Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1886 — An Editor’s Passion for Poker. [ARTICLE]

An Editor’s Passion for Poker.

Most journalists and professional men ■" will remember the Athenian Club which flourished in Boston ten years ago. It was the only press club worthy the name that ever existed in this city, and many a jolly evening occurred in the club-rooms in the Tremont House. Unfortunately card-playing was the feature of the establishment, and the cardroom was thronged at nearly all hours of the day and night. Poker was indulged in wildly, and proved the ruin of many a luckless young man, and finally was the cause of the death of the club. Among the most enthusiastic and most persistent poker players was , the editor of one of the local dailies. The game engrossed his waking moments to the exclusion of almost everything else, and night after night saw him at the card table instead of at the editorial desk. One evening a messenger was sent from the office to apprise him that the composing-room was waiting for him, and that his desk was covered with copy that needed his immediate attention. He paused long enough to indite a note, saying: “Copy be ; I’ve four aces for a jack pot and I won’t throw up the hand if the paper goes to preps blank in the morning. ” He stuck to the place and raked the pot. But by sbme accident the note fell into the hands of one of the proprietors of the paper. The paper did not go to press blank, but his four aces cost him his situation. — Boston Post. ,