The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1882-06-11
GaMBLING INCREASING.
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-seventeen Day osS,es Down Town.
It is not likely that anybody except the
police authorities knows how many gambling
places there are in this city. or whore they arc
situated. 1t might be supposed that the extent
to which gaming Is now practised in tho prncl-
pal clubs. and the facilities afforded on every
hand for private games OF chance. would have
drawn would-be gamblers away from the pub
lie gambling houses. On the contrary. there
seems to be. in the opinion OF observnnt men
who make living by gambling. more Of pop
ular tendency toward the gaming table now
than ever before. The stakes played for are
not so high generally as they were during tho
war. but In proportion to their present means
men display as much lbcrality as ever in WOO
ing fortune. and the number who play has in =
creased 1t il said fully fifty per cent In the belt
across New York bounded by Park place on
the north. and Liberty street on tho south,
there are no less than seventeen games now
in full blast every week day from early In the
forenoon until 10 o'clock in the evening. and
sometimes until midnight. There are only two
or three OF these that run on u bank rs small
ns $1,000 Their general capital Is $4,000. and
there are three or four of them with double
that amount constantly in the drawer to tempt
all corners. But there IL not one now in tho city
That finds 1t necessary to haye Il bank of
ts?9 goo as one big uptown combination game
duced its capital In hand to $50 900 and even
that sum has been found more than sufficient
to meet all emergencies that have thus far
arisen. II Is however. not au uncommon thing
Tor ton or twenty thousand dollars to change
hands over the green cloth in the course of a
days play at cit her OF the principa games.
All along the lower part Of the Bowcry are
still hourishing many small games. man
with his eyes shut could hardly throw a stone
there without hitting the windows Of one of
hces hey yb irS Ss d i aD
Thompson and Sullivan streets. whore a seven
dollar bet sometimes passes the limit and
down. a en- down. %H'' bye ;o tink a Rq iIschlide
is backin' dis yer game?" Nevertheless they
@ on day W the aban
a par with them are the score or more OF gam
bling dens In the neighborhood of Sixth avenue
and Thirty first street. In Broadway and in
heaviest games in New York at this time. The
game In Fulton street. and during the summer
season carry on the establishment formerly
run by John Morrissey at Saratoga, The sea-
1t lasts. from 100000 to $50 900 changing hands
every night over tho board of this, the ,princi-
from Indications within their knowledge, that
this season will be IAN exceptionally brisk one
for them there.
In aristocratic neighborhoods up town there
are flourishing at this time several large games
which are of the .so-caled private" class
which means that they are run exclusively for
the lambs" No gamblers are permitted to
play at them. but simnly private gentlemen"
Establishments are very careful to conceal as far
as possible their real character. In two in
stances the principal men behind private games
to business every morning When night comes
they open games In their residences, merely
to oblige With little pleasant. excitement the
say. or. to phrase it moro correctly, to shear
the lambs WHO during the day ,have
been entrapped TO the pen. These
n MI fAr n
Considerable time. but while they last they an
exceedingly profitable for in them the dealer
literally goes Tor all in sight and is fixed to get
favor. rs a bait The restriction against gam
. 5!ers shuts out those who know }he tricks Of
Gus if their money was on the board. In, the
private game the lamb has al The wolves
!icient number of them are on his side to at
east, secure him fair show Is far as the deal
The limit Of the games has been much re.
duced since the war. Then. in two or three of
the larger games. it was $3.50 to cases and $500
apart from some rare exceptional cases, is
only 800 to cases and 5000 to doubles Proba-
has been made here for more than IL single
evening at time. since the famous great effort
e. break pattibone by n combination game in
1868 or 1869. Pattibone was II Kentucky gambler.
hat he sarrod on
from New York games. IL is said $500 900.
Some heavy gamblers had a conviction that his
system was all a matter Of sheer luck. and that
u gnno without limits =, could be opened for
would buck himself TO death" at a single sit
ting for he was a high player. Whether their
for though they combined and opened such u
game for him, he succeeded in breaking the
Change in his luck. And Since sine them Unlimited
games have not been fashionable in New York.
The limit in the opposite direction. or bound
social conditions Of the game. In the neigh.
borhood of Thompson street white chips are
sold as low as five cents; in the Bowery and
Sixth avenue games ten cents is their ordinary
nrice ut downtown day games they range all
tho way from twenty-flye cents to 81 in the up-
town public night games they are either fifty
cents or 81 each. and in the private games the
even dollar is the regular rule.
against all novelties is faro although in nearly
u! gaming houses of the better class roulette
tables are now kept and operated when de;
black" is still occasionally played. but is not
fav2ritc game. Baccarat, was ut one inc dealt
reason, possibly the impractcabity.o of render
I"s safely ana Tni;oTm pr9thnsIS to the
Son from lack Of pdpur r pa that If
' wn7 given up, for no game intr?dneed in the
four known skin games, there is more gen
"rsl fair playing, in the public gaming houses
Of New York to-day than there has been before
in years past, There are now SO many sharp
expert players that it is very unsafe to try deal
ing brace game except for selected lambs
and q conviction of foul play would he abso-
Lutte and immediate ruin for any of the princi-
pal downtown games. Sharp experience has
impressed upon the minds of the sporting fra
ternity the inadysabity Of going for the dol
Lars II clerks. cashiers, and other persons
holding places Of financial trust and the patron
age of such persons is discouraged in all the
better class of houses though no distinctions
are made in the Bowcry and in Sixth avenue.
Midnight suppers are no longer the feature
They were in the flush days OF the war The
gambler may, offer TO the player with whom lie
is acquainted u social glass of very good liquor
ora line cigar. but he no longer thinks of
tempting custom by bird SuppcIs and cXpcn-
sivr wines. In fact. II is said by gamblers in
this limo OF play that the percentages in the
bunk favor, with the way The game is now
played. donot allow asullcicnt margin Of profit
for them to indulge in any such extravaganza.
In ono very old gaming house in Barclay street
two meals are set ench day for the employees
and partners OF the house. and ii any patrons
are prr1Dnt at the time Of either meal they are
welcome TO partuk". but there is no marked
end"ayor 10 get up II peculiarly attrartiyo
games still have, midnight suppers for their
employees. Mt which players ara invited to
sharr! hntthe suprrrs are net feast Tho finest
midnight supporS are in the Private. game
for g"n tlcmcn-only" houses.
Th"ro are AT this time hundreds OF rooms in
the rit y devoted 10 he nlmp % draw pnkpr A