Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-02-18

Tor novel excitement, and the midget
Croesus can find no excuse for remain |
ing longer OF the coast. Besides, Tod has !
a trifle of $500, 900 awaiting him in Wall
street, which he thinks would be a good |
thing to collect before it gets a chance
to vanish. This savors of Munchausen,
out the lad, who was a stable boy not
so very many years ago, solemnly con-
firms the story that he was a big winner
in the boom which has set financial New
York mad. The little fellows friends are
legion, and one who was on the inside of
the market invested a comparatively
small amount for the champion jockey.
1t has been multiplying rapidly, and
Sloan has had a daily spasm Of jubila-
ton on receipt of the telegram informing
him OF the increase of his wealth.
When it began to wander into six fig
ures even his sporting blood could not
stand the strain, and he was anxious to
qiut before a reversal of conditions
began. Finally the diminutive marvel
could stand it no longer. He bought the
biggest and blacklist cigar the Palace
Hotel could furnish, and summoned Bald
and Dryer for a council OF war. After a
learned confab, in which the situation
was discussed with more earnestness
han Henry Clews and j. Pierpont Nor
gan wOul display, this telegram was
despatched to a certain address in Wall
street, New York: Sell quick, for
heavens sake. J. Tod S." After which
j. Tod rested easier and bought wine
with greater celebrity than he had been
doing for the week or two previous.
Sloan is now richer han many of the
men for whom he will ride. If he so de-
sired he could buy a racing stable of his
own which would be without a peer. But
the little one has no aspirations in that
direction.
After setting up in New York and pock-
citing the $500, 900, he will sail for Eng
land to fulfill some engagements he made
last year. His friends here hint that
j. Tod Sloan, cOmmOner, may return to
America with a more lofty prefix than
Mr.. to his name. OF course, Tod is
too good an American to admit any such
intention. 1t is nevertheless true that
he secretly has a fOndness for Osten-
tatious display, and the addition of a
title and a monocle would be attachments
which the jockey would heartily enjoy.
AS Sloan has arranged for a special
train to convey him east, it would not
be entirely unreasonable to expect that
he would travel to Europe in a private
yacht specially chartered for his exclu-
Sive use. He can now afford it, as with
all his extravaganza he will not be able
to spend his entire earnings on swell
raiment and glittering stones. While in
London Sloan paid $50 a day for his suite
in the Hotel Cecil, but here in the Pal
ace Hotel his apartments have not cost
him quite that sum. This, in addition
to that little matter in Wall street, may
have urged him to deport from a town
where so little money could be spent in
personal luxury.
Since the news of Sloan's sudden ac-
emulation of wealth, Eddie Bald has
wandered around with a far-aWay look
and a disconsolate feeling. Once the But
falo rider had an idea that he was rather
going the gait himself, but a months
companionship with the swell jockey ban
ished that idea from his head altogether.
Bald now realizes that he is only a
Door bicycle racer, who must rae Ior
a living. This he has decided to do, leaV-
ing all the honors for swell dressing
and scatter-gold tendencies to ms erSt-
while companion. Jimmy Mlchael IS leei-
ing rather sore since he heard OF sloan S
great luck. The Rarebit has already for
xaken the bicycle game for the horses
on seven distinct occasions, and WOULD
in all likelihood do so again II the eagle
eve of big Jim Kennedy did not emu
the muttered wish every time 1t came IN
to his MIND
.The extent that the skaters of TINS
country are really behind the tlmes,' sald
q native of a colder cline who watched
fine crowds the other night, rs seen by d
glance at the two most important Items
in the skaters get up-thc SKATES anu
shoes. One does not have to come oue
here t. find this out, for this display OIL
skates in the sporting goods stores, VIM
dows. or what is still worse, the alleged
skating shoes, shown in the boot stores,
prove what the demand must be. Enter
ing a big S hoe store last week l finally
got into a skating conversation with the
clerk who waited upon me. He was an
intelligent fellow and ready to tax OF ms
trade as applied to this sport. L Will
show YOU a first class skating shoe, ne
said, and forthwith dragged out a par
of clumsy, heavy boots that laced half
way up the calf and with soles like bro
gans. Skating shoes" l SAID. why
those look like miners boots, On, no., he
insisted, they are just what you want
for skating!' | could not help laughing, so
ridiculous did the things look, but I saw
that there was no use attempting to give
any information in that quarter, so LETT
the store with it's fin skating shoes for
some novice customer.
1T set me to thinking as how best to
tell the novice what to get When ne con-
templates going a skating. The only COM
plete and safe way is to ave the skates
fastened upon the shoes. In racing skates
his is done in three ways: With screws,
rivets or sewn on. We Will talk OF the
hockey or rocker skates used by the ma
jority, however, and these are almost al
ways made with fairly heavy plates and
holes for screws or rivets. Now, what is
the end 10 be aimed at in making up the
outfit? 1t is, as any one can see, to make
as complete, firm and comfortable a bond
between the skate itself and tho foot as
is possible; to make them as nearly one,
as can be done. Thus the shoe, which Is
merely the bond. should be light, strong,
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