The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-15
Men Who Turn Over a Million Dollars q Single Race

younger. when on their uppers, wrote. or
had written for them. very interesting
books showing how they had betted them
selves into bankruptcy; but the man who
has made million by his combined
knowledge of horse and man isn't going
to tell how he did it, because he wants
to make another million and doesn't want
your competition.
One can no more expect a boollmaker
to tell the secrets of his trade than you
can Marconi or Edison. What they are all
willing to tell is what is not a secret and
not worth listening to. On the whole,
yet there are a few, so wonderful is man.
who are able to envelop it with quite a
poetic interest and glamor
One of the greatest of bookmakers was.
and is also, a great traveller. Once we
met at the ends of the earth and he told
me, not indeed how he became success
full but the story of his life. He was
a clerk to an American exhibitor at the
Paris exposition in 1889. He was tired OF
his humdrum existence, and now l will let
him tell his story as he told it to me while
the hot wind blew and the naked bar
barians dived for pearls.
II read the papers every morning for
but one thing. | was tired OF living on
silver, not to say a copper basis, and ]
made up my mind that the next time gold
was discovered anywhere in paying guam
titles | would go to that place and dig
and deIve and fight for my fair share Of 1t.
/ was sitting in the American cafe, TAX
ing my grog and looking for treasure trovs
kilograms when an American came in. j
don't know whether he's dead or alivd
now but his name is written large in
my memory and in gold letters upon
big sign in front of a swell Fifth avenue
shop. ~ - ao
luck 1 go there and rub my hand along
that sign, for 1t was certainly he who
started me out on gambling career
which on the whole has certainly been a
Tx1oI To .af Won tt~a not n
louis to spare put it on Vasistas. who
will win the Derby tomorrow? l thought
the matter over all night, was too ex
cited to sleep. and when the morning
came l had decided to wait no longer for
gold mines to be unearthed, but to plunge
on Vasistas.
II plunged to the extent of five louis,
all could beg and borrow. The book
makers didn't want to take my money
They thought Vasistas would not start.
But l persisted, for I believed in my
tip like one possessed. There came on
shower Of rain. and | got under cover. |
was too excited to look at the race, and
then 1t was all over
1.-The thousands at Longchamps that
day were all bowled over. They hadn't
even heard the name of the winner men
toned before, but walked down stairs
and cashed in my winnings. about $4,000
francs. 1t seemed more to me than TO-
900, 600 would now, and 1 made an aw-
full fool of myself. Two weeks later 1
lost 1t all at Monte carlo. was so due
that the proprietor of the hotel tried to
get me to leave without paying my BILL
because he was afraid 1 would blow out
my brains. and the management of the
gambling corporation gave me first
class ticket to Paris, and well they could
afford it, too.
"WelI, In two weeks I learned lot. In
the first place I saw that exact and rell-
able information can be turned into big
money easily, and a mans fool TO play
a game he doesn't understand. Those are
my colors and I've sailed under them
ever since. But bless youi that's the Sc
cret Of success in every other business. as
well as bookmaking. New York Herald.