The Saint Paul globe., 1899-12-25

mothers name, but he wouldn't stand
for that That left him with about $500
in his clothes, after buying an outfit. and
we dragged him then into the cab and
drove him out to his mothers little old
shanty. The old lady had her little
talk with Barney Schneider about the
$500 by that time, and the to-do she
made over her bye Johnnie was worth
the ride to see. When we told her about
suddenly got, but he only passed along
the other huge bunch that Red had
copped and that we had plunked it into
the bank for him, the quantities of
corned beef and cabbage which she
threw into the pot for the dinner which
she wanted US to remain to share with
her and her phenomenal son were amaz-
ing.
FIVE THOUSAND AT ROULETTE.
''Wel, Donnelly astonished us all for
couple OF weeks by his extraordinary
conduct. He didn't put bet down on
horse for two weeks. He remained
pretty sober all the time, too We josh
ed him about the frigid pedals ne had
with the remark I'm letting EN- run for
O'Flaherty. Nothin' doin'
1--WE waited for the crash. but 1t
didn't seem to come on schedule time.
One afternoon he called me aside and
showed me his bank book. 1t showed
an additional deposit of S.. 600, making the
total $4,000.
When did you pick up that new roll?'
l asked him.
Went up against the wheel at Ter
hune's last night, and Sanked 1t out in
three hours he said.
80 When did you learn to play roulette?
I asked him.
nj OH bA rapIiad
Along toward the end of June Don
nelly turned up at the track one after
noon with a. light in his eye. He went out
into the paddock and spent three-quar-
ters of an hour looking at horse and
by that time the third race was due
Red came into the ring and spread 81, 600
around on Madeira at 10 to 1. 1t was a
maiden two-year-old race, but Madeira
romped in two lengths to the good. That
night Red, still moderately sober and
level headed, had 900 to his credit in
the bank. He told US all very soberly
one afternoon that he had good thing,
but that he didn't want to hurt his own
ring, so he'd send his money to the
out-of-town poolrooms. The good thing
was David who won the last race in a
walk at Is to !, and Red cleaned up $15,-
600 on that
Right at this point, Schneider and
some other people got at Donnelly and
tried to induce him to either invest a
| part of his money-he had almost $50, 900
| then-in a string of useful horses, to be
put into the hands of competent trainer
or to have the whole bundle invested in
some sort of annuity, tie-up scheme
| whereby, when Reds streak of luck fiz-
zled out, he wouldn't have to go back to
buying cigarettes by the cents worth.
| The man was too bull-headed, though,
! to listen to anything like this He did,
| however, buy his old mother fine house
and install her in it, and the old lady
had stiff black silk dresses and poppy
| ornamented bonnets galore in which to
| go to mass.
THEN CRASH CAME.
"All of this time Donnelly had simply
! been nibbling at the red stuff. BY the
time his great luck was a month old,
however, the booze had nailed him, and
he got to throwing in the hooters early
In the morning. A man can't drink in
the morning and hang on either to luck
| or judgment. Red came into the ring pal
! pably drunk one afternoon and spread
| around $4,000 on Strathmeath at even
money None Of us wanted to take the
! money, for if ever there was q rankin
and-outer, that horse was Strathmeath.
But Red was insistent and a bit ugly.
ran third, beaten out by two dogs. That
night Donnelly dropped $780, 600 more at
| faro. Then he didn't go to bed for five
| nights, and at the end of that time he
| had about $1,000 left I never saw luck
| drop away from a man like 1t did from
! Red DonnelIy. For instance he was
! whackfng at a bank one night, stupefed
with hooters of half rye and half alb
sfnthe, and he shut one eye so he would
not see double and fixed 1t on the nine
| spot. He played the nine open for 500
| clip, and lost it twelve straight times
! The frowns of the lady Fortune got his
nerve, and he began to play favorites at
the track. The favorites went down to
! inglOrious defeat one after another for
! days
%Some of the right kind of people. in
! Guiding Schroeder, got hold of Red when
he had only $4,000 left landed him in q
fiX-up ward, and sObered him up When
! he came out DOnnelly was set up with an
! interest III an express business. [ don't
believe he ever saw the inside of the ex-
press office more than half dozen times
except to draw what was coming to him.
! He was a the track all the time the
| races lasted, and when the season closed
he put in his time down on the levee. He
never had days luck after his Big
streak up to the hour of his death, some
what less than a year after they came
his way with whoop and a rush.
when the goddess smiles upon you,
you want to stroke her hair chuck her
under the chin, and be good to her, for
she rarely acts amiable twice to a man
who treats her favors wantonly.''