El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-09-14

Ny roommate stealthily swiped the hen
and we had banquet that night, coun-
" attorney F. f. Hunter and Leigh
ozark participating. Judge Hague lost
J ms case and trousers. For ways that
are dark, and tricks which are vain,
the heather Chinee is peculiar and so
| are j. P.s." said Hague.
EIOcution DIsturbs Gambling.
About the same time an elocutionist
/ came to town and organized classes for
women and men. The mems class used
70 meet at o'clock in my courtroom.
i,II were Capt; Brack' Lelgn Ciark'
Judge H H. Neil, J. A. Buckler,
Biedsoe, judge Falvey, John Bailey,
theodore Woodruff. F. E. Hunter, A.
y. roster, z. B. Clardy and others we
Iehearsedl Mark Antony" Hamlet
The Boy Stood on the Burning Deck,
Strike Till the Last Armed Foe EX-
plres," and other things, with such We
nemence as to break up the games be-
low on several occasions, and were re-
queSted by mayor R c Llghtbody to
desist or he would have the school
pulled by the police. He said we were
disturbing the peace and interfering
with the keno game below. We com
promised it with him by reciting from
Romeo and Juliet" so touchingly
that his honor wept Ed Kneezell, now
president of the Pioneers, had his Of
nee IN front and we suspected him OF
lnstlgat1ng the mayors action, for he
house.
Great Gambling Days.
During 1872 Mclean & The" Eggers
ran the Wigwam, and Mclean
had charge of the gambling depart
ment. in those days hundreds of
thousands of dollars changed hands in
a night" says Eggers. Il have seen
contractor of Mexico, often win or lose
$4,000 to $4,000 in night. He once
beat US out of $1,000 on one number
of the roulet wheel Fred Fenchler,
OF Mexico, also was a big player, often
laying down $1,000 or $1,000 on a card
or a number. J. Fisher Satterthwait
was a high roller. Those were great
days and there were great sports then"
mused Eggers.
Two Killings Nearby.
During all these strenuous times, I
can recall only two tragedies occurring
around the Wigwam, and these did not
occur in the building, but near it. One
was when the big, british policemen
shot the little Hebrew drummer, named
Harris, in 1900, and the other was when
George Scarborough shot John Selman.
in 1867, in the alley west of the
building one night Scarborough was
deputy United States marshal It oc-
CURED soon after Selman shot and
killed the famous mankiller, John
Wesley Hardin, in the Acme saloon, on
San Antonio street 1t is safe to say
that millions of dollars changed hands
in the Fashion and Wigwam during
the height of their glory"
MorehOuse succeeded Mclean &
Eggers and then came Charlie Bowie
who ran it till his death, and then Peter
Behan, OF Tucson. took hold and ran
it till the authorities closed up public
gambling. in 1903. 1t was afterward
taken over by what was called the
Truesdel, who closed the saloon for
ever and installed the moving picture
theater, which later was taken over
and conducted by Edgar Campbell, who,
together with VIII r. Winch, is the
present owner. The building is owned
jointly by Mrs. R. F. Campbell and Mr..
of Los Angeles. The build
ing is now being RACED and a handsome
edifice will be erected The new build
ing will be a theater covering both the
Wigwam ground and the Silver Grill
restaurant ground, fronting on San An
tonic street, with a small store room
on each side, and the basement will be
occupied by club room and billiard
and Pool tables, conducted by Stafford
Campbell. The theater will be fur
nished and run as formerly by Messrs.
Campbell & Winch.
Always a Restaurant There.
It should be mentioned that from the
day that Conant & Hart opened the
Fashion restaurant, in 1882, to the pres
ent time, the east room has been a
restaurant Eight or 10 Cinnamon have
run Ine restaurants ana succeeded each
other, and male successive fortunes and
returned to China to become mandarins.
At one time J. d. McKie had his office
as justice of the peace over this res
taurant room.
Everything in the old days was run
wide open in the Fashion and Wigwam
in full view of the passers on the
street In club rooms above this and
over the bank were private club rooms,
where men of the old school used to
meet quietly and deal some great
hands. In the seclusion of the sporting
cloister, they used to pile thousands OF
dollars in the jackpot Local magnates
used to meet with senator Hearst and
Col Head and sometimes beat them at
poker and sometimes got badly beaten.
The old Columbia college song would
fifty express the old timers feelings,
as they look back:
IN good old colony days. when we
lived under the king
Each Saturday night we used to get
tight a-pouring down gin sling
But times have changed since then, and
Lies a different thing, and gone are
good old colony DAYS
When we lived under the king"