The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1885-04-25
A CITY FOR GAMBLERS.
The Present Rendezvous of Two-Thirds the
N the Entire Country.

The Present Rendezvous of Two-Thirds the
Sports in the Entire Country.
\ correspondent of the Philadelphia
Press writes of the sportive character of
the people Of New Orleans and visitors
from south lands as follows:
This is great town for sport. Two
or three times week there are glove
fights at base ball park, three or four
miles out Of the city. l went there the
other day to see Fryer, whom Arthur
Chambers had brought down here, knock
George Rookie out. Of course he did it,
as he was about twenty years younger,
and heavier and stronger than the old
war horse But the excitement over the
affair-it was absurd, viewed from an
impartial standpoint-wasg great. Trains
loaded with sporting men, gamblers,
visitors, tourists and sight-seers Of all
kinds left the heart of the city every ten
minutes. 1t was crowd which embrace
ed the rough element of every cline and
country to be found in this cosmopolitan
city. Besides these set-tos there are cock
fights every Sunday morning, and occa-
sional dog fights. The spectators are
quiet, solemn and not given to enthusi-
assn. don't think that the New Or
leans men are excitable or inclined to
shoot any more than the men of Western
cities, but can readily understand that
there is savage blood among the people
in the French quarter of the town. They
are descended from fiery and desperate
outcasts from France and Spain, and
they often have desperate encounters.
Superintendent Wilkinson, of the detec-
tiyes here, man who has had much sx-
pcrience throughout the country, having
been with Pinkerton twelve years, said,
the other day:
81 doubt if a rougher gang than that
which congregates on Royal street, near
the gambling places, every night, can be
found in America. Compared with it,
the sailors boarding house gangs in New
York are devout and law loving. Ships
from every port on earth, but mostly
from Southern countries, put in here
every day, and let loose upon the COM
munity crews of half-savage and desper-
ate sailors of every color. They mix
readily with the bad men from Texas,
and all of them find congenial compan-
ions in our own criminals in the French
quarter. The police here are so thor
oughly Inefficient that the gangs have
everything their own way, and there is
no check to their lawlessness. There is
a spirit of good nature that keeps them
down a bit, but if they ever forget that
and begin to quarrel, the best advice
can give to whoever happens to be pres
ent is to stand from under.
TIE BOY AND THE BULLY.
In the French market yesterday l saw
something that recalled the detectives
words A boy was sitting on a barrel,
with his arms folded and his head nod
ding sleepily. He was certainly younger
than II years, but he was well-knit and
MUSCULAR lophiuS' LIS hCaNy uAiL
grew low on his forehead, and his thick
lips protruded in perpetual pout. He
was evidently one of the army Of boys
employed about the place. A big, lum-
berng man, who had the bony face of
Texan, with the nose and lips of negrv,
lounged near. He spoke the curious
bastard French common to the negroes
of the quarter, and smoked cigarettes
lazily. After looking at the boy on the