Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-11-17

good. When he was running gAm-s
 bling house in Chicago he stepped out one night and played the game at an-
 other establishment losing the $S.00o
 which he carried. He borrowed $10,00o from the house, on the agreement that he would return 1t by noon tho next day. He lost every cent Before the next noon. however, he had raised the $1O,000 and returned 1t.
 On one occasion in Boston Eheedy tried faro when the gods and the odds were against him. He was left with- out money enough to buy ticket to New York, to which city he desired to go. Next morning when the banks opened he entered the private office of prominent bank president whom he never had seen.
 T want to borrow $1,000," he said. "On what securityg'
 Simply my word of honor" q don't know you, and besides this bank doesn't lend money that way; no bank does. What is your name?" T am Pat Sheedy the gambler" The banker looked at him, recalled his reputation for squareness and drew the money from his personal account. Two days later Sheedy repaid the loan. Robert Pinkerton once said of Sheedy: 'I have known him for twenty years. never met a man with keen CT sense of honor. If he owes man 9 dollar or hundred thousand he'll pay it the first chance he gets. If he is in Cairo or South America he will go to cable office and cable the money to his creditors He reminds me of Bret Harte's hero, John Oakhurst, gentle- man and gambler. Bret Hart drew Sheedy when he portrayed that char acter."
 Pat Sheedys own opinion of gam- blers is not very high. Not long ago he said: i've counted the real gam- blers in New York, and there are just three of them. The so called gamblers who have been caught in these raids of late are all pikers, politicians, second story men or doormat thieves
 Sheedy is fond of carrying around in his vest pocket newspaper clippings in which good things are said of him. Once a reporter went to interview him and found him with copy of The Simple Life" in his pistol pocket and a well worn clipping sticking from vest pocket. The clipping contained Bat MasterSon's estimate Of Pat Sheedy, in part as follows:
 "Of course Sheedy doesn't associate with gamblers. Why should he? He's a man of brains, man of some refine- ment. If I had money I wouldn't let a gambler walk on the same side of the street with me never knew gam- bier who had the brains of a grasshop- per, except Sheedy. Don't speak to me of gamblers: 1 know the breed, and know Sheedy. And if you ask me, the co: bined brains of the gambling fra- ternity wouldn't make rattle in that big head of Sheedy's."
 Such is the man who is now going to teach art appreciation to the new rich. In his New York establishment he has several furnished rooms with pictures hung to show the parvenu how to har- monize pictures with the interior finish and furnishings.
 Mir Sheedy, however, has pretty fair knowledge as to the contents of the picture frames, which is to be credited to his many years of observation in art and his long cherished desire to rise above the appellation of honest gambler and become Patrick F. Sheedy A. C., which means art con- noisseur.
 Sheedy received several canvases from abroad without frames.
 Are you going to frame these be. fore you put them on exhibition" inc quired a friend.
 "of course." replied Sheedy. Works of art, like gentlemen. should never ap- pear in public without their collars on" ROBERTUS LOVE.