The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-16

very rarely refuses an invitation 10 bet
on the cards the dealer slides out of the
metal box. For time he didn't hap
pen along when any of the big games
were being played, but at tine last ses-
sion of the legislature at Albany he cut
into the game in aggressive style, and
his losses were heavy. He did most of
his high playing in the white House"
and just how far his losings extended
is known only to the proprietors of the
famed resort. They must have been
extensive, for at one sitting the Tam
many power was seen 10 pass over
$4,000 as the price of mis- inability 10
guess how the cards would fall. john
ny Mack got a big part of the Sullivan
bank roll, and others shared in the gen.
erous distribution. Sullivan never COM
planned of his losses. He is used to
the fluctuations of fortune besides,
from various sources, he enjoys an in
come which permits his indulgence in
pastfmes that are not open to the av-
erage citizen.
Lon Maynard, who died a year ago
this month, was known as The Faro
King a title which he won at the
time of the Lexow investigation of the
police department of this city, when
/ Maynard was on the stand to tell CT
his connection with the uniformed
powers that prey. He was cOnsid-
cred the most influential figure in the
gambling world when IL came to a
| question of keeping his faro box in ac-
/ tivity at a time when other houses
were compelled TO close. Maynard was
/ a man who made no secret of his bus
/ mess. He protested that a square
! gambler was entitled TO as much re-
spect as a square merchant. and he
] expressed a profound contempt for
! those who would take the profits of a
gambling establishment and hide their
connection with the industry His
purse was ever at the disposal of
friends who had fallen into misfor-
tune, and the sums he dealt out every
day to his string Of pensioners formed
! an enormous annual aggregate.
\ Very seldom does a gun play figure
in a faro deal in these peaceful days
/ even in the westerland where sucI
things are reported by the novelist tC
be not uncommon. But there was one
occasion not so long ago when a brace
of revOlvers broke uD what the mar
who held them described as a brace
game. II came about this way: Big
Jim" Dawson, who caps for a GER
tain house i'm West Thirty-ffrst street
found himself in the course of his pro-
fessional duties in the grill room of the
Waldorf, and being a communicable
i person. soon engaged in converse tiOr
with one Albert Blanchard, an Eng,
lishman visiting in the city. Mr.
Blanchard, visibly impressed with tine
gentility and good fellowship Of Mr.
Dawson, dined with the latter ans
later strOlled over to the gambling
house to note what sort of a brand o.
faro was on tap.
Nr ~ soon
discovery coming about the time tn,
last of his roll of 5000 disappeared
in the drawer on the other side OF tn
layout. He detected certain Irregular
ties of play which hurt his feelings
but of these he said nothing at tn
time When his cash was gone H.
rose to depart, saying pleasantly tina
he would be back anon with NOR
money. When he returned he calIet
for $40 worth of chips, and as tn
dealer opened the cash drawer to stoI
away the ten. Mr.. Blanchard drew
revolver and pointed the business en-
in the face of the man behind the boz
, This speech accompanied the action:
I've lost s2.7OO here and I'm no
going TO stand for it. The game |
crooked. Count me out my money
I'm not q welsher, but this money be
longs TO me. | am willing to lose
IN the level, but I caught you turn
ing wrong two or three times" The
4 he added that he wasn't violen
: character. but he was a trifie nervou:
[ and if any one should attempt to in
terfere he might lost control oe him
s self and shoot. He had thoughtful
covered the other dealer with a sec
: and revolver.
e He got his money.