Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-04-08
GAMBLING In NEW YORK.
A Female He'll" I'm Twenty third
StreeI-A Terrible Picture Of Life In
the American Metropolis.

A Female q He'll I'm Twenty thir,
Street-A Terrible Picture Of Life II
the American Metropolis.
The New York correspondent of tn,
Syracuse Standard makes the following
startling revelation:
The prevailing vice among New Yorker
is gambling. Men gamble in stocks anC
gold, and when the stock market is closed
they indulge in the healthy pastime o
fighting the tiger" otherwise called faro
In many of the down town busines streets
gambling 'hells" are located, in order tC
accommodate merchants with a "littlt
game" during the hours of toll. Up town
on Broadway, from Spring street even as
far as Fortieth street, two or three gambling
saloons are on each block, and the side
streets are also infested with them. How
ering about these doors are men, arrayed in
spotless broadcloth and fine linen, shiny
silk hats, and died moustaehes, waiting,
ready, and anxious to pounce upon the I'M
wary, and lead them TO destruction. To
what extent gambling is carried on, our
police records will show. Bank clerks,
cashiers and treasurers becomes defaulters,
and the origin of the crime is traced to one
cause-gambling. The police know this,
and are cognizant of the whereabouts Of
each "hell," yet no effort is made towards
their suppression.
What Is sauce for the goose is sauce for
the gander," and gambling is no exception
to the rule. The wives and daughters of
our most wealthy citizens are afflicted with
the mania and play as deeply and heavily
as their husbands and fathers. In Twenty
third street, near Madison avenue, is
gambling house, patrOnized exclusively by
females. With the kind permission of your
readers we will visit it,
1t IS a modest, unpretensious-looking
house, the entrance scrupuously clean, and
presenting no different appearance, exter-
nally, than those adjoining, save the blinds
are all tightly closed. Ringing the bell,
We are admitted by gorgeOusly apparal-
led women, who acts AZ ianitress. On
one side of the hall is a superb painting of
Leda and the Swan, on the opposite aide, is
another painting, equally good, of Venus
rising from the sea. Ascending the stairs,
We are ushered into the parlors on the first
ioor. They are elegantly. even luxuri-
ously furnished. The person who fitted up
these rooms must have had exquisite taste.
The paintings hanging on the walls are
rare and valuable, but the most conspicn-
ous, and the one that first strikes the eve
and riyeis the attention, is the painting by
AIRY Sch@tler of the gambling scene from
Bulwer's play of Money" and for which
1t is stated August Belmont has offered
$4,000 and been refused.
Seated around the room and at the gam
ing table are number of ladies. all of
whom are dressed in the height of fashion.
The players are flushed with excitement
but the dealer, in her Pompadour waist
half revealing, half concealing an ample
bust, sits calm and collected, and rakes in
the "chips" with the utmost sangfroid.
Ever and anon, some player, when heavy
bet is lost calls for wine, which is speedily
supplied by an attentive and demure look
ing Hebe. Demure Yes, but it is the de-
mnreness of a cat. Offend her, and she
will quickly show that she has claws
That lady at the center of the fable si-
ting between Anonyma and Aspasia, is the
wife of one of our most wealthy merchants,
| could tell you her name, but tales must
never be told out of school. Observe that
young lady with bonnet no larger than a
cookie shell, and Bismark ribbons the one
who is now taking off her diamond ring TO
stake, and which she will lose as sure as
eggs are eggs, is the daughter of an ex-
Judge. All our wealthy merchants wife
is loser; see, she rises from the table BIZ
ting her lips till the blood comes to CON
ceal her emotions. Come, let us away,
such scenes do not make our opinion of
poor, weak human nature, the more exaI-
ted.
Is it any wonder that we so frequently
see rewards offered for lost diamond rings,
necklaces and bracelets. If we had the
power of Asmodeus, we would see these
lost" articles in the safe of some gentleman
who has the sign of the Lombardy emblem
of three balls. The thirst for gambling
will be satisfied and money must be OBJ
tained. Yes, yes, Hamlet was right, there
are more things in Heaven and earth than
are dreamed of in our philosophy"