Show UPON LIfE Of THE RAILROAD H I WIZARD More Than One Million Dollars I Are Staked by the Frightened Frightened Fright Fright- ened Financiers Here and I Abroad on Harriman's Life DETECTIVES SHADOW HIM AND WATCH HIM CLOSELY Insurance Companies Are Betting Betting Betting Bet Bet- ting He Will Live for One Year While Stock Buyers Gamble Against That Idea Ideal BEGAN LAST SEPTEMBER I E YORI YORK hll July 21 The Tho Tho bl biggest big big- NEW NE' gest iest gambling gamo in the tue whole world today i Is j not belog be be- lug log played at Monte Monto Carlo or 01 I any similar resort but In the quiet quaint Austrian village where B Edward Ed wor ward H H. Harriman Is seeking to regain his health Moro More than a million dol- dol hrs It was Yas ell today aro are staked b by frightened financiers here and abroad the upon little wizards lire life What hat unlocked this secret was the news that a pool 1001 of Wall Vall street operators oper operators oper atols atol's had just taken out n f policy upon the i railroad all road czars czar's existence exist exist- ence once So anxious were they to secure this insurance that thc they paid for fOl It Its protection although tho the policy runs for only ono year It Jt was also learned tOda today that wherever Mr Harriman goes ho lie Is b followed b by a posse of ot physicians and de detectives teL tI If who vho watch his every word smile frown sight sigh or lau laugh h with nil tho tIle alertness that a veteran poker player studies an nn opponent These human hu hu- hii- hii man shadows are aro In the tho employ of ot the thc lie big London and ami Paris agencies which make mako book on Mr l chances of recovering reco his health Big Big- Gamble on Wizards Wizard's Life t C f t l I. I l loda n 4 S securities H or oria In other other- stock and bonds which would In Inevitably sur suffer silT suf fer in case of or the railroad mn magnates magnate's death leath was the tho cause calise of the thc present fever to J gamble on his life lire For It is nothing but hut n l gamble said ono one broker The broker who Is long in harrIman securities who whoso o fortune fort would bo be wiped out by hy a fall of a few points caused b by sinister Harriman news nw pays paR for a Harriman ont year one yar lire life policy In tho ho snub same sPIrit as ho lo would purchase a stack of pol poker cr c True Truo there thero is an Idea of In Insurance In In the thing but that Is IR only superficial The There re are no no actuary ta tables la- la a- a bles hies used as a basis for tor such Buch n a policy The company compan that takes such a n. policy polley also alBO te regards ard It largely el- el as ns a n. wager Inquiry discovered that the r rush for Ins ce against Mr r. r life Ufe began bogan last Jast September It was Just after his return from Pelican bay ay when all aJl of a u sudden Wall Vall street t was alarmed by the t that he had hall a n stroke I As a result Union Pacific his pet lct stock stocie broke two points |