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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 CVj 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. THE BOMB TRIBUNE. WEDNESDAY. JUNE 12. 1395. it Mrs. Anna Gage.S B wife of Ex-Deputy B X ASaaSjSBSSS.. U. 8. Marshal. 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