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Show NEW JOBS FOR THE "GAMBS." It looks as if the industrial progress of the city were to receive a strong stimulus beginning with the first of the year. Many of the local gamblers, believing that when Ezra assumes control con-trol of the city they will no longer have a chance to earn an honest living, contemplate entering upon some of the vocations of horny handed menial exercise, which they had hitherto looked upon with contempt. Frenchy, who can deal the ace out of the middle of the deck from an adjoining room with his back turned, has already announced himself. U He states that for the present at least he intends 3 to earr a livelihood by shoveling snow. A stack $j of whites always did look good to Frenchy. 2 The Candy Kid is going into the bakery busi- ness, where he will build doughnuts with a view j to occasionally concealing an ace in the hole. The Kid states that while he has been earning i at least five a night ever since he left the goat and the shanty to send the marble whirring ; around the glad circle, he has "woke up" three - hundred and sixty-five times a year without breakfast money. A square deal every morning, the Kid thinks, will get him back up to weight, j Brick Dryfus and Lon Gerry have decided to 5j go into the sheep business. They expect to make a great success of this on account of their long ? experience in tempering the deal to the shorn j lamb. 5 Three Card Monte has not yet announced jj himself, but says he will copper anything the . rest of the boys do. He intimates, however, that he will break loose from the old ties and try s some new ones. i Others refuse to express themselves, saying j that it is bad props to ante before the deal, par- j ticularly when there are no papers in sight. None of them intend to join the Merchants' and Manu- facturers' Association, as they believe there is an easier way to earn an honest dollar, and at the same time build up Salt Lake, while keeping a keen eye on the dealer. All of them wish the Salt Lake Tribune a lovely new year. |