The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-05

called in either The bent old man with
the wrinkled face and sad look had
mighty crafty pair OF dukes in those days,
and no matter how big the rowdy was,
Harry never hesitated second to go at
him and thrash him into submis sion. There
Wa a long pair of stairs, broad and Slip
perry, leading up to the concert hall, and
when a tough had been thrown down
these after having been thumped badly,
there was very little fight left in him.
PLENTY OF RICH PATRONS.
lust before the war broke out Harry
HIS was a great resort of the sportive
southern planters who came to New York
with bullying pocket books. 1t was close
TO the old New York hotel, now torn
down, like all the other landmarks in that
vicinity. and was within a couple of
blocks of Niblo's garden. also torn down.
A few blocks away was No. SIS Broadway
the most famous gambling house New
York ever knew, and which lasted longer
than the others, for it has only been clos
ed for couple Of years. The rich plant
ers stopping at the New York hotel would
80 to Harry Hills after having visited
''S1S, Or the show at Niblo's garden.
AS SAFE AS A BANK
1t is 4 boast of Harry Hill that no man
was ever robbed in his place. although
men went there very tipSy and with i'm
mense sums in their pockets. 1t was al
ways his custom to relieve these patrons
of their money and return it TO them when
Gated fact that a drunken man visited
the place one night and made a great
show of a large sum of money. Harry
took every cent of il from that man and
On counting it up found that it amounted
&c SS4, 600. The man went away. and the
next morning, when he had sobered up
he discovered that the money was gone.
He had dim recollection of being in
Harry Hills the previous night, and he
lost no time going there to find, if posi-
bic, some trace of the money. When the
proprietor handed him his $4,000 intact
the man wanted 10 BUY champagne for
all of New York, but he was advised to
20 home before ne got into more serious
trouble
LIKE a GOLD MINE.
In those days the receipts OF the place
averaged $1,000 a day, and more than half
OF it was clear profit Like his patrons,
Harry Hill spent money with a liberal
hand, driving the best horses that money
could buy, lending right and left, and be-
ing a good friend to every one. Yet last
winter he had 10 pawn his oVercoat to buy
a cloak for his little adopted daughter so
that she could go to school. This girl was
the child of one of his old servants, and
Harry promised to take care of her, and
he says he never broke his word in his
life or went back on a pledge, and he is
not going to begin now.
Like p. T. Barnum, he was always on
the lookout for attractions for his concert
hall, and when anything struck his fancy
he bought II, no matter what it happen
gu 10 De. Olt Ody he was gong QOWn 10
the ferry on his way home and he saw
clown ringing a bell. The clown was
dressed in the usual cap and variegated
pantaloons. the only novel thing about
him being a watch which, Hill says,
weighed seven pounds. He was shouting
TO the crowd to stop and see the largest
hog in the world.
Il thought it was some dodge says
Hill in telling the story, ''but went in
Just for fun, and upon my soul l saw
there the biggest pig / ever saw before
or after. Yes, sir, he was so high when
he stood up that 1 had to stand on tip
toe and raise my shoulder like this to
throw my arm over his back. He meas
ured eighteen feet along his back"
Are ysu sure of that, Mr.. HIP
.'Yes, sir eighteen feet, easy. Why, if
YOU Strengthened out his curly tail, and
measured from the tip of his snout to
the tip of his tail, he was nineteen feet
long
IS this-a horsey
No. says TIA Snowman, that's a
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