Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-09-22
GAMBLING AT LONG BRANCH.
The Heavy Play by Wall Street Hen
Faro the Favorite Came opium
GER walton.

The Heavy Play by Wall Street Hen
Faro the Favorite Came opium
GER Walton.
Cores Chicago Inter Ocean.
A casual visitor to Long Branch might
easily get the notion that most Of the men
go there to drive and gamble. Those two
diversions are SO entirely public that the
lazy Inactivity of the great majority is over
looked. Gaming has always been feature
OF the place; now it has suddenly gained ex-
teTsive and glittering proportions This is
part due, no doubt to the fact that the bust
ness has for a year been hampered in this
city by Crosby's and Comstock's societies, and
the professional gamblers sought the nearest
place Of a moneyed crowd. There are three
so-called club-houses, which is another desig-
nation for a combination of restaurant and
gambling hell. Two of these are among the
most pretentious of villas in external appear
ance, while their inside fittings exceed in cost
and taste anything of the kind on the con-
tinent. Some exceeding heavy playing is done
in these places, besides much that is so only
relatively, in view Of the inability of
the players to bear the losses. The jockeys
and other employees of the Monmouth park
race course pretty regularly deposit their
wages in these banks, and don't often draw
anything out. The buffers and coachmen of
wealthy summer residents are also to be seen
at the tables But the heavy play, as rule,
is by a Wall street men, who have not left
their love of chance behind them in tie city.
Faro Is the favorite game for these chaps, and
for the time-seasoned old gamblers among
the Astounding turfmen; but roulette has at
tanned popularity with inexperienced and I'M
calculating fellows, to whom the payments of
thirty-six to one, when wager WIS, are SO
dazzling that they fail to see the clear and
sure percentage Of advantage which tie game
affords the bank
In addition to the risking of inouey ON the
turn of a card or the roll Of a ball, the three
days of racing every week give me the OPP
portunity to demonstrate, to their own dis
satisfaction, the futility Of trying to get rich
through the medium of the book-makers.
These operators are not disposed to part with
money once in their hands, They are afraid
Of "Plunger Walton" simply because he
undertakes to work as they do on informa-
ton from the stables; and that fact proves
conclusively that they have no desire to do
business with men who know anywhere near
as much as they do Of the inwardness Of
horse racing. Walton is round blonde
man, with hot temper, a rude manner and
entire fearlessness. 1t was talked, hefora his
departure, that dreadful fight was to occur
between him and Phil Daily, about the own
ership of whose gambling hell they had quar-
relied. According to the programme, Walton
was to enter the premises and Daily was to
try to fling him out, whereupon the deadly
struggle was to take place.
Another report was that the encounter was
to be poker game, to be continued until
one lost s25, 900 to the other. That would
not be an uncommonly desperate encounter,
if the rumors as to the poker playing in the
upper rooms of the club house are true