The sun., 1908-01-26
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
CHORUS SUNG ny TIE PEOPLE
MR.. FALLGYE KNOWS,

Mr.. Fallgye looked grisvod-
sIt seems like 40 II everybody 7 know
he remarked querulOusIy, has got his
funds tied UP with tho F1iOksrbooker Trust.
That's the way they all express titled up
with the Fliokerbocker Trust
Queer, too. Blamed II I OAn understand
4 why nearly everybody know should have
been Fliokerbooker depositorA Consider
Ing everything, it's wondar 1 wasn't q
Flickerbocker dspositor' myself. But I
wasn't. ls -..- -,.
III 1 had bsen. Why. could tell all these
fellows that Was In the same Flickorbocksr
boat, and that I'd have TO smoke pipe till
the Flickerbocker got going again. and 80
on. Sometimes l wish I'D told 'em that
anyhow.
Yesterday . man that I know fairly
well-he's q promoter, and last year
J bought some Arizona mining stocks from him
that,I hope will come out all right-ycster-
day this man came TO mo, looking pretty
blue Noticing that, asked him 70 out
with IL.
''Well, it's this way be explained, AFTER
I'D pressed him quite lot, I'm all tied up
with the Eliokerbocker. you know. and 90,
Of course, moneys tighter'n q snare drum
with me, and here I get by the mornings
mail notice that my quarterly insurance
money Is due. I'd forgotten all about II,
Of course. man always does forget about his
insurance money. and it puts me in deuce
OF a hole for
well, he looked so downcast and drawn
around the corners Of the mouth that there
was nothing for me to do but to ask him
what was the quarterly amount be had 70
pay on his insurance policy.
"Oh.' he replied. offhand like that, It's
only a little pifY'ing matter Of soI IS. OF no
, CONSEQUENCE at all IL wasn't tied up with
the Flickerbocker the way am. but with
money 50 tight that you can't get it away
from people with a piece OF Easpipe. Why,
Of course I'm In deuce Of ar
I'D like 10 know what else could do.
or course l wrote him Q check for the
t0i.sS that be had to pay ON his insurance
policy, and the poor divVls was mighty
grateful at that, and So
'oh, by the way. when you drop In up
at the house don't happen 70 become in
Advertent and blurt out anything about
this to my wife. She has queer, starn.
up-country ideas about helping folks by
lending them money, you know, and I'm
really afraid that she would become sooIdish
II she knew how many friends OF mins. all
OF them tied up with the Flickerbocker
Trust, I've helped In a small way To-
We'll. anyway, couple days ago another
business friend Of mlne-well, not e1-
actly friend. but business acquaIntanco-
he's what they call booster Of patents
I've invested in the stock Of two or three
OF his patents that look really good, you
know-this one came into my otIioe In a
hurry q couple Of mornings ago and he
looked genuinely worried. Now. I never
could keep from asking q worried looking
man why he was worried. And so 1 asked
him what seemed TO be the trouble.
oh. shuclSs,' said he. It's my own fool
fault. A man who's all tied up with the
Fickerbocker has no right 70 play poker,
even II it's only 81 limit. Has her
Il told him that couldn't anSwer that
question outright without knowing more of
the circumstances Of the particular case.
Well. It was this way he said. Last
night the wife and dropped around to a
friends apartment to play a little game
Of two bit limit. with the women in the
game. you know.
We'll. none Of the other women except
my wife turned up, but there were a lot
Of men there. and 80 instead Of having a
game with the women folks in IL some Of
the fellows suggested that We have an all
mems game Of two buck limit.
We'll. l didn't want to look cheap be-
fore that gang, you sec. knew very well.
at that, that I really couldn't afford to
play two dollar limit. tied up "a I arm with
the Flickerbocker but I couldn't crawfish
and show myself up. so had to kick in
with the rest and take my chances.
Never had hand from the beginning
to the end Of the session. and Lost SIS Just
as easy as going down in an elevator. Well
since I've been tied up with the Flicker
booker haven't been packing much money
arOund-been playing pretty close to the
cushion. In fact-and I didn't have any
thing like enough TO settle. told our
host 10 come across for me and that I'd
SEQ him downtown at noon to-day and
make good for the seventy-five.
He fixed II mp all right. and now the
dickens 81 IL is that haven't got the sew
enty-hve handy. And. Of course. like any
other decent man, I'd rather 90 hungry
than renege on paying a poker debt right
dab on the minute. and it's pretty near
noon now. and I simply could not afford
to lose that fellows good will. barring
the measliness Of falling to como through
on the Indebtedness. and
He looked so downright worried and
all upset over his predicament that. con-
sidering the business relationship that
existed between us--I think l mentioned
that l bought some patent stocks from
him-why, I'd have felt like a skunk IL I
hadn't written him a check 70 save him
from his impending embarrassment. He
was the pleasedest man you ever saw,
poor chap, and he told me that he'd Just
got hold Of a patent that was bound to
make millions and that he was going to let
me in on the ground floor for a block Of
the preferred stock. Smart fellow. that,
and | have every confidence that he'll
become very rich in time.
only a few days before that was at
the Harlem gas Office paying my bill when
a chap l know-he's in the book publishing
business, believe--'WhO's What. or somez
thing like that-anyhow, paid him 500
once for some kind OF writeupi In his book
no, the book hasn't appeared yet, but
understand its coming out In the spring
why, az l say. at the Harlem gas ONCE
this chap happened to drop In while was