the wind-tanned face.
and the grave quiet eyes who one day
fifteen years ago came down from the gold
fields of Alaska and broke every little sill
yer faro bank in this little faro ridden
town. Once a year since that night when
he came in with shoestring and went
out with rolls" the man with the wind
tanned face returned to Seattle searching
for the Golden Fleece that he had found
fifteen years ago and lost again. 1t has
eluded him ever since. Sometimes he has
had it almost within his grasp, but each
time it has slipped out and he has gone
home with his little satche empty. He is
a strange character even in this young
land, where strange characters are COM
mon, and his failure to make his custom
airy pilgrimage this year has awakened in
the minds of the veteran dealers the MEM
DRY of the time when he broke the town"
1t was in the old days, or the new days,
rather, when Seattle was flushed with her
first prosperity. and was playing the host
for all the tin-horn gamblers and thimble-
riggers and eastern black sheep that came
within her gates. They were wild and bois-
ferrous days of affluence until he came; and
then they didn't fully recover from the
shock for two months
He was different from the regular pa
irons of the joints. If he carried a gun
he never exposed it, and he showed a dis
tresSinS want of taste in the diamonds
which he did not wear. When he walked
into the saloon where, right opposite the
bar, the biggest game in town was dealt,
and in his quiet voice asked what the
| limit was, the lookout smiled and the
dealer pointed TO the ceiling. 1t was an
old pantomine and he understood it. To
ask the limit was either a greenhOrn's
trick or a would-be sports attempt to
| plunge, and when he placed only a ten
| spot on the high card the lookout smiled
wisely again and the dealer winked
But the man with the grave eyes Meth
/ dealer caress with his fingers the deal
| card on top, as all dealers do before Slip
jack, and the chances of his winning
/ Were just two in thirteen. The dealer
! looked at him with plying contempt,
1 and then exposed a king
How do you want it?" he asked.
! III let it ride" he answered and that
ten spot rode on the high card until
! it had sweled to hundred, and the deal
/ had reached the last turn. He leaned
| over and placed the whole stack on the
They took some interest in the quiet
man then, and they took more when the
| deuce and king were tn first two cards
| out and he had called the turn.
He had a chance to plunge on the next
DEAL and when it was half over he had
all those old-timers guessing. His stack
! had been doubled four times, and when
| the turn came around again and he re-
! peated his query, whats the limit2'
| the dealer winked hard with both eyes:
Anything. you've got, dust or dollars
Every penny of it went on the cards.
and the FOUNDERS gathered closer.
You We broke u.s.! announced the man
behind the box. Want to play any
The man looked at him and smiled,
| Bring 'em on" They got another bank
| ing fund. and he ate into that more
! fiercely than the first one. They changed
| dealers on him, and before the night
| was over every man in town who could
! bank a game had had try at him, and
he broke them all.
Far into the haggard dawn they sat
there and watched him quietly draw a
stream of gold that they were powerless
to stem. He played them hard and mer-
cilessly and when they had 10 confess
! that the town was broke he left them
! as quietly as he came. He had won be-
/ tween $4,000 and $4,000, and he express
/ ed neither the customary sympathy Tor
them nor offered to treat. He walked
/ out. and they talked about him Tor two
I months, and then forgot him.
Just year afterward he came around
I again. as calm and reserved as when they
1 had first seen him. lie played MS game IN
the same manner, and though they treated
: nm win utmost MeltEtHtt TINS tliittf ne
I had no luck and lost steadily all night
and when he left il was his turn to am
I nounce that he was broke. That was four
teen wears ago. and the old days have
/ gone and with them many of the old
| time gamblers, but each year the man
| who broke the town has returned. some
I times he has won heavily for hours: but
[ only once about six years ago. has he ap.
I preached anything Ike his former coup.
| That one time ne was playing against
/ the original clique that he had made pen
| niless before, and for little while IL
| seemed as though they were doomed
[ again.
lie was Sl2 400 20 the good and half tho
/ town was watching him. lie played with
/ ail his olden daring and recklessness, bur
/ me little silver box waH too strong for
/ him. and ho went back pennies, but un-
/ concerned The game must nave Tee
| clalmea all Of his Winnings on that night
| but be has never shown any more rehrpt
J over his losses than b. dii delrhf rn