The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-07-27
CITV INTELL n,
GAMBLING.

Fbe Return n the Gambling Fraternity to
RhiladeSpAia-The GIldod Palaces In Full
BlasS-A Dangerous Man TO society.
Since the departure of Mr.. Gibbons from the
chair of the District Attorneyship in the Court
of Quarter Sessions, the gamblers, who had been
cleareH away from the city by reason of the
issuipg of bench-warrants for their arrest and
the capture of the paraphernalia of their estab-
hst Iments have returned, and now walk our
ct reefs by day with perfect impunity, while at
night they ply their business with the same
effrontery that was SO apparent a few months
since. A~fpromenader along Chestnut street can
readily pick out the gentleman of the cards and
roulette from the crowd which infests the
vicinity of Ninth and Chestnut streets, and
towards midnight he can as readily pick out the
gambling bells, which of all denominations are
the greatest, and to which particular attention
should be paid by our police authorities. But
n few months since, by the promptness of a city
official, the gamblers were driven from Phila-
delphia and their places of resort closed, and
our citizens experienced great relief thereat.
There is no reason why the same state OF
affairs should not be in existence still. These
pests of society should be torn out every night,
and finally the gambler would give Philadelphia
a wide berth. Many of the professionals have
reaped a harvest at the watering places, while
Others have picked up considerable money from
tourists who have made use of our city as a
stopping place. Only yesterday a Louisvillian,
who was on his way to Niagara, stopped a gen
tleman on the street and wanted enough money
advanced on his watch to enable him TO return
10 his native city, from which he had been alb
sent only a few days, having really intended to
be away for q month. His tale was similar to
that which is daily related at the Central. He
had met a gentleman of elegant address, with
whom he soon became intimate. With
him he had been induced to take a stroll
along Chestnut street, and after having im6ibed
pretty heavily of the ardent, had gone into one
OF the second-story gilded palaces, out Of which
he had come without even enough money to
pay his board bill at the Continental. In addi-
ton to the above means of fleeing the people,
we noticed the other day a fellow with a barrel
staVe on his knee ut one of our prominent places
of amusement, playing three-card monte, en-
deavoring to get some one of the crowd in his
vicinity to venture q small sum-. While sitting
at the Blue Bell Station on the Baltimore Rail-
road, on Wednesday last, waiting for the train,
we were accosted by a fellow with basket on
arm, with the remark, in broad Irish accent,
ANY groundnuts, sir?" Noticing that he had a
cloth covered over his basket, a gentleman near
by lifted one corner, and there beheld, instead
of the nuts, q small roulette board. We after
wards learned this fellow has for years been en-
gagged in that this business, and that he finds ready
customers among our Market street merchants.
Although for years daily seen on our prominent
thoroughfares with his basket, he has never yet
known the inside of o cell. He is an italian by
birth, but makes his brogue suit the assembly
and the occasion. To-day he is a German and
tomorrow an Irishman, and by his ingenuity
has succeeded in laying by quite a fortune. He
can you with roulette, cards, or
the little joker" and always has with him an
individual whose success. at either is a sufficient
inducement for q stranger to try his hand. He
is one of the dangerous men in Philadelphia.
and should be arrested, as his conviction, by
reason of the material found on him, would be a
certainty.