The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-12-10

CarlO-DescriDtiOn of the Plny-Piles
OF Gold and Bank Notes" The Green
Table Ne a Great Leveler."
To come TO Nice without visiting
| Monaco, writes n correspondent, is to 90
| to London and not see the Tower.
| Carnivalistic festivities being at an end, /
made trip to Monte Carlo at Monaco, the
most famous gambling place the world
knows-and the only one in Europe now
existing openly under State patronage 4;
for that of Nalais- Saxon, Switzerland,
vas shut short time ago, the federal
government commission solemly reading
at midnight the law announcing the
closing of the last gambling place but
one in the cd world. Our 10 :55 p. NJ.
train leaving Nice was packed with
English, Germans, Russians, with here
and there an American, some of whom
had come from Cannes. Our common
| destination was Monaco, half hours
ride. through the finest scenery on Gods
earth.
descended from the train at Monaco,
| while my fellow travellers remained a
| couple of minutes longer, riding to the
| door of Monte Carlo; for your convent
ence is so studied that you are kinGly
left at the very gate of destruction.
Preterring to see the town itself first, l
| climbed the steep rock, perhaps 800 feet
high, on which Monaco is perched.
The broad, white silk banner of the
| smallest country in Europe huttered
gaily on the breeze. and the little town
! lay bathed in sunshine and literally
covered with bright flowers, palm
trees, cactuses and aloes. l have
travelled far and wide, but / never have
| seen as lovely view ofmountains, water
and sky as on the threshold of Italy.
After visiting the remarkable castle and
still more remarkable court, and gazing
down from the lovely palace garden
into the sea, which lies far below,
started off for Monte Carlo, twenty
minutes walk from the castle, on a road
planted with palm trees and innumera-
BILE cactuses. This road by the sea
wound around the tiny town and
afforded unrevealed views stretching
around a semi-circle of blue mountains
to Italy, and closed by the dim outlines
of the city of Bordighiera. 1t would
take me hours to describe one of the
finest gardens of Europe, so I'll only
say that the garden of Monte Carlo
commands the loveliest view and has
the finest plants and flowers of the
| tropics. The prOmenaders have not the
beautiful, peaceful look the landscape
has; the ladies, many of them splendidly
attired, laugh and talk nervously; the
men are wraptup in their own thoughts,
paying little attention to their fair COM
| panions. The women care but little for
| this want of politeness, for this gambling
passion is the strongest of all, swallow
gin up all others, natural and artificial.
At the gamblingstable there is no sex; a
man gazes as stolidly at the most bcauti-
| full women of Europe as at the walls.
There are some tormalities to be gone
| through before entering the play rooms.
| A man is not permitted to ruin himself
1 without complying with them. Every
l journal in the department publishes
| each day the following notice:
"In accordance with the rules of the
| Strangers Circle of Monte Carlo, en-.
| trance to the playing rooms is allowed
| only to persons with tickets. The en-
| trance is forbidden to inhabitants of the
| principality, and to those of the depart
| ment, with the exception of club men,
| bers. Entrance tickets given at the
| Casino bureau"
A Russian acquaintance of mine, who
| goes often merely TO look on and play q
| napoleon or so. was refused admittance
lately by the secretary, who saw by his
| card that he had moved from his hotel
to private lodgings, and thereby lost his
migratory character and became an in
habitant of the department. "Oh, very
I well, returned the subject of the czar,
nonchalently, =" then shall save a thou
sand franc bill" He was Immediately
allowed to enter; circumstances alter
ases. The fact is. he had only twenty
francs in bis pocket, with which he won
500; but he spent it in a day or two
4 sro -, fhnE
burning ones pocket. The wisdom OF
Inhabitants of the neighborhood were
allowed to play, the ruin and deaolatior
would cause the immediate closing o
he Casino; whereas when a stranger
Loses, the next train takes him away
and if he chooses to blow out his brains
it is purely personal affair.
| i he Casino is fine large palace con
tanning II large, elegant ballroom, ,
theater with a fine orchestra and
splendid reading-room, well supplied
with journals in all languages. Aftel
entering our name in visitors book
we receive an entrance ticket and ar,
permitted to pass into the magnifcen
gaming~rooms. AS we enter at 6 P. NJ.
the rooms are softly lighted to harmonic
with the richly decorated walls. Ther
are TWO tables IN the first room ant
three in the second, at which are playet
the two games, roulette and rouge G
noir. Several hundred players ant
spectators are present. Silver stake
are predominant on the tables devote,
to the first game, but only gold an
bank notes on the rouge ct noir tables
which are given up to the aristOcracy c
Igamblers, of whom women are in tn
majority. Not seat At the tables j
unoccupied. Behind the seated game
sters stands an eager crowd of players
as well as spectators, who prick with
pin the progress of the game, prepare
tory to risking later their money. Wei
bred servants, in fine Everies, stan
here and there or glide noiselessl
around. Four men, cool and unco1
cerned, at each table, seated on elevate
: : chairs, represent the bank, with piles G
gold and bank notes before them. Whf
beautiful women one sees here, an
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