The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-11-19

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the week managed 10 win about ED.O00
from him. Az they had becn sreatcd. very
eiahocasely and won 80 much they deter:
tiacir dissins"ished condensation. Afsrr
Ts.,'s s,s che t n..;a i r.s. r is sS!S- ns ss'n 7.
Wa.him9ton wer. che result of that deter
minatiOM. There were 1.OOO chips, with q
mig % aa l" "%es or % SroRc%. Upon each chip
IL a carving made by hand. On the white
ones is u small figure without special sig.
the iiS,r.s "nvc" and sab" ! n a renter
of red and yellow. Each chip Is carved
by hand, and from the nmc.s "h:ars,
New York. The total cost nf tine set was
over s2.Uo. ar g apiece. h they were
the highest degree and shonc aud Rlist-
encd in the light as though, they were sill
yer. The case which still holds them Is
of rs,scwossl. finely polished. aud in the
top Is set n tiger coiclnaut of polished
brass, two cilOrUlosis cats eycs being SUNK
in the head aaa SiSins it S e n.'r"' lar
cause. the chips wcrr given tai
him by winners. Morri-cy thousht
the same place aud i'm consequence they
were not used until after Morrissey started
his place al Saratoga. Then the superstl-
gambler. idea, and the mrs, time they
were used ia "a heavy game Morrisscy lost
oyer si0.0o Then hc put them on cx.
days. Some months aftcrward they were
recognized in a Buwery pawnshop, where
rissey redeemed them and shortly after
ward they were stolen again.. A young
Engiishman who WAS doing the country
them to Chicago. After the habit of
young Englishnscn the tourist in question
became hard mp aud sold them to the
Washington. where they have been Tor
two years and have been played with by
capital. 1 was shown them the other day
and they bear no more signs OF use than
IL they had been bought yesterday.
Told that there are not IA few games played
Mt private houses, where dainty fingers
handle ,hc chips and soft, low voices call
''straiglt fiushes.' ''pat" hand and 'ttIrce
of a kind" In one of the many cosey
part 81 the city there Is a small c";eric OF
rather ultrafashionable young married
women who indulge in all sorts of quiet
tails. small bottles. and games of chance
with u reasonable limit. As rule the
men. who play poker i'm Washington
are divided into two Classes-tiiose who
can afford to lose any amount and those
who cannot afford to lose anything at all.
Strange tn say. the latter class play ofIrn-
clerks in many departments OF the govern
nlent are the best customers OF the clubs:
I saw "a game the other day that showed
plainly the length tn which ~ man thor
ouuhly with u desire for
gambling will let the passion carry him.
many clubs. Around the table were five
men. One was IL department clerk, another
was the proprietor of u small store, q third
WAS an employee of the postoiiicc depart
meut, and the fourth was IA young man
whose weekly income did not amount to
SD a week h, mns game All ,h was m TOR ,ta ,ias
may he i'm the possession OF the players.
The young man last mentioned bo,'ghtS 80
worth of chips, and when he had pad for
them he was without Al cent. i happened
to know that he still owed his board bill.
In the third hand he drew a pair of kings.
Everybody came in for 81. Cards were
drawn and the pair Of kings failed to inn
prove. Bets were made until the young
man had no, a single. chip left. Now he
his hand could not win the pot, bst
the gambling instinct that urges "a man to
him that me tried to borrow money over
the table. After many humIliating re-
fusals le found one man ready Z" lend
bet. The bet was called and he lost. The
next day hc also lost his position. because
his gambling propcnsities had been made
known to his employer. who was afraid
To keep him any longer lest something
graver than gambling should terminate
was going tn the pool rooms outside the
city limits, and by v around there
trying to make money enough to pay for
A. a matter of fact I do not think that
thers. * the least exaRgrration i'm the state
mcnt that there are hundreds OF these
young men i'm wa-hiuston who are taken
into these clubs and tangllt gambling tn
their serious and possibly permanent
,letriment. Were these clubs regular
gambling houses and under the. supervision
of the police il might he possible To pre-
vent the attendance of young men who ii
are not minors arr. at least not capable of
restraining their desire to gamble.
The men who come here. tn fill elective
offices for the first time. seldom fail tn
have at least one attack OF the ma
lady. Al what is called the
CongrcssionaI hotel. situated on
capitol hill. just near tho capitol build
ings. there may he found poker games in
constant progrcss during thc session of
q. pngrcss. These are, of course, all pri-
waite games. but they show. uone the less.
the. extent tai which the mania for card
playing j. prevalent. and the sulallntss of
the city makes the fact all th, more. pat
ent. Ii has been often said that in WASH
ing politics and negroes wers. the most
prominent thing; but the man who first
uttered the remark could never have been
in Washington and had u very extensive
acquaintance. else h, would have found
that poker was Of much greater pronii-
ncIce than either.
.Incl~Kant'' ldtosna.
Some one writes in the New York 7rib-