Evening star., 1901-12-14

at 'em work that he has to employ four
timekeepers to keep tab on 'em.
George Kendig. who. in the late seven
sSs s aftsSFy fss S SSss on on
paying S9la Expenses . and he Eas % so m neary
barefoot that there wasn't any fun in it.
On the morning that he picked up the pa
per and read Of the sum that his number
had won he went out in front Of his place
and fired cobble stones at the sign over his
door for ten minutes. He was in debt to
the brewery to which his license was as
bullyragged by the representative of the
brewery on the lattsr's frequent collecting
visits. When the brewery man called on
Kendig that morning he got a sound wal
i1oping Tor his abusiveness. and then Ken,
never feturned to It. He got hSd Of bis
roll Of $1,000 bills, went out to the Pacific
| coast, and now's he's got restaurants all
| wife who looks just like Emma Calve did
seven or eight years ago. housefui OF
| beautiful young ones and money to heave
| at the birds. He told me the last time I
saw him out there that whenever / felt
that It was a case of the poor house for
| me. all I'd have to do 'ud be to wire him
| for the price of a ticket to California, and
| he'd tend to the rest.
The Chicago MiIliner.
| "Out in Chicago there's a buxom, busi-
| ness-like woman. not much above forty.
| and spry as twenty, who owns millinery
! stores in towns throughout Illinois. Wis
consin, Iowa, Missouri, and all around that
section. She runs them all from her big
headquarters in Chicago. I remember the
day sold her the ticket that won her S5.-
600. She was a pale, underfed-looking lit
tie slip Of a hat-trimmer employed in a
l4th street millinery store and working
half the night well all day Sunday
during the busy seasons. She took her S5,-
OOO to Milwaukee, where she had relatives
started a millinery establishment there
moved down to Chicago and went into busi-
ness there, and now, as l say, there are
heaps of towns out that way where the
women have to wear the hats she provides or
go bareheaded. She goes to Paris for three
| months every year to attend to her buying,
and when the foxy boys come around and
invite her to take walk up the aisle to
| the altar with them she laughs merrily and
asks 'em If they don't think there's going
to be a change in the weather pretty soon
"A few months ago I spent more money
| than I felt like spending for a beautiful
| imitation antique brass hall lamp that my
wife had got her eye upon and couldn't live
| without another minute, so she told me. 1
bought the lamp from man who makes all
| kinds of gear of that sort, and the amount of
| money that he takes out of the bank on
Saturdays to pay his gang of factory hands
| is astonishing. This man was huge lum-
| mox Of a blacksmith's helper on the day
| he was $4,000 richer by reason of a grimy
| ticket that he was carrying around with
| him. He took off his leather apron and
| asked his boss for his time got his money
| in exchange for his numbered ticket, spent
| few months looking around while he held
| on tight to the winning, and then decided
that the career Of a manufacturer of cop
| per, brass and wrought-iron articles was
| good enough for him. He went into it in
small way and now he grins easily when
ne gets a cablegram from his wife and
daughters travelling in Europe demanding
him to push some more money over their
way.
Theatrical Managers Luck.
There's theatrical manager whose
name you often used to see In the news
papers-he's engaged in bigger enterprises
than those connected with the stage now
who made his first cut toward the top
sawyer's perch out of a So winning
ticket that passed over to him a couple of
decades ago. He needed the money right
badly for hats and shoes and clothing and
things like that, but he was too much on
the gamble in the theatrical game to spend
his money on the necessaries Of life, and so
he organized a Black Crook outfit and
started out west with 1t. He got the money
from the beginning, invested it in other
fy-by,night one ne-night-standers. made good
with those, too, drifted into legitimate man.
agement on large scale. and got rich.
Every time I met that man after he got
to going right he'd drag me into a theater
box and make me sit through one of his
shows.
TONY Tasso, a bootblack who used to
shine 'em up at the old Grand Central
station. got $1,000 on a ticket that he pur-
chased from me one day while he was pol
lshing my shoes, and with the money he
went to Chicago and started a wholesale
fruit business that made him so rich that
he died of mere Joy and Chianti years ago.
There was a little Alsatian dressmaker
VINO used to make wifa's p1ntbas hoo oh
In the latter seventies. She had a little
plant on Both street and worked hard She
had got pretty we'll Off during the war,
selling drinkables and gimcracks to the
soldiers of the pampered regiments en-
camped around Washington, but she had
lost 1t all through the dishonesty Of a
countryman COUNT. IN INTO to whom she had given the
money to invest for her, and so she started
THIS little dressmaklng establishment.
Drew a Third of $4,000.
''She invested in the old numbered card
boards for three years before anything
came her way, and then she got hold OF a
number that entitled her to a third of a
$4,000 prize. She knew how to do a good
many money-making things and so she
went up to Boston. where she had kinsfoIk.
and started tidy little plant for the man.
ufacture of swell pastryware for swell peo-
ple From that she drifted into the cater
ing business on large scale. and when
she retired from business and went back
to Alsace few years ago, rich as she ever
wanted to be, she was more than missed by
the society crowd Of the hub, who had
depended upon her for a long time to pro-
vide them with daintily-served confections
at receptions, luncheons and SUCH
"One of the big cigar manufacturing es-
ADJUSTMENTS down in Key West has been
owned for years by Cuban who. while
working at the cigar-making trade here.
Won 5000 on one of the tickets. He bought
an interest in the Key West outfit worked
his associates out by natural process of Sc
| lection In the course of time, and now he's
| a very rich man.
"A silent partner in one of the big 9Th
avenue department stores got his start
from the money that he won out of the
lottery. very prosperous trade paper
| published In New York is owned by a
man who bought it with winning that
he made In the same way. The trade pa
per didn't amount to anything when he
took hold of 1t. but he was a hustler and
pushed it to the front right away. He
not only derives large income today from
the trade paper itself, but he has large
holdings In the interest which the jour
nal represents. A string of horses COM
priSinG some of the hest rrpnars tbot