Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-04
DEATH CAME TO THE OLD MANS
RELIEF ABOUT NOON YES
TERDAY.
WAS A FAMILIAR
CHARACTER IN THE CITY.
Was One of the Pioneers Of California
end Nevada and Came to Mon
tana Many Years Ago.

julius Levy, better known as French"
Levy to most of the people of Butte.
died at his room in the Paragon block. IN
West Broadway. about noon yesterday
and will be buried from the residence of
Mrs. Mendelssohn, in West Park street.
at > O'Clock tomorrow afternoon.
Mr. Levy had been ailins for twelve
wears, but it was not until about two
or three weeks ago that his condition
became serious enough to cause appre-
hension among his relatives and friends.
After remaining in b.& a few days he
recovered sufficiently to get UP ana
walk Being of that temperament which
often impels sick man TO walk as long
as he can possibly stand. and hel!eN-
ing he was better off moving about than
in state of quietness he walked down
town, but became worse and had to
be taken home in a hack. He never
left the house again. His death was
due to a general breaking down. Be
sides wife and three children. he leaves
two or three sisters. one of whom is Mrs.
Henry Jacobs. Wife of the first mayor
of Butte, and another, Mrs. Leopold
Marks both of Helena
Julius Levy was a typical western
gambler, but no more honorable man
than he ever entered the confines of the
profession. He was horn in Alsace I.or
raine. France. in 1893: hence. the appel
lation Of French Levy. At an early
a.e he came to this country with his
sisters and settled at New Orleans. but
when the gold excitement broke out in
California in 1S49 Mr.. Levy. then a
youth of tender years. joined the army
of stampeders to that state. He made
money there. but later on the mining
fever in Nevada was launched and Mr..
Levy caught it. Those We're the plush
times along the Comstock and Levy eN-
perienced no trouble in holding his own
In financial way. From Nevada he
drifted to Utah ana thence to Montana
making his home in various outside
points in this state UP to the early '10s
when he moved to Butte and remained.
Almost from the time Levy entered the
west up to the time of his death, he had
been gambler. and a good one. At
one time he possessed probably 500, 900
ir cash that had been acquired
at the card table, but that was
a period when he was in
the zenith of his luck, the result of
flood taken at the tide which led him on
to fortune. but Of late years he had
not prospered. This fact is principally
due to an illness which overlook him
in this city between 1885 and 1890. He
was then one of the proprietors of the
old Crystal gambling house, which is
now the headquarters of the State Saw
lnSs bank For a time it was then
thought he would die. but he went tc
Chicago for treatment and soon partly
recovered Since then and up to the time
he died he had never been the same
robust man he was prior to the attack
he at all times seemed to be hoverins
about the line which divides life an6
death.
Levy principal game was poker bu,
he often played against faro bank ant
race horses. He was one OF the nerves
plungers the west has ever known, il
being estimated as much as $4,000 90,
passed through his hands during hi.
lifetime. He could lose $4,000 with a.
much GOODNESS as if it We're a penny ant
could win with just as much composure
The stakes in nearly all of the old tim,
games in which he played We're large
In 1879 man named Sullivan, anothe
Great western poker player wrote Lev,
from Salt Lake that big game was i,
progress in that city and the one VIII
could beat it could win $4,000. Lev,
placed $4,000 in his pocket and starte,
for Salt Lake. In few days he wa
back without a dollar and declared h
would never accept another invitatio
to take part in an outside poker game