New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-05-10
GAMBLING.
Uru.oRI.EAN A PARADISE FOR PROFESS
"S " ~.-tIu TUE LOTTERY COMPANY.

gambling and doesn't clean Its Streets us Po"pt0
S,sit the theatres on Sunday night and acsuaiiy
seem Indifferent, seven days In the week. do W
what il going on under their neighbours roof They
III oors;st in scandazing pous folk by going to
market on Sunday morning enter the ehufch WIN
hosket fnll. saw, of leek and fragrance under
.hoir arm-not forgetting to purchase on their way
thither If they have money enough LETT, lotiery
ticket. say their paerRosters and invoke the ui-
vine blessius on their Iii tie investment IN General
peauregards scheme, and in the evening play Keno
and poker. III, 1000
The gambling Tesorts-gambling hels suppose
is the orthodox name for these estaDllshmeh1'-0i
New-Orleans are one of the features oil the 'o"n'
They are TO all iutents and purposes under the pro-
lection of the city authorities. stipulated sum OF
money Is contributed by thor owners 70 the
"Almsbouse Fund" in return for which the police
agrees 10 shut its eyes TO the scandal OF puDhc
gaming. And we'll ii may, for even with lts eyes
WIDE open and a stringent law to second lis CHORUS
tbe polico was unable some years ago to suppress
gambling among population wDere tniS Gloo
seems 10 have taken brm toothold. Inc
gambling places nearly ali situated on Onarcs'
or as it is by sporting men called Charley street.
Tbev are open day aud night Their patrons are
recruited from all classes of society," IheIoWer inc
lav tho lower OF course the class of people visit
inc the Mace Keno, poker and roulette are the
favorite games ranking IN the order named Inc
old POST Office building is now occupied by one Oh
+be hest uatronized of these gambling resorts. Any
night of the week and on Sunday, for that matter
Won can sec three four hundred men OF every
class and condition of life gathered around the
tables nlayine keno A card which entities You to
participate IN the game costs but 10 cents. WIN
three to four hundred players to take part in the
game the pot" amounts to from $50 to $40. The
men who RIM the game deduct 10 per cent from
every sur won by any of the players They invest
nothing they risk nothing. Their prontS arc
secured IN any event. Behind desk on PLATFORM
in the rear of the room SITS man who calls OUT tne
numbers as they thrown out OF a reVolVlhg
drum. simultaneously the number appears on n
big blackboard within sight of everybody In the
room. This is accomplished with the aid OF cleo
tricity 1t is necessary because otherwise ther,
,vou,d be many players in the large hall who could
mot follow much less hear, the calling OF the num-
bers by the man at the drum. 1t IS at the same
time check upon the latter official. VINO mlsub DO
tempted 10 enter into conspiracy with some OF
the PLAYERS On the whole, therefore. the games are
what are known in sporting parlance as StralghV
games This the authorities are kind enough 10
guarantee. As soon as a player has filled row OF
numbers of his card he calls out keno; the rest
of the company believe, say Pshaw"; the pot'
NC handed over to the winner the game begins anew
and continues without intermissiOn from one sun
day afternoon until early Sunday morning OF the
following week. few hours intermiSslon IS con-
adhered sufficient concession to that portion of
the community which might hold gambling III tue
forenoon on sunday TO be III bad taste.
Poker aud roulette are carried on In other paris
of the room Here, too, the managers OF tRe ealne
deduct 10 per cent from each winning, inc men
who win small sum at keno generally lose u I'D
playing poker. Roulette, strange TO say, seeus 70
enjoy comparatively little favor. NO attemPI, Is
made in any Of these public places at display Inc
furniture is of the plainest sort. Gllded palaces
and that sort of thing exist in the exuberant fancy
oe bumDkIu
the idea of bursting" the bank or, verse yet, mas
lain awake nights devisi9g an mIalllole system
ii he only sticks to it. At the clnbs poker piSng
is matter of course The play Is nign anu Th man" h
vests gathered annually by the New-Orleahs
poker sharps must be enormous But they, 700
of time bet een them and the pigeons they pluck;
Drink kills half of them, though nave encountered
some WHO have acquired suhieleht mastery TI over
themselves TO keep that devil down. Ihey arc
l'I TSongR nearly everybody CANDLES in New
sbrts is doors against the "profession.' Even
Barry Lyndon would stanG but Sllght chaHce
Gambler G. +. How ard. at present principal owner
of the Louisiana Lottery Company Win racing
propensitics. set his heart on being admitted rs
member to the old Jockey Club, one OF the most
exclusive institutions of its kind IN the South.
The club owned a very tine and last track near !he
city The gambler offered to do everything N ms
power 10 put the club on a SQUAD FINANCIAL basis
which it needed very much just then, but al I'D
vain They would not have him as member
He finally swOre that he would turn their biahked
race-frack into q graveyard. And lie did 1t, too
Tie club becoming financially more and more en-
barassed found itself compelled TO part with the
property. The gambler bought it and turned IL
fBt0 what is now one of the most beautlful Gene
ferries in New Orleans, in which the very men who
black baiied him were compelled to buy burial
plots. TO make his triumph complete he soon
aafterward laid out another track IN another part
Of the city, started q new cub-the present.
louisiana Jockey Club-and compe led the m mbers
of the old association who had blackbaIled nun
either o. JON his club or do without racing.
The Louisiana Lottery Company does more than
anybody anything else 10 encourage gambling,
and as The inevitable result, biIng ABOUT ldleneSs;
Its lottery tickets are for sale IN every liquor ana
Tobacco shop. The owners Of the shops are merely
the agents of the company and return the tickets
left unsOd upon their hands on the day PREV JUS 10
the drawing Their commission, L beheve Is
small; the profits of the company. even under the
most lnfaVorable circumstances, enormous. IL
pyery ticket were sold for the regular monthly
drawing and every prize paid ont, the company
Sxouid stilI be the gamer by about 100000. OF
rourse the company secures every prize tickets
remaining UnsOld at the time OF drawing Whlch
should happen TO draw Pr zes. The business mas
so often been shown up in its true character that
II seems strange how thousands of people can still
be caught annually by its pretensiens: 1t is well
known that both Beaurega I'd and Early are merely
f0nreheads in the enterprise. hey are each paid,
Am told from 50, 900 10 $4,000 for being present
At the drawng Ihey perform o oigf %'rx b ac5
their names are supposed 90 give the lottery IS
measured by their annual salary; Generai beaure-
gard manages to live very comfortably upon ms
iacome from the lottery company, IN house winch
with it's broad and comfortable pazza--or as IL is
here called gallery-is pointed out to every
stranger TIE number of strangers, by the waY,
attracted by the Exposition this year must nave
given a by no means inconslderabe impetus to tho
business Of the company. 1t would be safe to say
that nearly every Northern man who visited Now
0rleaas this winter went away, in his opinion,
with the big prize in his pocket his protestaiions
rs to the inmo ralty Of the whole proceeding not
withstacding. 1 noticed several little purchases
Of lottery tickets Big people who i am sure would
denoun e similar conduct in others in good round
terms, which were highly amusing. one man.
deacon in a church, fingered in front of one OF the
f,tfla eigar sf,ges keen tickets for sale