The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-07-04
HOW WIN.
A Long Experience Summed Up
in q Lecture.
The Games By Which Green Ones
Are OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES OF
the Gamblers Making q
Sure Thing Of It.

"Gambling and How Gamblers
VIM was the title of . lecture de-
livered in New York city last week
by J. n. Stanley, who claims that he
has had q years of professional ex-
perience.
"Drunkards," said Mr.. Stanley,
"repent and call themselves hard
names, oackcappers have moments
of sorrow, and even house agents are
capable sometimes of feeling shame
and remorse; but the gambler is self
concentrated, heartless and regards
naught but his own interest.
There is no such thing as . square
gambler or q square gambling hell in
New York," he went on, land there
are very few outside of it. Gambling
bells are simply schools for swindlers
and thieves to graduate from. But
tor gambling, one-half the convlcts
in our state prisons would be honest
and free men. Gamblers call all
outside their fraternity suckers.
They san there is sucker bora every
minute, and New York is the best
place to catch them.' Saratoga is, in
summer, the gamblers paradise-one
vast gambling hell, crowded with
suckers. There are sO-called skin
gamblers, but those termed square
gamblers are ten times worse tnan
the skins. The skin-gambler, the
bunko man, and even the thief, all
work for the square gamblers, who
skin the skins themselves. In New
York there are at least 10000 gam
blers who each spend $1,000 an
nually.
add to that their winnings. over
their expenditures, and the rent and
cost of keeping up their gambling
bells. and a total amount of at least
$40, 600, 900 per annum is shown TO be
sauandered on gambling in New
York alone. The poor and middling
classes pay this. The wealthy con-
tribute little comparatively to the
support Of the blackleg. There are
5000 men and boys who gamble
away annually on an average $500
each in this city. Nineteen TWEEN
tieths of the gamblers are loafers and
villains capable of committing any
crimes. And it is only a question OF
time how soon the business man who
CANDLES and associates with gamblers
becomes q swindler and q thief. Two
thirds of the failures and dishonest
transactions among business men
are caused by gambling and associa-
ton with gamblers. One of the
greatest knaves Of the day is the
business man who, having himself
been robbed, becomes q steerer for
gamblers. The gambler will not
give back to him the money he has
lost, but will show him a chance to
get even by roplng in his friends and
receiving half of what is robbed of
them.
"Ia every gambling hell, however
young and inexperienced the majer-
ity of the dealers may appear to be,
there is AN artist who knows every
thing necessary to get the suckers
money, and he is called upon for the
heavy work. Ten-cent games have
the most patrons. They keep ice
water and bad whisky for their Gus
toners, and each robs the compare
lively poor who frequent them out of
SIC, 900 to $40, 900 u year. Next in
order are the SIS limit games, each of
which wins Sis, OOG to $4,000 a year.
Then comes the 25 cent check games,
which furnish better drinks, have
holder players, and are less frequent
ed by boys than the preceding ones,
have q $25 limit, and win from $780,
600 to 100000 a year. Last of all,
and highest. are the big games that
pay 500 limit-liable to increase to
accommodate q sucker in haste to get
rid of his money-where they supply
PLAYERS with all sorts of fine liquors,
and serve suppers. These each rake
in from $4,000 to $1,000 600 a year,
and sometimes take as much as $780,
600 in a single night.
"The company found in a gam
bling hell is the most demoralizi' &
that exists. President Eliot of H4r-
ward University was complainant
against a gambling hell in Boston,
IN the ground that the young men
attending the college were running
themselves there. 1t would be well
if some of the college presidents in
this city would follow his example if
they do not wish their students to be
graduates as gamblers. 1t is not an
infrequent thing to find students
ruined by gambling-ruiued in soul
as we'll as in pocket-before they are
men. A graduate of q theological
seminary is now a dealer in q 1O-cent
game in this city.
1.-THE principal games in gambling
bells in this country are known as
faro, roulette, red and black, hazard
and sweat. Hazard and sweat are
dice games. At best the percentage
against the player is Is per cent, but
the gambler makes a sure thing of
robbing him by using dice loaded
with quicksilver. Red and black is
played a great deal in the lowest
class of policy shops by the poorest
whites and colored people. The per-
centage in the Dealers favor is : to 81
per cent, or as much more as the
dealer thinks safe if he uses a two
card box. Roulette, which has be-
come quite popular in the past few
years, is played both with the So
wheel, on which the percentage
against the player is 6 per cent, and
the snap wheel, which enables the