The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1884-01-10
POKER CHIPS.
mo Impla@epts Used 10 the slnful
case Of "DTAu."
A Commodity That has lest Vllue Ia
IaW York
siscs tho Decay Of The Cane Ia ColhA..

Sises tho DeeAy oi me eAme hIOlnAn
All. they're . drug In the ala Tks
now, especially the hue ivory ones AZ oil
pawnbroksr said rs he ran his snr,r
among a box oilyory disk, and eyed then
Intditatively and sadly,
Tho time vas. WHEN, ia sporting me-
got Into hard run OF luck aSd was shUT
SO could pawa his eliPs Tor Something nss
shs!r real value. They wsre Slm,tt IS goo
OF Them, even though offer them hs shssl
~ dirt"
II uns 9ussr, dirty cid place in which
hi. conversation vas held, Through ID
grlmy wind wa weSk, gray light hl.sTeS
family. On lhs broad window lSdEcs lay I
jumblsd nnss Of suglsrs' reels, in,Ad chess
boards, stringltss guitars, kryless iute,
antique weapons, iswdry yeses, aud an In
mite variety OF strange odds and ends snC
unrelA,si parts Of things.
Psfing up through the dust on t.i
shslyrs, Ike eusiut ,ombstonos rising er
c's cemetery of rrsy SHOW, appeared snm'
clocks. Two-thlris OF the counter aud u
the space behind u vac occupied ny box =
bales, bHIdles, and psckHges NJ ihiugs, q I'd
the rsIt OF the space was Uttered mp win ,
h't'rogeneouA assnr msAt Of articles, th'
packing UP oil which seemed 10 have bees
abandoned midway la he work,
All Ihrse thiugH we're forfeit ed pledges
aad among Them stood the o!o p.sHbrok r
with = thTrwd hot uukipdy face, ana MAE
harmony in ErSy and brown tint between
him aud his surroundings.
do you take ia mEny chips now iruia
unlucky sports1" the reporter sikeu.
Il don't lake anything nov. Nv" givs a
up my business, aud AN simply Trying 10
gel nay money out oil the sun left on n
hs ds. | wish ! could get rid OF these po-
her chips"
is there any difference between poker
aud faro chipse"
"Ahl You nsvsr had good front tsAl
did you'" rejoinCd the old han with lo0l
OF keen suspicious. mo, there's no differ
encp. Any chip you can use in ,ne Fam
you can IN the othor. But iAro 10 rathag
under closd just now, and there's no de
maud FOR tools for that sinful game, 30 it,
beat so call them poker ohips, which yuu
will observe 10 tho sign have Ia The wiz.
dew"
And all these come from hsrd.up
Most of 'sm, suppose"
"Do any OF the chips supposed to be ds''
sroyed BY the poles ever fad their way to
sale sgain7'
II wouldn't tell you IL l know. They
pivs them to their political friends tsoii
likely"
That depends largely on the cirenm
sobt $50 esch. But in the ordinary com.
merc,sl wey, II you buy them from The
mar ulacTursr rev, the composition ones
cost from S25 for plain up to s55 for en-.
grayed ones for y set Of 60 which includes
800 white, 200 red snd 100 blue. eplitn,
markers and coppers You can buy far from
$s.5s TO 50 hundred. The ivory ones are
far more expansive, rans lng in price from
500 up to $50, or even 800 hundred, &C.
OF course sell all kinds 81 very great re-
ductiob. Herd, for instance, is full set OF
ivorie that coat originally 500 or $50 hun.
drea, rhat will sell for $ls q hundred, and
vet thsy show no ,Iace VI the M aug thoua-
4nds won and lost with them. Ivory ships
are liable to become discoloied by age, the
white ones, at lsas', and then, OF course,
they decline greatly in value. But they
are yse expensive for use nowadays, when
the police are liable to svoop down en- the
game and carry them Of at sDy minute.
The cen position ones are Just az good sc
ivory, stacking up quite IS accurately. sad
posting. a. khys told you, vory much less.
I osu furnish then ~ low as go thoussnd
aud perhaps even lese. The principal do
nAnd for chips is new fsr poker elaba. A
party Of gsntispnon will make mp q game
or tho wistsr sssecn. auringa few nlGhts
will put stipulated sums ints kitty on
,srtaiu hand-'estaNs' and sbsv0-to buy
vt of ch!gs. Ii .hsy got q good 'kitsy
hey will wont biss ivory chips. Bat
n an can back up az error ofjudgsent la
game Of pokar with oempositisa Just ~
4 ell a. he can in livery. Now anG thea
port going oat west or south 10 opsa
anne, particularly fit is TO be o brace will |
'cme in for set Of ivory ehipt fer style,
,ut they are rare birds. The dealers who
70 down east seldom have anything better
han plain osmpositlon. Real iyoy
wouldn't be safe to deal out in = tencsnt
,amsi in New England. II IL didn't paral-
20 the players thsy'd steal it, 50 the bank
would be ous anyway"
Deal boxpap'
"Ob, there's q stack ef them. Thay ara
goith nothing now; no sail for them. Gam
ling in New York 10 by no means played
ut but it isn't what it used TO BE-"