The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-20

ledNe OF absence from MS regiment,
had a great stroke of luck the second
day of his arrival. It lasted for eight
or nine days, and in that time he had
won as much as 100000 francs.
Smith, the banker with whom the
young officer deposited his winnings.
told us so at the time. Then the Cap
tain took almost the whole first floor
Of the Grand Hotel. an awfuly ex-
pensive house, but the best one In
Europe and event steady" for n few
days. During the entire week he never
played once: but he gave some fine
dinners and twice had a party of
friends as his guests in to Nice to hear
Patti.
That life was too lazy and unexcit-
ing, and a week had hardly elapsed
when he slipped into the fool trap
again and tackled trente ct quarente
once more. But alas! within another
week he was done for. The ebb was as
sudden as the flow, and Fortunatus
was as other mortals. Aye, he was
worse off than we were, for he had
lost his return railway ticket and was
forced to borrow enough to get home
with on his /. O. L. as a British Of
flcer. Smith loaned him the money,
and most obligingly charged him on
ly the small commission Of what the
Jew called "shent per shent" for this
favor. Smith was a dear old chap,
whom we all liked amazingly, when
forced to borrow. and whom we un-
reservedly detested and damned when
the bit of paper had to be taken up.
Rosenfield of Chicago and London,
chose No. II as his object of attack,
1 ,l,
it as with a ladle. not only zen plein,"
but "a cheval" and "carre," and all
three up to the limit. There are
four "chevals" and four "carres" to
No. II, and these, added to the one
zen pein' and multiplied properly to
win the maximum, called for de-
posit of 2iO louis each time the ball
went spinning He won occasionally
and lost frequently, but not often
enough to overcome the enormous gain
of nine maXimums when he hit it,
as he did now and then, besides which
the "chevals" and the "Carres" used
to protect him some on other numbers.
But there was no system whatever in
his play; it was only a fellow trying
to make his gold win the banks gold,
and yet it was "a dead sure thing" for
the latter in the long run.
THE TURN OF THE TIDE.
He was never ill-tempered, and If
fortune was sulky and lost him all he
had with him, he went gayly back to
Nice, to return next day with more
money, and to rise to the proud posi-
ton of hero of the hour, to be pointed
| at with whispers. and to be spoken to
by celebrated beauties, or world-re-
| nowned songstresses, or English Ouch
| esses, who, passing through on their
way south, you know" dropped into
| the fool trap for little fun, but lost
their money and their tempers, and
| now wanted to borrow so or 100 louis
'just until my maid gets back" Poor
| girl, it must have been weary jog
she went on, for she is not back yet,
and that was four or five years ago.
| In course of time the Chicagoan had
| actually won over a million and half
| of francs; that is to say he was that
much ahead of the bank, and as mean
| while his remarkable deeds" were
| printed in the newspapers more at
| tractively and more frequently than
We're any good actions,no matter where
| or by whom performed, the American
became an international as well as a
roulette hero, not to speak of the pride
which the Windy City patriotically
had for her son.. the man who broke
| the bank at Monte Carlo"
1t ended, however, with Harry as il
did with the Captain, only his good
luck lasted longer than did that of the
latter, and. like Roland Reed in the
Man of IDEAS" he was a good loser
| When luck turned and he began to lose
heavily, so swiftly. too, that in less
than a week he was CLEANED OUT
completely. he died game" as the
| saying goes. The accumulation of a
gamblers season began suddenly to
melt into space, and when he had lost
it all in what seemed to be an incred-
ibiy brief period of time, he smiled
said Bon jour" to the croupiers, and
| turning, calmly went-not to make
an end on't"--but straightway to Lon
don, whenca he could dare venture to
cable home for much-needed funds.
There was one game" which Harry
| played-this was before the run of i'll
luck set in--that l do not think was
| ever reported to the press. He had
| already been winning and losing mil
| lions of francs. and was something
| like $140, 600 ahead of the bank, when
| he made the largest single coup" ever
| known at that establishment or else
| where, for that matter, at roulette II
was of an evening in February, 1898
| and after he had been 'whackine
away" at H. when he branched off onto
another number. "Faites vos jeu, mes
| sieurs" sung out the Croupiers. and
| Harry, whose pockets were we'll lined
hurriedly exclaimed in mixed French
and English:
Maximum on the huit" (S), and he
| pushed over louis. Then he added
| "DiX-huit louis on each CheVal, Vingt.
huit on transversal "A trois, trente-huit
on eacn care on huit, Cinq bills OF
| mile OH manque (below lS), meme
| chose On pair (eVen), trOis bills de
| mile on premier douzaine--"
But he could make no more bets, fol
! the "ren ne vas plus" of the croupiers
| was heard aud he had barely time tC
toss lCv these stakes and see that
| they were correctly placed when the
ball went spinning around, and soon II
! fell into the receptacle numbered s
He had won every bet, and the tota
was over $15,4jO.
SHEEDY'S SYSTEM.
| An Irish-American sport" by the name
of Pat Sheedy some time manager fol
John L. Sullivan, and always a popular
good hearted fellow, once travelled all the
way from New York to Monte Carlo tC
break the bank-with a system. Mr. and
Mrs. Sheedy stopped while i'm Paris tC
see the city, and then they dropped
down into the Riviera. he to fight the
tiger which Monaco's sovereign Prince