The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 14, 1902, Page 5

| | our mind travel back to 1873-80. as a period of great prosperity West. Bonanza mines had covered at Leadville. From kes Peak to the Missourl River train was loaded with passengers for Leadville. Jay Gould consolidated the Pacific t a big union station in t was! A mad, roar- rtune hunters; its al- above the sea. It was over again. ar fact, by the way, that pe West came at lifornia 1849, Pikes Montana groups e 157y or thereabout. s the land- a hustler and was always the comfort of his guests. confident and ever at ease, ake money without even tu r hand. He bought mines and knew everybody in the country. nd was short of money he said ever mind, pay next time,” the bookkeeper smiled, said he hoped to see , and Mr. Walsh continued ess with the multitudes nging the hotel. Senator Tabor erect- in Denver and finally went to States Senate. Mr. Waish, landlord of the ral Ho! has risen to world- e. His income is estimated at the Ur To-day Gra £ wide 1 $4000 2 day and his ready cash at above $50,001 000, but this is not all. Society h: her golden gates to his famil King is his side partner in vast g operations in the Congo country ca. stor; of Mr. Walsh’s life is another rabian Nights” tales which is nd true. Like the late Mr. he Duke of Wellington, he is of Iris was born in Tipperary in 1851, reached Worcester, Mass., a wheel- wright at the age of 18, tried his hand at sewer contracts and made money, went to the B ijlls after Custer’s gold report ade a hundred thousand doilars hastened to Leadville when the fle at Deadwood and other places in ack Hills Mr. Walsh began the ractice of “grub staking” miners, which ed to his fortune. When a prospector ran out of provisions he gave him the neces- sary supplies, taking & share of the mines ¥ g Leadville with considerable 7, he opened the Grand Cen- proved 2 bonanza and en- t control of good mines. In he was rich and happy. He read tral ¥ m Ho el on mining, and par- 1e new ores being discovered o time e his master stroke in mining Going outside the Leadville to the lofty mountain regivn of where the canyons are stupen- e peaks of Alpine proportions and mines havoc with hes rs for the San Juan district. > ores from mines at an alti- feet, he was greatly im- their richness. Experts t practical mining could the mountain tops: that ines had been squandered on and besides avalanches, «s they are called there, v sweep away houses and up shafts and mines. was then massed over was a year or two 1y he got into the mines where the richest ‘sam- but he insisted on look- 1imself, and in a discarded ne he saw on the eigh- nces of rich ore which red worthless. He was struck with its peculiar appearance—dark B markings on white rock. g samples, he had them assayed d a bonanza in prospect He djoining properties and kept his prospecting and buying until ge mining territory absolute- vg gompud s it had been his ambition to owner of a group of mines. master of the situation. He expensive machinery on a large erected smelters for reducing ores proceeded systematically to develop mines. Such was the beginning of d and its millions. h is now a famous man of the came about in this way. He w ppointed Commissioner from Colo- rado to the Paris Exposition in 1899. There he began a series of entertainments that were the talk of Europe. He chartered a steamboat on the river Seine, turned it into a floating palace and gave a forty thousand dollar dinner, with distinguished men as his guests. His wines coul t be surpassed. The music was furnished by I Z F = artists from the grand opera. After this extraordinary feast, at which Americans Were entertained in'a manner unhes Mr. Walsh, with his family and fri chartered a train of five palace cars, lux- uriously fitted up with the silks and dec- orations used on the steamer for the ban- quet, and began a tour of France and Belgium. The European potentates, who are al- ways more or less short in their cash accounts, have been profoundly interested in the Colorado millionaire's movements. At any rate, King I met Mr. Walsh at Ostend and they had a grand dinner at Hotel Ritz, at which the Tsar's band played and the great singers of Paris were heard. In the course of this entertainment the conver- sation naturally turned to finance. The King said he was making only about three per cent on his-investments, Mr. Walsh, in an easy, graceful manner, said he was always sure of ten per cent en his investments—from 100 to 200 per cent was more accurate. He probably did not want to paralyze the King at one sitting, and so put his profits at ten per cent. 1t should be explained that King Leo- pold is the genmerous monarch who en- couraged Stanley to extend his discoveries on the Congo. The result was a lot of Belgian colonies and investments in that country, the King having much at stake. It was his mines down there that he was anxious to have Mr. Walsh investigate and develop in good American styie. While Mr. Waish did not go there him- self, he entered into a business arrange- ment with the King and sent trusted ex- perts to ‘“‘size up” the mines and their value. So it was that a European mon- arch became a side partner of the Colo- rado millionaire. But there is more of the story. Mrs. Walsh became a shining feature of Mr. ‘Walsh’s success and was received by high society, and when she returned to Amer- ica she could snap her fingers at the Western parvenues who In early days had 3 e, t‘% ‘ SN 010)) Al not broken n hér = unt coors with thelr attentions. It should be explained that while Mr. ‘Walsh was a poor man he fell ip, love with a pretty Wisconsin girl, Miss Carrie Reed, and married her. It was a case of true love, love at first sight, and love all the way through life, with a strong hold on the heart. As he grew wealthy and her social life widened she was equal to every emergency; in fact, she became u soclal leader, and when those forty thou- OMAS T. WA sand douar dinners were given in Buro] shé was the queen of the hour, fascin: ing, brilliant and overflowing with kind- ness and hospitality. It may interest men who work to hear that before he began entertaining royal- ty Mr. Walsh was an appreciative and generous employer. He built a big hotel for his miners and superintendents, gave them luxury with first-class meals, good sleeping rooms, with porcelain lined baths and everything up to date as you o \f | MILLIONS \FROM A Rocky llV)IOUNTAIN ), ¢/ WA . NEw B IN WASHINGTON SHS NEW OF would find it in a hotel, and not a mining camp. It was all a gh. 80 to sp to the miners, costin m nu¢ more than at a minin; arding-house, where the ples at tnn{ rods and the prunes and coffes would strangle a_dog. Of his entertainments in Europe, Mr. ‘Walsh sald: ‘““Whal I4id I tried to do in the best pos: . It I had art- ists to sing, a est. Of wines for my guests I wanted the rarest that money could buy. I didn’t do this be- cause of personal pride, but in pride of my country.” egarding his treatment of his men he sald: % “I bullt and ran my hotel, not to make money, but to make my men more.com- fortable. 1 believe that more good 1i try the good in my men and help them. That is one reason, I fancy, why they work harder for me than for others. I have had my .u&enntendents. engineers and execu- tive officers for years. I like them and they like me, I hope, not because I pay them large salaries, but for personal rea- sons. It makes me happy to think so at any rate. I like to help any man who is decent and really deserves help. I don’t care for soclety particularly, though we have been received with great cordiality. I am perfectly happy as 1 am, with my wife and children and my business.” BY MRS. E. P. SCHELL. O know just when to go on with your suit is one of the situations most difficult for whist experts as well as the student to decide, Wwhether to continue with the wine ning cards of an established sult, thus forcing one of the opponents, or to siart a new sult, of less importance, par- teularly in cases whers his trump ‘s(reng(h is insufficient to justify a trump ead. Of course, if you feel sure that your winning card will draw a trump from the epponent, who is stronger in trumps, there would be no question as to your play, knowing that every force adminis- tered to the strong hand would weaken it; but it seldom happens that you have this information. If you have an established suit and the balance of your hand is too weak to jus- tify a trump lead, you are weak enough to force an opponent. It has been found that foreing opponents with winning cards of an established suit, when lacking suf- ficlent strength to lead trumps for its a E BUILDING must frequently happen—will gain more tricks than it will lose in the long run, and it is certainly a much better practice than opening a new suit, es ally when in doubt. As a_general thing if either of the opponents have a long suit of trumps they ars most lgt to be short in your long suit, and while it does not always \follow its recurrence is of much more \than average frequency. It is a very generally conceded fact that & trump lead is wise when you hold an established suit, four or more trumps, and a card of re-entry. Again, a lea from short trumps, when the plain sult strength of the hand is universally strong, will often result most fortunately. But thers is no play that will prove so disastrous as that of making short trump for the protection of the strong or tablished sult, when the other its are comparatively weak. It is lain just such holdings that a pl rely on the chances of probablilities and proceed to force whichever opponent he may, trusting to do as much damage to adverse strength, or at least to place the lead advantageously. Close attention to the fall of the ca: s, of course, essen- tial, least both opponents be void of the suit, in question, for. to permit one to trump and the other to discard would be very bad know on lay; it is very important to e completion of the BoNanzZAT YOR~ EASY LESSON IN WHIST. round of one’s suit, exactly what small cards, if any, have not been played. If {ou can depend upon your partner un- locking, retaining the lowest card of your suit whenever he holds more than thres, you will usually be able to real after two rounds that he holds eithér all of the remaining cards of your estab- Hished suit, or all but one, and you c¢an thus tell whether a third round is ad- visable. In the former case an immediate con- tinuation is out of the question, no mat- ter how impracticable the opening o‘u’ new suit may seem, but if you could re: that one adversary woul follow, the third round offers the safest and the most conservative way out of a difficulty. This play will prove especially fortu- nate if you should find your partner with just four trumps, and you succeed in forcing an opponent who also held just four, as you have strengthened your partner’s hand and weakened the oppo- nent’s. It is just such cases as this where all large swings are made. Foreing op- ponents is ordinarily one of the most ef- fective defensive plays that a weak hand can resort to. A trophy deal resulting in the gain of two tricks, one of which was due to a fortunate but unsound opening, the other protection—even forcing at random, as to false card play by one of the op- ponents. £ it NORTH. 8-17, 5 4 H— c-9, 85 2 D—Q 10,7583 WEST. EAST. 8K Q38 8-A I, 863 H-9 85 y By 5 AN C-A, Q106 c—4,2 D-3 6 4 D—A, K SOUTH. 810, 9 H-J, 10,7, 4812 C-K, J. 7 D3, Six of spades trumps. South to lead. Tks. N. BE. . w. 1 %s sn 4 sh 2 sd *Ad 9d 8a i Norka s s 8 5. 3¢ 2¢ *Te .?e 6. 3d *Qh 2h h 7 24 *Ah 3h 8h 8 7a *Kh Th 84 9. -10d *Kad Ja b 10. bc 40 dc *Ac 1L 8o *6s Ko 10¢ 2. Q4 s 10h *Ks 13. S *Js Jh Qo North 4nd South 3, East and West 1L Trick 1—South’s lead is a lucky one and gains a trick, but it cannot be called a good play. It is strictly In accord with the Pole theory of the long suit game, but few players of ability would open a six-card suit, headed by a Jack, from a hand containing only two trumps, and no centain re-entry. It enables North, however, to get in a trump, which is cartn.lnlz fortunate. Trick 2—North is in the same predica- ment as his partner, but he has no al- ternative from the diamond lead. East’s false card is questionable. Thers does not appear to be any particular ad- vlntaf. in deceiving the adversaries in this situation, and it is extremely doubt- ful whether it will d6 so, while the knowledge of the re-entry in his part- ner’s hand might be useful to West. Trick 5—Had East played the diamond straight, his partner would probably put him in at this trick, and East and West must have made the remainder. Trick 8—South s throwing the lead in _+the hopes of getting another club sent up to him, though it is not easy to account for such a sanguine attitude under the :ierecun:suncem The development would m to rompt a lead of the diamond. Trick lg—Wast can count three trumps in his partner’s hand and has no need to finesse. TABLE NO. 3. Tk. N. B, 8. w. 1 da Ka Ja 4 3 4 8s 10s ai 3. Bs 9s s 4 s 2n s 5. 3¢ 4h 6 B¢ Th a 7 24 Jh %h 8 &d 2h 8d 9. 8¢ Te *Qe 10. 9c Jo ®Ac i Qa 3d 8d 2 14 10h [ . 104 Ke e East and West make thirteen. Trick 1—South’s opening is the logical one, but does not result as well as the heart did at the other table. Trick 2—South should not have erred in his discard here. East plays an open and fufleless long-suit game. When he eads the heart king proclaiming four in suit, he may be trusted for truthfulness, His cilub lead and subsequent play showed two unly. This play of South is . fllustration of the fact that the :w-: W] freque)tly nod.