OCR Text |
Show PLAYED THE SLOT MACHINE five Business Men Try New Game. Forgot Their Wives and Attempted to Win a Fortune. Owner of Machine Was Dead Game and Scooped in Nice Little Sum. "We will be hark In Just a second." said llvo prominent Snlt Lake business men to their wives Monday cloning The parly had gone to a restaurant for a little supper The order was In and the flr gentlemen decided to step out nnd have a round of cocktails as an appetiser. Liked the Machine. Tho 'second' was Just two hours and a half, and the round of cocktails cost them ISZ6. Incidentally they showed the slot machine In a Second South street thirst emporium the t lin Of Its life. It was only one of those dsTlces in which you deposit a nickel and ring up p. poker hand which may or may not be worth a few drinks or i iRurs One of the business men noticed no-ticed It whllo they were waiting for the bartender to mix the- drinks, and slipped a nickel Into the slot He pulled tlo lover and ;ot one- of those aggravating aggravat-ing iKib-tall Hushes known to all patrons 0l the Plot machine game Begin to Flunge. ' Here give me a quarter's worth of nickels ' said the loser The other members mem-bers of the crowd forgot their cocktails, also tho Indies waiting In the restaurant, ;ind gathered about the mechanical poker phi's er. When the first plunger ran out of nickels the rest took a hand Luck was variable Even wln-n n winning was made tho players were ahead onl a few drink chips. A Dollar Goes. 'There Is nothing In this." ohsorveil one of the sports ' Will you let US play It for a dollar a chip?" The proprietor of the saloon was called. He Is something of a sport himself. "A dollar giw-s ' he suld Made the Machine Hum They made the slot machine hum It fairly danced a can-can on the end of tho imi- while the business men fed It with copper disks each standing for one of the dollars of our dads. Few poker bands in Salt i-ak'- have commanded the prb es brouKht by the combinations in thnt slot machine Limit Was Off. The limit was off. Rets were made and paid that would have bc-n refUBi d by any of the regular gambllng-housi - In tho City, At various times the bartender trHi to figure up the value of the outstanding out-standing chips but prow dizzy before he completed the calculation The proprietor however, remained cool. Stood to Lose Fortune. Altogether there panned over the bar hips ailing f..r L'V At one rwlsi of the machine the house stood to lose 13300; but It didn't lose It Several times tho pl:;y rs were in from $.V to $l(Vi. "By George!" said on" of the business men ' it seems to me that I left my wlfo In tho restaurant ! ' So we did." echoed the others "Let's cash In." That's Another Story. The checks were counted out and It was found that the five gentlemen had dropped S2." That whs whut the pro- prletor made In two hours and n hulf b being garni And the business men when they returned to the restaurant got but that s another story |