Show V Vt IRON NERVE AND HORSE SENSE MADE “LUCKY” BALDWIN FRANCISCO— The death old Lucky Baldwin has revived many stories of the man who easily ranked as the boldest speculator and gambler of California that Baldwin was a plunger on the ended turf in the way that Anally Riley Grannan’s career or a speculator in the sense of a man who bucks the market on ' his general observaBaldwin tion of the trend of juices nearly always carried on his big deals on the basis of secret information Occasionally he was misled by his enthusiasm over a horse that he fan-- ' cied but nine times out of ten his most spectacular plays were made on a sure thing What he did have was an iron nerve and the horse sense to know when to get out of a deal with the maximum of proAt How his lean form endured the excitement of his life for 80 years is one of the marvels which no doctor can explain He lived hard and during 15 years that he kept the Baldwin hotel he seemed never to get apy sleep Any one who wandered around to the barroom or the card room of the hotel in the early morning hours would be sure to see the old man cir- culating about or taking a hand in a game of poker And if you visited the hotel at seven a m when the place seemed as dead as a mausoleum the changes are you would And him pacing up and down the long vestibule look ing as fresh as though he had gone to bed with the birds the night before Fortune from the Comstock The Comstock silver mines made Baldwin a millionaire Like Flood and O’Brien he had no special education in mining He began life in San Francisco as a hotel keeper in a humble way and it was from a chance guest at his place that he secured his tip on the great richness of the ore in the Ophir and Sierra Nevada mines on the Comstock Baldwin never trusted to secondhand information He dispatched a trust practical miner whom to Virginia City and had this man secure work in bpth mines The man found that the ore was richer than Then Baldwin lost no time reported J in getting into action ' The Arst reports of rich ore had sent Ophir stock up many points but insiders spread rumors that the ore vein had pinched out Then there was a slump as every one tried to get out Baldwin went in then and bought- right and left and before the insiders knew what he was about he had received enough Btock to make him several On a stock martimes a millionaire ket that registered Auctuations of several hundred dollars a share in a single day a speculator of Baldwin’s nerve had a great chance and he never missed an opportunity to add to bis fortune Presided with a Six Shooter One of his most spectacular coups Baldwin had was in Sierra Nevada secured the majority of the stock but the formal transfers of this stock had not been made on the books so the old directors called a' meeting and planned to elect on old proxies a board of directors for a year and thus keep Baldwin out of the management Baldwin heard of the scheme and promptly had his lawyer Reuben H Lloyd prepare an injunction against the old directors forbidding them to go on with the election The meeting was set for Monday at nine a m At the last moment Lloyd rushed into Baldwin’s oHice with the news that it was Impossible to get his injunction papers signed until ten o’clock “Well” said Baldwin after a moment’s pause “you go up to court and as soon as you get the judge’s signaIn a hack! ture come down I’ll keep the directors from holding that meeting" Baldwin sauntered jauntily over to the meeting and endured calmly the guying of those wjio thought he had t been euchred He was seated in the room as a stockholder when the president of the company arose and announced the call for the annual election Baldwin then got p and entered a formal protest but the president ruled him out of order 01fLucky made only two or three strides to the president’s side and knew before the astonished official what had happened he was lying under the table and Baldwin was presiding in his place with a six shooter in He swore he would his right hand shoot any man w’ho interfered or who tried to leave the room and for half an hour he bulldozed all hands until Lloyd broke in with the injunction papers and the day was saved His Breach of Promise Cases Horses women and music all interested Baldwin With horses he scored AN of v a great success but with women he certainly didn’t have the same luck Hef was regularly married three times were relations but his irregular numerous These relations generally with young women still in their teens brought him often into the courts and twice subjected him to pistol fire One woman who pretended to be bis niece Verona Baldwin tried pot shot at the old man in the Baldwin hotel one night and a bullet hit him In the wrist She declared that he had promised marriage and then refused to keep his word The case was hushed up and the woman got a pension In another case brought by Lena Ashley also for breach of promise her sister shot at Baldwin in the courtroom but the bullets went wild and the girl was overpowered In the last breach of promise case brought against him Baldwin actually pleaded that thq girl should have Known his general reputation and not have trusted his promises A Queer Funeral in his Baldwin was as original funeral as in his life He provided in his will that no religious services should be held but that au orchestra should render at the cemetery operatic pieces as well as two musical compositions by his favorite daughter This programme was carried out In full except that the numbers from "La Boheme” were omitted perhaps as too frivolous for a funeral ‘But the Miserere of “Trovatore” and the grand march from “Aida” were rendered as well as Handel’s “Largo” There were no signs of grief at the funeral Most of those present were friends of Baldwin who swapped reminisTwo of cences and told curious tales these old friends as they came up to take a look at the thin set face ef the dead gave the best summary of his character “Game and Aghting to the last” said one “Never asked anything never gave Paid for everything he got anything but wouldn’t be held up!” That was the eulogy of the other Lucky Baldwin’s Two Sides Lucky Baldwin’s nature was a peculiar mixture of parsimony and open handedness but these two traits did not crop out in him synchronously He was what might be called a streaky individual For months at a stretch he would exhibit a lavishness of personal expenditure that dazzled even the among the high rollers and big spenders of the coast' He would respond to every touch without a murmur When these prodigal fits were upon him he would gamble like a Charles James Fox often winding up after continued days and nights of play by leading walloping San Francisco’s faro banks to a standstill Although never a deep drinker he would while thus in the spending mood stand at the far end of his famous Baldwin after hotel bar and order basket basket of champagne to be served to casual bar patrons men he had never seen before From such money tossing orgies Balwin would all of a sudden and without notice or warning become a tightwad of the first order a closeroll from whom a dollar couldn't be extracted by any- other method except the use It wasn’t that his bundle of dynamite was given out It was simply that it was Lucky’s nature to curl up completely after a high spending fiesta and suddenly to turn into a man with the mucilaginous mitt and the soldered fist Ksnurious to an Extreme While in this state of mind he would promptly turn his back even upon his closest friend who in temporary straits for money asked him He’d cut for a small temporary lift out the gambling com- letely let his horses run for the purses and for Sweeney and hang on to a piece so long that the eagle on the Then coin would begin to moult after a period of this sort of penuriousness presto! Lucky would get his on again all of a sud'spending habits den and bnce more he’d proceed to Death make Coal Oil Johnny and Valley Scotty look like pikers A very sedate New York traveling jewelry salesman who didn’t use to be so sedate tells a story to illustrate Baldwin’s varying moods as to the ' spending end of it Nearly twenty years ago the jewelry salesman then traveling for a Maiden Lane diamond house went up against a San Francisco faro bank and got beneath the himself cleaned down He had pelt He was up against it his tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of samples but he was too honest a man to think of hypothecating any of his firm’s stuff in order to get himself out of the mess In addition to the cash he dropped for the faro bank had his markers $1500 The salesman was due to return to New York He had overdrawn on his expense account and didn’t dare to wire his firm for another dollar but he had to go home and he had to take up his $1500 in faro bank markers before leaving San Francisco He didn't know Lucky Baldwin exHe always cept in a casual way stopped at Baldwin’s hotel had been introduced to the old man was on nodding terms with him in the lobby and that was all The salesman pretty well worked up over hi3 troubles strolled into the bar before breakfast one morning to get a supporting snifter Lucky sifted in about half a minute behind him The two exchanged nods Called the Tenderfoot “Saw you playing some pretty fool bank a couple of nights ago” Baldwin remarked' The salesman hadn’t seen Baldwin at the faro bank“ “Foolest bank I ever saw" the old man went on “You junipers from the east have as much idea of playing the bank as a mountain lion has of playing the harp They took you of course?” The salesman replied that they sure had taken him taken him bad “Not in any kind of a mess over it are you youngster?" inquired Baldwin Whereupon the New York salesman opened up and told Baldwin just the kind of mess he wa3 in — fifteen hundred in bank markers to pay no money to return to New York no chance to ask the firm for more coin without giving himself dead away and so on Baldwin listened with his wide sardonic grin then dug for his roll and skinned off six $300 bills and handed the money to the salesman “Take this and make good and then get back with your snow shovelers” he said to the salesman — the Slopers still call eastern folk snow shovelers in contemptuous allusion to the rigors of the east’s winter climate "Don’t play any more bank until you learn something about it Bank’s a grownup man’s game You stick to mumbletypeg son and you won’t get trimmed” The salesman would only take $2000 of the money and had some trouble in mollifying the Lucky when he insisted upon returning two of the $500 bills which he didn’t need He quit San Francisco for New York that evening paid Baldwin the $2‘000 cause there was a horse entered for the event that seemed to outclass the field but Baldwin was dead sure that his horse would beat young Fair’s horse while the latter was equally confident that his nag would beat Baldwin’s Baldwin was mooching around on the lawn half an hour before the race when Charlie Fair grinsing walked over to him ‘Tm not going to win I think but I sure am going to show that skate of yours up” said young Fair to Lucky Baldwin grinned in his saturnine way and bit into his unlighted cigar “Not a chance young fellow” he said to Fair “I’ll tell you what I’ll do I’ll bet you Charlie $500000 my horse beats yours” A lot of high notch betting folks were standing around Young Fair’s Jaw dropped and his Biuile faded “Bet you half a million son that my nag beats ypurs” repeated Bald win munching his smoke “Oh behave that pop" said young Fair and he walked away Baldwin had topped even his limit Charlie Fair 'must have been the sorest man from Juneau to Callao a few minutes after that He had swallowed a bolus In front of folks He had quit for the first time in anybody’s He had permitted the knowledge old man to chase him to the l Young Fair’s horse not only beat Baldwin’s but won the race by ten lengths pulled to a trudge THINKS BOXING NOT FOR GIRLS Chicago Journal Opposes Innovation That Has Been Urged A woman’s club has decided that girls must learn to box and the men are still guessing whether the motion is intended to keep them unaggressive or as a beauty measure for the girls Young women have gone in for all sorts of hard exercising They are should go easy on boxing They are built differently from men an blow may give rise to dangerous ills and Fencing for girls has everything to recommend it boxing is more than There are few ocopen to question casions when a girl has need to use and there her fists in seems a lack of refinement in training them to a brujtal art that carries wltl RICHEST PRINCE DENT AT HARVARD WORLD’S Jaisingrao Caikwar Who Will Day Rule 30Q0CC0 Feople Baroda Preparing Himself for Future Position Vmm mmmidwm back in instalments inside of six months and was so grateful for getting out of the mess thus easily that he hasn’t made a dime bet ever since Bluffed Charlie Fair There are men now living who remember howr one afternoon at the track about sixteen years ago Lucky Baldwin made so high flying a gambler as the late Charlie Fair — killed in France in an automobile accident some years ago— draw in his horns Baldwin and Fair both had horses entered in a stake race to be run off There at Ingleslde that afternoon was a sort of chaffing rivalry as to their horses between Baldwin and Fair Lucky liked the young man who at that time was the main high roller of the sons of Senator Fair which is saying a good deal Neither Baldwin nor Fair expected his horse to win in the stage race be- atmoldmm it few advantages in grace suppleness or physical health It is more than doubtful if the fair boxers would stick to the rules of the ring A foul or an undercut would not be taken graciously it Is to be feared Think of the row if gloves should be doffed in a moment of excitement and woman’s natural weapons — — substituted and It is to be hoped that boxing for women will die an early death It Is dangerous ungraceful and unwomanly — Chicago News Sour Grapes Clara— When I refused Tom three weeks ago he declared that It would be the death of him ’ Maude— Well it wasn’t He proposed to me last week and I accepted him Clara — Oh then he must have meant a living death Some of Button— The future ruler of 3000 subjects and the heir of riches famed wealth of Midas pale into insignificance Prince Jaisingrao Gaikwar the son of an Indian rajah is now preparing himself at Harvard for his future position When the Gaikwar of Baroda second in importance among the rajahs visited America two years ago he was so pleased with the methods of teaching at Harvard that his last word to President Eliot was that bis sons would be sent to finish their education at Cambridge Accordingly Jaisingrao Gaikwar 19 years old elder son of the rajah is now Installed in a sumptuous suite of rooms in upper Westmorley court ono of the most exclusive “outside” dormitories The heir to an annual Income of $12000000 Prince Gaikwar as he is known asserts his democracy by a comparatively modest college existence and an attitude of good fellowship which has already made him popular among Harvard men Among the many heirs to vast fortunes who have attended Harvard the future rajah of Gaikwar can probably boast of the most fabulously wealthy father the maharajah’s public revenues reach a total of $C 000 000 a 000 that make the Jaisingrao 'Mom' 'msPonm A STU- Gaikwar Heir Province to Indian year while his private resources afev ' said to bring him as much more The education of the young ruler to American ways is but a step in the revolution of the Baroda state Born of a race which once delighted in most inhuman cruelty the gaikwar of Baroda now seeks to give his people the best that modern civilization of the west has to offer He comes from fighting ancestry being a descendant of that great Mahratta soldier Damaji Gaikwar lfls title Shamsher Bahadur was won by that warrior at the battle of IJellapore at the end of the seventeenth century when the Imperial army of Delhi was defeated The title was conferred by the shahu raja of Satara In admiration of his bravery He declares that American prosperity is the result of one of the most equitable forms of government In the world and he hints that the future progress of Baroda will owe much to the example which is held up by this country he likes He says that he College enjoys it as much as anyone else and from the large number of friends that he has already acquired it is Bafe to say that the prince is liked by the college In personal appearance Prince Gaikwar is with oval fpce plump cheeks lips a little thicker than those of the average American and with luminous dark eyes He is slightly undersized In height but usually carries himself erect and squareshouldered Prince Jalsingrao’s studies at Harvard have been selected with a view to the responsibilities which will fall to him when he returns to the far As the elder son he is fitting east himself to carry on the work of ruling the destinies of the 3000000 subjects over whom his father Is now absolute ruler In the ’70’s Mulhar Rao gaikwar spent enormous suras of money upon contests of athletes and animals He was passionately fond of cruel sports in which the lives of men were endangered and personally superintended the arrangements that concerned them Elephant fights and rhinoceros fights were of almost dally occurrence He kept in his courts many perfect celebrated throughout athletes the whole of India and wrestlers who came from the Punjab and Trabancore ‘j ' H t f |