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WOMEN AS GAMBLERS
AN ESTABLISHMENT IN NEW YORK
ESPECIALLY FOR THEIR USE.
A Reporter Visits the Place and Describee
the Manner In Which It la Run—How
They Feverishly Eye the Ticker.
A full fledged establishment on the fifth
floor of a building on lower Broadway,
fitted out In the regulation manner, the
ticker telling off the market quotations,
a group of excited women gathered in the
room discussing fluctuations like experi
enced speculators, conversation on the
variations of “points” and a remarkable
familiarity with every phase of the stock
report—such was the scene witnessed
Saturday afternoon.
Most of the women were of middle age,
several were young, two were decidedly
old, but all were posted, or thought they
were, on the investments they were so
feverishly watching. That they were “reg
ulars” was evident at a glance, the fas
cination of the game holding them month
after month, although it Is seldom they
make as much as $lO per day, oftener
clearing, as one of them said, “anywhere
from 75 cents to $2 or $3.”
The woman reporter who obtained en
trance was closely questioned by the man
ager before he would admit her.
“What can I do for you?” suavely asked
the manager.
“I should like to try a little Investment
on the exchange,” replied the reporter.
“Are you an experienced hand?” he
asked, with a keen look.
“Not very.”
“Have you ever tried anything of the
kind before?”
“No.”
“I thought so. I would not advise you
to try it. It is very risky business without
experience.”
“I do not intend to Invest today. I
merely came up to look Into it a little. I
know some of the leading officials of the
Louisville and Nashville and of the Chica
go, Rock Island and Pacific, and I shall
get Inside pointers for my investment be
fore I try anything.”
“In that case,” said he, “it is different.
You may bo able to do very well if you
can get such pointers as those, so you
might as well get whatever information
you want. Just go in the other room
there, and the ladies will tell you all about
it. They understand all the transactions.”
There was nothing particularly attract
ive either in the women’s room or in the
appearance of its occupants. The stock
ticker stood by the one window, which is in
the court directly opposite the window of
the men’s office. In the opposite side of
the room from the ticker was a black
board, where an elderly woman in a black
dress chalked down the quotations as they
were read from the ticker by three women,
who read its enigmatical .signs as readily
as if it wore a primer exercise. Every
woman, in the room carried a small tablet
and a lead pencil and covered page after
page with small tables of figures, which
they seemed to consult with the greatest I
satisfaction.
The questions of the manager were al
most duplicated by the women, who look
ed significantly at each other when the
tips from the prominent railroad officials
were mentioned. A vivacious blond shook
her head gayly and laughed outright.
“You will be in great luck,” she said.
“When you get your pointers, come right
up here and use them, but be sure you get
them right. It is my opinion that if you
study this thing for about 1,000 years you
may know something about it. I don’t
and never will. The worst of it all is that
there is no logic or judgment or anything
else possible in this as far as I can see.
It is nothing but luck or fate and very
small rewards.”
“Could I buy something with $5?” ask
ed the reporter.
A laugh in unison went up from every
woman who heard the question.
“I should say,” said a woman on the
reporter’s right as soon as she recovered
comparative gravity, “that it is not safe
to advise anybody to go in at all for less
than $50.”
“What are the Investments of you ladies
today?” asked the reporter.
“I am in sugar and St. Paul,” said the
blond.
“Mine is sugar and gas,” said a middle
aged woman on the reporter’s right.
“I have sugar and whisky,” quietly said
a good looking and well dressed woman
on the reporter’s left.
“I bought sugar at 11814 this morning, ”
said the blond, “and I want to catch the
bulge at 119%.”
“How are you on your stock now?”
asked the reporter of the quiet woman on
her left presently.
“I am ahead on sugar, but not on whis 1
ky, ” replied the woman.
“You may not get your cocktail to
night,” said the blond.
“You don’t look as if you knew much
of this sort of thing. What sort of luck
do you have as a rule?”
“In what way?”
“Why, in betting or in chance games of
any kind. Don’t you play pool or policy
or poker or bet on the races or anything?”
The World woman recalled an unfortu
nate bet on a horse race.
“I think I am unlucky," she said. “At
least I cannot win on horse races, and I
know only a very little about poker.”
“Now,” said the blond confidentially,
“do you know I think that if you are un
lucky at the races and at cards that your
luck may be just here. You know you
can’t have bad luck in everything, and
you’re bound to strike it just right some
day.”
“That’s true,” said the quiet woman.
“I have better luck here than I have at
cards.”
“I have better luck at poker than here,"
said the woman at the blackboard.
“I haven’t had any luck anywhere yet, ”
said the blond, with an air of indiffer
ence, “but I’m going to stay in the deal
I’m in now, and I think I’ll catch the
bulge on something and pull out all
right.”—New York World.
No Worse TTum BIOOBMI,
An Ohio girl recently sent her photo
graph to her best fellow and wrapped it
in a newspaper on which was printed
the advertisement of a stove firm. A
portion of the print adhered to the pho
tograph, and the young man was very
much surprised to see staring him in the
face, in bold pica type, the following
•words, “See the name on the leg.”—lnk
Fiend.
The Shah’s Purchases.
The shah of Persia has just “blowed”
himself to the extent of $2,000,000 for
a new prayer rug. The next thing he
will have to put up two or three dollars
for a prayer to match —Washington
Post.
TALES OF THE TIMES.
How SUa. Gaskill Killed a Mountain Lion
With Bird Shot.
About three weeks ago I saw in the San
Francisco dailies an account of the killing
of a large mountain Hon (Fells concoles)
near Campo, in San Diego county. The
item stated that after destroying consider
able stock, Including several valuable An
gora goats belonging to Mr. Silas Gaskill,
he was finally killed in the night by a cou
ple of charges of fine shot, and that he
measured 9 feet in length.
The last three statements particularly
attracted my attention. Darkness and bird
shot are not usually selected for enterprises
of this description, and the length of the
animal, as given, was at least a foot lon
ger than that of any authentic account with
which I was familiar.
Mr. Gaskill is an old friend of mine, and
more than 25 years ago we hunted together
in the mountains about El Campo. I
knew him to be perfectly reliable, and that
a line dropped to him would settle, to my
satisfaction at least, a few points about
which, from the newspaper accounts, I
was naturally a little skeptical. His reply
reached mo on the 16th inst., and the por
tion referring to the incident in question I
send you, transcribed exactly as it was
written. He says:
“In reply will say, as to the lion, it is
correct. He killed 15 fine Angora goats
for me. Some of them cost me $250 apiece.
They were thoroughbreds and very fine.
They were running around loose here in
the mountains, and I did not notice that
the lion was killing them until he had
them nearly all. He did not get any after
I found out he was killing them. He was
a very large, powerful animal, quite old
and very fat. Mr. Hubs got 25 pounds of
fat out of him.
“The way Mr. Hubs came to kIU him
was this: He had three good dogs, and in
the night his little boy heard the dogs after
something and got up and went out. The
dogs had the lion up a tree, but the boy
could not see what it was, so he went back
and called his father, who got up, took his
double barreled shotgun and went out.
Looking up into the tree, he saw what he
took to be a lynx or wildcat and blazed
away with a charge of No. 8 shot, which
hit the lion in the face and knocked him
out of the tree, putting out both of his
eyes.
“When he struck the ground, the dogs
bounced him, and he reached out and
grabbed one and killed it. While he was
doing that Mr. Hubs ran up, placed the
muzzle of the gun against his side, back of
the shoulder, and killed him with the other
barrel. The other two dogs were also badly
hurt in the fight.
“They stretched him out while he was
warm and measured him with a pole. He
measured 8 feet 11% inches, so near 9 feet
that they called it that.”—Forest and
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The Purchase of Riley’s Helmet.
Six big policemen in full uniform filed
into a Market street hatstore Wednesday
afternoon, and a couple of newsboys stop
ped at the door and stared in.
“What’s de row now?” inquired one.
A politician out of a job heard the query
and glanced in. He stopped and stared at
the bluecoats. An old woman with a bas
ket on each arm ran into the boys and then
stopped and stared in.
The policemen moved toward the door,
and the newsboys started to retreat. That
caused a flurry at the entrance that at
tracted half a dozen more people. The
doorway was jammed, and men and boys
came running from every direction. Wom
en rushed into the crowd, elbowing and
tiptoeing at intervals to see what was go
ing on inside. The sidewalk was filled,
and the few pedestrians who passed were
compelled to walk out to the car track.
Those in the rear struggled and pushed,
and in a moment there was a howling,
surging mob on the street.
The horse cars were compelled to stop
because the drivers could not make the
people get off the crossing. Then the cable
cars were tied up, and there was a string
on either side of the crowd a quarter of a
mile long.
“Mob him I Hang him to a lampyost!”
yelled a little man at the edge of the crowd.
A patrolman tried to force his way
through to the doorway; but, finding it
impossible, sent in a request for a squad of
police. They came in the patrol wagon
with the horses at a gallop. The officers
sprang out, brandished their clubs, shout
ed and pushed till they managed to reach
the doorway in an almost exhausted con
dition, for the mob had closed in behind
them and had almost crushed the life out
of them.
“What’s the matter?” gasped the ser
geant in command.
“Riley is buying a helmet, and we came
in to help select it.”—San Francisco Post.
Lert llifn ana irry.
A curious western experience is related
by Mr. Walter Graves of Monte Vista,
Colo., who is in this city. Mr. Graves is
a widely traveled man in that section of
the country, was a member of the first
Powell expedition that explored the Grand
oanyon of the Colorado river and is largely
interested in enterprises in the famous San
Luis valley, where he says they can raise
25 pound turnips and 15 pound beets. Mr.
Graves is also an expert on matters of irri
gation. The experience which he tells is
about a pumping station erected by him
recently on an Indian reservation in Ari
zona territory.
The reservation was bounded on One side
by a river, And the pump works were erect
ed oh the banks adjoining the reservation.
The cost was several thousand dollars, and
the outlook was promising for the Indians
whose lands were to be irrigated. One
night, however, a big storm, such as are
common to that locality, came up, result
ing in a rousing spring freshet. The next
morning Mr. Graves awoke to find his
pumping station high and dry on the san
dy plain.' During the night the river had
shifted its course and was flowing a mile
away from the reservation.—Washington
Post.
The Heroine or -Slanipur.
Mrs. Frank St. Clair Grimwood, who
four years ago stirred the world with her
heroism, was married recently at Carshal
ton, England, to Mr. Metier, a paper man
ufacturer. The bravery of Mrs. Grimwood
is almost unexampled. A little colony of
450 persons at Manipur was attacked by
over 8,000 natives, and her husband, with
several others, was treacherously slain
while negotiating with the attacking party
under a flag of truce.
Then Mrs. Griinwooo took the command
made vacant by her husband’s murder, led
the defense, cheered the men and took her
part in the fighting, which lasted from 7
in the evening until 2 in the morning.
Then the besieged fled to the jungle, and
for ten days, harassed by the enemy, she
sustained the courage of those with her by
brave acts and words. For her heroism
Mrs. Grimwood received the Victorian
wreath. —Philadelphia Ledger.
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