The Savannah morning news., 1902-03-30

Adams, the policy king. On Eighth
avenue, near where he lived, a few
years ago, when his neighbors face
tiously dubbed one of his apartment
houses the "red and black flats.
Adams said that it was shame to
hound mans family in this way
and made a public statement that he
had quit the policy business. which
was lie. He moved to Sixty-ninth
street, but one night there was a
fire in his house, and his name got
into the papers again. He sniveled
a lot about this intrusion on his pri-
vate life and moved to a hotel where
he now lives.
The Adams Family.
Adams is an illiterate man, and he
cherishes the ambitions so often found
in men of no education, but annie
means. For himself he aspires to
nothing, but the social elevation of
his children is a mania with him.
For years he has believed that his
money could purchase social place for
his sons and daughters, and in spite
of many rebuffs he has not given up
yet.
He sent one of his sons to Harvard.
The boy made friends and Adams was
delighted. He supplied him with album
dant money, and the young mans en-
tertainments were so sumptuous that
they became matters of comment.
Then, of course. It got TO Cambridge
that young Mr.. Adams was the son
of the policy king of New York. and
that ended his University career. He
went home utterly discouraged and
crushed, and the fathers heart brok-
en-. He sent another son to college
with similar results. The third son.
a young man of mettle and feeling, is
now in the Klondike. He refused fiat
footed to enter into the policy kings
plans for social recognition. He went
to the klondike to get away from the
handicap of his fathers bad name.
and is there now working for his liv-
ing.
OF the policy kings daughters it is
only necessary to say that they went
to fashionable schools and made
friends in certain circles. but won no
social position for their brothers or
the family Adams has made a COM
plete failure of everything he has at
tempted save the piling up of money.
and it has been a bitter humiliation
to him.
He really feels that he has been bad
ly used. Actually Adams, the mean
est gambler in New York. the friend
and associate of gamblers, and ex-
convicts, can not understand why his
CHlluISn SnOutu not De allOWeQ the
same social privileges as the children
of other men. 1t is perfectly character
istic of him not to understand it. He
cannot see why it is wrong to rob the
poor by the swindling game of policy.
He has said so repeatedly.
Adams Rise Has Been Rapid.
Adams rise as a gambler has been
rapid. He absorbed every trick of the
policy game as a runner for Zachariah
Simmons, and to the surprise of that
individual. began writing for himself
and using the Simmons drawings at
the end of a few years apprenticeship
with the policy king of Tweed days
Policy is not difficult game to mas
ter; it was in the organization of his
enormous system that Adams showed
his genius, if that is the proper name
for it. The numbers used are from / to
rs inclusive, and there are four draw
ings a day, supposed to be made at
Covington, Ky, the headquarters of
the two lotteries used. viz, the Ken
lucky and the State. At the morning
drawings u of the rs numbers are
drawn for one lottery and IS of the rs
for the other All over the country the
two. columns of figures made up of the