The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-12-16
TO PLAY DRAW POKER
A TONY RESORT TO BE OPENED
Via which the Young Men of the City Can
Take Through Passage to PsrdItion'
with stop.On Privilege at Dis
EruSs-TIms to Call Halt.

Wheeling seems iatsd to experience o
poker Crfza once In SO often. Indications
are that the time has aboutarriVed Tor one
o. the periodical iuIores and those attacked,
are Just at that point when one scarcely
knows whether 10 speak Of them "a boys
or young men. Many Of them have not 81
tsiusd their majority; not more than one
or two have reached their twenusth year
sons are still attending school, Those
among them who have made themselves
acquainted with the mystery Of the great
American game number lees than twenty,
mi the set TO which they belong ia large
and other boys are liable to be drawn In,
They have had several quiet games re-
Gently, The amounts won and lost have
not been large, except In two or three
instances, but they were all too large ior
these boys. Some OF the stories told about
thefe games would rival those told OF the
famous New York Thompson street club
and the n ention Of that organization re-
calls the fact that one OF the older o. these
Representations to DO tho leader, has re-
Gently found the game with his fellows
too tame and has been playing In splscs
kent By cnloTea man and mostly re-
quepted by his color, There, 1t is said,
this Young man has learned to bs quite an
adept in tue manipulation OF the paste
boards and that unless closely watched be
can "deaI from under" With great dex'
teTity.
Several games have bssR played by this
GyeroCiCus crowd at their homes without
arousing any suspicion, TO ely are these
youngsters or SO blind the parents. But
ihty Inust have q wider scope, and 80 it
hSs come about that two OF three Of them,
60 It Is reported, have hired and lurniahed o
room which Is to DO opened this evening,
with nice social game and q liberal
'Take.otT." On Christmas day the pro-
Sramme Ia to have big game, for high
stakes t2l i've dollaEs-aossys one OF the
party.
lsst, or in any deglee open to the tempta-
ton Of the gaming table, may vol ponder
The utegsnt eiluRlion. Few readers have
forgotten the ecandal caused by gaming q
| iew years ago, when Wheeling wac shaken
up by exposures which brought the blush
10 many i youthful cheek.
Then IS now, the City'd inhabitants
seelned seized with poker Crsze; nearly
dozen regular poker rooms tiourlshed,
and The private games were innumGrsbIe.
Tho young and the old played-the pro-
lessional and the non'proieGsionAl.
The Crszs ragged the worst among the
younger players; they were always fever
lish for o game, and lost money and time
and health with q recklessness that IN
many cases was simply appalling. Olt,n
games would be started Saturday EVENING"
land continued until on early hour Mon
day morning, Glmost without . break, e1-
Cept when sandwiches and liquor from
some neighboring saloon were deyoured.
! As the craze continued, operations became
holder and the scandal grew to he an open
one, Then there was meeting OF 0
orand Jury and q long list Of indictments
Tor gambling was returned. That list EN-
brsced tho names Of several well known
Young buaineRs and society men, q mum
Der OF older business men and come oil the
regular professionals There were othert
equally involved in thetcludal, but they
had the good fortune to escape the pub
llIcity OF an indictment. That grand jury
pat i stop to the evil Tor o time. The
professionals continued 10 follow their yo
cation, and there were come who had be-
come 80 fascinated that they could mo-
stop, but the games were conducted qui
etly, and those who WefO not on the in
side iRnCIed that poker In Wheeling wRs I
thing OF the past; that the youDl
men having been made to realiz,
their folIy, were no longer in danger
The history OF that scandal Is but thl
history, with some little change In thl
details oi q like scandal that caused sen
satIon two or three years before, and 0
one that stirred the town still ear
Ilier. The similar experiences on
, smaller eCale need not be recalled, and !
q to DO hoped that y timely warning will
prevent another sad episods Of the saln
character In the near future.
The fact that the state OF affairs "a re
lated above exists here Of this time, j
, largely the fault Of careless parents
Those whose buaineRs Compels them 10 b.
on the Rtreets and about the city at LAT,
, hours have noticed during tho past Bil
months, q decided increase In the humble
Of boys and young men who are abroad
at untimely houIg. They lounge abou
public places, attend public dances ant
come Of the older frequent saloons ant
have been known 10 become intoxicated
Their being abroad at late hours Is demon
alizing enough in itself, but they iall II
company with tough characters and rap
Idly become bad. They ought 10 DO q
home and their parents should see 10 i
that they are thero.