The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-14

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your, skin at cards Affords you sonncthing oet-
Ter than q livelihood -
never denied that said Turner coolly' rm,
no scAt your suggestion, ! have PlA nps.rs osST
draw poker GteF S S%a III have sSss 81 200 600 of your money.
10 you want IL backf n,O -.
lou see, that was a magnificent oipm on
would no, part: The young 'n"p' "o ~
oh II YOU choose to bc ipsultingr,rmor , said aid
Well, a couple Of elderly Engllshmen aboard
vent f To Kim no ISSn Sr 9n Sol AZ Si ISt tSat P I would Il bo
perfectly proper and right for him TO stop pay
Went On the checks he had given to turner mns
My, thoy told him in so many Worus' was
noshing short of n swindler. ,..,,..., so,,
N Waa pSs end iI u, do 2, nothing + ms 81 f BE- e sonf; sSi tRSs
yor, folks ovor there have a wonderfully game
fashion Of sticking to a bad proposition; but !,
Kent of i the ships \ Is Of P% nii tho h%"' iifnos after that
ana ! don't know what became Or hin: a Tho
ships unless S%sy he eon pealiy wished Is Nspp to remain of is
soniething that 1 cam explain, for It Is simply
q plain statement OF fact to say that the asi steam team.
nbly always will find. it impossible TO prevent
1io cara bor shorpcrs from running ming on thf y ON @oo onc
notable nasi hao osc often tried IT. tom TmSS rrl With h G Ge %sS
McGarrahan, in 1881. McGarrahan was the
iSestor OF the steamship card sharpcrs, and all
holi CoHlDtHlcb hhS"
PRESIDENT OF ono of the most prominent trans
atlantic limos sent for McGarrahan-who, by
him that he would not be permitted to travel
henc9forth on the vessels OF the line.
,, ouThe deuce you sayI replied McGarrahan.
HOW are you going to stop mef
Refuse to give you passage answered the
President.
You will. will your said McGarrahan.
Well. II you do that, ri get enough damages
out or your line to mako II unnecessary for mo
ever TO touch u card again as long ms / live,
- nnAiftnn tsaa ~ IN Il W. M n prn
ident OF this line found out upon invcstiga-
ton. The steamship company, you under
steamers p pas cnS rssu1Ih II the - p ane myers don't
ers, that is their own lookout. And a steam
ship company cannot decline to sell passage to
a, man because. It claims he Is n short-card
player. 1t deyolves upon the company to provo
ship. people know that this is practically i'm
possible, for no man who is done ut, cards by
one OF these men on an ocean, steamship Is go.
OF the fact to the world.
Observation tells mo that there are not
as formerly. Tho shortcard players who make
a business OF travelling have found the trains
msasSschh, more profitable ,t iS,. SINCE tnS,, the b officers of the
among the voyagers of a card playing turn and
warming them of the danger Of getting into
games with such and such mon. That was the
system, and a pretty effectual one, too, adopt
ed by the steamship Companies 20 squelch the
campaign Of all the big steamers-and the big
steamers arc the only steamers they consider
worth working before the officers know them,
and then their game is dead practically. So
that they find It more profitable to take to the
swell trains on the swell runs, making the
countenances from getting too familiar to the
railroad people,"
How the, deuce do you know all thisi" in
quired the Englishman.
We'll" replied tho American, you may be
pretty. certain that l haven't dreamed it. Be-
n / rod 4 T. fhn Won m nj Gnnna nOn.
ISOLATION for the loss OF your twenty guineas.
Didn't youf'