The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-05-26

whom the compositor had done a bit OF
heeling at the last election. broke through
the Grove at this stage Of II and made az
" TO grab the drunk.
Out o. this, now, you fat head said
tho Alderman. I got a hack out here, buck
come on; you're In on the ride back AMI
he took hold Of Costigan's arm
"Costigan shook him OF. almost falling
down as he did 30.
I'm gambl!n'-g'way,' he said TO the
Alderman. Go play marbles with yourself.
l want to get enough out o. this last one to
buy me a plug hat and one Of them Prince
Alberts like you got
"And then the crowd broke intoa roar at
the expense Of the Alderman and booed
him and jeered him-for they wanted TO get
the souse's pick and resented the efforts
TO drag him away-and the politician
sneaked back into the crowd in disgust.
Then Costigan pulled his rumpled pro-
Rramme from his coat pocket and tried
to look over the list Of horses. But 1t was
no use. The names danced.
What's goin' In this race. anyhow
he inquired OF a maj standing near him.
one OF the waiting hunchists. and them man
ratified of the names OF the horses.
When he came to the name Of Storm
King That's the one,' cut in Costigan,
and he rolled over TO the stalls and began
chopped Storm King from 8 TO 1 right down
as soon as the bowling crowd, taking the
rummy's pick for it. swooped Upon them
for that horss. and the best that Costigan
could get for himself was 4 to /.
He took this one across the board, getting
s TO s for the place and 4 to 5 for the limb
position. He'd probably have thrust in
everything he had Of Storm King II the
books had consented to a X the money,
but they were afraid OF him and famed
win SO 200 TO it II Storm King-who'd been
racing mighty ~poorly-put 1t over the four
teen horses opposed to i'm.
"Costigan's light went out while waiting
for that ace to come of. He was talking
to his barkeep when all OF a sudden he began
to slide down, and then a couple OF US took
hold of him on either side. Another OF the
ring detectives hunted up the Alderman.
and with him We went to the little track
calaboose with Costigan.
With us as witnesses the Alderman
went through the compositor's clothes and
frisked him Of everything he had on him,
including the last batch OF tickets on Storm
King. While this was coming of Storm
King was shooting out from his bunch and
winning his race pulled TO a walk, and the
Alderman went and cashed the tickets.
"The count over OF yellow money taken
from every one OF the printers pockets
showed that he was just SIC, 600 to the good.
The Alderman folded the wac up neatly
and stuck it in an envelope and sealed It
and we wrote our m on the flap OF the
0hNCiOPC ny Wdy VI WLehODohhB WIG. JOps
Then we helped the Alderman load the
all in compositor into the hack.
"The Alderman o Costigan to the bug
ward Of a hospital, got him q fine room and
left instructions that he get the best Of care
He visited the ~compositor every day for @
week, never saying anything about the big
afternoons win.
"Costigan only remembered having bet
on Terrier in the first race and having won
$500, and he looked tickled when the Alder
man told him he had the $500 sailed against
the day of Costigan's release from the
hospital. ] was at the Alderman's saloon
on the day when he handed the $4,000 over
to the oompositor.
'CostIgan couldn't believe it and il took
more than an hour to make it clear to him
the whole afternoon at the track after the
first race was q trance to ii The Alder
man, a pretty decent chap after all, had a
notary public there in his saloon to swear
Costigan onto the water wagon for a year.
and the compositor agreed to take that
pledge. Then he got his money.
HE stuck to the pledge right enough.
but he should have been sworn of on the
ponies for life. He followed them for six
months with his SIC. 1000. cold sober all the
time, and only had one winning day out OF
five. At the end of six months he was
dead broke and back at h case sticking
type again.