The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-03-25
N. Y. SUM

WASHINGTON, March Sit is not
often that horse bunch has so many
contributory and cumulative elements
making for its formation as the one
which seized a committee clerk at the
Capitol week ago last Thursday.
The bunch gathered him in when he
picked up a paper on Thursday morning
and caught sight of the name of the
horse Honolulu entered for the Ken
lucky Club Handicap, to be run that day
at the opening of the new track at Hot
Springs, Ark
He liked that old mud runner, and
had cleaned up on him several times.
He instantly decided to have bet down
OH the horse.
By noon the bunch had grown by ac-
| cretion until its proportions were simply
monumental. In addition to his liking
for the horse Honolulu, the following
reasons were borne in upon him why
he should play Honolulu that day:
I. Honolulu was famous mud lark,
and the report from the new Hot
Springs stated that it WAS raining hard
there for the opening day and that the
track would be sloppy.
| 2. Honolulu was to run in the Ken
lucky Club Handicap, and he, the com
mittee clerk, was from Kentucky.
| 3. He, the committee clerk, had sol
diered with the Volunteer army at Ho-
nolulu after the Spanish war, and liked
Honolulu better than any place he had
ever seen.
4. He has brother who is Federal
| official at Honolulu.
5. Only the day before, he. had re-
ceived a letter from this brother, with
the Honolulu postm, eS, stating that the
most remarkable rai1f 5orm ever known
| in Honolulu had taken place the week
before and that it had rained a fraction
| less than eight inches within a few
! hours. (''Big rain at Honolulu, raining
at Hot Springs, where Honolulu's go
I ing to rum guess that's bad figured
| out the committee clerk, exultingly.)
8. At a vaudeville show, the night be-
| fore, there mad been FIVE male kanaka
| singers, with taro patch fddles, singing
| the Hawaiian songs.
| 7. Prince Cupid, the Delegate from
| Hawaii, had entered that morning, for
! the first time since his arrival in Wash
| ington, the committee room in which
| the man upon whom all these variations
| of bunch were swooping is employed.
The committee clerk made neat tabu-
lation of these cheerful auguries, and
| beneyolently passed the tabulation a
round among his pals at the Capitol.
However, none of them could see it as
he. did.
The bunch thing hadn't been going
through for the Capitol outfit for some
time Only few days before a sad
thing in the bunch line had swept that
stately edifce.
An Alaska mine owner had been show
ing a large nugget of gold around a
Inong the Congressman. On the day
that he did this the bunch players
among the employees on the House side
discovered, upon looking at the entries,
that Our Nugget was slated to go at
New Orleans that afternoon, and Our
Nugget had won her previous race.
All hands Clipped into the Our Mug
get pool, and one of them was sent
over the river to string the money
across tie board on the mare. Our Mug
half-mile, and was killed
Two weeks before that the whole out
fit. including the employees on the
Senate side as we'll as those at the
south end of the Capitol, had gone to
the horse Capitol, running at Los An
eeles. with a whoop, Capitol being tip
ped as a sure thing by somebody or
other. That bunch fell in, too, Capitol
! having finished a scandalous last in
field of fourteen.
So that when the committee clerk
with the Honolulu bunch tabulation
glided around the building and tried to
| tell them that Honolulu was in, they
waited him. They agreed that the bunch
| looked fine on paper, but declared, that
he had faxed some of the contrlbutory
auguries-which he really had not, all OF
them having been perfectly on the level
/ Just as he set them down.
But the seven typewriter reasons
were good enough for the committee
clerk who had been swept fore and aft
by the bunch.
He had such an exalted idea of Ho-
Modulus undermining qualities that he
! figured that the horse would be 1 20
| q shot in his field, despite the tact th9t
| he had not been out for many months.
Acting on this belief, he pulled 5000 out
| of his savings bank, his idea beng that
the 500 which he would pick up should
| the horse really be a I TO 3 chance
would come in handy for spring toy
! gerry money. When he reached the st.
| AsaDh Doolroom he took a seat away
back in the rear, out of sight of the
blackboard, so that he wouldn't be
tempted. by hypnotizing himself through
| gazing at Juicy odds against horses run
ming at other tracks, to play other
horses that he liked. He wanted TO
get the whole 5000 down on Honolulu
When the first line of betting on the
Kentucky Club Handicap at Hot Springs
came in and was chalked up on the
blackboard the committee clerk came
near wavering. Honolulu's price was
10, and 2.
This didn't look right. The price was