Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-04-20

Sxyias Guides Description OF the
NpIcitement and the Suicides Among
Gamblers
from tho Reto Yora, Sun.
II in,pressions OF Monte Carlo?" said
p,o- Joseph Bauer recently. 81 have
tn, one-it is a dream. On entering enc
10 delighted, surprised, amazed, astound-
ID and stunned seriatim. Flowers and
music. coin and notes, despair and sue
.oss beauty, fashion, wealth-ali COM
6ine TO impress the .beholder, ana IL IS
mo time before he can begin TO study
Svetematically mis- surroundings. 1t IS
ooTnIy when he energies again into the cool
air that CAe can appreciate his own
identity. .s
s,io;dos Of Monte Carlo" continued the
Professor. ''They are inspired. have
visited the gambling hall there AiCeen
times professionally, IN addlClQh 10 d
number of trips made Tor my own pea
sure. | was born in French Switzerland,
SEQ miles from Monte Carlo, and am
familiar with its CHASTITY history during
inc pSst twelve years. You may a my
word for il that the number Of suicides
caused directly by the Monte Carlo gam
ing tables averages at least one Tor every
dav in the year. The real total proDabIy
exceeds this estimate
Prof. Bauer is one OF the youngest,
handsomest, and most popular guides In
central Eurone. He has just returned
from Brazil to take charge OF a.pafty OIL
twenty American tourists, OF whom
,weIye nave already engaged passage
with him. The party W II probably sail
rom TINS city on the steamer Normandie
on MAY y for Havre, returning by way of
Liverpool three months later. Prof.
Bauer speaks English, German. French,
spanish, and Italian, and every hotel
keet er and mack driver on the route is his
sworn friend. AS so much has been
written and so little accurately told con-
corning Monte Carlo, he was requested to
describe the worlds most famous gambl-
ing hall.
81 can close my eyes and mentally see
everything in and about Monte Carlo" he
continued, "but it is not so easy to repro
luce such a picture in words at short
notice."
Prof. Bauer talked interestingly of
what he had seen of the tragedies at the
gaming tables. He said:
Il have spent many months there alto
gether, and it was a rare day when no
ruined and despairing "a killed him
self. On some days we had as high as
three or four such casualties. If a
stranger kills himself, his body is drag
ged away, the blood cleansed from the
roor, and the game goes on. l have heard
players mutter curses at a corpse for haV-
nv Interrupted their 'series," or con-
used their SYSTEM If the victim be a
81 anger, nobody knows what becomes of
ne body, except some OF the special
p6lice. whose duty it Is to conduct such
funerals in their own mysterious way. II
the ruined player goes out into the
grounds before shooting or staObing him.
self, or browns himself in one OF the
beautiful fountains, even the players, who
sat beside him a moment before never
l4arn of his death. These things are
Known to III habitues of the tables. but
Icy lever speak of them outside. The
e spapers o. Monaco and Nice are
heavily subsidized, and those OF Paris,
Lyons, and Marseilles pay no attention
10 such trifles. Letters to the editors on
this forbidden subject are quickly thrown
i"tO the II eat international waste basket.
With a large and well-tralned police force
Constantly at hand, with an Indifferent
ret of patrons, and a willfully blind press,
these little episodes are muchm more easily
screened than you would imagine, If
the suicide be a powerful noble or a cele-
britv in any way, the affair Is mentioned
briefly IN the French and English news
papers, and the announcement cabled to
this country. Everybody knows why
the man made away with himself
ana the only question is: Who will be
ueXt?
''It is almost impossible to prevent
these self-murders, as the act is usually
committed under sudden powerful i'm
pulse. E~verybOdy's mind and eyes are,
uf course, intent or the game, and so
many haggard men get up from the tables
that the sight is too common to engage
the attention of the ever-present detec-
lives. 1t is but just. however, to say that
the managers do everything in their pow
pr to prevent suicides, except closing
thsir doors. Mechanics and artisans are
not permitted TO live either in Monaco or
Monte Carlo.
"lf an unfortunate player gets up
from a table and acts wildly-'crazy,'
they call it, for all suicides are by court
fsy esteemed crazy at Monte CarlO-he is
hustled off by a couple of stalwart police
men and put on a train for Nice. A
guard is constantly with him, his board
bill at Nice is paid by the company, and,
II he finally talks reasonably, he is given
enough money to take him home in first.
class style. The management also en-
deaVOr to discourage dying on the pre-
misses by aiding destitute gamblers. If
one has lost heavily and frankly states
his condition of temporary poverty, his
case will he promptly investigated.
Should it be found as narrated, he Will be
siven two or three hundred dollars to
kaka him homo or IN Ordar for two Waoko