Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-06-13


It is often said that gambling at Monte
Carlo is far better than the gambling 40
the clubs AZ Nice and other places. l
remember Nice when there was only one
club, the Cercle Massena, and when there
wac very little gambling in that one. But
Al that time Monte Carlo was little more
than a vilHge. The old town OF Monaco
was much what il ia now, but the Casino
was email buildings there was hot a
single good hotel In the place, while there
are nov thirty-three hotels; there we're
no private villas, there were no means OF
access TO the place except by driving over
Turbia 20 Roccabrupa and then back %
Monte Carlo, or else by perlliuR your life
ia a crazy little steamer, which made the
trip 10 Nice twice a day, and As 70 which
tue few gamblers who availed themselves
OF it's used 10 speculate whether they
would not go To the bottom, II the night
were rough one. But when notice was
given that the gambling tables 40 Ham
burg ana other watering places would be
closed NJ. Blanc began TO prepare Monte
Carlo for it, coming i'm DOrtanoe as the
one remaining gambling establishment
M Europe. The Hotel de Paris was built
aud the Casino enlarged. The opening
OF the railway gave easy access to Monte
Carlo. and year after year fresh hotels
and villas have been built; the ATTRACTIONS
OF one OF the best bands IN Enrope, and
operate performances in which some OF
the best singers are heard, and also add
ed Not only gamblers f-equeuted the
place, but travellers drawn tnlther by cur
iousity, and then gradually denlz ma OF
the great world of fashion hoeked 20 q
spot where more excitement and pleasure
could be found than in any other place
in the world. Now as all this grew, Nice
underwent corresponding change. Nj
Blanc and his successors IN the manage
mrnt of Monte Carlo have always eNer-
cived great wisdom ia the amount OF out
ward decorum of which they have lnsist-
ed, and as the gambling ceases every
night At IL o'alock many lovers OF q
fast life preferred TO stay at Nice, where
they could continue 20 play after return
ing from Monte Carlo, aud there they
found other attractions of great city
The consequence was that number oi
clubs at Nice have gradually sprung ut
where play Is the chief object, aud M
which there have been notorious cases OF
cheating as well rs OF high stakes. Bot
e
Carlo and a. Monte Carlo has grown II
has educated the Riviera in gambling
Another fallacy Is that, whereas IN these
clubs men win money frcm one another
and the professional backlog has abaud-
ant OPPORTUNITIES, these are denied 20 niu
at the well regulated tables of the Estab
b.aemeut DIES Bains de Mer de Monaco
Bnt, although n sounds so much better
TO say money has been won from ihI
"bsuk' than from Mr.. Brown or Colonel
Jones, people forget that the money Won
from the bank to-day WAS lost TO the bans
by some one elise yesterday, and, 70 quote
I from Dean Holes excellent paper or
gambling "it vas well said by an old mar
no a youth boosting Va a railway carriage
/ that he hnd been to Monte Carlo ane
I brought back thirty uapuleous: lot
don't kroU SIR, whose money you have
won. your thirty pieces may have belong
"a rs & suicide aud 80 be- me price
/ Of blood.
TuR president Inns sent telegram g
the mayor of Johu-town, Pa expressiu.
ms -ympathy tor the people of that CIT
i'm their recent calamity and saying tina
tne secretary OF war considering mean
Ter their relief He also made coutrr
|batiou "a the relief fund.