The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-07-19
Office The brokerage plant had a leased
wire running In GhinaCn

! ONCE. The brokerage plant had leased
| wire running TO Chicago.
WORKED SCHEME IN CHICAGO.
THE boy at the key in the brokerage
plant. when he got the winners name from
the photographer. would flash 1t over tho
leased wire to the Chicago end. and the
money pushers in Chicago would get the
| money down. The leased wire was the cor
per stone Of that scheme, for the winners
| name went straight to Chicago, whereas
over the regular wires used by the pool
rooms OF the East the results had to be re-
peated from two or three points. and the
photographers easily beat them out all the
way from ten to twenty minutes.
The Chicago partners Of the heliograph-
ing Sergeant kicked the weatherboards of
OF several OF the niftiest poolrooms In Chi
caso before the Photograph located near
the Bay district track was finally put out
, OF business. a couple of times. though. the
people at the Chicago end got severe dumps.
'Once was when the fellow with the field
glasses. who knew the tints of the Jockeys
tunics made mistake, owing to the fact
that the jockeys colors were bespattered
with sloppy mud from the track. He passed
the photographer the wrong name-that Of
a horse wearing similar solors to those Of
the horse the caller OFF supposed was win
ning-and the Chicago money handlers fell
to that one. q slort-priced horse for thou
sands.
Another time they got down with huge
bundles on winning horse that was dis
qualified for fouling. This last was to
I shot. and 1t welted the Chicago partners
in the heliograph frame-up good and hard.
E The ex-Sergeant OF the Telegraph job
tswaS literally put out Of business under the
gun. and his angels got a savage Jolt at the
same price. The pooroom people Joined to-
gether and hired half dozen fierce men.
handy with their powder tools, to wipe the
heliosraph plant out for good and all.
SPOILED THE GOOD THING.
These gun DULLES hoped out OF the
brush and onto the heIiogEaphing mound
one afternoon, Just as the apparatus was
going into action. and held up the ex-Ser-
geant ahd his caller-off at the nubs of their
weapons. Tho DULLES had an expert heliog-
rapher along with them.
While the X-Serseant end his color man
photographer flashed phony along the line
the name of a short-priced favorite that
also ran in his race. The Chicago bunch
went to this. of course. for big wads and
thus gave back some Of their winnings to
the poolrooms.
The gun players in the pay Of the pool
room people edged the ma n.pulator OF the
Photograph apparatus off of his mound, the
only one from which the results could be
caught. simply by main force and kept
guard on the mound with their guns during
the remainder Of the racing at the Bay Dis
trict track. But the ex-Sergeant didn't care
He had got his so far as that section Of the
do any more sooner work with his day
light flasher.
Various members of the original crew.
however, worked the game successfully
later on at various Western racing points,
particularly at St. Louis. That's the reason
in the Western country than they are given
credit for being back this way for II GER
tainly has taken long time for the hello
graph TO work its way East"