The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1882-10-07
Gotham Gossip.
New York, Sept. Goth 1882.


amenable to the law Of libel. The
iaet is that to all intents and purpos'
es the metropolis at present ia a
kind OF an Arcadia. Gambling is
thing OF the past. All the gllded
dcns which lead to sure destruction,
to use Brothers Talmage's phrase
ology are closed. The whirr OF the
little ivory ball as At rolls along the
coils OF tho cavity in the roulette Ia.
Bile IL heard no moro the betwitch-
ing click click ! of tho chips, the
glitter OF tho lay out on the faro Ia
Bile and the wonders OF the dice
board are things OF tho past, and the
accomplished. gentlemen who ma
nipulated them are without employ
ment. Nor must it be supposed
that play is stopped only IN the
small or middle class gambling
houses. The edlct covers every es-
tablshmont even to the four or five
swell 'club.houses, where man has
got to BIO gentleman and has to be
introduced before he is admitted,
are closed. These rich and elegant
up town establishments are visited
hr deieesiYos twice a 1ax-eplEy aib
III 'Fssssdmed, A special policeman
is stationed in front of tho door of
each and every resort and, besides,
the policeman on patrol is bound TO
enter every supposed gambling
house on his bent each tIme that he
passes it. Captain Williams Is of
course not dong thus on his own
account. He is SIMPLY obeylng the
ovdors OF his superiors. So far as
he himself is concerned, 1--we and
Lot lave is his motto, and 1t must
pam his gentle disposition sincerely
to be forced to violate the latter
part of his rule of conduct.
But how long is this going TO last !
Some say until the elections are
over while others maintain that as
soon IA the local nominations are
made all will be we'll again for the
devotees OF the green cloth. The
crusade arose in this way. Mr..
MeKeon, tho present District Attor.
noy. is an old man, and in some re.
spect, bit of a crank. Strange TO
say, although he is an freshman, he
is not fond of horsc-raelng, and
thus when the pious hypocr,tes who
fleece their nelghbors in Wall Street
and who would never refuse q
straight TIP on the race track, be
gan TO complain that the law forbid
ding horse. racing was being con
stantly violated, and that mon and
women wore being demoralized, Mr.
MeKeon shut his Dyes to the exist
enee of tho dens of infamy who's,
tlnsel leads mon on TO worse crimes
against themselves and their FAM
, lies, and won't for tho pool sellers
5 Such dens as MeGlory's OwneJ
5 Geoghegan's, The Aliens the re
, sorts Of the most abandoned women
and places whore human life is hello
in ioyer oatiWetiQp tAAnJhAto Of [
= openly advertise additional 'attrao
!. tons for the unwary. Next he
went for the policy dealers and
finally for all gamblers. Now Mr.
McKeon's efforts in this respect
were praiseworthy in the extreme
: AS Young-Tschong, the Emperor o,
China said in his famous edlct
against gambling in l74O, gambling
this dissembled spoliaton must ever
be heinous crime, for 1t ever drags
victim IN its wake but the fact
that Mr.. McKeon ignored the prev:
alonco and spread of other, and cor
tainly worse crimes, seems to point
TO the fact that he had q special
bone to pick. Next came his quar-
rel with the police whom he rock.
lessly charged with aiding and abet-
ting the gamblers by giving them
notice whenever any movement
against them was contemplated bv
the police. He was unable to prove
this charge, but he ciched the &C.
cusation by employing tho private
detective force of PInkorton's office
on one of his raids. This OF course
engendered n very bad feeling
among the police department, which
anybody possessed OF a particle of
tact would have avoided. Mr..
Mcheon made somo additional very
wild statements, but whom he was
called upon to make good what he
had said, he was not there.
Pinkerton's mon on the other
band now CLAIM that the members
and heads Of the police force having
boon snubbed through them, now
use every means to thwart Thorn in
the accomplishment OF thor legru.
mate work. For throo years the
Coney Island Jockey Club has en-.
ployod Plnkertcn'B men during i,s
race meotihgs TO prevent thieves
from gaining access to the grounds.
Robert Pinkerton himself is always
Mt tho gate, and n thief would have
to be smart indeed to escape his Wig.
liant eye. For three seasons every.
thing went VOL until two weeks
ago whom Lucy Baldwin in Cali.
fornia millionaire, who had como to
the East with his stable of horses
was relieved OF his watch. Pinker.
ton was OF course greatly chagrinod
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