The New York herald., 1869-04-11

Comparing this list with one obtained from the
otce OF the ASSOCIATION for the Prevention OF Gam.
bling 1t was found to be more correct than thers and
showing a larger number OF establishments. The
next census which the society Is contemplating to
take OF gambling houses IN the city viii In all pro-
baDlity verify the above table, We have therefore,
2j3 places in this city where gambling Is carried on
ades tba srs ana a. sas e re as
not less than 600 establishments in various por-
tions, wnere under the gnise OF privacy the gaming
table Is hid. The late suit before Judge Lane,
brought for money won at the Manhattan CLUB
House, Is an evidence OF this, and many other siml-
lar proofs might be cited
Our table includes some very curious establish
ments. There Is one on Tenth avenue, not far from
OF the worst holes in tine city. 1t policy shop,
fence" and gambling house combined; In l.ct. it
Is everything that Is base; Another place on Essex
tue private residence OF the cashier OF
some banking concern In Wall street. Here
q number OF Wall street clerks rent room or
rooms, each having his private key. and where they
form ''cluD," the yearly dues OF membership being
favorlte games. Once this "prvate club' was nearly
extinct, the employers OF the fast clerks getting
and is now again in full blast. on Broadway, be.
low Fulton street, there Is an honest looking shoe
store, patronized largely by Wall street people, and
1t often puzzles the neghborS how long takes these
men to buy pair OF shoes or boots for they often
remain for hours inside. The neighbori would not
be puzzled II they knew that in the OF the shoe
store is another apartment fitted up for gambling
purposes, and faro and poker IN the rear, and not
the leather ware In 'front.' the principal attrac-
tions. Further up Broadway opposite Wallack's Is
situated restaurant with coal hole In the rear
which Is kept locked. Knowing ones can obtain the
open sesame and 10! and behold, instead OF a coal hole,
faro table, keno apparatus aud 'sweat board"
invite them TO excitement. On Spring street, near
Broadway, Is another "prlvat3 club but IN reality
gambling no1se, to which admission is purchased by
the payment of the "annual dues OF membership"
On West Tnrtieth street, In a brown stone house,
apparently The arlstocratc residence of highly
fashionable family, is located ''lades'" sporting
house, where ladies' Of the highest respectability
keno, short cards. as poker and the like, any
Other game OF hazard for money that may Olfer. On
the BOwery-to come down again from the aristo-
cratic sphere to .le cODlnlttltDl pu,gus-not nile
from Canal street, there Is on unpretending cigar
store, but passing through IL one Is inducted into
all the mysteries Of faro and poker and three
card monte, which games are almost daily ana
others also, one IN the Fourth, the other IN the
Eighteenth ward, similarly arranged-cigars in
front and gambling IN the rear. We might enlarge
this catalogue to teniod its present length, but
what is given wiz suiice TO prove that either the
passion Tor gambling Is 50 strong in all mankind
qualification which would be too charitable view
TO take, or else that the boys Ia blue and Drass
cline to interfere for less psychological, but more
substantial reasons.
TaE SOCIAL EVIL
II Is but slam modesty which would treat this
excrescence OF society with silent abhorrence. TO
an evil you must understand IL and know the
strength 1t may have gained. And this cannot be,
unless you speak about it, es who may In mock prti-
derry pretend TO be sclndalize1. Such may just as
wei at this point fold up the paper aud put it aside,
for what IS now TO be told might shock their over.
sensitive morality.
II is wen xnown that we have in this city three
derent classes OF localities devoted TO prostitution,
as distinct from each other as the nea Is from the
bedDug and the vampire anl yet all OF the same in
trinsic immoral Character, just as all the three
animals named are bool5uckers, and differ only m
degree These three classes are, to begin with the
lowest, the saloons vita waiter girls the houses OF
prostitution and the houses OF assiglatiol. The
returns OF Police Supcrnenlct Kennedy for the four
years named below, give the following aggregate
Tor the two cities Of New York aud Brooklyn:-
Houses of pros,tu.ions.. ss3 s2i 57y ~;
Houses of assignatons.... liz ~ ~ los
s, saooas with waiter siris.. "a IS "a. 81
WHILE WILLS, M .oca,S sSs; EsM lles
II was evident thai tiere was some mistake In
these figures, and that not slight one. Inquiry
therefore made at headquarters, for the pur-
superintendent Kennedy from the several precincts
and TO compare the numbers as given with those
ascertained by an actual survey OF the whole city.
made some time ago by several wc-meaning phi
lanthroplsts, for rcformatory purposes. But Ken
nedy declined to give the details by precincts or
wards and his subordinates were not allowed to
communicate what they knew. FOR this refusal the
high fnnctonary OF ,he Mulberry street marble palace
did not give any reason either because he had none,
or because, # he had reason 1t was as reporters
used to saying ''unut for puOlcation.n But ne was
very emphatic In his declaration that this social
evil less In extent than was generally supposed;
that there fewer places devoted to the cute de
Venus than the public imagined, and that q far
smaller number OF persons resorts TO 1t for living
than is estimated by those VINO know but little OF 1t.
In fact on these points the well informed Kennedy
emphatic, and spoke as n he considered this
sore spot on social life worthy no more atten-
ton than an East India elephant wOdd besow
"a Jersey mosquito bite.
functonary" OF Mulberry street, the Following table
viii serve to correct, which s correct as searching
inquiry by earnest private phanthropists coul1 make
1t ana Us paid policemen. to whose mil every thing
is griss that comes neither care nor ever viii
make:-