Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-11-09
CLOSING THE s.HELLs.~

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d. The decision of the Reicllsrath Inns
been pronounced, and all the gaming
tables Of Germany must positively be
closed on the last day of December,
1872. Wiesbaden, Ems, Homburg,
and Baden, must find fresh means of
attracting the public, and of deriving
the funds NECESSARY for their great ex
penditures. Homburg alone pays a
fine TO the Government of $35, 600 a
year; and the expenses of keeping up
the beautiful gardens that surround il
amount to an annual outlay of S35,
900, which are also paid out of the
receipts of the gaming tables. 81. Ii
would seem, as might be expected,
that this year will be an unusually
productive one; the players throng
the tables every evening in rows OF
six deep and many have .tooretire
without the wished-for opportunity of
stalking their meney. The Salon
Dore" is crowded every night with
spectators, and the play becomes very
exciting. A company of Russians
have come over, with the avowed in
tention of breaking the bank, and,
night after night they may be seen
winning and losing enormous sums.
Each is attended by his secretary, who
sits beside him and registers the gains
or losses made by each coup. 4 For
one night they played alternate stakes
of ten Thousand francs and twelve
sthensand francs at COUP the latter
sum being the largest amount which
the bank permits, to be staked at a
single occasion. ,L.is-l
OF course, with all players the
chances of the bank make its ultimate
success certain, bat the players which
it prefers are not the steady gamblers,
but. the occasional visitors who yield
to a passing temptation. A prefessed
gambler plays upon a system, and the
part of his system most Objectionable
to the bank is this, that when he wins
a large sum he stops The celebrated
Maltese who broke the Homburg bank
three years ago, used-to pay into his
bankers large sums whenegers heE was
successful, and ultimately left the place,
carrying away from it many thousands
of Maps destined to be lost at, Baden
Baden few weeks afterward It is
otherwise with the ty1,O of the tables :;
he plays and wins. becomes ineculated
with the fever of gaming, and ulti
matsly loses all he can readily OBJ
tain.v AT one time you see him play
ing With gold, flushed, but anxious
then the wheel Offortune is adverse
the lightly7got coin lightly goes; the
boards are. swept back to their origi
nal source, and he is almost ''cleaned
out. You would think that now, at
least, heswould stop; but no, the hand
that staked gold an hour ago now
stakes gnldens.
=. Iti is for such visitors that HON
burg spreads forth its attractions with
prodigality that is almost lavish
Bands. concelts, balls, shady walks
uhderwell-PEeseFsed tree plantations,
cricket hunting pigeon shooting, the
sparkling waters of the Kaiserbrunnen
for the dyspeptic, reading rooms for
all classes and for all nations. and all
this free; it only askszits chances at
the table, and it does not even ask
that, but trusts to the common pro.
pensity for gambling, that is indie
pendent of race, language, and nation.
Day after day the trains take back to
Frankfort visitors who return Will
lighter purses than they reekoned on
s.But there's aye a. green crop com
ing" and every night the tables are
again scro owded. ~-75
AS an illustration of what expense.
are incurred without hope of other re
turn than that whichis paid down sc
literally on the greenclotll, it is knowr
that the opera costs the Administra
ton more for every representation thar
would be realized, assuming the houst
to be filled at; the cXorbitant price!
that are asked Madame Patti alon,
receive for thirteen performance
ST, 800, and such artists as Trebelli
Fancelii, and Bettini. support her. .
/ Some miles from Homburg there il
the pleasant little town of Mannheim
which has a natural salt spring, ant
is feached from Homburg by coache!
that start at fixed times daily. Tiler
a rival company have established +,
Kursaal and the necessary ganini
tables. Originally the Homburg table
were open every day of the week, bu
the law which compelled them to clos
on Sundays did not include Mannheim
probably as being too insignificant
The Nanhiem directors. accordingl
made arrangements with these. coac
proprietors that Sunday passenger
from Homburgz should obtain retur
tickets nt single fare, the cOmpan
itself paying for. Their. return journey
: Accordingly, on Sundays all the gan
blers of Homburg focked off to Mar
| helm, and the rooms there became S
Gro wded that it was impossible to g
t to the tables. At last the law that a
fected the large town was extended
the little one, and, forthwith the liber:
arrangements for Sunday traffic cam
f TO an abrupt conclusion.
Every one is, asking now what wi
= become of the Administration aft,
1872 ? During the Emperor's visit I'll
: town did everything to appease hin
and then presented its petition th'
T matters might remain as they were,
: least till. 1873. His Majesty replie
that the question did not rest wi
It him, but had already been decided /
d the Reichsrath. It is said that tt
. company intend to open at Genev
], and that they will pay an enormo
: fine to the Swiss Government. B
, the more probable arrangement is til
: they viii buy up the existing tables
IL Monaco. 1t is even said that the CO
T. tract for this object has actually be,
l. settled. and that a Kursaal of extrao