The Herald's sweep detective goes on to say:

Observer, Volume 7, Issue 163, 27 October 1883, Page 3

The Herald's sweep detective goes on to say:

— "There is one circumstance in connection with the average gweep promoter which I would like to note — if he does earn his uionoy easily, he spends it in a correspondingly facile fashion. " Easy come, easy go," is evidently his ruling maxim. Hit* time is fully occupied during the day in dodging about to get his letters, and remitting tickets in answer to up-country applications ; but at night he is invariably to be found in tho billiard room, at the theatre, or in the haunts of the demi monde. Sunday afternoons are his gala days, and Brighton or St. Kilda is the. scene of his frolics. Well dressed, were it. not for his profuse display of flashy jewellery, the successful sweep swindler who, 11 short time back, could scarcely raise the price of a, Carlton cab fare, is to be seen driving up anddowntheEsplanade with a well equipped horse and buggy, which has probably been paid for by the factory girl's hard earned half-crowns, or by the savings of an otherwise improvident wife from the results of her husband's six days' toil."