Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-03-09
INV a Wise One Used a Telephone
push Button and a Steam
Whistle.
THEY FOOLED THE BookIES.
Then Came Day When Someone Push
ed the Button at the Wrong Time
The Result.

u,ro ls q story related by turfman
~, mo south. whose identity Is kept a
...rst The tale will interest those who
,esa a "nlbble" at the races. but II may
90, look good to certain 81. Louis ana
rsst ST. Louis racegoers'
@Tbcy were running poolrooms over on
,so East Side with little more freedom
,h.n thew are doing now. i had charge
'Io warehouse that did not keep me any
,'o husr and now and then, In common
vtb other mortals, would take little
,pke' at the ponies.
~ dou't remember that l won anything,
A. collection is that | never caShed Il
,lLet IL wasn't costing me much, but
tbe thing grew monotonous, and found
myssV pinng for revenge.
Conc day / noticed a stranger n va
cant part Of the warehouse. When the
,,an io whom | was talking LETT the
stranger sTolled up TO me, gave urhiu
erecting and said.
e"'Do Won ever play the racos?'
OF admitted that once In a while 1 took
n plbble. but didn't bite strong
'"Woud you like to beat EN-" he
"Thats what I've been trying to DO
a'IIowd YOU like to get in on a certain
way IL get themY he asked
II felt bound 10 confess that the propo-
snien would tickle me immensely,
",rye lust been looking around here
said the stranger and this Will be fine
nace 10 work il sure thing.
"Thep he went on 20 explain That the
,elerraphic race reports were relayed at
81 TOlis. ard that five or ten minutes
rlapgcd between their receipt in 81, Louis
and their announcement In nthe East 81,
I'm ow,i said he this Is the scheme we
can work. You've got magnificent place
here 70 IA telephone-one or the preluest
paces ever saw. There are several tel
snbones over In 81. Louis II will take
ebout six seconds for man over on that
SIDE Of the river TO get the winner and
transmit IL 10 US over here, That Will
gye his six 20 eight minutes to get our
money down.
"'The only thing necessary after we
Get the results Is 10 signal to our agents
m the pooro0ms, get In on the sure thing,
and take the money
Il expected 10 md some hitch some
where. but | said all right. IL wasn't
costing me anything. Then ] asked him
how No was going to signal to the pool
room workers
"'Oh, thatlI be- easy he said, You
zee. we can hire a railroad engine 10
stand by the warehouse, and when the re-
sult comes In We can have the engineer
blow a number OF blasts on his whistle
that will correspond 20 number agreed
upon to signify the horse.
"'But,' ! said, "A locomotive will cost
YOU about so day | was getting inter.
tsted and so made q suggestion. Now
] said We've got a steam engine here
that doesn't overwork Itself. and N you
want TO buy a good strong healthy whis-
tle OF some peculiar tone. and hitch II to
that engine, and pay all the bills, II will
BE- all right with me.
He Jumped az the suggestion and
bright an dearly next morning he was on
hand with great big whistle a steam
filter telephone man and enough pipe
and wire and electric bell equipment for
oil possible emergencies lie hitched the
whistle to the engine installed the tele.
phone, ana then right beside the tele-
phone rugged up an electric push button
which led ~ the whistle, and by pushing
which the whistle could be sounded.
Things worked very nicely for two or
three days and the other fellows In the
scheme were making nice sum Of spend
ing money SO ] decided 10 try It, and |
went TO the room determined TO try the
game. That day there was mare they
called Vienna Filly' running somewhere
She Vas No, 2 ON the card prepared for
those IN on the sure-thng scheme.
Twenty minutes before the race was
called / heard the strdont tones Of the
warehouse Whlstle-one toot two toots,
Three tools. looked nj my program
taw II was Vienna Fily's number, and
started for the odds player Then ! hap
rened 10 look at my watch. Hello |
tald to myself something's wrong. IL ls
twenty minutes yet until that race Is run
tnd they couldn't get the results that
lar ahead, So | turned back,
Presently one Of the men In on the
game came sauntering up, looking happy
end Tying to look unconcerned. WELL
be said, dld you get onY She's 3 10 -"
Get ON what2' | asked.
val. i{ gEped Why didn't you hear the
your watchr
No; what's that got to do with TO-
o.. NeI something's wrong said
,,Ihey can't get the results over there
Wenly minutes before the race Is run
T. bel 500 on that boomin' whistle,
Better hedge 7 advised.
=, JUST then another consprator came I'M
ItelIy much the same conversation en-.
ttued, only he had bet $50. Then came a
,mrl one. and a fourth one, who had
net from $40 to so each, They were ner-
VOWS but they had faith in the whistle.
tggd refused TO hedge Well / said, I'm.
auy' believe there's a mistake. but II
NV lelloWs can stand Il so can H. and 1
Walk" sT UP an dput 500 on the mare,
nei we strollod out TO talk II over
l wait for another voice from the whis-
w. we were pretty nervous but captal
SnsIincht would have been the fate OF
we ieuow who said hedge
,,Aoou, Two minutes before tho race
o. 70 90 run, up came one OF tho men
b,a1 we warehouse lie was out OF
me- " W. ne SAID he had run every foot OF
haf WY ana II was good mile and a
,arpld-yo -fellows-hear- the - wbls.
w no .gasped. "'''
., les' We shouted, in an excited ohor.
", why-we dldn't--get anyNronort
p npnot ,Yanicd-thc oovatorgand no
WY l'd-tne button-three timesn
a. I'nOmher now that no fnrlv ahouto1
,i,Ne words AZ the time. however /
Yush "naofIe anything oXcept the mad
,6e WY all ot us made 10 get back IA
VIM window, But we had moi col
essnR hltecn feet OF IL whom Inc ,Sos
.r"orpU instrument began to tick ana tbo
1rigb,or called out: They're on mi
,9,11oWly We turned back.
"a sc,pIue leads. by a length. suntius.
thlri 'V"u' by two lengths; Arithmetic
i0' operator had what seemed to rs
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