National Republican., 1888-02-26
.IuGaEnNAur OF GAMpLING.
New York's Great Bacosrat Game
Where Fortunes Are Lost In Night.
New York Sun

BuCCurat Is u game with Il French origin,
and il means busted a pathetically APP
prupriatc name for Il game that has swal-
lowed up thousand fortunes for the
gildcd swclls uf New York city When
Maurice Bcrnhnrlt was here with his chcrc
mama, the divine Sarah, that brilliant
irolic,omc, and handsome youth lost 1000
francs in one night nt Frank IIuntoon's
game, in Twenty fifth street, near Broad.
way.
The immortal tragcdicnuc. Sarah, salts.
fled with her one untamcd tiger cub in
her rooms, did not relish her sons fight
ing the New York tiger and she sum
murily shipped the offending and recklcs,
gamcstcr by the next steamer To- llayrc.
Far uptown dwclls an eN-brOker who
still cuts a broad swath as the bcst-drcssrd
gambler in town. with pair of spanking
bays, whose sleek skins and harness, in.
laid with gold rival the dashing turnuuI-
Of Bonner and the famous teams of the
second generation of the Vanderbilt
princes lluntOun's poker rooms, fur
niShcd in carved oak, with rich and quaint
designs, ON Twenty fifth street, is the one
I spot in all New York where milliOnarc~'
sons and the fast young generation of
downtown brokers OftCncst worship the
goddess of pleasure.
/ Huntoon's dinners are the best in town
and make Dclmonico grow green with
! envy He lost $liOOvO during the last
/ year but is still wcll.tO-do, and his poker
tables never have any vacant chairs. His
festive board is always crowded, The
Kitty yields him often 300 night. Il
princCly income for even u swell gambler
-Sl2,UD month. BarCarat finds a CON
genial home among his vuturicS and for
tunes are lost and won here in twcnty.tuur
hours.
You have first Il square. sometimes a
round table eight feet in length The
instruments used in this seductive game,
which ought To- he tabuucd 10y all save Jay
Gould and his fellow illiunaircs, are ,iN
packs of playing cards, - in Il pack, 3l2
cards for the one game
The table has u hole in the center in
which the cards 90, when the packs are
exhausted and each game ended Pro-
frsSiunal gamblers have very little use for
the game, rs the chances are too nearly
even In faro the man who dallic> with
that game or fondlcS too long with the
tigers fur is sure To meet ruin. because the
chances in that game, Huylc says, are
seventeen To- one against the player.
In the great baCcarat game John Pondir
tells about, in which Pundir, Belmont,
John phwmiX,aud l.orillard played against
Mr.. James, baCCarut bank, they broke the
; banker in one night and won S2jOOON,
The banker mUrtgagcd his farm and sold
his race horses tU pay the losses during TIA,
play of "A single evening,
lluntOOn is able to pay S7,Om u ycar
rcnt, Keep upa magnificent establishment
and never goes broke, The biggest hac.
carat game in New York used tu hc played
at IcrOmc's Union League club House,
TwCnty-SiNth street and Madison avenue
before the league took the building, but
the club broke up when n dozen youul
, men with millionaire parents lost al
; their money and nearly bankrIptCd thCi
: rich parental ancestors. The yuuu!
, JcromcS were formerly the heaviest hac
. carat players in this city.
T. A swell young Hebrew, who rcjoirrs il
r the name of Bill Dcutch, was born Will
one gold spoon in his mouth and one it
each pocket. lie became infatuated Will
the seductive pleasures of this old l'rcurl
game. lie heat his New York rumpan
h ions, in Il few fair games, out of u fortune
lie sighed for new worlds to conquer
lie went to Paris with SiD,Op in u lcttc
of credit, lie lost it all. He went uu
Ii into the night, ruuSrl II rich Cumpaniu
- at the Hotel Louvre, Paris, borrowed SpN
had astounding luck, and in two or thr,
. nights won S3ju,uD. With S2j@ i
i paid his debts, came back to AmCrr
: married Il wife, soon lost all his money
r the big hole in New York baccarat tah
-, and is now Il wine faster for II Ne
y York liquor house, and pushes u brand
u champagne before the swell clubs in tn
l. city. When the governing committee
are not too strict buccarat holds lis mi
IL night and dangerous sway in many op
lent New York clubs, in "A private roo
'" for that purpose. several fortunes of g
:. loSsal proportions have been lost at Il
II clubs before Il buccur;,t table in n sing
W night during the past year.
IN 1t is II game that will never largely iluu
w. ish on American sporting soil outside
Nv New York city. II j. an anaconda whi,
y swallows too much for one meal. II l. Il
~ juggcrnaut of games which crushr> u
W princrly heritagrs till they fade like II
~ dew ON morning glory, Ovcra harcar
~ room any sensible youth will write the
J." words of warming Let him who rut,
~ here leave hunurand fortune and hope |
-. hind Pleasure may visit here, but t
y, dwclcr within j. rcmorsc.'