Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-08-30
BIG NAG[RS ON BOAT
Millionaires on the Deutchsland
Win and Lose Big Sums Of
Money En- Route.
Gambling Among the Wealthy
Passengers Was Kept Up
From Port to Port.
Tod Sloan One Of the Unlucky
Ones...Fast Time
Made.

Made.
New York, Aug. 30.-An eminent re-
tired skipper, who is the American
head of prosperous steamship line.
said recently that the record ships
always would be profitable, notwith-
standing their enormous coal consump-
ton, because they would attract the
Yankee millionaires and speculative
folk generally. That, perhaps, is one
of the reasons why the Hamburg
American liner, Deutschland, which
clipped six minutes off her previous
best run from Cherbourg on the trip
she finished at this port yesterday, was
crowded with prosperous and sporty"
voyagers. No twin screw packet ever
has brought SO many millionaires into
Sandy Hook. They represented much
of the wealth of Pennsylvania, and a
part of that of other big states.
The voyage was swift, not because
the great ship made high hourly av-
erage, but because she came over the
short northerly course. She covered
| 3,045 knots In five days and twelve
| hours and twenty three minutes, at an
hourly speed of twenty-three knots.
| OFF the banks she was forced to slow
down because of the fog and the fear
of splitting fisherman or two loafing
| in the liners lane. The voyage was
smooth, and might have been monot-
onous if the millionaires and the sport
ing folk including Tod Sloane, the
| jockey, had not created diversion by
Speculation that smashed all records
afloat, and was the talk of the ship al
most from port to port.
Every berth in the first cabin and the
quarters of all the officers were taken
by triumphant Yankee tourists. Some,
who had lots of ready money and credit
enough to float few commercial en-
| terprises We're forced to take berths in
4 the second cabin. They couldn't go
higher UP" because nobody would sell
| his place among the millionaires.
| Tod Sloan was auctioneer of most of
the pools sold on the days runs. The
| jockey lost favor in the last part of the
| voyage because he kicked on losing
about $1,000 to Mortimer l.. Schiff at
| bridge whist, and because he questioned
the ability of A. r. Peacock. who was
short on ready money, to offer certi-
fled check for $780, Inasmuch as Pea
cock was once vice president of the Car
negie Steel Company and sold out his
interest for s11 ,000, 600. he was somewhat
surprised by the Jockeys insinuations,
whispered in the. presence of Peacock's
friends. The jockey found that he was
1 Barking up the wrong tree" and later
apologized.
Sloan challenged DR.. S. Carter Cole, al
bridge-whst expert, to a game, but the
doctor haughtily declared that he could
not play Sloan, as he was an amateur.
This made the Jockey sore" and he Inn
mediately went to work and won back
$500 of the $1,000 he had lost.
The spirit of speculation became
] strongest on the latter half of the voy-
/ age. There were poker games in the
smoking room from day until midnight,
and the stewards had to use swear
words, in elaborate German. to get the
players to go to bed. The limit was usu-
ally $40. but the games were SO warm
that there was seldom less than $500 in a
pot. John Bryson, president of the
State Loan and Trust Company OF Los
Angeles, was good winner. He is SO
years old and said he was 1.-The oldest
and youngest man aboard the ship He
has only one eye, but 1t is telescope and
), microscopic in power. He played nearly
4 every day and night.
4 The biggest pool on a days run ever
auctoned off aboard transatlantic fly
er was won by "A. r. Peacock on Tues
day, when the ship covered 572 knots.
Peacock gathered in $4,000. The next day
ten voyagers invested their vest-pocket
change in another pool on the ships run.
They We're John B. Dryden, d. M. Glenn
= son, j. H. Chambers, A. NJ. Fox, D. NJ.
Gillespie, NJ F.. Muslin. George l.. Nc
Farlane, f. Moore, G. TIndle and A. X.
Peacock. Each put up $3.50, making a
pool of $4,000. the biggest ever heard
of afoat. President Muslin of the Pitts
burg Malleable Iron Comany. and who
really doesn't need the money, drew the
lucky number.
There was another pool, mere trifle
of s1,7OO auctioned Off on Wednesday on
the days run, which was SIS knots Nor
timer l.. Schiff, who had been lucky at
cards, bid for the number SIC. His
friends entered into conspiracy to pre-
vent him from getting that number, and
after they had forced him to bid $40 for
1t he surprised them by giving it up and
bidding for 57s.
George F. Baer, president Of the Phil
adelphia e. Reading railroad, Charles
Glover, Charles J. Glidden. Ratcliff
Hicks, president of the Garfield Rubber
Company; Henry X. kunhardt, presi-
: dent of the Maritime exchange: Henry
!. Kaufman, Charles P. Taft, l.. Weingar-
ten and Congressman Cornelius A.