The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-16
LUCKIEST MAN ON THE CURB.
THEY CAN'T BEAT IN WCOR-
Mack AT ANY OLD GAME.
Career OF the Honest Broker VINO Started
With Nothing but His Luck and Few
Gold Pieces-Never Even Has 10
Hang on q strap Going TO Brooklyn.

Gold Pieces-Never Even Has 10
Hang on q strap Goiny to BROOKLYN
Lucky Ed" Mccormack. the curb broker
who won $500 diamond ring in rattle on
the curb on Thursday. after winning the
amount OF his preliminary risk, sent the
ring to jewellers yesterday to have 1t
made large enough to At his finger. II
was an extra large ring anyway, but
McCormacks fingers have become alb
normally large from handling 30 much
money.
The jewellers agent declared that the
ring would be delivered just before the
market closed At o clock. A fellow broker
offered to bet $50 that the jeweller wouldn't
have the Job done on time. Mccormack
took the chance and it was like finding
more money. The ring came back three
minutes before the last trade was made
on the curb, and the brokers offered to pay
a dollar apiece for the luck OF rubbing 1t
after Mccormack put it on.
II was easier than making that $l675
which Mccormack brought away from the
track the other day as the result OF an initial
shoestring bet Of %. Mccormack never
loses on the horses. Even the Wall Street
cab horses are his friends. After giving
all his friends free rubs on the ring yester-
day he offered to bet SO with every taker
that the next cab to come along through
the curb market would have an odd number
in the lamp. Fifteen brokers bet $40 apiece
on an even-numbcred rig, and then along
came cab 273.
Mccormack collected the $50 and took
the cab for home. But it had been rather
dull day for him. so far az luck was con :
cerned. He forgot to make ard win h!a
usual forenoon bet on whether the frs,
streamer of ticker tape would be thrown
from the Mills Building or the Bread Ex-
change. Lucky Ed generally depends on
that tape wager for his lunch money. He
bets on red headlines in evening news
papers. and nobody has yet succeeded in
beating his system 1t is simple one at
that As rule he plays "Baffled' and
"Women In Panic" for favortes three times
week, and gets enough Oh other Gays
with even money on Assassin and
Slaughter.
McCormack's successful theory Of bust
ness Is that there Is no detail too small TO
take chance on He was born in this
city and went to work to make his own
fortune when but lad. One day in an
office where he was employed he found
a stack OF six s25 gold pieces on the DOR
where they had been carelesssly swept
by the cleaner. The boy Immediately took
them to the merchant prince.
-You are bound to succeed in life. my lad, y
said the merchant prince. kindly. Il will
give you three OF the gold pieces for your
honeety, You must put them in the saw
ing bank, where they will draw interest," so
that at the end of the year you will have
SIS inst cad of SIS. came to this great city
at your age with but ST. Remember that. :"
The boy thanked the merchant prince ard
then in a clear, ringing voice asked him ii
he wouldn't match to see who would have
all six Of the gold pieces.
The elder man. having been OF a ventures
some turn ia his youth, patted Edward on
the head and good naturedly said that he
would match And at the end of two
minutes the future lucky Edward OF the
curb had $3.50 instead Of SIS, without the
aid of savings bank
The lads folks wanted him to become
A carpenter, so he bought Nails preferred
with his $50 at N, and sold them at ~.
With those nails as a start he was before
long able to build house as fine as that OF
the merchant prince whose careless cleaner
had swept the gold coins on to the floor.
Az he grew older lucky Edwards business
ventures all prcsperad. He also acquired
a fondness for hors s aud in that respect
is away ahead Of the game. He has always
lived in BROOKLYN but never had 10 hang
by strap, so persistent has been his good
luck even in small things.