Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1885-08-04
GAMBLING AT LONG BRANCH.
All the Usual Games in Full Biast-
Fraudulent POol.SelItEg.

All the Usual Games In Full Hast
Fraudulent P0ol.SelIiEg.
New YORK, August IA police raid
on . gambling-house at Long Branch is
the first indication of what is likely to
befpme note worthy fight between the
gaIsblers of that resort and the other
summer residents. The place invaded
was an Insignificant keno concern,
thropged by negro walters and rough
stahlemen, and the move is construed as
a weak effort on the part Of the police to
show mock disposition to repress the
evil. At the same time policeman,
detsiled as usual for the duty, was
stationed in the hallway of Phil
Daly's iamously gorgeous Pennsyl-
vania Club, to maintain order and
direct strangers to the tables.
The gambling has this season grown
to enormous proportions. Travellers
say that neither Monaco nor San Carlo
equi ils in amount or garist ne s tae pres
eat exhibition at Long branch. Nine
houses, including two of the handsomest
villas along the shore, and nearly all on
conspicuous sites among the abodes of
wealth and fashion, are openly devoted
to gaming. Flags faunt by day the
names of these places, and electric lights
NAV bAoC ShCH ny 10 HO
ceremoniousness about admission. The
doors are wide open, and the sounds of
the games 90 out through the windows.
The play ranges from faro and roulette
at dollar per cheapest chip to keno and
dice games, wherein dime can be.
riskesi; but the bulk of the play is in SUCH
a style that an investor of less than SO
is regarded with open disdain, and man
can at rid of 500 in a iiffy,
THE LARGEST HOUSES.
The largest two establishments, run by
Phil DAILY and Charley Ransom, are
owned outright by them and their
partners. The rest are. rented by ten
ants who, in some instances, declare that
deception was resorted to in getting the
leases The Mansion House was two
thirds burned last winter, and the pro-
prietor, Mr.. Gaw:ry, rented the remnant
for restaurant, as he supposed; but it
is crowded with keno, sweat boards and
other swindling devices to catch the daily
excursionists who land on an adjacent
pier. A pool selling room is another
den of plain robbery in the immediate
Deighborhood. The races at Monmouth
Park are three miles distant, and on
these events mutual pool tickets are sold
until, according to pretense, the horses
are called to start. A private telegraph
wire is supposed to instantly report this
fact, and also to announce the winners.
By actual timing it is found that several
minutes invariably elapse, and during
this interval stool pigeons buy numerous
tickets on the right racers, thus
decreasing the amounts paid to
honest holders of winning tickets and
propoFtionately filling the treasury of the
concern. Experienced turimen never
waste dollar here, but greenhorns are
baata-S out of hundreds on every race
day. Even Mcintyre, a pillar in the
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian church,
dwells In fne villa, and his second door
neighbor is Peter Balbach, also wealthy
and staid, while the house between is
owned by R. J. Dobbins, the Philadel-
phia millionaire. Balbach built his res
idence~closer to the avenue than any
other in the row, and thereby cut off the
breeze from Dobbins's windows. Dob
bins has retaliated by renting his prem
ises to John DAILY, New York gambler,
for club. 1t is from this incident that
the present agitation arises.
PHIL nALY's CHAPEL.
The chapel which Phil DAILY built in
his resplehdent house is another cause of
trouble. Phil is the boss gambler of the
place His profits have been so heavy
that he felt able to put S90,0 900 into sum-
mer homes for himself and son. His
altar, having been read about by most
visitors, has become show which null
titudes desire to see. 1t was the wish of
DAILY to have daily masses celebrated in
his chapel, but the Rev. Father McFaul,
pastor of the parish, and presumably act
ing under the direction of his bishop,
disyows all countenance of the project.
The Roman Catholic church." he says,
will not touch Phil DAILY with ten foot
pole. No masses will be celebrated in
his private oratory, and any idea of his
chapel being dedicated as such is prepos-
terous." Phil is understood to be cha
erined, but he rides out in a foVr-in-
hand coach all the same, and rakes in
the dollars of the Wall streeters by the
thousand every night. His real estate is
reckoned to be worth 100000, while the
aggregate of gamblers investments at the
Branch is scarcely less than $1,000, 600
All this and vastly more has been lost by
amateur players. Women are among the
contributors, isolated rooms being set
apart for them in three of the clubs.
There is going to be fight, but the
probabilities of victory are with the gam
blers whose money has thus far com
manded the support of the public officials.