The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-06
The Career of Lucky Baldvin
 Was Most Interesting to Public

to the public a most interesting career
 Lucky Baldwin. as he has beei
 known for many years by racing mer
 Elias Jackson Baldwin, in Ohio. fl
 1928. and early in life he considered the West a good prospect. There h'
 went and made q fortune. Luck wal
 his without question, but with 1t wen
 the pluck that was necessary in those
 days of hardship and faculty fol profitable speculation that soon made him famous.
 His first big strike was In the Ophii mine, which. adjoined the Comstoch lode. owned by Mackay, Fair, Flooc and O'Brien.
 The ophir deal was the one that won me the title Lucky" said Bald. win once. There was no luck about 1t l came out about $5.Oo0.O00 ahead on that deal and could have ruined a number of people. but for reasons ot my own did not do so
 Those were the days of gigantic manlpulations in stocks, and a man that had finger, in the pie. didn't need to, look elsewhere for excitement though Mackay and the rest of them
 Mudhens a Nuisance.
 urally lucky, people would dog my footsteps and hang around my office begging for a tip on the market. The women stock dabblers were the most pSESlStenL-tue6e Uluuueu5 were Dlk ger nuisances than the men because you couldn't throw them downstairs.
 T wouldn't give an outline of my life without mentioning that I've been sometimes a. plaintiff. sometimes as de- fendant. l really don't know how many lawsuits l have been mixed up in: but my lawyer says enough to worked on my. cases as much as the lawyer himself. and Fm-pretty well up In law. even if haven't a sheep skin emitting me to practice. in my luck that 1 never insured any faith in my luck. but it Is a fact that never cared to insure my property. to the time of the hotel fire I was $500. 900 ahead. When built the Baldwin Hotel l first leased the ground on which it r,a stood Soda, and md afterwaTd h was finished. $2,oOo, 900. and s2OO. 1000 was afterward put into 1t for improve menta The hotel paid an interest of bouss so sseaa Was1 foS bad without any insurance. and only the year before It was burned did I take out a policy for $6o.oo0. I had been aaeass It to Burn mS ho % sgd ths was the reason I insured 1t. I have never had another piece of property insured.
 For years ran both the hotel and Theatre opened with Barry Sullivan the o tSs have S9e of the .n the ne euns sF n of the ast performance ever held in the theatre. It !s charred and burned around ha edge. but I intend framing these rro- grams. one dated 1875 and the
 This was the cheerful chatter of the old speculator some years ago. and whatever, else may, be said of Bald win he kept his hold on theatrical and Faf5nFfa BaFfan fe f9 f1 1hs Hsiz snd
 Lucky Baldwin's first experience in himself Even a believer in luck, he attributes his continual good fortune to a talisman, lucky ring he got Tn Japan after hte first great success in and he used to tell the
 Tt was on this trip that got my lucky ring In Japan l also brought back with me & company of Japan in every big mining camp in Cali, fornia. making gold dust by the sack ful out of them. Then l took the 2 op'Lany East. finally playing them in this theatre had ever mad.
 Luck? Well. 1t looks more to me Ike good. common sense. knew ;hRt Oriental actors would be curiosity in this country and calcu..tso that there must be money in lt for ehe first man who would play the4r I sold ont to Gilbert, of Gilbert & Sullivan fame. and he took the company abroad. whore 1t played to almost every crowned head of Europe. It was doing the thing at the right time. wouldn't make earfare playing that m
 Was Racing in 1878.
 As a racing man Bald win cut quite l agure in the years that are gone. AS long ago as 1876 Lucky Baldwin was in racing. When Baldwi first turf venture in 1876 at San Francisco proved a defeat for his horses. Grim- stead and Rutherford. he was going 10 sell the two stallions to the hign- sst bidder He had gone on East the year before to Saratoga and paid 513.000 for the two horses to win the Frisco Sso.oOO purse at four-niie got lame and Rutherford could only run second to the Oregon lorse, Faster, ridden by William lakeland. the developer of Election ger the Futurity winner of last ,ear.
 Then Budd Doble, the famous reins- nan and Baldwin's son tn-law. said to he disappointed aspirant for turf Look here, Old Man Bald win; these stallions. send them down mares and start al breeding farm. You can raise colts T. gre as good or better than those Cast: take them back over the monn- sins s1 and eat,na heat the Kentucky colts on
 Baldwin feli in with Doble's sug- Iestion. and long before Haggin's eancho. del Paso saGEn was sRartedt