National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-07-31
4 MISCELLANEOUS HOUSE.
SCENES IN 4 GAMBLING PLACE NO
TORTOUS FOR INIQUITY.

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TORTOUS FOR INIQUITH'
THE GAME OF CHANCE AS RUN BY GAS
IIGHT-wHAT WAS LONE, Row 1T WAS
DONE, AND THE CONsEQUENCEs-A CASE
FOR THE POLICE To WORK UP.
While our city abounds with allurements in
. gambling way which serve to seduce the
high and the low during the session of Con
gress, it is also cursed with dens Of vice and in
fanny which do not cease their business Of rob
bling and plunderng even after Congress has
adjourned. Thus when nearly all the gilded
palaces are closed for the. recess, the miscel-
lsneous houses are kept open, and when the
statesmen, politicians and lobbyists have gone
to Long Branch with John Chamberlain, or to
Saratoga with John Morrissey, the rowdies
and roughs, as well as persons who should
know better, find in these dens opportunity for
the excitement Of gaming. Near one Of our
principal thoroughfares one Of
THE LOWEST OF THESE DENs
is located. There is nothing in the exterior Of
the building which is calculated to attract the
attention Of the passer-by, and notwithstand-
ing the fact that the rush and hustle Of bust
ness hurries TO and fro by its doors, the real
character Of the place is entirely unknown ex-
cept to members of tine profession, and those
WlOLl LQ6y nay nave seen 10 ullLlhLo INV
the mysteries and Vaccinations of the game of
chance. The front door opens into an apart
ment fitted up and furnished with all OF the
modern conveniences of a well-suDPorted drink |
ing saloon. Beyond the bar and in the rear Of
the room is a door tightly shut and bolted Sc
curely on the inside.
THE EETREE. 0l
After having made a satisfactory explana-
ton to the administered and cock-eyed little |
fellow, whose arms were barred to the elbows |
and whose face was flushed with "benzine'
and whose business it was to watch the door |
and deal out the alcoholic compound from |
Well-stOcked bar, we were allowed to pass |
through this door, and Immediately found our |
selves in q room filled with the mrth AMI rev. |
elry of gambling den. 1t was a large hall, |
brightly Illuminated ~ a number of Jets which |
lit up walls adorned with paintings and en-
cravings of every description, some Of which |
would not bear displaying in an art gallery or
even an artists studio. Scattered here and
there were ali Of the accommodations for play
ing faro, roulette, chuck-a-luck, keno, banco,
pool, poker, aud quite everything in fact that
comes within the game Of chance, il being
what the knowing ones call "miscellaneOus
place" A dozen or more tables and banks,
constructed for the respective games, were
stationed about the TCCm, and around these
clustered
GAMBLERS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION,
4IOlu tue GlE1all SUN NiOss-LAl EOIN
chain, diamond ring, and silk bcaVered fellow,
down to the miserable wretch who has stakcd
his five dollars on a game, while Lis wife and
aged mother are actually starving in some mis-
cradle howell for the wal. Of bread. Three or
four slOTeuly dressed COlOred damsels with
cheap trinkets and ribbons Of various hues were
attending to the manifold wants Of the deni-
zens by dispensing spirits AID various com
pounds on JapanIei services, and retOrting
with the vulgar sarcasm OF the place at the
rehUEs, imprecatiOns, or adTGECCs Of men who
were becoming crying drank just IS fast as the
abundance Of whistles am gin-slings would al
low. But Of the confusion OF voices which
flied the apartment with : s0r: Of taccLanalian
EPL0:ar came the
of "Chcese it." "Or'er i. ~ ard 50 it alone
@YBss:' Follow ari:." ''!!Er;s gYnpS
III smack you in the mc1..a Lay lo&."
Banked bully" bad 60" "Dry up, will
you" pass in your checks" I'm go you
one better" "Do that again, AMI you're a
dead man" "GOd bless - Queen as she
dead" KNOCK it loose, and chuck in a big
ger" Beat It if you eau" 'GOur deal"
"Shufle up '.DUs ed, by thunder" And
these cries were inrerlPcrsed with oaths strug-
Cling violently for the Elastery With the heated
and OdOrOus breaths o. drinking and drunken
men, who were engaged in the various games of
chance with all the vulgar enthusiasm Of ayari-
Cious rufEans. We aTpyc2lh-l one Of these 1
tables at which party Of ~on were playing the
popular
GAME or TCEER,
and watched the proceedings Of the game.
Two Of the men were employees Of the Gov
eminent, one drawing fourteen hundred dollars
per anuum, ths other sixteen hundred, and
one Of the remaining parties was q well-known
merchants son, while The other clothed the
strong and healthy frame which a bounteous
nature had given him with hroadcloth, pur-
chased with the iI-gOtten gains which he had
0eeced from Just such fellows he was at
that time dealing with. While the game was
going on in full blast, fellow who was evil
IDENTITY chUm Of tie gambler approached the !
table With a staggering end Indifferent air, ,
and taking place opposite his friend silently
watched the progress Of t.ie game.
LITTLE TUNCL2.
There was q great deal OF facial telegraphing !
between the parties, but unfortunately for al I
concerned one OF the clerks, who was sober
Enough to be on RS gulr5, caught the stranger I
in the act Of Commgn aLing Information BY | I
facial expression, ami, scizing the stakes, be
declared the game CLOSED" Then there was
richness for you. that Is II q lrst-class card
table riot is richness. Gambler number one 4
turned upon clerk number one, and grabbing
him by the nspe Of the neck, demanded with
fluent profanity the delivery Of the stakes
I his gave clerk number two an opportunity to | q
do friendly act for friend and work Of some Z
bad whisky, So he arose sEl fastened himself \
to the back hair Of g-C-n.eT r"..uber one and
was IN tie act gt eomI'!-:-1 lis laid spot when
gapblst 4Imuer two, WHO had acted the
spy" reached over the tlblo ard grabbed a
the stakes while pretending to separate the
parties, and Immediately Started Of for parts \
to the writer UnknOT L. BY this time large y
knot Of fellows who had been scattered about {
the room threatening each other all the even 7
ing, and swearing AMI drinking until they were Il
ready for the rOughess OF scenes, collected on
the spot, and finding it quite impossible to Z
silence clerk numbeNtwo, who was roaring and Q
kicking and bowling like brapd-uew lunatic, q
they resOrteG tOthe eXpedient Of knocking him
over two or three chairs, and then :
DANCING TEE JIG ON HIS RIBS a
in turn, and seemed mad and wild because he 4.
hadn't more ribs 20 dance on. Then they get :
to lighting among themselves, and clerk No. l Z,
dashes large deal chair into gambler No 3's a
face, and the bHrICepeT and assistants come l,
rushing in, while tae 0eryant girls dart pell- 3
nell ont, and in less than three minutes after
the stakes were grabbed up BY clerk No. the 4
air was filed with lively assortment Of chairs,
checks, deal tables, arms, LEES, Oaths, "mur- .
der, "help,' take him Of" 'Get me up" T
'Im cut" all Of which kept circling about s
PTomiscuously until 9
THE CRY OF POLICE" q
was heard, when q general and confused rush
was made for the doors and windows, through v
which the riotOus assembly scrambled, for the | i
purpose Of hurrying around TO the front door a
to let the officers in--in hOrU. The SEQUEL will
be developed at the Police Court. If it isn't It T
ought 10 be that IS, judging from the appear c
RnCe Of clerk No. l, vino, when last seen, t
looked as though he had passed through the ?
Yicissitudes Of a very busy roI'iny-m!ll without
proper consideration GCr ether health or per. {
sCu4I beauty. /
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