The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-04-04

chips must be bought before the gambler
made his turn
The canaille had to buy chips, a fish
blue or white; white, 81 blue, SIS; yellow,
s25
Pike with the utmost nonchalance, laid
his $1,000 bill down in the pot" Every
body stopped playing. as it was plainly a
game OF make or break" between the
gambler at the box and the gentleman
gambler before the table.
HE CALLED ss2. 900.
Pike. six feet two inches tall. in the very
prime of an adventurous life, looked like
Greek god. His aplomb was magnif-
cent. Achilles could not match him. Not
word escaped anybody's lips. The ST.
lence could have been cut with one OF
iardens carving knives. The six-spo,
showed up first. Pay in cash" said pike.
pike was $4,000 10 the good. A thousand
dollars was placed on the bet Pike won.
1T all goes" said Pike. aonchalantiy. II
go you" said the owner of this particular
tiger. hopefully smiling. The seven-spot
showed its face. pike wins," shouted
Senator Green. Two thousand dollars in
bills We're added to the pile ON the table.
There were $1,000 there now
Mr. Dealer grew white about the 'gills."
He looked at Pike The latter nodded.
Silence grew intense-nGre than intense
Slowly the dealer pulled card. AN
eight spot showed its face. pike had won
$4,000. "a pleasant call" said the dealer.
Four cards left in the box. and the win
ming caller, who called successfully, got
four for one. 5,
Il call it six-eight for eight thousand,
said Pike. without changing muscle me
cards appearing We're s!x-eight, lhe siN-
spot first, then the eight.
The dealer rose to his feet at noa from
pendleton, and the suave king-pin OF that
faro game sat down and gave Albert flke
his check then and there for 80 OoO' go,
And this is said to be the largest can
ever made in the city Of Washington IL rs
needless to add there resulted q haIc!on
and vociferous night.
A FAMOUS POKER DUEL.
The war demoralized a good many pro-
LESSONS and the "son of the gamboiier
did not escape. Pendleton died rieh, oue
left his entire fortune TO his valet, who
Lies to enjoy 1t yet. Joe Hall was sup
ported till he died by the largess of his old
proteges Henry Cleveland. gambler
with a National reputation, who LEFT sloo'
900 to his wife in Cape May county, play
ed a faro duel in Pendleton's house IN lsoo
with Pettibone. the great Tennessee gam
bier. and paid the 100000 he lost in one
night in paper money. before he left Pen
dleton's palatial lair. the Tigers danger
GUS jungle home.
They are gone-all gone-the old famii-
lar faces,
A treasury clerk during Garfield's adj
mins,ration conveyed" $4,000 out of the
treasury and spent IL in riotous living
among tho second class haunts of the
Washington Tiger,
President Arthur, always gentleman,
thought with Burke that vice in losing
all its evil loses half its grossness. ban
ished the faro dealers across the Potomac.
and only fugitive games of congressional
poker Turk now around the hotels and first
class boarding houses at the Nations cap
ital And the only relics OF the ancient
regime of the faro kings in Washington
are George Parker, amiable and obese. VINO
is now a gambler no more, but reputable
real estate dealer. and Coal Martin.
suave and robust. who is suspected of max
Ing an occasional shy at poker with Senator
Wolcott or Senator Pettgrew OF Dakota, or
wanders off to take a Christmas eve game
with John DAILY of New York.