Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-11-21
SAN FRANCISCO LETTER.
WRECKS CAUSED BY The STOCK
GAMBLING HAMA.
Stealing Through Lotteries
ator Sharon-The Muniflcence
Of Senator Stanford.
Correspondence of the RECORD Us1os.l

Correspondence of the RECORD UNIos.l
SAN FRANCISCO, November 10, 1885.
Pine street and Pauper alley, where. not
so long since, the daily morning stock
transactions ran away into the millions,
are gradually becoming the resort of
higher class of bummers, whose victims
are those still retaining a shadow of their
former huge bank accounts. Among the
shabby genteel army Of bummers one
meets there are men who, during the past
decade and half have themselves been
millionaires; men who had been taught
from their early childhood that it is not
the correct thing to eat with ones knife, or
to mistake finger bowl for a lemonade
glass, lust because bit of lime had been
cast into the water. Such men are to-day
humbling themselves by soliciting half
dollar, or even less, from the remaining
few prosperous
MINING STOCK OPERATORS.
It required gradual descent to this shame
full level, but they have reached it, and they
now appear to be devoid of any degree of
energy or ambition to rise above it. Among
this class may also be seen the remnant of
what once was one of the most prosperous
lawyers in this city. He held public posi-
tions of honor and trust he was surround
ed by an affectionate and refined family
but his passion for stock gambling induced
him to neglect his profession; he became
impoverished and he failed to provide for
his family, the members of which are now
scattered broadcast upon the face of the
earth and at present he is the veritable
successor to the once notorious Gutter
Snipe" From having been one of the
neatest and most energetic men in this
city, it is now unsafe, for one possessing a
sensitive nasal organ, to approach him
within ten feet distance and he retains
only sufficient energy TO beg for nickel.
This is only one case of many who have
been dragged into the slums by neglecting
their legitimate vocations and chasing after
the stock gambling mirage.
THE FEMALE STOCK DKALHRe.
Calamity denominated mud hens" have
Jared no better. The greater number have
retired from the field in a vanquished
state, and the few remaining on the
"street " are not SO gayly attired as in the
golden past. Silks, satins. diamonds and
such other trifes as gladden. the heart of
woman, have been absorbed in the lower
ltNGiS vi lIc kCAuSlOCh lOuS- NOh dIlQ
then one will come across few old crones
in Pauper alley, holding bundle of min
ing stock shares in their hands, which have
not been quoted for year or mare, still
with hope in their bosoms that some day
their paper rags may yet make them rich.
Poor, deluded creatures
THE LOTTERY STEALING
Now that the mining stock business has
become so Improbable those who only
venture few dollars now and then have
become votaries to the more popular gam
bling phaSe-iottery. Very few have
conception of the magnitude of the lottery
ticket traffic IN this city; and it is on the
increase from month to month In COM
parison to the money expended for lottery
tickets, bakers bills are a nominal trif1e
This species of gambling is not confined to
any one stratum of society. Oh, mol From
the millionaire down to the poor one dollar
and q half per day laborer, is this demon
alizing speculation" INDUCED in. The
law against the sale of lottery tickets is
very stringent, but it is only periodically
that the vigilant police nab a dealer,
and it is generally a poor devil who has
only about ten or twenty dollars to invest
in his stock of trade.
II is rare matter to hear of one of the
heavy dealers paying the penalty pre-
scribed for his unlawful traffic. There are
LOTTERY TICKET DEALERS
Here, whose monthly commissions aggre-
gate from 81, 900 to $1,000 each They are
well clad, respectable-appearing men, and
can be found at all hours of the day and
night in the principal hotels and other pub
lie resorts. The police know them, and
are familiar with their mode of earning a
livelihood, yet they permit them to pursue
their course without molestation. From the
most unquestionable authority your CORE
spondent learns that there are individual
men and women here who expend thou
sands of dollars in the various lottery
schemes annually, and these very men and
women are the loudest to decry any other
phase of gambling. One of the female
leaders of the so-called highest social cir
cles here does not hesitate to acknowledge
that she squandered $50, 900 in various lot
terry enterprises in very few years, and
excuses her folly by saying that her hus-
band lost almost ten times that sum in I'M
successful mining stock ventures In fact,
there is not one servant employed in the
hotel in which your correspondent resides
it is very large one. too-who does not
invest in lottery schemes. So long as the
authorities do not take more active steps to
suppress this evil, the inevitable result will
prove more demoralizing generally speak
ing, than mining stock manipulations The
press of this city is quiet upon this matter,
as it is upon all subjects affecting the moral
welfare of the community.
EX-SENATOR SHARON
The death of ex-senator Sharon was the
matter chiefly discussed during the week.
During the period of his health and con-
stantly increasing financial prosperity
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