Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-09-18

i for the sake OF thesupper, but as soon as they
I find that it is only for his meal that he comes
, and that no more is 70 bo gained from MIN,
! he is unceremoniously kicked out Of doors
The artist is more generous TO his brother
professional if one is in distress and another
is in luck he is sure TO help him. A broken
J down gambler can 90 among his companions,
and if he is known to be one who will pay
when he makes il he can borrow not only
dollars but hundreds of them, and that too,
without a note an acknowledgement or the
presence of a witness Yet in the way Of
business, he viii often, after having
drawn the last dollar out of some
poor amateur, refuse him the loan OF
half dollar for bed And it not
untrequently happens that an individual
who had beggared himself by play, viii star
about till the dawn of morning, when the
game is over, to whisper in the ear Of the
dealer, "Will you lend me a quarterW One
OF the reasons tor their refusal is that deal
er may loan such person twenty-five cents,
and with it the borrower may sit down and
win back as many hundreds Of dollars. The
gambler is man Of calculation, and for the
sake of being thought very good nAtured will
not lend his money to injure himself. If a
professional gambler is winning be will in
variably give some portion to those around
the board without money, whom he knows;
and when he is lucky enough to carry money
away fro.l bank, he always presents moi
ETY. TO the man who keeps the cues. This is
called stalking. Those professionals who are
on n very small scale, or having been so often
broken that they cannot get further help from
the fraternity, lie around the table night
and day, waiting for some one they know to
win, whereby they might get "A stake.
Another branch Of their employment is
technically termed ''waiting for sleepers. =
] The money, or the ivory checks which repre-
sent it, is spread out on the cloth, and SOB E.
umas a man having money on four or FIVE
cards forgets to lit his bet when it wins
This the Argus-eyed loafers detect in a mo-
ment and slowly and adroitly they remove
the mans checks, and the purloiner says,
after due tine, to the dealer "Pay me for
these This being done be moves off with
money enough for nights board, but more
often he waits and plays his money until be
either wins something, and thus gets fresh
start in faro again, or loses all
Scarcely any one of the big defaulters and
embezzlers who have figured in stock swim
! ding and bank frauds but have been wen
| known around the faro table. a certain pro-
| fessor Of the art Of legerdemain, who came
| to this country from England, a few years
| ago, and made great deal of money by the
| practice Of his profession, got introduced TO
this species of diq5lerie, and, although, he is
said to have made $4,000 by hls performan-
ces returned home penniless having to bor-
row the means to pay his passage. Hisslight-
| Ot-hand availed not and the dealer was q
! greater magician than .he mechanical necro-
mancer himself a young man came from
| the old country, a few years since, to intro
/ duce a new article. He was extremely sue
cessiul, and was soon in the way of making
! thousands. He was inducted into the mys-
ferries of faro, and commenced to play it very
| spiritedly. He played it with variable luck,
and so did not 60 down for long time; bis
business profits buoyed him up, but in the
process Of time the article began TO be an
old story, his business faculties had been
Frustrated by gaming, and faro had
perfect mastery over him. Still he
! played on and on, and lost and lost, until
after having made S25, 900 to $50, 600 in
! few months, he returned to Europe almost
penniless. Another young man, who used
TO be in the Custom House, on a salary ofS75
! per month, would drop into a den in the
!
] lose /, although he always felt resolnte
against playing. So be went on month after
month, not one cent of his salary reaching
! his folly who were thus made dependent
| on the Vile s rei}t0nS IOr Inc bread they ale.
Indeed, book Of immense proportions might
be written OF faros victims in this city alone.
This game, in the lower part Of the city, where
it is played most extensively and openly, be-
sides being pursued by many of our leading
! lawyers, is engaged in by clerks and book
keepers. They meet at what are called mer-
chants games; these are operated in busi-
ness-like apartments, in good locations-as,
for instance, there is one in the most central
] part Of Wall street, just opened, and doing
| good business. There are on Broadway a
certain suite Of rooms devoted TO Railroad
office, on the same floor there is a faro bank
! playing morning, afternoon and evening"
! Open one door and there the visitor sees the
legitimate business of a Railroad in the course
of transaction; open the other, aud there
faro is in full blast Take another corner of
Broadway and popular street. and among
the watchmaker's Offices there is one ground
glass door-window with no name upon it,
and upon passing the waiter who keeps the
| entrauce, there is 10 be seen very select
party playing at faro. In another locality
the daguerrean gallery has the faro bank for
a next door neghbor. Coming down still
lower, the genteel saloon forms but a shallow
blind for the gamblers haunt while in the
Bowery not a few of the low porter hOuses
lave a room devoted to the game. Not
hundred miles from the BOwery Fheatie there
is what is called a mechanics game, designed
to entrap our working-men; and mol a few
of them instead of takiDp their WAGES home
to their anxious wives, lose them here. So
general is the game in its ramifeations that
there is a bank in Baxter (late Orange street.
where pick-pockets and burglars practice it,
and another in Church street. where it is
played by whites and blacks indiscriminately.
TConeIuded to-morTog.