The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-04-18
OUR LETTER.
Nice-Its Surroundings-Grimal-
dis Palace - Gaming Ia
bles-Rouge ct NOire-
che Excitement
of Players.

of Players.
Attempt at Suicide-Cruelty t
Birds-Sea Bathing Mention
The Amphitheatre-
Etc., Etc, Etc.
Special Correspondence of the MINER.
NICE. March %. 1888.
The city of Nice has almost double
since a visit of the writer two year
ago. A number of Americans hav
elegant villas here, and American
names figure conspicuously in enter
tainments of every kind.
The city is the most cosmopolitan
of all the southern resorts, and a resi-
dence there in winter Is very delight
full. Nice is also the sojournin,
place of the frequenters of the gam
ing tables at Monte Carlo. a hal
hours ride on the railway to the east
ward. In going thither we pass
beautiful little sheltered harbor
three miles distant, at-Villifranche
It is here that our men-of-war lii
when in the Mediterranean.
Nothing there now carries the STAR
and Stripes, save a yacht, which ii
probably awaiting the Forthcoming
regatta.
A little further on we come into
view of a high promonitory, perhaps
a thousand yards long, that seems
| almost detached from the main land,
On the summit is u palace and d
hundred or so houses. This is Mon
AGO, the home of Prince Grimaldi,
whose principality comprises Monte
Carlo, a half mile further on. and in
all embracing only a few square
miles.
The former princes of Monaco in
Guided under their dominion
the coast as far as Mention
previous to 1913, when the limits of
the rrincipality were circumscribed
as above stated. Grimaldi has u
sumptuous palace. with about sixty
soldiers, and lives luxuriously
on his income derived from
the rental Of the ground
on which are built the Casino, villas
and hotels at Monte Carlo. This
village under the shadow of rocky
cliffs on the face of the mountains in
the rear, is beautifully located on a
little plateau a hundred feet above
the sea. Since the closing of the
German establishments this is the
only public German resort in Europe.
The Casino is a palatial affair con
tanning conversation rooms, corri-
doris, reading rooms, three large
gambling halls and a music hall. In
this latter, which is gorgeously fin
ished, concerts are given in the after
noon and evening o fevery day by an
orchestra composed of seventy-four
musicians selected from Italy, France
and Germany. Residents of the
principality and of the Riviera are
refused Abundance to the Casino ex-
cept those who may be members of
clubs. All strangers above the age
of p are admitted on exhibiting their
visiting card and stating local resi-
dence, and the concerts are free to all
above the age of eight years.
Once a week a standard opera is
when 25 francs is charged for
each seat. The grounds about the
Casino, as we'll as throughout the
village, are most deliberately laid out
and planted with almost every spe-
cies of native and exotic plants and
flowers and nothing left undone to
aid nature in making this the most
spot on earth. Blanc the
founder of this establishment, is now |
dead and it is in the hands of a Paris |
company. The profits of the
business are evidently enormous, as, |
IN addition to the rental paid
Grimaldi, the improvements
nave cost millions; and who has
paid for all this: We may reason
believe the gambling fraternity
IT Europe, with no small amount of
id from that of our own country.
The first two rooms on entering are
to roulette, one containing
wo, the other four tables, and the
arther room, containing two tables,
assigned to trente ct Quorante. At
oulette the minimum play is five
the maximum six thousand
rancs, while at tyente ct quuyante
My gold is played; the minimum
ct being twenty francs, the maxi
)um twelve thousand francs. The
caller sits at the middle of one side
f the table, which is about eighteen
long and covered with green
10th, and each end Onphls right and
1T is marked in the same manner
18th lines of gold forming a triangle
+ the end for "inverse,"a long par
Telegram in the center for "coul-
IT." and a long pa1allelogram on
side OF this, in one Of which
a red diamond for ''rouge" and in
Re other a green diamond for
aoire." The man who pays the t
inners and draws in the losing :
axes, with a rake, sits opposite the /
ealer. Around both ends of the =
bic are, closely seated, the PLAYERS.
I'd behind these also stand two or y
rec lines of players. AT least one =
ird of these are women of all aces q =
i'd classes of society, from countess y
courtesan. Six packs of cards are '
ufHed together, and the play goes !,
until these are exhausted, when l.
ey are again mixed for a new deal. 1
ne dealer begins by dealing out a l
OF cards until over thirty is q
The face cards and aces b
unit ten. This line represents the
He then deals out another il
e until owe thirty is counted. b
us line represents the rouge" tt
neither line must more til an forty I
reached. The line that an 2,
oaches in its count nearest to thirty tt
us. Hence the name treufe ct
ara"fe, which means thirty and cl
ty. Should both lines count the &c
ne NJ s it. is played play over, unless "
2, in which case the bank ce
rs half or the player can let his bet III
lialn and in cast he wins the next tn
e he can take it up and WINS ri
This is the only adyan- OF
e the game has except that of cool +
chanism against excited and reck- ~.
playing. There arc four chances. "a
nge, Noire, Inverse and CouIeur' ~
Couleur you bet on the middle al
aI!elogram, that the color of the WI
ming line Of cards will lie the -
lie as the first card that is deaf ia
J, Inverse is this bet coppered, we W. w,
mt say, and is placed on the tri- &c
lie at the end of the table. Bets ou
lid be closely watched. There ia W.