The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-07-15

equeo pulle never the wiser.
This ont, too, hke all the sest. was copied
80 e,srdcnA. Tho other poelroam psopls
oad o quick dig to get hold Of pfoked por'
tions OF tho human form and the rest Of thf
gear. For o while the anatomioh tft6euin
market va away on the bull side and thu
nxsngs hard to snag for love or money
but five or stx plants modelled on thu first
q were running full bloom before IN
Chicago mutt COP brigade got adjacent 10
the play. and they all won't up In thu smndge
together when the game was fallen to.
some fellow doped out tbs employ.
ment agency 90 o pretty fairish hind Of q
front OF the bouse stall and put is into
motion. II was started on North Dearborn
avenue. Enployment agency for men only
-ohefs, butlers, coachmen, SECOND men,
fooemen and the like. Regular rg-up
OF dssks and chairs, and q couple of girls
and men clerks doing busy things with ink
and paper out In the front works. Wasn't
/ phony, either. the employment agency
part Of lit was really run on q straight
away course, and . whole lot Of fellows
have GOT jobs yet that they got at Chicago
employment agencies that were started 10
stan for the pooFoom behind or upstairs.
Df@SADooAd Oub y lEOub u tDO ph8So
giving q long List Of places open and jobs
wanted. o~oachmannish looking duhs with
9Ioss cropped siders and leGsings hanging
around In front. picking their teeth and
giving the sure enough aspect to II, and the
whole atall geared on the scientific basis.
"The real boys with the good things
doped o. from the past performance
charts nudged right through TO the rear
Of the layout, where the soft padded sp9ing
latch door closed on them, and thsre they
were In rocking chairs, and plenty to smoke
and drink. and the ponies nance and odds
neatly marked up.
Nothing could he much sweeter than
that for the room keeper. This n went
for twp months without imitators, and then
II died, not Of imitation. but because Of q
declare-in job. The brother Of q politician
IN the ward was one OF the pony players.
He got In by mistake. but when they found
out who he was they had to let him streak
along with the rest. He wasn't picking
EN- right, and finally he waited around till
the days WORK was over, hemmed the boss
Of the plant In q corner and essayed to de-
clare himself In on q piece Of the yakedown
on the strength Of being q brother Of the
ward leader.
The ma running the room didn't zee the
s~hakedown thing, and the politictan's
brother, not making IL stick for some Of tho
swas, tipped the bulls. They didn't find
anything but the employment agency
a-going when they made their swoop, but
the fact that they'd been put next to the
employment agency arrangement put that
one on tho tobog.
then one Of EN- started q free doctor
shop, which wasn't 30 bad. considering II
worked for . good FIVE months. The dump
was rugged ca Wabash avenu over on the
South side. Advertisements and hand bills
ses u forth that to advertise certain rem
edies the free doctors wore going to meet
and treat all oomears, men only, free for six
months, and the boys with things the mat
ter with EN- were invited to traipse along
and have the free medical sharps fx EN-
up.
The front part Of the second floor was
fixed up for Consultation Offices and five
or SIX dressy young fellows, With phony
physicians' certificates from some other
State, swelled around In those Offices, stalk
ting the yaps that came to big words and fan
ming EN- along as II Il was all meant. The
horse room was on the top floor back, and
1t vac there with the rum and the smoke
and all the back dope-oomforts Of home
a-plenty. A fellow who lost his bank roll
there did the squeak thing about this free
doctor plant and 1t Q the way Of the rest
OF the framsups..
SThen the n ent theatres oame along
to help the poolroom people in the screening
line. The penny In the slot moving pic
ture and talking machine arcade made
a pretty good cover for the real works In
the back FOR quite q bit, but this one was
o~verplayed, like most Of the others, and
all Of them got necked together one day.
'The big bull market Of a year or 30 gave
q number Of foxy poolroom folks 4 chance
TO get in on the bucket shop rig. This
dodge enabled them to start business right
downtown In the big office buildings. The
poolroom man would start q bucket shop
Just like the real kind Of bucket shop In
every particular, including wire service
and all, the only difference being that no.
body bought or sold anything on margin
In the plant. The horses were tho goods.
'The bucket shop had the regular stock
quotation board, the boy to chalk up the
quotations, and all that, but market players
didn't operate at these screen layouts at
all. The horse players sat around the
room looking at the board as II they were
sure Interested In the way B. R. T. or ANAL
gamated was huctuating. but every little
while two Or three Of them d be sum-
moned into a little aide room and there
they'd be told the prices on the horses In |
the next race and get their bets down.
'Then they'd slip out to the main room
and tip the rest Of the fellows of a. ia the
prices and the horse players would slink
into the side room in little batohes Of two |
or three and pump In their kale. Then.
Q bit, q boy who marked the phony |
shop board would sneak into the |
side room, and when be came out all Of the |
would be Watching his moves |
He'd walk over TO the blackboard, chalk
the names OF the placed horses, one, two; |
three, 80 that all hands could get tho peck;
and then hurriedly rub tho names out.
Then the winners would creep In twos and
threes to the side room and find their wadsI
for them. Il
.There were other schemes. I've only
Q few "a samples. Most of
them have been worked now. the pest
house plaoard risup being about the last
Of EN-. ] don't know what the boys who
ike to hear EN- called OF and who hate the
handbook gag are going to do TO slough
heir kale now that the Scarlet Fever sign
% down. sure don't. The whole things
/ sad story. you take it from mo-
Caught Salmon with Her Fl ands.
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