Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-03-21
A GAMBLING Principally.
Tho Ceaseless Spin of the Roulette at
MUdaca-Le Blafnc's Enchanted Garden.

Tho CeaseIess Spin of the Roulette at
Modaca-Le Blainc's Enchanted Garden.
From the London Society Magazine
At Monaco gambling is not only in
fashion; it is at once the life and the
occasion of life in the place. For it,
and in its name, were reared those
handsome halls, mirrOred and candle
labra'd, velvet furnished and polished
exceedingly SIS to floors and walls,
which adjoin the Hotel de Paris and
stand at the top of the enchanted
garden. In its service are enrolled
those gaily-dressed bondsmen who dis
course such eloquent music, those
plush-breeched, green-coated servitors,
who stand 50 janitor-like at the doors
and about the rooms, ready to bow
obedience to the moneyed habitus or to
collar and eject the "souspect" and the
"welches." In it's service manifestly
have been educated those sombre,
leaden-eyed men. pale of face and dirty
of shirt-collar, who sit on either side
the centre of the table, and with cease
less monotony spin the wheel of rou-
lette, while comrades rake up or shovel
out the consequences of the game.
There they sit, day after day, hour after
hour, at the gambling tables, their only
variation being from roulette trente-et-
quarante or rouge-et-noir. One misses
at Monaco the hollow-toned exhorta-
ton, "Faites DOS jeat1, nessiea1rs, taites DOS
3eaA1," and it's natural accompanim ent.
"Le jeu est fait," which used to be heard
at Spa and Banen in old days. Silence
is the rule of Monaco, broken only by
the click Of the roller as it falls into one
of the wheel spaces, and by the judicial
declaration of the result, delivered soto
uoce by the chief croupier. But, apart
from this, there is exactly the same
arrangement; the same scrupuious fair
ness on the part of the bank; the same
perfect trust In the ultimate advantage
of that institution; the same reliance,
without touting on the natural attrac-
tons of play to all the poor humanity
into the swing, that characterized the
German and Belgian play places.
The only advert sement resorted to
by the proprietor is in the shape of
those charming gardens which beautify
she place, those balls at which the
beauty and ugliness of Nice delight to
congregate, those Tirs aux Pigeons,
where a thousand pounds represen ts-.
the Grand Prix de Monaco, those mag.
ni6cent concerts from which, out of
purely local and personal considera-
tons, the music of "Orphee aux En-
fers" should be forever excluded. The
reward of M. LIE Blanc, the provider of
all these things, the owner of this
beautiful "hell," is ample, after it's
kind. In spite of the occasional visits
of "portents," like the Maltese Bugeija,
who, by wisdom or strange luck, found
bis way to win vast rouleaux from the
bank; in spite of the raids which other
mediums of the Bugaija stamp make
upon his resources, the proprietor is in
the long run justified in his CHASTITY
joke, JoueS sur rouge on ,soir c'est LIE
Blanc que gagns." That be does gain is
not only a matter of notoriety, it is
evident from the facts we have recited,
from the apparently unremunerative
expenditure he is able to make so free
ly, from an hours observation of the
crowds who throng the roulette tables.
All the world, men and women too, of
every nation, come to pour their wealth
into the lap of this Cresus.