Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-08-29
GAMBLING ARR4NsEMENrs.

tee that his work will be fully completed in
the time suecifed in the contract
GAMBLING ARR
Which Bill King Has Devised to Trap the
Unwary-$2,O 900 Paid for the Privilege of
Gambling on the Fair Grounds.
To the Editor of the Globe.
MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 2S.-The majority of the
people of Minneapolis aspire to the reputation
of highly moral community. In pursuance
of this aspiration they have given Of their
means fol the building of large and fashionably
constructe places of worship, have made gam
bling crime, enacted laws closing
liquor saloons on the Sabbath, and
by various other legislative acts undertaken
| the tax of regulating public morality.
Notwithstanding these public demonstrations
in favor of morality, all Minneapolis, if we
are to believe the assertions of our newspapers,
are unit in support of the 80 called great
exposition" to be given there next week under
| the management of the notorious Bill King,
aud for his per- onal benefit, in opposition to
the State fair to be held during the same time
in St. Paul.
Had not Mr.. King endeavored in every way
possible to give his personal show a standing
in the public estimation of State affair, his
manner of conducting it and means adopted
for bringing money to his pocket would be a
| matter of no moment outside the corporate
limits of the city in which his enterprise is To-
Gated. -iv
Having, however, arrogoted to himself the
| management of . semi-State exhibition, the
| acts of Bill King, and the character of the show
| he proposes to give, become matters of some
moment to the State at large, and Of overshad-
owing Importance to the people of Minneapo-
lis, the reputation uf whose citizens will of ne
| cessity be associated with that of the show.
Fortunately in seeking to arrive at the char
acter OF Kings show, nothing Is left to con-
lecture. This Is not his first appearance as
| show manager. Having been once elevated to
the presidency of the State society, at time
when the State was blessed with abundant
crops and good prices, insuring the success of
| the exhibition, he conceived the idea that he
| was the thaumaturgus that brought about the
| success. Filled with this idea he demanded
| that the State society should be made tender
! to his vaulting ambition, which being declined,
| he entered the field in opposition to the State
| society.
The result every Minnesotian knows. The
State society last year gave its annual exhibi-
ti"n at st. Paul. 1t was a great exposition of
| the products of Minnesota. President Hayes,
with members of his cabinet, visited it and ad-
dressed the mar y thousands of people in at
| tendance. At the same time large number of
trials of speed we're arranged, in which some
| of the most noted horses of the country took
part But these speed trials were absolutely
disconnected by the management from the
various forms of gambling too often connected
with such exhibitions, and which have done Sc
much to bring this attractive and instructive
sport into ill repue. No pool selling was al
lowed upon the races. and every game OF
chance was absolutely excluded from the
! grounds.
Bill Kings show was given the same week ut
Minneapolis. The people of that city, with a
natural pride. did all in their power to give to
1 thno k<,r,v <A1
| King himself turned his mind to making it q
great horse racing meeting, and Bills idea was
discovered to be the prominent feature when
the show came off. 1t was emphatically q
racing meeting, with the pool box and other
| gambling associations prominently in the fore.
ground. All the afternoon of every day Of
the meeting the stentOrian voice of the pool
seller. crying, "How much do I hear for first
Echoice, etc., conld be heard in all parts of the
ground, while here and there in close pr0sim.
ity to the crowd centres, were ''wheels of for
tune" and other gambling devices for getting
money without consideration from the IN
wary.
| The gentry. manipulating these gambling
schemes paid King literally for the privilege,
but notwithstanding the close of the show
found him loser to over $4,000.
Not learning wisdom from this experience
King has again set himself up in opposition TO
| the State fair. Then. as now, he places his
=
He has published his programme to the public
with a blaze of trumpets, but in So
doing he has most emphatically advertised the
character of the racing to be furnished-a
grand hippudroming affair-not honest speed
| contest in which the best horses shall go in and
win the purses advertised, but comb nation
! of drivers and gamblers following
the horses about the country, by
| which the races are trotted in
| the interest of the pool box. consideration of
their attendance being pool selling on the
races. But, not satisfied with insisting on
pool selling. the combination has this ear Sc
| cured from King, as is currently reported, the
privileges of the grounds for wheels of for
| time, sweat cloths, and various other gambling
appliances, paying therefor the round sum of
Such is the feast to which Bill King invite.
| the Christian people of Minneapolis and the
State, in opposition to the State fair. which So
ciety not only prohibits the operation of the
pool box, but excludes games of chance of every
| character from the grounds. We know
that local pride goes great way
| in Minneapolis. 1t is only few
graceful spe tacle waa presented of the mayor
and city authorities uniting in the violation
| of the ordinance prohibiting the sale of liquor
on Sunday, for the purpose of gaining the good
| will of visiting German societies, opposed on
principles to sumptuary laws, and generally
COmiuS IIOu lOc8iltlcS Wu6le bucu laws
were not in force A desire to retain the
good will of the people there resulted in the
| open defiance of the Sunday law, the mayor
aud other prominent citizens giving their en-
dorsement to that defiance in public speeches
! and in personal attendance upon the festivities
of the occasion.
But even with this example, it ought to be q
question whether the Christian people of Min
neapolis, the law abiding people of the city,
are prepared to give their endorsement to Bill
Kings hippodroming racing meeting with its
gambling accessories. If they are, they ought
at once take measures to have the council meet
and repeal the ordinance prohibiting such
games. and thus place every one having de-
| sire and the skill to successfully operate q
gambling device on the same footing with Bill
King. MNNEApoL1rAN.
Aaother Clerical Scandal
The Chicago Times publishes another minis
terial scandal that seems destined to create :
great sensation. The story, in q condensed