The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-22
UNDAY REBUKES BACKSLDERS AND FLAYS DANCING

A fellow came up to. the T. N. C. A.
Mr.. Sunday" s.
| Yes"
Your friend IL down here a. Han
kins playing farobank."
I said: You are WRONG. ] vas out
to supper with him few nights ago,
he is all right"
mo, ought to know used to
! work the three-card monte game and
! ,sre lss.,ts.. ~ he. .,e~,ss1 ~sa>s xsvrs,.
] fle is down there playing fsaab.ak, .
he insisted.
Visits Gambling Den.
put on my coat and hat and walk
ed down LASaIle street and turned
East to Monroe and went into the
thanking old gambling Joint and
raped on the door. The door keeper
and bouncer was q big colored fellow.
a prixefghter. I stepped in. l Judge
there must have been $50 or 200
men in there. They are playing faro
bank and heard him say:
Il will copper the queen and play
the ace OPEN
! So It came his way, and they hand
ed him $S5 after the house took the
rakeof. He put the money In his
pocket. stepped over to the bar and
ordered Rhine wine and a seltxer.
I touched him on the shoulder and
said.
what are you doing here."
He turned as pale as a ghost, put
his hand in his pocket and said:
Here take that and give It to my
wife and kids, let me alone"
| ] said. mo. I've come for yon."
He said: II have disgraced you
BILL disgraced the Y. M. c. A., dis
graced everybody that has ever placed
any confidence in me- Let me 60"
: I said, No stood there and
pleaded with him until / o'clock.
went and got his wife and two chill
dren again. took them to my house,
kept them until ne was going right
again. and then I got him a Job.
! Q. he was cracker jack Of a sales
man. He WAS like a steep trap. He
was pulling down 5000 bones a.
year travelling for a big concern in the
| West and going along fine and
missed him for long time. One day
he walked into the r NJ. c. A. dressed
At to kill. He would make Beau
Brnmmel look like a piker.
Diamond shirt stud as big as a
hickory nut, and one on his finger as
big As hazel nut Diamond cuff
buttons on his sleeys. He had pat
ent leather pumps on, y suit Of
clothes he paid $50 for. silk lined
overcoat, a necktie he'd paid four
bones for, and he came In and he
said:
Hello. BILL
why" said How are you, how
are you coming"
Fine" He put his hand in his
pocket, he piled money on nay desk.
bills, silver and twenty dollar gold
pieces.
said: How much Is hers,''
He said: ''Forty-four hundred dol
lars"
+ said: where did you get it."
Playing farobank" He said:
How much do you get?''
I'd quit playing baseball. was
getting ss3 month"
Wasn't CRATER Then
Nobody called me 81 CRATER then
and I was receiving kilograms ofYer-
ing me $500 a month. They didn't
pay as big salaries then az they do
! now. That was some salary 1880
month il ia go back and play base
ball and wouldn't have to sign a con-
tract. I didn't do It. So they let
month and I want six months without
my salary and 1 walked back and
forth to save carfarc. He said to me
bill. how much do you get?"
said. "A 1000 a year"
/ He said, '.Shucks. made more
money than that last night in one
bet"
said, Look, here, a, the end of
'the yesT ! naay NOT have atrect car
-. R>vsk 49,
can 60 down the road to hell"
He said. Have you been out to
supper"
said. Not yet"
He said. "Will you come with me-"
I said. Sure Mike
So we went down 10 the Boston
Oyster House and he blowed S7.S5
for two suppers. haven't had one
like II since. We hit the bill Of fa-~
from soup to nuts,
Two weeks later was hurrying
West on Madison street. reached the
corner OF Madison and L&Salle. saw
fellow leaning up against the lamp
post. smoking cigarette. blowing
rings of smoke ur above his head.
and he had a hat pulled down over his
ears. He looked like = rube. He
had shirt on and the stripes run this
way as broad as three fingers a hand
me-doWn suit, about four sizes too
big for him and a paper boz undeH
his arm.
said. Hello Hill. Is that your"
Yes"
How are they ccring."'
He eaid. Rocky
said, What In the world are you
doing7'
Selling underwear"
What kind Of underwear"
"S;lk underwear, union under
wear
What size have you there"
Thirty eight"
said. That In my size. how much
do you want for IT,"
He said. Three dollars"
I said. Three dollars for a SUIT OF
union underwear! l pay more than
that for common pennyroyAl under
wear. How can you AFFORD it!''
He snid, al have = pal down here
at the wholesale house. He steals
them and l 20 and sell them. We 60
play farobank"
Behind the Bars.
I got him started AgainE. and again
lost track of him. One day when
wAs home, Jailer whitman, who
used to Be jaiier Of Cook county.
phoned and said.