Sucker Lists Made Up Of
Wise Guy Sports In City
Barnum'n Philosophy of Birth Rate of Gullible Seems to
Have Been Too Conservative, Making No Allowance
for Increasing Population of Big Cities
By L. C. OWEN
C???ri,ht. I *24, fry TIM A*v??c?
San Francisco. March 28.?P. T.!
Barnum's philosophy anent the birth ;
rate of suckers, it would seem, wcs i
rather conservative and didn't take j
into consideration subsequent in*j
creases in the population. Moreov
er a lot of city fellows, who clarfa,
themselves as wise Kuys, and boast i
of sophistication far superior to that ?
of their country cousins, really be- I
long in the sucker classification.
These facts are proved by a.
raid just made by postofflce author-!
ities here on a "one man" racing
"information bureau." conducted in
a downtown office building. They;
captured the principal, whom theyj
found to be making from $5,000 to!
$10,000 a day by the simple proceas'
of playing both ends against the mid
dle in fleecing sporty clients.
The man under arrest is Frank
Bennltts. He is held on a charge of
using the mail to defraud and post-,
office authorities declare he would
have been a multi-millionaire within
a year had not L'ncle Sam inter-'
ferred with his operations. Hi?
scheme, they declare, makes get-j
rich-quick I'onzi and other modern:
financial wizards pale Into insifenlii
cance.
Bennltts. say the postofTice inspec
tors, advertised extensively in more
than a score of the larger cities, of-J
fering infallible "inside" information1
daily on the races. For a weekly j
fee, plus ten per cent of the clients
winnings, he supplied the informa- \
tion by telegraph.
Lists seized in Ills office showed'
that he had more than 20,000 clients!
in New York, Chicago. Cincinnati,'
St. Louis, New Orleans and other j
large cities, and that he dally sent?
out more than 18,000 telegrams to j
clients who paid $5 weekly for two'
"inside -information" wires a week. 1
The postofTice inspectors declare:
that the only inside information Ben
nltts had was how to make himself j
an infallible winner every <*ay. It I
wasn't necessary for him to be a I
good dopester. acquainted with the
qualities of the race horses ho
picked. His scheme, it Is alleged,
was simply to pick every horse in the
race as a "sure winner" and send
one "winner" to a part of the list,
another to another part, and so on.
Thus a part of his clientele had to
win every day. And those that did
sang his praises to the sky. thereby
helping him get more clients.
When the authorities raided Ben
nitt's office at 10 o'clock In the
morning, they found $G,000 heaped
on a desk. Bennltts they say ad
mitted that this was "part" of one
day's profit?.
Of the hundreds of race track!
swindles uncovered by Federal ag-j
ents in th? last 20 years, Bennltts':
was the bust producer of profits tl.ey j
said. And practically all of it camoj
from city "wise guys."
:
Mrs. S. E. Williams of Baxter Av-j
enue la able to be out again, after
being confined at her home for sev
eral days from a severe fall.
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Young fellows' first l^ong Pants
Su118, finely tailored?$20. $22.50,
$25; new Spring styles.
T. T. TURNER & CO.
adv.27,28
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washing and Ironing her clothes,
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410 Mallhrwi Street.
PHONE 64.
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INOUSTRIAL BANK
PULP WOOD MAY
BE MADE IN DARE
Overhauling of Old Dart*
Lumber Company Mill ut
Buffalo City Starts Talk1
Something May Be Done.
The possibility of the development
Iq this section of the Industry of
manufacturing pulp wood to be used <
in making newsprint and other pa
pers is again being talked of here |
as a result of the overhauling of the i
machinery of the pulp mill built by!
the Dare Lumber Company at Buf
falo City in Dare County shortly (
before this corporation ceased oper- j
ations.
The possibilities offered for the;
manufacture of pulp wood by the
thousands of acres of swamp timber!
in Northeastern North Carolina has1
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Tidewater Buick Co.
NEW SERVICE STATION
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PHONK 407
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MOTHERS QUICK (OOK OAT*, .
P?r -r?,??r-- lUC
to S miruftM cooking)
0 0
[come In for a great deal of atten-]
Hon ever since newsprint prices be-1
I tan sky rocketing shortly after the
World War. The Dare Lumber,
Company, operating a big saw mill
'here and with large timber holdings!
In Dare County, erected the present t
pulp mill in Dare County while the
corporation was in the hands of
Montgomery & Blrdseye and Just be
fore these two men wrecked It by a
financial deal that got them in the
toils of the law and resulted in the!
Dart Lumber Company's being taken J
over by the Metropolitan Life Insur-|
ance Company. Since that time the!
saw mill plant here has been dis-1
mantled and the pulp wood plant in I
Dare has been idle. It never got go- j
ing on a commercial basis any way.
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HOOPING COUGH
No "cur*"?bet hslps to rs
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VICKS
r?fc_
PHONE 114
Standard Pharmacy
THEY WILL SEND IT.
The object of the overhauling of
the Dare County plant ia aaid to be
to determine what it would cost to;
put the plant in order, purchase ad
ditional machinery needed and put
the plant in operation. If the Mel- '
ropolitau Life Insurance Company
gets a favorable report from the sur
vey now being made, there would j
seem to be no reason why the pulp
wood industry in Dare Coumy ,
should not be developed.
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I $19.75 $24.50
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Values to S31.50 Values to 82 I.SO
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?
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All nature begins to awaken from
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