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PLUNGERS AND BOOKIES.
Previous F«w of Either Survive Many
Financial Gales.
nna«-r tnelr 'marge aa have the really
observant men who make a bnalnew
of betting if anything the oplnioo of
the dispassionate handicapper or «to
il ent of form Is more desirable The
majority of horse owners get financial
Indigestion from betting on their own
horse*
la the last twenty years there baa
been only one man who is known to
have been successful at beating tin
race track game to a conspicuous de
gree. says the Broadway Magazine
Ths Great Assouan Dam.
That was George E. Smith, better
Sir William Garston has recommend
known as Pittsburg Phil.
ed that the great dam at Assouan.
He wus 4 genius, an«i
Egypt, be raised nearly twenty-three
rare.
feet, which would more than double
He [«aid for his success with his life,
the present water supply. The dam
He got so that he was a monomaniac
now supplies about a quarter of the
He thought, talked and had interest
water which eventually will be needed
only in racing, The passion consumed
In Egypt. With the proposed enlarge
him.
ment about 000.000 acres of land would
Nearly all the men who were promi
be brought under cultivation.
The
nent as big bettors on the turf have
change would coat about 97.500,000
fallen by the wayside, Michael F.
Since the establishment of the Assou
Dwyer, wh«xu- wagers were coloqpa).
an reservoir the sale value of lands
went broke. suff«-red complete physical
already provide«! with perennial irri
collapse and was a wreck
gation has Increase«! by about 9122,-
few years of his life.
500,000, and this figure, when canals
Riley Grannan. whose pyrotechnic
now under «-«instruction are completed,
rise made him a national figure, ha»*
will be in'-re.ised to approximately
been lucky enough of recent years to
n (OuOOQ not In aAHtfaa t» this th«-
get occasional employm«-nt as a book
cotton crop, which last year amounted
maker’s clerk Joe Yeager, who thought
to 91-iO,000,000, baa been assured.
nothing of tx-ttlng >5.000 to a race,
last«*«] one season.
His Good Fortuna Fatal.
Of the crop of plungers that followed
It is possible to livelong in melancholy
this quartet not one is known to be
ahead of the game. Davy Johnson, and to die swiftly from joy. So It haw
who was the biggest liettor last year, proved with a Paris carpenter named
has gone broke more times than it is Cermet. He hud worked for years In
plea-ant to recall, and ho finished the a chronic stnte of melancholy, nggra
aeason with very little money despite vated by want of money, and all the
the fact that in Roseben he has bad circumstances seemed to j>olnt to a
one of the most remarkable horses the long continuance of this condition of
things when suddenly and quite out
world has ever seen.
The bettor thinks the bookmaker has side the r>oor fellow’s cxix-ctatfons
the best end of it. He has, yet corn there <aiae to him the news that hk
paratlvely few of the bookmakers was the [xstsr-ssor by »sequent of
weather the financial storms incident 910,000. Cermet almost went frantic
with delight. His nerves stood the
1o the game.
Of 100 who weighed in at the Is-gin recurrence of thrills all day, but In
nlng of last season less than fifteen the evening he got among the Ixing
were doing business at tbe end of the chain[m cafes and was relating bls
racing year. One of the most expert lack for about the twentieth time when
enced lxx>kmakers in America, Eddie he fell dead Txmdon Globe.
Burke, hist six bank rolls in one season
Ths Natjn of Shopkeepers.
The bank roil, in the parlance of the
Napoleon must have been right after
ring, is the capital stock of tbe book
all. We are a nation of shop keepers.
maker.
The public- hears much of tbe win ! There la nothing In the shop we are
Dings made by the bookmakers, but not ready to sell at a price. We would
tbe losses are announced rarely. One no doubt sell the great seal If we
of tbe things th«- public docs not appre could get n g'Mxl enough offer from
ciate is that many of tbe isxykmakers Pierpont Morgan. Shakespeare folios,
are only managers or partners in the first editions of Walton, the [«ortrnlts
books they make. Wall street men, of Peynolda, of Romney these and
saloon kee|>ers, busiueM men uml poli any other national heirlooms, only
ticians frequent!..- subscribe to tbe given a fat enough offer we are happy
bank roil of bookmakers, and occasion to part with to any foreign nation that
ally a woman is the backer of a book baa the taste and money to buy them.
We can put them up as coolly as
maker
The bettor also thinks that the horse Charles Surface did hla forbears. Ix>n-
owuer has superior opportunities for don Saturday Review.
beating tbe racing game. This time be I
is wrong. Few horse owners get rich. I
Most of them die poor.
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