The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-15

Vanbrugh OUT. Vahbrugh realized $50, 0o0e
on has California Investments and took
the bunch 10 McGregor's kearny street
pace. McGregor dealt elf.Vanbrugh
luck seemed 60 have deserted him and he
lost every dollar OF his money. He was
broke.
'Vanbrugh.' said McGregor to him. af-
ter The last turn out Of the box, III give
you S90,C30 a year and a percentage if
YOUR rnn No. ? game here for me
" Much obliged, said Vanbrugh. but
. I've worked too long for myself to be
tractable IN another mans employ. I'm
going TO take a sail, anyhow"
Would $4,000, say, be of any use 10
you to make a startT McGregOr asked
particularly fond Of each other, but they
were very square and generous chaps.
Not giving you short answer, Mac,
we haven't been on good enough terms
for that replied Vanbrugh, and he walk
ed out Au hour later he was the most
genial and collected man in his party al
the Cliff House. LOT Of his friends Of
Tered TO start him going again in San
Francisco, but he smilingly asked them
not 70 tax business during hours of di-
version. The next day he was on board
the steamer bound for Australia, and he
never returned to San Francisco. HIS
estate was inVentoried at half million
Then l recall the game lose made by
an irish coal miner named Larkin, in
LeavenTorth in 1881. He had been max
ing " a day in the mine, and was I'M
married. He wasn't a drinking man.
When he knocked off work on summer
evenings ne would bat bali around
lot Tor the young fellows until darkness
came on. Some relative of his was killed
IN a railway accident in Ireland and a
New YORK lawyer came along one day and
hauGed Larkin 5000 LaTkin washed up
ana took the money over to one of the
priests. The priest told him he'd better
9 9k me money and the two started
downtown for a bank. On the way down
a little girl hurried up TO the priest and
toiu nm her mother was very i'll, and
asking for her confesSor. The priest told
Larkin TO keep right on ahead to the
pank and to put the money therein imme-
diately not stopping by the wayside for
any purpose. Larkin got inside the bank
ana there was big, line of depositors be-
Iore the window of the receiving teller
Instead of taking his place in line, he
waited at the door. Across the street he
saw the attractive window of Col. Jami-
son BON ton gambling layout which
was wide open at that time. He drifted
across 20 look on for a while until the
me at the receiving. teller's window
should become reduced somewhat. He
cropped the whole $4,000 at a stud game in
less than an hour, and he walked back to
ms boarding. house whistling The Rakes
MaloW. lie finished out the afternoon
batting the ball around the lot to the
youngsters, and the next morning. with
his tin lamp in his hat and his dinner
bucket he set out for the coal mine, still
Whistlng merrly. He succeeded in dodg-
ing the priest for a couple of weeks but
the priest finally corralled him and gave
MIN the calling down of his life
Sure Oh didn't want tn money! ex-
plalned Larkin. Me firms wud have bin
looking tn Dyes out O. me till il all whit
"A man who at one time owned the nm
est saloon and restaurant in Denver is
now conductor on the Oregon Short Line
lie lost his establishment on a bet. He
was an ardent Republican and an enthu-
Siastlc admirer of James G. Blaine. When
Blaine was running for President he felt
positive that the man from Maine would
be elected. He mad many a fierce argu-
ment over the probable result with
wholesale grocer of Denver a Democrat.
| ana hnally ne offered to bet his saloon and
restaurant against his friends wholesale
grocery that Blaine would win out The
grocer took the bet, and the morning aft
er the election he offered TO take the los
ers longtime notes for half the value of
me saloon ana restaurant and call the bet
square
in every bar of yellow soap you sell when
you get a tintype of me engaged in the act
of doing the baby turn said the Blaine
man, and he cleaned out the drawers of his
| desk in the restaurant and walked out
! lie went TO work as a conductor on the
| Midland two weeks later, and he has been
| conductor ever since.
| The hardest loser / ever ran IN
| against was joe HILL who ran a road
| house and pretty profitable one, not far
| from Omaha. Joe lost 5000 one week at
| poker That didn't break him, but it took
! all his available cash. He was a NOW
| show of a temper when he got up from his
| final lose-out, and he hired horse and
went out to his roadhouse a-kiting. Then
|. he TOOK heavy chair and went through
| the place like a wild man, smashing ev-
| erything he saw. He was cold sober. too,
| but hard loser, and just mad. After he
| had battered every stick of furniture in
| his place to smithereens, he told all of the
! employees TO get out and he deliberately
| soaked the carpets with kerosene oil and
| touched match to them in a dozen diff
| ferent places. The place burned down in
| twenty minutes 1t was a quarter of a
mile from any other place, and there was
no wind, but think Hill would have burn
| ed il down had it been right in the middle
| of the town and a cyclone blowing. He
| left Omaha after that, and if he isn't driv-
| ing truck now he ought to be-"