Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-03-18


three story brick, on the top floor Of which
the proprietor has fitted up two nice rooms
in good style. The floors are covered with
Brussels carpet, the furniture is nice With.
out being CANDY. and whisky cigars aud
meals can be had by 'ftequenters for the ask
ing. Poker. draw and stud, are the attrsc-
items here, and the place q month or two
sgo did q big business. Along about New
Years | heard q friend, who knew what he
was talking about, place the net profits at
three dollars an hour for ten hours per day.
Then, a little further up street, know
Of two rooms in the same house with a
saloon, where the boss poker game OF the
town is played. Here you eau fad every
thing nice in the way Of furniture, ebsequi-
Gus colored attendants, nice drinks and
smokes, aud all that sort of thing. The
place was pulled once, some two years ago,
and the proprietor skipped the town, after
beating the city in the case, and since then
there has been no trouble.
Then there is an exceedingly fly hotel
game. My! bat things are nice up there;
three big rooms, en- suite, fitted up in a way
to make your eyes stick ont. The first
apartment the visitor strikes wa fixed up for
the comfort Of the inner man, and the thing
wasn't half done. There Is the finest Of fur
nituIe e, comfortable lounges, a well stored side
board, snd a bounhtully spread table, and as
for drinks and cigars, don't mention 1t.
The walls are covered with choice engrav.
ings, and the whole thing is neat in the ex-
IRENE. The second room is devoted to gen.
eral poker playing, and a pretty stiff game
is the rule, the place being frequented BY
merchants, we~llsalaried clerks, and the bet
ter class of gamblers. The third apartment
is reserved tor tony little private parties,
and is ~suDptuously furnished with velvet
carpet, costly curtains and l~ambrequins,
and the best Of furniture. | tell you, there
were some dizzy games in that room when
the Legislature was in. session and don't
you forget it.
The next establishment. of this kind &C.
cupies two floors of a large building, over a
well known saloon. On the second floor a
neat little faro game is going pretty stead
ily. while up stairs stud and draw poker is
played. This place is what l would call
second class, now, but it used to be at the
top Of the pile-before the two fancy games
| have described, and another 1 will men
ton after while, were started. Mex; door
to this place another game is run, plain
poker, or stud, as suits the crowds. Faro
used to be dealt here, too, but guess that s
been stopped. .
About a square away, on another street,
there is a nice suit of rooms up stairs over
a business house, but the game has been
closed for several weeks. A square higher
up, on the same. street, however, q new
game has recently been started up. The
proprietor is q s~aloonkeeper, and he has
generously set apart a couple OF rear rooms,
TAR from the street, where private parties
can play without fear of molestatiou.
For q nice, comfortable place to get rid
of your loose change, however, | would rec.
ommeId you to a 20Nl0 apartment up over
O saloon on q street on the out.
skirts OF the business center The proprle
;or is said to have spent 81, 200 in hit
hing this place up. The rich Turkish carpet
on the floor cost 5000, and the pictures,
mirrors and furnishings generally are works
OF art. Here you can ind half a dozen
methods Of bucking the tiger-roulette.
hazard, chucE-a luck, wheel of fortune, stud
poker, rouge-et-noir, keno, etc. There is a
very efficient and attentive corps of colored
attendants, and a very neat spread is served
every night at twelve, with free drinks,
cigars, etc, ad. lib. This boss gambler prides
himself on the literary department Of his
place, and one can always find there the
principal sporting papers, etc. The limit
of the house is S2j, but you can bet that
limit is thrown down when a greener comes
IN with a good wad.
About a square away there is another
gam, also over a saloon, but 1t Is very
spide, and is only run occasionally when Il
certain well known tough can steer a tender
foot against the game. or the proprietor can
entice q half drunken w~orkingman up
stairs.
These are only the more prominent
games said the young man, in conclusion.
"Ot course, you don't care fol-
more than a general mention of the
low dives, of which there are siN
or eight, for these are little more than nests
OF robbers, where the toughest element in
the town goes, and where fights and drunkS
are the order o the day
With this remark, Oar young friend took
his departure, and the reporter was LEFT
alone to muse upon the enormous size OF
the evil which had been the o%utgrowth OF
four years Of Republican rule in the office o!
city sergeant.