CHARLES HANNAM 



possible to back two or three and beat the layers on 

 the average. The work is arduous, for in addition to 

 his own investments there are occasionally important 

 commissions to do. Charles Hannam is a Bradford 

 man who has the respect of all who go racing. His 

 keen judgment enabled him some years back to amass 

 a large fortune, a portion of which was successfully 

 invested in business enterprises in his own county. It 

 is no impertinence to say that in recent years he has 

 not had the same success owing to the market not 

 being such a liberal one for his operations. 



The ordinary sta^^-at-home man will imagine him 

 as jotting down a few bets, going off to have a drink, 

 coming back and backing one or two others, and then 

 perhaps spending his evening as he likes, with no more 

 cares until racing starts next day. As a matter of fact 

 Mr Hannam works assiduously, as he is a man of ad- 

 mirable methods. Getting up early every morning, he 

 takes a light first dejeuner and spends the best part of 

 the morning writing letters and telegrams. He does 

 all this himself, as his business correspondence is some- 

 times of such a nature that he will not depute the task 

 to a secretary. Taking his "grand breakfast" at or 

 about noon, he is early on the racecourse, and when 

 watching him there his face is inscrutable, and what 

 passes rapidly through his mind one can only hazard 

 a guess at. A temperate man, he only takes milk and 

 soda at this early luncheon, and will not drink anything 

 else till racing is over. After his tea at the usual hour 

 the whole transactions of the day are transferred from 

 the small book he carries with him to his day-book, 

 ledger and cash-book, which are duly posted up with 

 as much system as obtains in a well-ordered mercantile 

 office. It is this system and method that has been 

 part of his success and has developed that mathe- 



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