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Show A NEW BOOK JUST OUT Young Man, Do You Want Your Eye Teeth Cut? If You Do, Read "Easy Money," by a Reformed Gambler. All the Inside Methods of Raoo Horse Gambling and PooS Room i Grafting Exposed by Harry Brolaski, the Ex- r x King of Race Horse Gambling. . . Harry Brolaski. author of "Easy Money", wm b?rn at Oakland, Mis-sourl, Mis-sourl, eleven miles from -SU Louis, In St. Louis county. January 2G, 1870. He was educated by a private tutor ond in the public schools of SL Loula. Brolaski senior was owner of tho Mississippi Mis-sissippi river 6teamboat "Annie P Silver,'' and young Brolnskl "determined "determin-ed to follow the same occupation After Af-ter serving In various subordinate positions po-sitions on a steamboat, ho becamc-matc becamc-matc and inter at twentv-one. master of tho steamer "War Eagle," plying between St, Louis and New Orleans. In 1SSS, a hnrd-worklng lad of olghttcen, he was enticod to a race track by two touts who knew that he had saved some money. They exnect-ed exnect-ed to swindle him, hut to their chagrin chag-rin he won five bets lrf succession, hi wlnnlnjrs ammintiii" to about $5,000 Tn the fall nf the same veav he commenced com-menced gambling for a living, and for twenty-two years he made gambling and swindling a business During that time he raced his own horses on tho leading race tracks of tho country, and made hook at all of them. His winnings in twentv years aggregated aggre-gated $10,000,000 his largest single winning holnc SfiO.lRS on "King Bar-levcorn" Bar-levcorn" at New Orleans In 1902. The largest amount taken In by him on anv slnelo undertaking was S600.000 In olght months In Chicago, when he operated op-erated as "H.- Brolaski & Co.. Turf Investment In-vestment Brokers," a concern which was closed bv a fraud order issued by the postal authorities. For several years he owned and operated the pteamer "Corwln H. Spencer" at St Loulo. which wa a rambling house on water posing as sn excursion boat. In 1909 he obtained a concession from the Mexican rovornment to operate oper-ate a race track at Tla Juana. Mexico, forty feet from the California line, and sixteen miles from San Diego Race track qambllnc hurt been outlawed outlaw-ed by the state of California, and Mr Rrolaskl's nlan was to afford Callforn-lans Callforn-lans and others an opportunltv to gamble gam-ble without fear of punishment. The Rlnte department at Washington protested pro-tested against the granting of this concession, and the Mexican congress broke up Mr. Brolaslcl's undertaking bv passing a law prohibiting- corvJcsts of speed between horses In the northern north-ern district of Lower California, Mexico Mex-ico Angered by the action of the Mexl- can government, Mr. Brolaski went to Washington to make a demand on the state department to protest agnlnst the gambling at Juarez, Mexico, where gambling was nermlttcd, only a mile and a quarter from El Paso, Texas. While In Now York and Washington he mot active opponents of race track gambling, who encouraged him to Join them In a nation wide crusade against gambling and graft. On October 5, 1909, he quit tho old life, and allied himself openly and publicly with tho moral reform forces of the country. coun-try. Since that time he has spoken at two committee hearings in tho United State senate In support of a bill to prohibit the scifdlng of raco track gambling nows from one state to anothor bv wire, and also at a commlttc"1 hearlntr in tho Ohio senate. sen-ate. He ha delivered addresses In clutches, halls, theatres and association associa-tion buildings In the slates of New York-, Ohio, Maryland. Illinois, California, Cali-fornia, and Oregon, exposlnc- gambling and graft. Whore he goos he causes a commotion commo-tion In the "underworld." His knowledge knowl-edge of graft and dishonest politics Is amazing This knowledge ho Is now placing at the disposal of .the forces that are working for good government In addition to his lectures he has written writ-ten a book of H20 page and S2 Illustrations Illus-trations entitled ''Easy Money, or Fishing Fish-ing for Suckers," in which he exposes gambling and earnestly warns young men to shun all gomes of chance. Mr. Brolaski franklv admits that tho first step in his change was a desire to "get even with somebody" for driving driv-ing him nht of Mexico and permitting tho gamblers at Juarez to continue dojng business. loiter he was shown that his motive was wrong. He thereupon there-upon resolved to oppose gambling in all Its forms as a matter of principle Through all his career as a gambler h"p took good care of his family and his parents. His love for his mother is one of his most commendable trails. She has always opposed his way of living, but throuch it nil she has been his "best friend." His sister Belle, who has hern connected with the Delineator, De-lineator, Collier's and New Tdca magazines mag-azines for several years, was active In getting him started right as a n-forracr. n-forracr. Brolaslcl's hook, "Easy Money," ?t all book stores or spnd direct o the Search Light Press. Cleveland, Ohio. - |