The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-11

III IL RAthtg aR'o
of II.
"Harry Perry has become a grave
man of business too. Besides a bucket
shop side issue or so he has struck II
rich in a popular pneumatic bicycle
saddle which he manufactures and |
understand IL is a particularly good
thing
There is Sam Doll too. once a king
pin among the real gamblers. who still
makes Chicago his headquarters, put
has become a real man OF AFFAIRS. lie
owns several great cattle ranches III
the far West, has big mining interests
which bring him in coin enough 10
keep him busy counting 1t. and pc
sides this, is hand and glove with most
of John Condon's varied enterprises.
Wesley Schimmel - 'One-Armed
Schimmel,' as he is called-is another
one of the well known old timers who
has quit the cards and finds more
profit in being a broker Curt Gum
and Cy Jaynes used TO be names TO
c~onjure with among the real ampier
of Chicago and now IL is doubtful IL
they know what a picture card looks
like. Bah! L haven't seen a dealers
box since / was in Hot Springs. n L
don't ever expect to see one again IN
Chicago"
The veteran sighed heavily and lifted
a fresh cigar with a t~houghtful ar
one oil MS duultDTS aShtu hutSN'o''
however, which seemed to cheer him
up.
"A big winning? Well, of course
there were winnings and winnings, but
most of the stories one hears OF that
sort of thing grow a good deal In the
telling, n the older they get the
richer they are. like a cheese. Inc
biggest sure enough winning that L
really know of myself was not a win
-. -. oil httf "a losing INA WAS
when Pat Sheedy dropped $4,000 TO
Condor and Doll in a four days n
nights play at 125 Clark street. Thats
a heap of good money to lose. but ne
lost Il all right enough, and after he
had thrown a couple of days sleep
into himself you couldn't have told
from Pats manner that he hadn't won
instead of lost. There was a thorough
bred, sure enough.
There was an obscure waiter whose
name no one remembers now. even IL
any one ever knew or cared what III
was. who won $40, 900 in a series OF
bull-luck plays he made worlds fair
year. getting most of 1t out or jim
Mead at "a Calhoun place. Then he
disappeared for a while, nobody knows
where. and in a couple of months he
was back at his old place, singing
plates in a German restaurant for
about six per week. The only mys-
terry was what became OF his money
for he didn't lose IL back in Chicago.
Anyho he was broke all right and
didn't even get a good suit OF clothes
out of II.
some of the Boar of Trade plung-
ers used to like to take a flyer against
bank when the tiger fiourished in this
mans town, and those fellows could
come about as near putting their hip
down without It's choking them as any
one. Your Board of Trade plunger Is
a genuine gambler by instinct. anyhow
the real simon-pure article, and IL IL
in the cards to win he'll make a dealer
wish he were dead. / remember as
well as IL il were last night a famous
play that a man who is about as wei
known as any other member of tbs
board made some years ago up in tht
!. Ieonatus club at 80 Randolph street
and II illustrates well how very. very
|, uncertain a thing is luck. This man
, he's getting m~iddle-aged and a bi
gray now and l believe is a deacon o.
something of that sort in a swell norti
side church-fell into the Leonatui
: about midnight, single-handed, LOOKING
pretty sporty and showing some eVi
dences of having been a leading figur'
i'm a wine supper party. There WASH
much of a game going. a couple o
!. small fry piking around with red chlps
and Mr.. Man got a middle seat am
took the case-keeper. i was calm
myself and as he sat down and dug
2 $500 bill out OF a neat little leather h
: carried in his vest pocket / knew tn
house was in for a game. And IL was
! you bet.
= Gimme about five of those brow
= boys, old man. he says, nodding q
me in a friendly sort of way, for
knew him well. n / threw his bi
into the drawer and passed him owe
five of the brown chips from the aris
t~ocratic corner of the check rack. ii
coppered two of them behind the quee
, and set the other three open in I'll
? pot. This was a little high, but
knew the mamie was just as goo
y as gold for any amount in reason, an
of course | Just let him go withot
u saying anything about a limit. w
generally dealt a hundred to cases an
n two hundred to doubles, anyway, +,
:, ANYBODY who could change in respec
ably.
IL We'll, the very first turn out of Il
box comes seven-jack. nothing els
3 He doesn't even grunt. but goes in
his little pocketbook and gets out Nv
more of them crisp new $500 bills.
% Gimme half a stack he says.
Is He cut them in two n filled I
Just where he VAS before, five open
=. the pot ana nNt Nopptith Niiii =
queen. and l make the second tur
- Well, 1t came ei~ght-aueen, right the
in and then: that's what IL came, al
ne this time MIR. Man did grunt, su
ed enough. but in all good nature, at tina
or Now, I'm not telling this story
Id anything big i'm the gambling way, b
rd 10 Illustrate. as l said before, the V
carries Of chance, which are singul
ed indeed, at times. In just a piece
40 ,ha. 80 AaaI Mr. Man nnmna1 in q
&c actly ten of those $500 bills and did
e. pick up a single solitary bet. Then
m got up. cheerful as ever, III
ne stretched himself. says, i guess
We quit you, old man. and stands carelt
like waiting for the porter TO bring h
C. his overcoat.
hi THE dealer at the wheel sort of n
chemically gave IL a whirl and set
n ball a rolling. Mr.. Man slips into
.er coat and the ball still rolls. He reacl
= into his pocket to get n quarter for
an norter. 4 suppose, half abSently nSh