The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-04-04
n ANTE. BELLUM DAYS.
...,v peyotees Of the Green Baizc
,,ho (;omblcd Away Fortunes.
lar HALLS MAGNIFICENT SuPPERS.
p,,.c,r Daring Bets-$32, 900
naked in ut n single Call
Big Card Duel.

-. was king ut the National capital
,r,ps James Buchanan's term. me most
..,sn.ious gambler Of them all was Joe
IN whose midnight suppers Lucuiius
LA have made haste to envy could no
tasted the canvasback duck, %tuffed
IN chestnuts, and the side dish OF Vir-
~ hominy done brown, In butter, garn-
4, "A with bacon from Accomac, fed on
scorns,
r,sre were no club houses. so-called, In
~ ante bellum days Of Washington And
A.rs up to the fall of Sumter, the South
"a North. no matter how acrid the days
,,h.,s IN congress, when the members met
,..,ora loo Halls or George Pendleton's
,reen baizo table ON Pennsylvania avenue,
al on pleasure bent, they let silence like
nr,ltice fall and heal the blows OF po-
lltical strife.
Ioe Hall, who died very poor. IN Balti-
more. during the war, was in the last
eon sration the most munifcent and most
continuously successful high roller"
amonp the CHANDELIERS" of America His
horses. with gold tipped harness, were the
|cynosure of all eyes and the admiration OF
the golden youth of Baltimore.
In Philadelphia he rant gambling house
over DR.. McClellan's Office, IN Walnut,
above Eleventh. north side, from 1896 TIL
tho war broke out. Here Thaddeus Stevens,
tbe great commoner of Pennsylvania. hob
nobbed with James A. Bayard OF Delaware
and the handsome Ellis Schnabie. who,
LII. hn "a
stump orator of whom the Keystone de-
mocracy ever boasted
WON $4,000 IN A NIGHT.
Here young attorney who had never
seen card tatle before, introduced by
MIR. Whitney. an accomplished member OF
congress from Delaware, won $4,000 in a
single night and in ten months lost that
and $4,000 on top of it in trying to make
another winning from the false and tickle
GODDESS of faro.
An old habitue OF Joe Halls saw that
game. In which the tyro at gaming won
fifty straight bets. without losing one, and
'aid such luck was SO phenomenal that he
had never witnessed anything like it in
forty years full practice before the green
baize.
Joe Hall had another Crane with the
ten stone dogs before the DOOR, in Broad
+ way, New York City. opposite the Metro
tpoiitan hotel. from 1858 TO 1860. This spot
: WIS the favorite clubhouse of Southern
. hportins gentlemen politicians, who set the
pace among the 1eunesse doree of New
/ York City.
such thing as limit" was unknown,
rs Joe Hall was prepared for all Corners
up 70 100000. The limit at Monaco is
iV'Voo francs $4,000, but any gentleman
". ~ sood standing could enter his check for
s.v,Vvo on double card or a case card
realm nave seen General Valid b. Bur-
nett, who was the recipient of General
'aekson's gold snuff box, given by his
Mi'i 70 tne bravest man." when the "blear
eyeu gambler would turn the silver box
UT una close the game for the night
ABOUT 8 a. m.--open a snap
H. o the general becoming banker for
sne piayers-and, putting up $500 as the
oanH roll play till daylight
raIo ana cotton were in these days both
ninss. Albert Pike (whose Hymns to the
,vus' irst published in Blackwood's Mag
a1lae' IN Edinburgh. were translated into
f'ahs Washington game.
"iLi4ioN DOLLAR FEE.
"''c'' rike once received million dol
:" when he lived at Little Rock. Ark.
aa practiced law, as n single fee in the
''''ohee land case, but most of this the
lawyer poured out, as willing liba-
'u 70 the tickle goddess of fortune at
nan s. and George Pendeton's faro
''n'S IN Washington. There was only tho
ba vss friendly rivalry between Hall and
ss"a VI, the latter was the real arbiter
s,esahtiarum tarbiter of elegance)
M ,, me faro kings OF this country He
,aora Fsihian and cousin of "Gentleman'
Hcr'.eeo' as george II. Pendleton the dem
alled. ~" vice president was
~ o !ast game l even saw at Pendleton's
s-.e a memorable ono. A few nights before
oysh,a .. Prentiss that brilliant and
.r,xs wig orator and member of CON
lss,ss,a New England man. resident OF
|bayis and lifetime enemy of jeff
bne n,,,h nau nrst Won $4,000, then, in
baxra n win half basket of cham
In, sne under his shirt, he kent nm playinp
had raa man behind the table, the dealer,
NJ, eeouped the $4,000 and had in his
Natcbppoo het deeds for four warehouses in
ertv ~, MISS, on the river, late the prom
Prsnt1s., me great wing orator. That was
AMass last great game.
b yr,a. rike, who died at So, was n man
mora ~ PHYSICAL pulchritude and ALWAYS
BIKE -, immense gray board He looked
penpsy, Morse king. Thaddeus Stevens of
be SAM anla was playing moderately at
but tbsso ,apie' so was James A. Bayard.
nent ss, statesmen only played for anuse
Avn. ana ! have known Thad stevens IN
NH a WIN sl4o0 won at single sitting,
'ahc OF only $50 gold coin.
H.. AN HISTORIC GAME.
~ men like Prentiss and Pike OF Ark
No.. anu senator Green Of Missouri; like
'.' Of Colorado used to be. were MI
- plungers" at the faro table. This
~'ns Pike was in royal feather
at Pendleton's game Pike found
"ai type Of his fine old Arkansas
an'' who played away his cotton
NJ ~ Tho faro banks in Washington and
|, ! orleans every winter unless the nv
M .ae other id contingency" eat IN his
ii nelds before the staple got to mar
Pike oar,
IAput ram ya,ae In humming his own song
IAN me Fine Old Arkansas Gentle