The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-27
NEW THINGS In NEW YORK.
Who Are the Best Card Players in the
Principal Clubs Of the Metropolis.
The Talk in Society-Twenty-Five Dollars
Given for Kiss in the Cause of Sweet
Charity-Pauline Markham's Decline.
correspondence OF the indianapolis Jcarnai.
New York Card-PIayers.

New York Card-PIayers
NEW York, June 25.-Card-p aying-which,
By she way, is more generally popular now as
social recreation il is said, than ever before-is
shs principal pastme in all the clubs, excepting
snay the Union League There are probably
mare heavy card-players among the elders in
IA Union League than any other in the city,
hue card is never dealt within it's walls, and all
attempts to change the rule signaliy fail Per-
bnzs should say that all former attempts to in
aues change of the rule in the Union League
ana allow card-playing have failed for there is a
xnUys now in progress that may eventually sue
evsA The rules of many of the clubs-most of
thrn, in fact-prohibit poker-playing. and poker
as principally played at little clubs organized for
thf purpose Hearts is the favorite game, with
TIN stakes ranging from cents to S..
TAere are so~many good whist-players that
fbsy have organized a club OF their own, called
this New York Whist Club, which occupies the
sOpAoorin Chamberlain's proprietary, the Carlton
GlRe, which is sort of annex of his Washing
Ton club house. a private annex, so to speak.
Tkaxe is always one and perhaps several rubbers
ssaysd, Ex-Collector Isaac H. Bailey and
Western Union Somerville not to mention
-Jnzye Wilder Allen being on hand as regularly
as ne hours arrive. The stakes are generally
ssrnIi, and the patronage is probably great
disappointment to the genial host. whose mu-
Whence formerly won for him the title of
s1alnce John" Because the Carlton is an en-
tsrzrise of Chamberlain's, the great outside
RunA confidently believes it ia q gambling clab.
It's not this at all. as, excepting in the room of
the whist club, there is less card-playing here
thnE In any other club In the city, AS all the
reuns devoted to dining purposes, and Cham
bsEAns ambition is to achieve reputation In
thu direction. 1t is not to be supposed that
FhHso is not often quiet game OF poker played
IN ane of the private dining after the cloth
Inns been removed and the nuts and coffee dis
PISSED of, and Hon. John Bowen, Bonanza
Mxskay, John Ochtree, and. perhaps, Actor
Ed Ehorne form little party. 1t is an indis-
pnaEble fact that the modern Congressman in
1ciisns to poker, and all the visiting Congress-
naturally gravitate to the Carlton, there is,
Whenever they're about. a little game played in
-Ors OF the private rooms; but the club Is more a
dizSng club than anything else. 1t is notorious
thss almost every night the private dining-rOm
I'm Jelmonco's, the Hoffman and the Bruins
VIA, are owned by poker coteries, and there
fDD. comparatively, there is less poker-playIng
IN GAamberlain's club house than is popularity
ay,Desed.
perhaps the most card-playing is done in the
tJriSn and Manhattan. The rich group set, of
sof 400, 900 is representative, indulge daily and
niga:ly in high play, and nearly all of the scan
xdab Of the club have originated over the card
rxiEe. The causus belli Of the past season-the
Lee anarrel-arose from dispute about
. poker hand. Several swell members have
bsn detected practicing tricks which are sup
p0ssd to be adopted only by the professional
blEskleg, and for a few days the excitement in
thDslub has run high, the matter finally receiv-
inc . quietus by the departure of the offender to
Ezgope or Florida.
In the Manhattan little casino is the private
game, and it is said there are several members
xle rely on their winnings from their less skill
fEa brothers to pay all their club bills. 1t is here
ssnE those desperate players-the Hon. Ben
Jusin Wood and the Hon. James O'Brien-fre-
quBntly meet at poker. There is also much card
s,hying among the politicians in the Blossom
Cmb, and often the only room lighted up is the
cs~droom. Edward Kennedy, Police Commits
sianer French, Jimmy Boyle and Jake Sharp fire.
GE&ntly meet here
zhe principal card club, however, is the
TA1nix, which occupies two floors of brown
sf8ae mansion within the shadow of the Union
CAh Here poker is played, and it is the favor
itr haunt of all the big players, including the
znsenates of the Standard Oil Company and the
Prsduce Exchange. The club has been organ
dzs& some years, and has surplus in the bank
OF some So 600. Only gentlemen of recognized
responsibility are eligible, and hence the quar-
: rsS that often arise over card-playing from
:mss obligations have never occurred to involve
thB club as all the checks given are good, and
seassequently the club has prosperad; while the
Trf Club, organized a few years since, profess
e1ls for gaming purposes, soon went to pieces
by season of the internecine troubles arising
frun the financial debility of its numerous mem
beDAip. JOHN DARNfE
The Talk of Society.
Egw YORK, june 25.-The arrival in the
Usiasd States of Mr.. and Mrs. Richie naturally
czha to mind the younger days of her mother,
for Mrs. Richie is the daughter of a wel-known