The morning times., 1896-11-06

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Scores were settled on the freak election
| bets yesterday, and made fun for the
winners, the losers, anu .l,r pnUlic at
laige:
100 much confidence in Bryan and free
| silver caused William A. Hancocl 10 ma ke
| a foolish wager with william Ryan ana he.
| lived 10 regret IL.
Mr. Hancock made a bet with Mr.. Ryan
ON the result Of the election, Tie loser 10
roll Il wheelbarrow containing the winnel
from Eighth street to the Treasury Depart
| ment and return.
| ThecYent WAS scheduled for Z O'Clock la 81
night and promptly at that hour Mr.. Han
cock appeared with the unicycle, adorned
with streamers OF white ribbon, American
| flags and large tin dollars. Mr. Ryan, en-
| veloped in the nag of his country. took his
| seat rather gingerly in the peraInbulttor
aHu !ouGed as II ne visited i" iiad not won
'.If you see Il good thing, just push it
along yelled Il ganin. MIR. Hancock ac-
| cepted this as the signal for starting, and
went up tnr Avenue with "a rush tiat taxed
| the endurance OF the several hundred small
boys who ran yelling at his heels. Mr.
Ryan shroUded his bushes under IL big red
umbrella that lie carried.
CROWD WENT ALONG.
The expedition seemed To be run on a
regular time table and made several stops
ut prominent corners. where the loser, ac-
cordins 10 the terms OF the wager, would
mop his brow with the American flag and
give three cheers for Mckinley. He also
LOOK occasion To exchange com plimehts with
the houting. yelling throng at such times
In front OF The Times office he stopped
and gave three cheers for The Times.
With speed that told Of a wonderful
strength a. .,S oil
get out Of the push 50 IT, speak ne whiried
the unstable vehicle up the street and On
reaching the end of the route proceeded To
dump Mr.. Ryan out upon the cold, hard
world. while he rested long enough u make
good strong free silver speech to the
assembled multitude, i'll which he glorified
Mr. Bryan and reviled the name OF Mark
Hanna, and declared his intention To make
the same bet again four years hence, If he
could find anybody fool enough TO bet"
The trip back was Il repetition OF the
incidents OF the outward vuyag. After the
ridethc National Club, or II I'd PENNSYLVANIA
avenue, rendered Mr.. Hancock an enter
tainnent in recognition of his gameness. Re-
freshments were served and band dis.
coursed sweet music to sDpthc his savage
breast.
As the result OF an election ret, Mr.
Robert Poore, or GeurstIOwn,-a n stanch
Bryanite. is minus silver watch which
has been his iiiful cumpaniun for a
number Of years
\ few weeks age Mr.. puorc wagcrcd
his timepiecc against the gold ticker Of
Mr.. james IL 1aluc. a Mckinley rnthUs
last. Yesterday morning he turned it over
tn the winner and kept count or the hours
by his appetite.
HE WAS i PROPHET.
DIR. A. II. Alderman is a good political
GuesSer. on November 10, IsJI, long
before the political pot in national poll
tics began to boil DR.. Alderman bet that
Major William Mckinley would be nOmi-
mated by the Republican party and elected
President of the United states in 1896.
His bet has proven correct, and he wirs
two boxes of fine cigars
The bet was made with b. F Edwards
and II. Collins at LapedOu, ID. c., which
IL DR.. Aldcrnan's home
Dr. Alderman served through the war
from 81 tO 90 II private IN the same
brigade as Ma jor Mckinley.
In fuifiilment of an election bet, Mr.
Charles Louis rode Mr.. H c. Jones in "a
wheeIbarrow one mile. at TaSoma Park.
last night.
Oman election wager Fireman Malone will
next saturday convey Fireman Nally in a
wheelbarrow from No. s engine house To
the home of the latter at sixth and u
streets northeast and return. Both are of
No. engine house.
Charles J klasier and William Pitcher
settled an election bet last evening between
and 6 o'Clock, to the great amusement Of
the thousands of pcit Il rianS On i ems viva MIA
avenue
PLAYED A STREET PIANO.
According TO the terms Of the wager
the lGSer was To hire Il street piano, and.
wearing sign acknowledging defeat draw
the piano from Fifteenth street to Peace
Monument and back, stopping in front
of every saloon on either sdr, play two airs
and pass the cup for pennies. In default
OF doing this the loser waste forfeit S25,
which was posted
As luck would have IL Mr. Pitcher took
the Bryan side Of the bet and last night
AT O'Clock started to fulfill the terms
of the wager
On his breast hung s;gn, Bryan didn't
do ting for me- and as he proceeded
down the Avenue his audience kept con-
unualiy increasing till when he arrived
at Peace Monument he-waS surrounded hy
nearly 500 people, curious 20 get i glimpse
al the sign he Wore.
He was accompanied by Mr. KIasier and
two friends III Il carriage. who went along
to see the thing Well done.
Hope dies o lingering and painful death
in the bosom Of such Democrats rs staked
their lucre as an earnest of their belief.
There are some cases OF the most obstinate
sort of Stick-to-it- ness. At late hour last
night bet was mad? in drug store on
PENNSYLVANIA avenue that Bryan woul.l be
the next President. The amounts sraked
We're considerable the odds even money
and the Democrat offered to take more of
it at the same terms.
PAYING OVER THE MONEY
Many shareholders have paid over the
money in their hands to the fortunate; bet
tors, and some of them were finely fright
ened during the spaSmOdic sputt.r of
Bryan confidence On Wednesday night
Stakeholder Ned Jones yesterday paid
over 81 500 to a lucky Repuhlica who had
backed his Judgment to that extent J. NJ
Hill paid a large sum to the same man.
only sucn waGerS as ha ng on the majority
in certain States or upon the result in some
States that are vet in doubt. are unpaid
at the owen House. All the bets that
depended upon the general result have
been turned over To the winners a number
turning on Kentucky's vote are still pend
ing there.
Another fool bet was paid yesterday
about 4 O'Clock by a bicycle dealer on
Fourteenth street northw est.
The loser.it was stipulated should ride
his wheel down Fourteenth street, from
r to Thomas Circle. without hat, coat,
vest or shoes. The weather was not to
be considered.
Spectators say that if policeman had
been around he could have had the
pleasure of arresting a man fer sCorching