The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-01-13
THE PORTER PROSPERED
PLATED POLICY GIG.
Though, He Had TO Put Up His Clothes
and Furniture to do it-AIl Fruit of
End-Section Conversation.


and Furniture to do it-Au Fruit OF
End-Secti0n Conversation.
There was every evidence Of prosperi-
ty about the Pullman porter on his lay
over between trips, and the prosperity
was so newly acquired that the creases
had not lost any of their sharpness. He
had no objection to declaring which OF
the gods bad put him on Easy street.
They was two gentlemen sitting in
the last section of my car, he said,
land l was in the buffet getting out a
double order of tongue sandwiches.
Now, you just want to remember that
when you're sitting in that end section
the man in the buffet can hear all you
say of he's a mind to listen. or course,
if the porter never has made any runs
with buffet he's got no time to be
listening. 1t takes all his time to fig
ure out how he can get two more slices
out of loaf than the company's regula-
ton and so be able to sell sandwich
on his own account. After a while he
gets to know that you can't get another
slice out of loaf after you've cut off
all the slices the company says you must
get off it. So I had nothing to do but
listen to the two men and what they
was saying.
" Do you go anything on luck? says
one of them to the other. Well, that
set me to listening right hard. I'll tell
you why. I've known men to spend
whole lot Of money on cunjur and lose
every time they is a drawing, and
other men just naturally get hunch
without it's costing them a cent and
make a killing every time they go into
a poke shop. Well, sir, when the one
gentleman in that end section asked the
other about his luck, you can bet list
ened, They amt porter in the whole
company wouldn't have listened under
the same circumstances, and that's
without reckoning any account of how
many service stripes he's wearing.
80 the other gentleman he says to
the other gentleman: of course I do,
every thinking man must believe in a
thing so firmly established as the ma
urity of the chances
"Nosv, I was just like that other gen.
tleman. OF course, any man that knows
anything knows what luck is and how
you must play it hard when it's coming
your way. But he had me guessing
about the maturity of the chances.
Why, I didn't know no more about it
than a green jockey on a fresh horse
when he first tackles the new starting
gate. / knew all about hoodoos and lu
lus and every kind of luck I've gone
broke good many times on one game
and another and her was this maturity
of Tho chances that / might have had
only T have nevere heard of it. If
had only known where I could have
broken off straight winner right along.
Just think of the handicap on man
when he's shy on education.
Well, look at here. then said the
first gentleman, as he pulled on his key
chain and flashed up two baggage
checks snapped into the ring. What do
you think of that?
'Brawsses for your luggage replied
the other gentleman, not noticing any
thing in particular
4 6 Look at the numbers, man. This
one is the check of my suit case; it's /
No. 49, And this one is for my trunk, |
and it's No. 1888. Isn't there something
in that combination in the way Of luck?'
t'We1i, sir, 7 felt a lump in my throat
and my heart was beating like ham, |
mer There was the beginning of all
sorts of luck for the gentleman, and it
most terrified me, being so close to it.
But I couldn't waste no time on such !
foolishness for | wanted to see what |
all else was in it.
There ought to be something in that |
unusual combination, but it calls for a
man of experience to point it out
That's what the other gentleman said,
not the gentleman that had the numb
ers, but the other one. TT seems to sug-
gest that the game that the coons play
SO much, the combination of three 1ium-
bers, don't you know? / can't tell how
they get the numbers they play, but
there seems to be some rude rhythm |
about the sequence, so I suppose that
with these data they would play 3-11-33
or some such way. Suppose you touch
The bell for the porter. He ought to be
expert evidence
''It was all that [ could do to keep
my presence Of mind when the bell rang
and to wait until it rang again, for
you must never let passengers get into
bad habits of expecting things faster
hans good for them. But when the
oell rang the second time 7 stepped
around with the menu Of the buffet.
mo, we don't want that, porter
,ays the first gentleman. But my
friend and wished to ask your Sybil-
ic opinion OF the possibly suspicious
meaning Of a somewhat singular COIN
.idence existing between two numbers
which have quite fortuitiously come in
o my possession My, don't I wish <
,ad an education like those! You see
hese baggage checks One is No SO and
he other No. 23a. What we would like
o find out IS how to play to our own
,rof1t this yelled hint from the goddess
Fortune Would you advise my friends
uggestion of making an investment J
n the sequence S-11-S3?'
Excuse me, sir I says, right off. !,
That amt no sequence, that's a gig
Md you don't want to play that gig :.
kept you get it in dream when tile !.
lowers is just beginning to smell in tie -.
and theys birds and a few
arly butterflies, but If you play that :
lg in any other way. or any other
lme you's bound to lose Now it APP
ears TO me you've got to the front end
combination that will be just as |
God a business to you. Now I'll show !
GU how to get the rest of it. In this
anne 66 is as high as you can so. So s