Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-08-08

rue Successor Of W0rrissey--Ree0, Spencer
md Chamberlain.
Correspondence Cincinnati Enquirer.
Charles Reed, who unostentatiously prints
his name among the turfmen as G. Reed, is
the successor of John Morrissey as the phys
zeal champion of the Saratoga sports. Not
as vain as Morrissey and disliking notoriety,
and taking no pains to attract public men to
him, Reed is still an oddly. He owns with
Mr.. Spencer, an educated man, one-half the
games; Mr.. Mccormick another sport, owns
one-eighth, and Mrs. Morrissey has one-third.
Reed and Spencer manage the pools on the
race track and their commissions are in the
neighborhood of ST. 900 every racing day.
The gate admissions are double as much
They conduct the two performances in every
respect as well as Morrissey did. Reeds
tastes are domestic, rural. and for the horse
He knew Morrissey in California, both New
York boys, when Morrissey fought Thomp-
son on Mare Island. Caught by the war in
New Orleans, Reed reached New York about
1863, badly broke, and knowing his sturdy,
almost stolid fidelity and gameness,
Morrissey sent him to Saratoga, where he
has now been fifteen years. Al
though Reed lost $780, 1000 the first fortnight
fidence of his associates, and finally became
interested in their games both at Saratoga
and New York. He owns residence at
Saratoga which cost him, with the ground,
$66,Ooo. His stables, in the rear of it, are
unique, and contain sixteen stalls, each as
large as small parlor, square and without
any protuberance or object in them to rub
or harm the horses; no racks or hooks,
merely four smooth walls and straw. The
food is passed into the horses cells in zinc
troughs, hooked behind into the post hole.
On four sides the stable is surrounded by a
covered arcade upward of one hundred feet
long, with sand floor to exercise the horses
IN winter, and large grass paddock opens
out of it. He breeds both dogs and race
horses, and President Hayes has two pups
from his Kaska dogs, the parent pair having
been bred in the Jardin Decentralization. at
Paris. They are nearly unknown in this
country, and are of dull, woolly, black
color, their hair dropping like Hama's wool
OF rope curls over the round, agile bodies. I
will make little sketch of Reed at home on
another day.
The fair, undisguised open gaming OF
Reed and Spencer is preferable to the secret
gaming carried on in the hotels by we'll
dressed and often educated gentry, some
times respectfully connected or descended.
These men are at once pimps OF plunderers,
Turing the stranger into their circle, and
there, by an understanding, 'sskinning'' him.
One of the hotel proprietors told me that
few summers ago he found party of his
respectable guests winning considerable
sums of money from others by the use of
marked cards. The rascals were all men of
ostensible professions or business pursuits,
(yaYi 1l1y oil CTR oto,o
time the same proprietor found. by the aid of
a letter left in deserted room, that COM
ing wealthy guest at his establishment was
to be swindled-a man with a passion for
card-playing, who had already been heayi-
ly plundered once, and was now being fol-
lowed up for another tusse. By series of
Investigations, and the aid of higher class
of gamblers, it was found that the scheme
was to fix two of the hotel rooms so that
person in the hidden room could read the
victims hand and telegraph it to the oppo-
site player. sos 80
John Chamberlain, a very expert gamester,
once the richest in the country, said to NE
this year: "Gambling, as an open, profitable
business, has been ruined by confidence
men. These are parties of fellows who 60
to rich, sporting, INSCRIPTIONS man and
inform him that, by an arrangement with the
faro dealer, the game is to be thrown Per-
haps it is the dealer himself who promises
to throw it. At the appointed time the
victim makes his big bet, and, instead of
winning, loses. He is then told that it was
mistake, and. seeking to recover his loss,
trusts again, until he is three-fold more in
volyed. This kind of deep game has been
played as regularly as monte over the
country, and taken from town to town. In
the large cities it has spoiled the business by
drawing in so me of the best customers.''