The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1882-09-30

the past and the accomplished gentle
men who manipulated them are without
employment. Nor must it be supposed
that plays is stopped only in the small
or middle class gambling houses. The
edict covers every establishment even TO
the four or five swell "club-houses, :
where q man has got TO be a gentleman
and has to be introduced before he is ad-
mitted, are closed. These rich and ele-
giant up town establishments are visited
by detectives twice day, at irregular
hours to make sure that play is not re-
sumed. A special policeman is stationed
in front Of the door of each and every re-
sort and, besides, the policeman on pa
troll is bound TO enter every supposed
gambling house on his beat each time he
passes it. Captain Williams is of course
not doing this on his own account. He
is simply obeying the orders of his SUI
periors. So far as he himself is concerned
Live and Let Live" is his motto, and it
must pain his gentle disposition sincere
ly to be forced to violate the latter part
of his rule of conduct.
But how long is this going to last2
Some say until the elections are over
while others maintain that as soon as the
local nominations are made all will be
well again for the devotees of the green
cloth. The crusade arose in this way.
Mr. McKeon, the present District Attor-
ney, is an old man, and in some respect
bit of crank. Strange to ay,althougb
he is an Irisbman, be is not fond of horse
racing, and thus when the pious hypoc-
rites who fleece their neighbors in Wall
Street and who would never refuse II
straight tip" on the race track, began
to complain that the law forbidding
horse-racing was constantly violated and
that men and women were being demol.
ished, Mr.. McKeon shut his eyes to the
existence of the dens of infamy whose
tinsel leads men on TO worse crimes
against themselves and their families, and
went for the pool sellers. Such dens rs
McGlory's, Owpey Geoghegan's, The AL
lens, the resorts of the most abandoned
women, and places where human life is
held in lower estimation than that of a
pet animal were allowed to keep open,
and even to announce and openly adver-
tise additional "attractions" for the un-
wary. Next he 'went for" the policy
dealers and finally for all gam blers Now
Mr.. McKeons efforts in this respect we're
praiseworthy in the extreme. As Young
rscheng. the Emperor of China said in
his famous edict against gambling in
l740, gambling, this Gissembled spolia-
ton must ever be heinous crime, for
it ever drsgs victim in its wake" but
the fact that Mr.. McKeon ignored the
prevalence and spread of other, and GER
tainly worse crimes, seems to point to
the fact that he had a special bone to
pick. Next came his quarrel with the
police whom he recklessly charged with
aiding and abetting the gamblers by CIV
ing them notice whenever any movement
against them was contemplated by the
police. He was unable to prove this
charge, but he clinched the accusation
by employing the private detective force
OF Pinkerton's Office on one Of bis rails.
This of course engendered very bad
feeling among the police department,
which anybody possessed of a particle of
tact would have avoided. Mr.. McKeon
made some additional very wild state
ments, but when he was called upon to
"make good" what he had said. he was
not there.
Pinkerton's men on the other hand now
claim that the members and heads of the
police force having been snubbed through
them, now use every means to thw lrt
them in the accomplishment of their Ie-
gitimate work. Fog three years the Coney
Island Jockey Club has employed Pink
erton's men during its race meetings to
prevent thieves from gaining access to
the grounds. Robert Pikerton himself is
always at the gate, and thief would
have to be smart indeed to escape his
vigilant eye. For three seasons every
thing went well until two weeks ago wheu
Lucky" Baldwin, the California million
aire, who had come to the East with his
stable of horses, was relieved of his watch.
Pinkerton was of course greatly chagrin-
ed, particularly as the thief escaped and
the watch has not yet been recovered, and
some of his men claim that the New York
pelice smuFgled the man into the grounds
and assisted him to the working" of big
game, in order that they might have AN
opportunity of parading the alleged in
competence of Pikerton and his men.
Maggie Mitchell has followed the ad-
vice of her friends and thrown up her
new play, an indifferent adoption OF
"Geier-W Wally," and revived "Fanchon,"
which has brought her fame and fortune.
She has PLAYED it so often that now she
can scarcely play anything else, and in
the mind of the public her personality
has become so closely identified with that
of the child of nature that they are salts.
fed to see the play with Maggie Mitchell
in the title role. run on forever. Lou
and Alice Harrison open ID at Niblos last
evening in their new play Il suppose it
must be called SOY by Grover, entitled
Viva" 1t is one of those concoctions OF
absurdities which enable these two charm.
ing specialists to show all they can do,
and which keep the audience in roars and
tears of Laughter from the rise to the fall
OF the curtain. 1t is a sure autidote
against the blues. attended dress re-
hearsal OF it and feel sure that the novelty
will su, ed well in t is city an o. the
stage as the previous extravaganzas of
the Harrisons, At the Standard Theatre
this evening Black Cloaks with gorgeous
Selma Dolaro in the leading role will be
produced for the first fima The ,,Vi