| Show IN washington e 4 the file Chev allers and the file lobby so no city fly la in tile the union floor finer field for the activity or of an adventurer phito washington lid ile 13 to be 10 met with lit every st street r beet corner carrier lie ile cool fronts you in tile the lobbies or of tire the capitol capital lie ile hangs banes around tho iho hotels und lie ile greets ou at al every public reception certainly for it town or its size washington had tit equal in ili tire iho of mi uin it that live liy by their wits they C come ale front from la Is it mystery g great reat but how flow they manage to live Is id rt a mystery far vr eater at cerl aill times of the year especially when congram ii i about to meet rr r adjourn the town la Is literally swarm ing in with willi dead lent beate A confidence mau iran I 1 it learst lu est bort of swindler la Is a it II 11 fam seen keen hero the joau town is buo i fiill for him ft continue ills his ope riLlus with safely for any v length of online 1 I W it id is only his adri more dangerous collea guethe adventurer advent uter who knows hov to relieve tit the pockets of his moods friends of their cou coblents lents without inn kini himself himself openly and conspicuously table liable to the lie liw law that is ia to b dreaded here I 1 dont sup I 1 bof jo a there la Is another town in which tile lie gambler ambler can fleece his h ii victims victim with wilh greater neatness and depatch dl patch than in ili washington poker Is ia it game and overy every body bodyl or course imagines Itu agines that hp can play av it it la Is a bold assertion but I 1 v venture kiture to may bay that nino nine but or of every tell of thearty the and cers cera stationed in fit the capital play I 1 if r not dully dally certainly weekly the their I 1 r gamt of poker pok or here 1 li 14 l i it a vast held lie I 1 I 1 for a card sharp to start on oil it is ia true that it majority I 1 ty of the officers have only their py to live antl and play tila 3 a on but in the aggregate it in roust a 8 auto amount to it a snug little sum B asides there are many who havo married a fortune and who never navor object 0 to o risk inn ing their wives money upon a little cimine of draw it Is 13 not lot many years ugo ago that it professional rambler who ila had secured till an introduction int army arid and navy circles mireles hero here walked away with ith inai lynnle month all won from hi his tri friends endi juit about that time fr a perfect epidemic ol of the disease known as aa duplicate pay acco sui rat in and that distaso dist aso as a everybody knows has not been yet yel ali I 1 Is art g I 1 it if I 1 C traced would I 1 havo have t no to dowiot have led to the card ard table la in every instance young youna att liches or of foreign lee aiona have been tile victims ol of these gamblers Kamble rrt I 1 know of two to re cent in where foreigners who had bad acquired a taste ro arr the game of poker suddenly left ther the city arf called by their governments it was waa timid auld WE but la in reality because they were unable to pay their debts bebla con traded at the c card rd table lable in these theae 10 two cases pr professional irmar brims term had fidd ad lidh liand and it was a ic icib r ri i f I 1 0 colony Il who had bad tred them the ot of an ait obscure lit tie republic who has since be enIre called also ahsu ho he wua was un an excellent type of the chevaliers chev aliers allers 11 at rt a certain legat forr not over a bun dred miles front frodi F farragut i square I 1 hear bear of falatic I 1 y games with 3 Ilin limits its it Is ia around the holla halls of congress Co neresa however thaltha that tho adventurer adaven loves most to linger the rural statesman I 1 bumptious fin bcd 1 I fresh fro from on hla his 11 proves tin an easy victim vict tin t to 0 his hid far oftener thorah it t Is the claimant who falls into the clutches gentry lie ile Is made to believe that can la fluence legislation that can further hla his case and they dc demand mand until their victim cannot give any more or refuses to ho be bled any longer loinger it Is ia true that their operations fire are limited but only bo be cause they may are known their per File load activity does doea not bring them under the control of the police and hence they are comparatively nafe aroln In pursuing it The number of women engaged ena goil in tills this ness is duj quite to large lareo and there is every grado of them they are frequently engaged by lobbyists hobbyists to do work they could not afford to touch them selves I 1 was told by a once how a whose nega tive live vote upon a certain of a private character dinv inv ivlue a large amount of money kouki I 1 have killed the bill was spirited away from the senate chamber on the morning that the bill was to come up for consideration soon boon after the satiate met a page delivered a note late to the senator which requested him to call Us its soon as convenient conven Wat at mrs ba BI house bouse the senator knew mrs mra a D B slightly in fact he had met her at some friends house and lie be recollected moreover that she was waa a very attractive woman ile ho know nothing at her history but he be wont went to her house houe and curiously enough though staying there only it short time because she bhe had some dolmat request to make of him round found upon his hin ret return ru to tire the senate that the bill which he bad proposed to berv derv defeat at if p 0 isible ble had been pas passed sod by just bat one vote the woman had been hired to insure the holona absence from ahn sonata chamber 1 I need hardly refer to the c colonels 0 arid and judges in ili front of majors yil it lards larda hotel thelara they are fixtures in ilow how they hey live li ft a mystery though the little mene men for whisky rod and free lunchour aroby this tittle lima pretty well understood but do they sleep filp and how do they spend the night they weigh down the sofas of 01 tile hold train irona nit HO early hour in the morning until the last guest has retired lung long after midnight fl kven app then it often requires ren ulrea mhd mui inui 7 cular persuasion persuasion to dis 0 igo them bit but 1 a at t dawn af of day they return scanning tho the liori horl zol zui i lafor for tile the un strang ir vi who t may u t k Y be b a on b I 1 I 1 1 9 u up 1 I 1 tu 0 I 1 the it e ba bur r in france r a 1 1 e athey they hilti pi tu to built for if whisky grow raw tepra iou being who could unearth it 11 feiter than could ono of the wilfird SIti lahs 11 wf W f scent for free ww elih try icy is id something phenomenal anol anil lila his capacity cupa city for or it truly wonderful the nuin beir rj tit ralio ha live here bore upon lie 1 l calim before congress Con grein la Is very largo 1 erkd ind and it la Is limited only by ill hie 0 furbo aranco or of their friends it h i tire culled uler upon tu to support them A who has it ii claim agil 1 I t the Is id like it a nitwit ain who lakes a keg i chalice in ili it 11 IoL lottery tery in ili baet ho la Is worse off because tire aho to stakes liis his mone moine yin a lottery lidi hai lid i liis ilia hopes dupes quashed with tire announce anent ut of lie he dra vying ut tit buce ani aldir revue ally the naan he Is i to ila ho it 11 creditor of the government or imagines to be diio to Is appt in e ei froio sea slot to session frontu kuspy year biti oiti r ti to year until it scenus to hit his fri friand ond III tint it lie ought tu to have lost all libie lie ile holds on however and keeps up the fight but lio lie must live row liow llo ile doea nothing Is for ill d willie while sup aup ported by his big friends lends tr slid and finally becomes tt a dead beat ninety nirm nine per cent of the tha elAl manta here tire are I 1 deold dead beats beata and tho the government is lit in the finein responsible fur for them their ranks are increased by tha und in the public offices which take placa apoll upun the advent of olevery every now 1100 of tile clerks alsedar T ed remain here because they eli hor chint get uway away or idill hopu a in their old places lit in tills they are either shipped homp at ilia of f their orthey or buiey degrees tramps und and a general nuU nuisance tonce tu to every b it y brought in contact withA heril the schames of course by which public men mail aro are made tho the Vict lii of I 1 livery ij very great it would bu bo impossible to ti arrate within the compass of A single letter caseb of df this kind which have bave como came under my notice in a town however holove of the size of washington irton where the bucket shop reigns supreme roe where everybody speculates on marj margins Ins where government information of a certain kind is olten often worth thou sanda of dollars arid and Is bought and ald like merchandise and where oliero tile I 1 legisla legislations tiong it etiny well veil be ba imagined that adaven turna uirt rn ut of ivery every Livi deerea trea stid ni hind loina gain ramblers jol ers ond chevaliers chev aliers find ft a rich fieldin shiell vi tiiT carry Hrry on oil their rations N V Y times |
