Show 0 OLD L LE GA GAMBLER M L MW QUIT A duits nuits jim OLe arys resort in chicago Is closed well known character who conducted establishment on halsted street known as the man who would bet on anything Clil chicago cago james oleary known for or twenty five years a ai i the king of oe gamblers famed as the man who would bet on anything stood recently at the end of his bar on halsted street watching a little army of carpenters transforming the building an old friend of OL OLe carys arys a cattle dealer from walden colo came bola bats ferou Ely in announcing jim ill bet you five hundred it snows ton tomorrow larrow Y youre ouro on said oleary automatically then started suddenly remembering beri g 1 I mean I 1 wont cover you ou he be corrected why the matter with you ou demanded the amazed visitor and oleary spoke gravely with a little catch in ills his voice 1 I aint a betting man ho he said 1 I look oak at these carpenters the huge fake chimney at the rear of OLe arys place the chimney from y X N X ax kl k e jim oleary which smoke never was seen to suo the chimney which contained a ladder leading from the steel clearing room of the old gambling house to the basement that abat chimney la Is to by boy a dumb waiter to connect the kitchen with the dining room of a chop suey establishment king joy lo 10 har taken a fifteen year lease from the old gambler and is pro pre paring faring a chop suey buey place its till all off explained oleary later ive met my last bat unless I 1 drop in at monte carlo or somewhere and buck another mans game for the fun of it it 11 oleary has been raided hundreds a of f times tie he has been tried and convicted and tried and acquitted alternately he e has played faro fare and rou lette with multimillionaires multi millionaires who lot lost their mony or same of it and do dared that the game was square in the old days when taro faro and roulette were wide apen open in chicago 0 learis OLea 1 wo wa the place jace sought by the real sports thero there was a limit on an the play ordinary ly but alea oleary aj a always ready to remt vo it on once he bet a friend that the latter could not so from II alsted street to dublin ireland in a week the bet was 1000 the man marde in ade the time and sent oleary a two word cablegram you loso lose oleary cabled the money there have been rare occasions when oleary was accused of tricky gambling ho fie dl the charges most of tile the tig hg gamblers knew OLe arys reputation for equa reness and the result was that when they wanted to mako make unusually big wagers they came to chicago from all par parts 3 of the country to do it |