The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-12
AROUND THE CORRIDORS.

"Tbe average man." remarked Bookmaker
Quinn at the Palace last night, "ls IN very
poor position to judge of the actual amount
lost or won by any of the big bettors. Ii maj
tiers little whether you attend the races ualiy
or only on special occasions 1t is next 10 lln-
possible to come anywhere near the truth.
"a man like Riley Grammar for instance WINS
or loses q fortune nearly every day, If the WHO
reports which daily gain circulation anu
credence are to be believed When man nke
Grammar or 'Pittsburg Phil is credited W1th
losing $4,000 or $50 900 l will nearly every
time bet that he has won that much. NOW IL
is popularity believed that Grammar
dropped anywhere from $4O,ooo 10
500 900 on his last trip. / know positively
and | think my assertion is worth somelnlhs'
that Grammar is still about $4,000 ahead on
the two trips He was very unlucky on the &C.
casion of his last visit, though he lost notnlhs
like the amount popular opinion creoits nm mn
with I know that his losses Will not reach
over $4,000, which leaves him q big winner
on the seasons play"
"Pittsburg Phil" according to the talk OF the
"horse" people who nightly visit the Palace
Hotel, carried something like $4,000 back
East with him. AS he was big loser at one
time about half that figure would be nearer
the mark Ed Percy, who is general fayorlte
with race-attending people, is coming IN for
whole lot of sympathy just now. UP to TWO
months ago he was big winner, but the
"knoying" ones now affirm that he is $50, 900
loser.
Apropos of the talk about followers of the
turf, there is a story floating around the corri-
doris of the Palace which has for its central
attraction the name OF Ives, the champion
billiardist. This famous manipulation of the
polished ivories arrived in San Francisco sew
eral days before the time set for the match
with Schaffer, and he concluded to try his luck
with the selling platers then and now amusing
the public at the Bay District track. In a
short time, SO the story goes, Mr.. Ives was loser
TO the extent of $4,000. The Brunswick
Bake people wanted Mr.. Ives to play his en-
gagement with Schafer on a certain day, but
the young Napoleon could not see it that way.
"You will have to wait gentlemen, until get
eYen," he is quoted as saying, and it is gener-
ally supposed that he pulled himself tinan-
cially together, for he sailed right in and beat
the wizard" without much apparent effort
Colonel Chalmers Scott of Los Angeles is in
%his city, and will probably leave next week
for the Rosebud Agency in South Dakota to sur
yey the lands of the Indian reservation for al
lotment IN severalty to the Indians. Speaking
OF his mission last evening he said: "Dr. Will
liam A. Winder, formerly a captain in the
Third Artillery and in command of AlcatraZ
during the war, who resigned from the army
TO resume the practice OF his profession, was
employed by the Government to make an allot-
ment of lands at Round Valley reservation in
Mendocino County. After that he was ordered
to South Dakota to take charge of the allot-
ment to the Sioux Indians at Rosebud Agency,
the previous surveys of the lands having
been unsatisfactory to the department.
DR.. Winder has called upon me
to report Immediately and take charge of all
the surveys. The standard and base lines and
township lines are all to be run and section
izing is to be done. Then subdivisions
are to be made of the land into twenty aud
forty acre lots. Each Indian will get about
that amount where the land is good, but where
it is bad it will be allotted in larger tracts"
Colonel Scott, who is son of the late Rev.
DR.. Scott OF this city, is a member OF the Amer
lean Society of Engineers and a member of
other such societies, and has bee assistant
engineer of the Southern Pacific for many
years, and was for some time chief engineer of
the Guatemala Central Railway. He says that
he is still candidate for the position OF adju-
tant-general, and if he is the Governors choice
will relinqutsh the work in South Dakota for
the Federal Government.
Ben Maddox of the Visalia Delta was speak
ing about the mining outlook in Tulare the
other day at the Lick, and, mentioning the old
Mineral King district, said Mineral King is
a fayorite place for people down our way to go
in summer fishing and hunting. Otherwise
there is nothing doing up there. 1t is not
many years ago since there was good-sized
mining town there. fine wagon road was
built up to the altitude of 5000 feet, and
things were very lively. Old Tom Fowler
was the leading spirit in it all and the princi-
pal owner in the mines. At one time he could
have sold out for fortune, but Tom had an
idea that there was untold wealth in Mineral
hot ba hold
he took out enough money to buy Ireland and
set her free But there was something wrong;
1 don't know what it was. There is plenty of
quartz there, and there may be way of max
ing it pay; but poor old Tom died poor, and
the wagon road is now used only By campers"