Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-24
rally bring them out about even, no mat
which side wins.
An Old Dodge of Tammany.

An Old Dodge of Tammany.
Tammany used to operate method Of in
huencing the odds whereby 1T would IN
fallibly stand to win no matter which party
gained the victory, but that scheme can't be
operated any more, owing to the growing
wisdom of the chaps who bet big money On
the elections. 1t is a significant fact that
many of the noted Northumberland 1t Is
pretty safe to say that nnetenths of all the
bookmakers are Tammanyites-are taking
the Low end of the betting proposition now
Several of them who in former years never
stopped betting on Tammany until the poils
opened are now placing their money on the
fusion candida te-and in this connection IL
must be remembered that bookmakers are
money makers first and politicians after
that Notwithstanding the position of IA
voritism in the odds which Mcclellan again
occupies Mcclellan money is scarcer IN the
betting rings of the metropolitan race
ira cks than during any previous contest.
There is one noted bookmaker formerly
at the forefront in all election betting oper-
atoms who isn't doing any election. bet
ting at all this year-hasnt bet cent IN
fact, since Roosevelt won the governorship
from Van Wyck This hookmaker name
is George Wheelock, well known to the
patrons of the Benning races. Up 10 lhe
day of the Roosevelt-Van Wyck suberna-
torial election Wheelock was SO positive |
that Roosevelt was going to win that he
all but tapped" himself on the general
result betting with both hands md tax
ing the Roosevelt end at any odds offered |
from anybody who had the money to put !
up. On the morning of the election he
stood to win S1Jo.Vo on Roosevelt. ol
election morn ng his nerve gave out. DIS
coura ging reports from up the state nj
tered into New York. Wheelock set out
il a MAD scramble to hedge. BY ) clock |
in the afternoon he had succeeded. but only !
after the most frantic efforts. in getting to
cover and hedging himself out of the
hole. At o'clock in the evening it was
known beyond doubt that Roes welt was
Nv m
Wheelock candidly admits that he has /
never been the same man since. I may |
look the same and act the same, he says /
ruefully in dwelling upon that dismal ex-
perience on the day when his nerve quit |
him, but I'm not the same. m not Il |
hard loser but I'll never get over that-a |
hundred and half thousand shrive!ed up |
on the sacrificial altar of busted nerve /
who could ever get over it? And he has |
never wagered a SUMMARIZE on an cleo |
ton since.
Lawyers Wig Causes Amusement.
noted New York criminal lawyer who |;
is also an habitual frst-nighter at the !
theaters appeared at very sumptuous and !
girly-girly musical comedy the other night |
with a neatly designed wig covering his |
hope!essly bald pate. He sat on tie aisle !,
in the first OF orchestra seats, and |
when the crowd recognized Eiul-everybody !
in New York knows his features-he was |
gious that he had to quit his seat before /
the curtain went up, and the uproarous |
critics and many Other friends sur |
rounded him in the lobby and gave him an |
ovation.
Il thought I'd be able to get away with !
it, but / now that it won't do" he said, |
dismally, in response to the shouts of his |
gang of friends in the lobby, and he pulled |
off the wig and stuffed it into a pocket |
with heavy sigh, which may or may not |
have been genuine. My motive was of the |
Sj.rht &c GOT mo h.1d That
l have to sit down in front if l am to see |
anything that is going on. Wen, for years |
past l found myself down there in those |
front seats, alongside OF long line OF 4
baldheads, whose motives in thus locating |
themselves were not. l feel confident, 81 |,
wholly-er-excellent and-er-chaste my |
own-far be it from me to plug for myself, |
gentlemen, but l am stating the fact!
Well, the juXtaposition, the contiguity, so |
to speak. of these hairless-domed persons |
at length got on my nerves--it did indeed |
for felt that it left me open to the imputa- |
ton that 1 shared the state of mind which |
melted them to seize those front positions. |
and so l decided to try the wig, hoping not |
to be recognized-but can see that it won't |
do,-won't do at air! and he incontinently |
fed from the lobby. amid the roars OF his |
coterie who neglected the show to follow i
him out and receive his explanation. |
Special Seats for Fat Men.
The managers of several of the Broadway /
theaters have lately caused themselves to
be remembered in the prisons of fat men.
These managers have had the consideration
and the business sense to put specially de-
signed seats in their playhouses for the |
use and comfort of fat men. The special
designing consists simply in making the |
seats-which are well down toward the
stage-just twice as wide as the ordinary
seats Two prices are quite equitably
arged for these fat mems seats-which
by the way, can Just as well be occupied
by fat women, although the managers do
fnf xr,in ,..Ir
them since fat women, it would seem, are
ayerse to thus making public acknowledge
ment that they really are fat But there
are ten times ten fat men in New York for
every seat thus built and set aside for
their occupancy who will eagerly aaJ he
double price for the increased comfort.
1t is thus a pleasure to be able 20 ,eaord
the fact that fat men, after ages Of lriot.-
lation are at last obtaining even this small.