Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-03-29
TRICKS OF CRY GAMBLERS,
Mr.. J. ii. Stanley's Startling Fig
ures Showing the Number Of
Gamblers and The Fortunes
That 60 TO Their Nets Each
Year.
New York Sun.

HOW OamDtcrS w IN. II tue stdbluB
capacity OF the hall is 1900, there
were chairs for 1893 more people than
attended.
"Drunkards," said Mr.. Stanley,
repent, and call themselves hard
names; backcappers have moments OF
sorrow, and even house agents are
capable sometimes Of feeling shame
and remorse; but the gambler is self
concentrated, heartless, regards
naught but his own interest" Smiles
and mods expressive Of recognition OF
covert point in his remarks, with
probable reference to not very re.
mote incidents in his twenty-three
years of professional experience, were
exchanged among some of his audi
tors, whose faces are not unfamiliar in
the Twenty-ninth Police Precinct.
There is no such thing as a square
gambler or a 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
for gambling, one-half of the convicts
in our State prisons would be honest
aud free men. Gamblers call all out.
side their fraternity suckers. They
say, There is a sucker born every
minute, and New York is the best
place in the world to catch them.
Saratoga is, in summer, the gambler s
paradise-one vast gambling hell
crowded with suckers. There are So
called skin gamblers, but those termed
square gamblers are ten times worse
than the skins. The skin gambler,
the bunko man, and even the thief,
all work for the square gambler, who
skin the skins themselves. In New
York there are at least 10000 gam
blers, who each Gpend $4,000 annually.
Add to that their winnings, over their
expenditures, and the rent and cost
of keeping up their gambling bells,
aud total amount OF at least $40,-
000, 900 per annum is shown to be
squandered on gambling in New York
alone. The poor and middling classes
pay this. The wealthy contribute
little comparatively to the support Of
the black-leg. There are l50, 900 men
and boys who gamble away annually,
on an average, $500 each in this city.
Niaeteen-twentieths of the gamblers
are loafers and Williams capable Of
committing any crimes. And it is
only a question of time how soon the
business man who CANDLES and as>
sociates with gamblers becomes a
swindler and thief. Two thirds Of
the failures and dishonest transactions
among business men are caused by
gambling and association with gam
ble.s. One of the greatest knaveS Of
the day is the business man who, hay
ing himself been robbed, becomes a
steerer for gamblers. The gambler
will not give back to him the money
he has lost, bu. will show to him a
chance to get even by roping in his
friends and receiving half of what is
robbed from them.
I'm every gambling hell, however
young and inexperienced the majority
of the dealers may appear to be, there
is an artist who knows everything ne
cessary to get the suckers money, and
ne is always called upon for the heavy
work. Ten-cent games have the most
patrons. They keep ice water and bad
whisky for their customers, and each
robs the comparatively poor who FIRE.
quent them out OF $4,000 to $4,000
year. Next in order are the Sl5
limit games, each of which wins $l5,
600 to $4,000 a year. Then comes
the 25>cent check games, which furn-
| ish better drinks, have holder players
are less frequented by boys than the
preceding one, have $25 limit, and
win from $4,000 to 100000 year
Last OF all, and highest, are the biz
games that play 800 limit-liable To
increase to accommodate a sucker in
haste to get rid of his money-wbert
they supply players with all sorts o.
| fine liquors and serve suppers. These
sort rake in from $50, 900 to 5000, 900 q
year, and sometimes take as much al
$50, 900 in a single night.
"The company found in gambling
hell is the most demoralizing that ex
lists. President Elliot, Of Harvard Uni
versity, was complainant against a gam
bling hell in Boston on the grount
that the young men attending the col
lege were running themselves there
1t would be we'll if some OF the colleg,
presidents in this city would follow
his example if they do not wish thei
students to be graduated as gamblers
1t is not an infrequent thing to fnt
students ruined by gambling. ruinet
in soul as we'll as pocket, before the,
are men. A graduate of theological
seminary is now dealer in 10 cen
game in this city.
1.-The principal games In gamblin
bells in this country are known as faro
roulette, red and black, hazard, an,
sweat. Hazard and sweat are die
games. At best the percentage agains
the player is 10 per cent, but the gam
bier makes sure thing of Robin
him by using dice loaded with quick
silver. Red and black is played
great deal in the lowest class of polio
shops by the poorest whites and col
ored people. The percentage in tn
dealers favor is from z to 81 per cent
or as much more as the dealer think
Z safe if he uses two card box. Rou
lette, which has become quite popula
, in the last few years, is played bot
) with the thirty six wheel, on whic
+ the percentage against the player
6 per cent, and the snap whes
which enables the dealer I
throw the ball to red or black, O
8 odds or even, just as he pleases, /
e which case the percentage is vastl
j, greater. Faro is the great gamblin
T game OF the country. At the far
D table more money has been lost, NOR
e homes blighted, more hearts broker