The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-09-08

and that he will be little more discreet
and exclude from his orations such iliberal
talk as that we direct his attention to-
Baden. Baden DOomed-The Last Days
OF the German Gaming Tables
Scenes at the Salon Dore, &c.
From the London Globe, August 2s.l
The decision of the Reichsrath has been
pronounced, and all the gaming tables of
Germany must positively be closed on the
last day OF December, 1872. Weisbaden,
Ems, Homburg, and Baden must find fresh
means of attracting the public and of de-
irving the funds necessary for their great
expenditure. Homburg alone pavs q fine
to the Government of 100000 year; and
the expenses Of keeping up the beautiful
gardens that surround it amount to an an
nual outlay of $1,000, which are also paid
out of the receipts of the gaming tables. 1t
would seem, as might be expected, that
this year will be an unusually productive
one; the players throng round the tables
every evening in rows of six deep, and
many have to retire without the Wished-for
opportunity of stalking their money. The
Salon Dore " is crowded every night with
spectators, and the play becomes very eX-
citing. A company of Russians have come
over with the avowed intention of
BREAKING THE BANK,
and night after night they may be seen win
ming and losing enormous sums. Each is
attended by his secretary, who sits beside
him and registers the gains or losses made
by each coup. For one night they PLAYED
alternate stakes of 10000 francs and 12. 600
francs Mt coup-the latter sum, equal to
ESQ of our money, being the largest sum
which the bank permits to be staked at q
single occasion. Ofcourse, with all PLAYERS
the chances OF the bank make its ultimate
success certain but the players which it
prefers are not the steady gamblers. but the
occasional visitors who yield to passing
temptation. A professed, gambler plays
upon system. and the part of his
system most Objectionable to the bank
Is this, that when he wins q large sum
he stops. The celebrated Maltese, who
broke the Homburg bank three years ago,
used to pay into his bankers large sums
whenever he was successful, and ultimately
LETT the place, carrying away from it many
thousands Of Maps destined to be lost at
Baden-Baden a few weeks afterwards, Ii
is otherwise with the tyro of the tables.
He plays and wins, becomes inoculated
with the fever of gaming, and ultimately
loses all he can readily obtain at one time
you see him playing with gold, flushed but |
anxious, then the wheel of fortune is M ad.
verse; the lightly got coin lightly goes the |
boards are swept back to their original |
source, and he is almost "cleaned out.v |
You would think that now at least he |
would stop: but no, the hand that staked |
gold an hour ago now stakes guldens. 1t |
is for such visitors that Homburg spreads |
forth its attractions with prodigality that |
is almost lavish. Bands, concerts, balls,
shady walks under well-preserved tree |
plantations, cricket. hunting, pigeon-shoot-
ing, the sparkling waters Of The Kaiser
brunnen for the dyspeptic, readins-rooms
for all classes and for all nations, and all |
this free; it only asks it's chance at the |
table, and 1t does not even ask that, but |
trusts to the common propensity for gam
bling, that is independent of race, Ian
guage, and nation. Day after day the train |
takes back to Frankfort visitors who return |
with lighter purses than they reckoned on.
" But there's aye green crop coming"
and every night
THR TABLES ARE AGAIN CROWDED.
AS IN illustration of what expenses are
incurred without hope of other return |
than that which is paid down SO literally |
on the green cloth, it is known that the |
opera costs the administration more for |
every representation than would be real |
ized, assuming the house to be filled at the |
exorbitant prices that are asked. Madame |
Patti alone receives for thirteen perform
ances, E3,500, and such artists as T'rebeli-
Bettini, Faucell, and Bettinl, support her.
Some miles from Homburg there is the |
pleasant little town of Nauheim, which has
q natural salt spring, and is reached from |
Homburg by coaches that start at fixed
times daily. There rival company have |
established kersaal and the necessary |
gaming tables. Originally the Homburg |
tables were open every day Of the week,
but the law which compelled them to close |
on Sundays did not include Nauheim,
probably as being too Insignificant. The |
Nauheim directors accordingly made ar
raneements with these coach proprietors |
that Sunday passengers from Homburg
should obtain return tickets at single |
fare, the company itself paying for their |
return journey. Accordingly on Sundays
ALL THE GAMBLERS OF HoMBURG
packed off to Nauheim, and the rooms |
there became so crowded that it was im- |
possible to get to the tables. At last the |
law that affected the large town was ex-
tended to the little one, and forthwith the
liberal arrangements for Sunday traffic |
came to an abrupt conclusion. Every one |
Is ASKING now what Will become OF the adj |
ministration after 1872. During the EN-
peror's visit the town did everything to ap- |
pease him, and then presented its petition |
that matters might remain as they were, at |
least till 1878. His Majesty replied that the |
question did not rest with him, but had |
already been decided by the Reichsrath. 1t |
Is said that the company intend to open ut |
Geneva, and that they will pay on enor-
nous fine to the Swiss Government.
TIE death of Karl Marx, the leader of
the International Society, is matter over