Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-09-29
BADEN-BADEN GOING DOWN.
Eject Of the stoppaEe of fGAmbIing.

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From the London Hour.l
The various opinions with respect TO
the effect of the abolition of the gaming
tables, may now be considered settled
The town is literally ruined, in proof Of
which may be mentioned the fact that
up to the present date only twenty
thousand people have visited the place
this year, thus showing a falling off Of
fifty thousand, as last season there was
no less than seventy thousand visitors
The upper classes OF society, English
and foreign. have deserted the pretty
but now dull place, and it is left entirely
to the middle classes of Germany. The
Badebatt is now printed entirely in
Germar, the French columns being
abolished. The race programmes are no
longer printed in French; indeed every
thing is Germanized. The hotel keepers
and tradesmen who have boarded up
their profits from excessively high
charges, will now have to begin to live
on their capital or desert their homes.
They are on the horns of dilemma as
we'll as the preprietors Of property.
Rents will have to come down, or the
tenants must leave, as it is very certain
the poor but respectable portion Of the
visitory viii not pay for their accom-
mediation at anything like the high
charges which have been inflicted
on the English and ether aristocracy.
Since the abolition of the tables the
almost universal prediction that gam
blers would be superseded by more
respectable class of visitors has not
been fulfilled. ! need scarcely state
that the townspeople are entertaining
gloomy forebodings In regard to the
future, and most of them would give
half their savings if the government
would again allow the tables. They can
more readily appreciate the liberty of
the Benazet Dupressoir dynasty, who
were really the Grand Dukes of Baden.
In the winter months the poor will no
longer be able to receive generous as
sistance from M. Dupressoir, and al
though the profits of the table were
large, nearly the whole of those profits
were spent in Baden for the gratifca-
ton of its visitors. Now tax is inns
posed on every person desirons of visiting
the Eursaal. If he wishes to read the
newspapers he mpst pay for it, if he
wishes TO sit down in the front of the
rooms hs must pay for it, although no
charge is made for seats Immediately in
front of the restaurant, as the pinch.
ing prices charged for coffee,
beer, and wines, amply pay for the
free seats placed around the small ta-
bles. Not only has the visitor to pay
four pence and FIVE pence for glass of
beer which paa be had at the beer houses
for one penny, but the shameful man
ner in which the walters swindle in Civ
ing change ought to act as a caution to
other visitors who may follow. In fact
strangers must now pay for everything,
and that, too, on very high scale. As
before intimsted, the inhabitants-many
of whom affected to believe that they
could prosper without the tables-=are
already mourning tpeir fate. They now
ask, why ehould the government ruin
Baden, inasmuch as they have not sup
pressed gambling, but simply driven it
to other countries2 1t is quite true the
government has suppressed public ta-
hles, but there is as much gambling as
ever in Germany, although carried on
secretly, and so long as this is allowed
the present dissatisfied feeling will al
ways eRi6t.