, 1884-09-04
Thu PRINCE OF eAccAaAr.
a Fa-, Nouns New Xorke. swim
ming In wealth.

iAe, York Cor. Utica Obseryer.l
Billy Ieutsch has struck luck again. lie Is
swimming in wealth in Paris, and Is again
famous as the prince of BaccafALn Few
men arr better known among fast New
Workers than Billy Deutsch. He is II hand
some man Of about 2S years. About FIVE
years ago he was a clerk in a downtown dry
goods stare ut $50 a week. His tendencies
toward ID fast life were strongly marked, and
he achieved a small reputation as a poker
player even on his small income. One day
his uncle died leaving Billy Deutsch $1,000.
IL was not Il great sum, but it was enough to
satisfy tie young man for the time being.
He left his position, went ON a bender for a
night or two, and then played roulette at
Murray place in Twenty-eighth street. He
won enough to make his capital $4,000,
when he started for Europe two days later.
AT that time the game Of baccarnt was just
becoming popular in New York. 1t was I'M
ported from France. Tho game is the most
popular OF all table games now, not excepting
faro.
Billy Deutsch had a theory about playing
baccnrat. He reduced it TO a system and
went direct 10 Paris. When he arrived he
made II plunge with his whole $4,000 at
the biggest gambling house in Paris, was II
winner 70 the extent Of $4,000, broke the
bank at 4 o'clock in the morning, and awoke
the next morning to find all Paris talking
about him The papers dubbed him the
"Prince Of Baccarat. The young American
had such extraordinary luck that the gam
bling places in Paris refused TO allow him "
play at their tables after a time, and he re-
turned at the expiration of two years to New
York. Meanwhile he had Travelled all over
Europe with a caravan Of friends, parasites,
and s~ycophants When he returned to
America he had changed wonderfully. He
was arrogant, snobbish, dictatorial-and
worth considerably more than half a million
dollar. He went back TO Paris a little less
than two years ago, and in a month the news
came over the water that Billy Deutsch had
squandered all of his fortune at bacearat and
was penniless.
He struggled along in poverty until II
month ago, when he struck a winner again.
Deutsch is IA desperate gambler, and II he
wins at all he wins big sums. In this case-I
am told by a buyer for u big lace house in
New York who had just returned from Paris,
and who saw Deutsch's strike - Deutsch
played his usual game. He had somehow or
other got 500 together in one 500-franc note.
He placed the note on the table and waited
for the cards. He caught a natural. and left
the whole SUM-, now 1000 francs-on the
table. II won again. He left it on once
more and made another winning. Every
body watched him, and the banker asked II
he intended to risk his whole fortune again.
Billy Deutsch nodded, and as luck would
have it, he won again and found himself
worth 5000 francs, all won within ten min
utes. One or two of his friends begged him
to withdrew the major part of his winnings,
but the American said he would nave I6. 600
francs or nothing. Fortune, which had
scowled on him so long, smiled again, and he
left the game with his 10, 900 francs. Then
he began to play again, as Of old, and It is
said that he Is aoafn a wealthy man