New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-04-03
THE GAME AND THE PLAYERS.

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THE GAME AND THE PLAYERS.
THE OUTFIT OF A FARO BANK-FAIR AND "sKIN'
GAMES-THE PRINCIPAL ESrABLISIIMENrs-
DEVICES BY WHICH THE VICTIMS ARE SWIM
DLED-ADyENTURES OF A REPORTER.
Everybody who knows much about New
York has at least vague idea that faropaying Is one
Of the most prosperous and the cOmmOnest OF the FASH
ionable vices OF the metropolis 1t is no secret that
gorgeous establishments devoted to the art OF getting
rid of money flourish alike in the principal thorough
fares and in Quieest and most arsocrac streets
Any toleraby welnormed citizen can point you out
half dozen Warehouses; in the OF evenings
stroll up Broadway. and knows at least the neghooF
hood In which, with little search, you can find estab-
ushments OF higher class, which seclude them
selves little from public observation. The man
Of business, whom tho fatal madness Of play has
possessed, needs be at trouble TO find places for
the indulgence OF his passion. The young man about
town. who lies abed all the morning, saunters on Broad
way the Avenue in autess rainent all the afternoon
dimes at his club at loss after lie leaves the
theater to find spot where he "gambol on the
gTeen0 and make his deposit" nor has he any diff
Guilty in loungng all night from house to house. playing
faro roulette baccarat vingetun, the humor takes
him The salared clerk, ambitious to ape the fonies or
his rich acquaintances, knows the gambling hells as
thoroughly Weather The keepers OF such
Vusea every day on the street nnd hSr faceo
and nainas and business familiar TO thousands W.
never entered gambling SALOON In their hVes' Every
body in fact seems to OF the existence ana To-
callty Of the faroestabshments except the pohce'
There law against gambing but SO long mas IL re-
manned a dead-etter that those who make business
Of breaking II do with feeling OF absolute Sc
curity and with hardly a pretense OF conceaiment
Even the recent raid upon their vulgar cousins the Keno
gamblers did not terrfy the richer OF tho deyotees OF
faro into suspension OF their business nttie more
secrecy observed but the goes on as usual
There many gentlemen of influence concerned
in it, and there is too much OF the money OF Tammany
not only spent but in these very establishments
The raid upon the small faro games In Anns last stur
day will hardly check the operations Of the grander
houses up town. where It is beevedwe shall not decide
how truly-that policemen dare not make arrests for
fear OF capturing of city magnaes and nerer
ing with the revenues OF the Tam1nany machine.
DESCRIPTION OF THE GAME OF FARO.
"faro bank" requires expensive outfit, consist
ing OF a handsome rosewood table, covered with fine
green CLOTH rounding at the and usually elab-
oratey carved This table is about three feet long by
two feet wde In the center IL raised board also cog-
cred with green CLOTH two feet long by eighteen inches
wide; on this board pasted the cards OF sult
commencing with the which Is on the left OF the
dealer and running the king These cards are ar
ranged side by side and in the form OF parel-
telegram, with sufficient space between to allow
the checks which are Issued by the banker
for money, TO be placed between two cards, II
It Is desired On the left side OF the table, as 10
Is faced by the players is small uncovered box or
tray which the checks are piled and underneath 1t
money drawer, In which the cash Is stored as Is
taken IN Near tho check-tray stands "cue-bOx," in
which all the cards painted in miniature, and oppo
ste the cards small ivory checks running on wires
The object of this box Is enable the players TO know
what cards have been drawn. A each card is drawn
from the dealing box 1t Is checked OF by man In charge
OF the cuebox by passing OF the ivory checks
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The table generally placed near the wall the dealer
sitting behind it, and gas brackets his head light
the scene His apparatus for playing consists Of pack
of 81 cards and box sometimes made OF solid silver and
sometimes plated, open top ito show the face of the
cards. aud at side flor their reception The cards
are shued and pushed into the box from behind In the
box they rest on plato set springs in such way
that as cards drawn out OF the front OF the box
the plate raised by the springs keeping the top card
opposite the upper opening. After the cards
have beef placed in the box, the players congregate
around the table and purchase their chips" These
ivory checks representing different amounts from cents
to $50 according to the standing Of the house. The
banker sits at the right hand Of the dealer and passes
out the chips" checks In exchange for the money
paid him. At the end OF the such have any left
pass in their checks and receive from the banker the
amount in cash that their aggregate represents.
All being In readiness, the players make their bets
that they put many checks they wish to bet
such card OF cards Of the the table Tor lay out
they may select. The dealing cards lie In the box
face upward the dealer draws of the first card and lays
IL one side-t is dead soda" card and neither wins
loses. The second is losing card. CHANGING around
the board the dealer rakes in such checks have been
placed the corresponding card The third Is win
ming card and he lays down upon the board number OF
checks equal to the number set upon IT, The fourth eau
loses the fifth wins and aternates until there arc '
four cards, the last turn" left In the box iprio "
II " turns" IN one deal The second. fourth sA."' ~"
on through the even numbers win for the DAM w
third, fifth, seventh and the rest OF tne oua n"
win for the players; but player can DC. On 'ne '
the bank, IL he desires TO, by "copperihs MS Do'
Is. by placing number OF checks upon ac',u "u
ing the pile with button common oheeAer' ., VIM.
there are number scattered around tne po',u ~
instance three Aces been drawn rom ,uo
Of them have won for the players anu one iVi W.
Upon the prlncipe that chance Is evenly usiaeu'
ARMED that the bank must win on the iour'n A'e' 90
psver NAV choos to bet the last Ace In avor OF the
hanr ami ~ the card is drawn for the BANK IL pays
nj. he, though It otherwise "ouu nave
won h,s money when IS deals have been made ah"
,horo 10 m hut four cards left In the box the man IN
ohor, q, the .cuo-box" announces that there Is zone
, ,. In this there 10 but one chance Tor the player