Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-07-17

In two years the gambling house
had ~prospered enough to enable Jim.
my TO move out and open his first sa.
loon. This saloon was on the corner
az Sixth avenue and Thtrty-first street
and il was here that Jimmy began
to make pugilism a big part OF his
business. The T%hirty.hrst street sa-
loon was the hangout OF the noted
fighters Of the day, and to Jlmmy's
bar they all went at the end Of every
big fight around the city. John l..
Sullivan from the days of the Paddy
Ryan fight on through his years OF
glory was under Jimmy's management
and when John l.. went the way OF
pugilists Jimmy Wakely took care OF
nim" until the big fellow began to
pull himself together again. And
Jimmy at various times directed the
fighting affairs of Peter Maher, Cal
Mccarthy and of his two friends OF
today. Jack McAuliffe and Brooklyn
Jimmy Carroll.
After six or seven years at the sa-
loon at Thirty.first street Frank Far
rell bought the place from Jimmy on
very easy terms. Then Jimmy opened
the saloon at Forty-second street and
Sixth avenue. 1t was unOstentatious
enough, except for the ceiling. Jimmy
had horses heads painted above his
bars and one Zig painting in the cent
err which Tenderloin connisseurs ap-
proved of highly and which cost the
sum of $4,000.
For a good part of the twenty-one
years Jimmy was there the Forty
second street saloon ran free and
easy, for Jimmy was a power then.
For years he counted among his close
friends politicians and police officials.
But in time the place began to re-
ceive the personal attention of var
ious prominent folk from Theodore
Roosevelt down, Col. Roosevelt, when
Police Commissioner and doing a
good deal of personal sleuthing, is
said to have spent more than one
night across the way in Bryant's Park
with his eyeglasses directed toward
Jimmy's sa.oon and the Roosevelt
policemen in plain clothes, which the
then Commissioner had working
about the place.
Jimmy never kept a bank account,
then or SINCE" a gambler recalled
last night. HE Kept his thousands In
a little old safe in the saloon and
could have opened it with a tack
hammer. One night, or morning,
went to him to get a check cashed in
a hurry and he opened the safe and
told me to cash the check myself.
" You're tempting me Jimmy l
said, when he walked across the bar.
room to talk to someone, leaving the
cash drawer of the sale open.
" %, there amt much there Jim.
my said. took out the money for
the fun Of it and counted off 160
81, 900 bills. Jimmy didn't use a bank
because he had too III trouble
writing his name-he'd bite his tongue
too much when writing his sigma.
ture."
Toward the end of Jimmy's days at
F~orty-second street and Sixth avenue
a waiter at Jacks named Johnny Sex
ton got Jimmy to give him odds OF
four to one on B'roomstick. The wait
er was so flush with winnings at the
time that he was able to place $4,000
against Jimmy's $4,000, and the
! waiter won. Johnny Sexton ran this
up to $4,000 before he finished that
| year. But Johnny finally finished
Now he S a waiter in Jacks again
and said last night that he's well and
happy, thank you.
The saloon was raided by Roose
velt's men and by Jerome's detectives
again and again. In 1906 Jimmy was
indicted for running a pool o He
had lent enough money and left and
never got it back. The saloon was
closed and Jimmy started a hand
book. He moved to Forty-third and
opened a bar there, with the hope
that the Forty-second street crowd
would follow him at least one block
northward.
The crowd didn't go. Two years
and a half after Jimmy had opened
the Forty-third street saloon, or il
January, 1909, the brewer disposses
sed Jimmy. And until he grew very
i'll last Wednesday you might see him
shuffling through the streets of the
Tenderloin hand in hand with the
best friend he has now, his little
grandson Buster" the child Of Jim
ms dead daughter. And at night hi
has been sitting around the tables
with the aged James Conner 1loache
arguing over the fighters and the act
ors and horses Of generations ago OF
watching the day-breaks, surrounded
by the new generation Of gamblers
who alone know how Jimmy has beer
managing to live of late.
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Bill Armour, the former Detroit
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