Wichita eagle., 1889-10-23
The Big Gambling Houses.

New YORK, Sept. 30.-Speaking of the re-
fuSal of the proprietors of the big eastern
gambling houses to allow players with sure
systems" to play at the tables, an old fire.
quenter Of such places says:
Therein lies the entire philosophy Of the
gambling house. They are open for win
nings and not for losses When the enor-
nous sums of money which pass to and fro in
the larger establishments are considered in
connection with the sure percentages which
have been given, some faint idea of the great
profits Of this species of public vice can be OBJ
tanned. The sums which cross the table in
single night in such establishments as the
Pennsylvania club house and John Daly's at
Long Branch the Casino at Saratoga, and the
many well known places in New York, are
almost fabulous.
Phil Daly-who, by the way, is no relative,
but bitter opponent of John DAILY, upon
whom a mental blight has fallen since his
shooting ARRAY with badger thieves last win
ter-put aside last season as his profits during
the two months in which the Pennsylvania
club house was opened, trife more than
$4,000. Where this sum comes from can
readily he understood when it is stated that
it is not an infrequent sight to see about the
tables of the Pennsylvania club house on a
summers evening substantial business men
whose aggregate wealth is not less than
Sl00,00o,0oo. Such group frequently con-
tains some one bearing the name OF an Astor
or Belmont, but a Gould or a Vanderbilt
has never been known to figure in these gath
erings.
Whether or not these large gambling estab-
lishments, even though the percentage Is so
1art w IN, hair. fax-n 70 lichn
practices, will remain a mooted question 1t
is widely whispered fact that Phil Daily has
beneath his breast breathed the accusation
that when he took charge of the Pennsylvania
club house he found that the roulette wheels
had been tempered with in a manner which
would permit the dealer to send the ball
where he pleased 1t is also an undeniabls
fact that man who has been spinning the
marble at Long Branch for twenty-five years
has in the early spring when repairs were in
progress, taken curious minded young boys
into a well known gambling resort at the sea
side and has there for their amusement shown
them how a marble could be whirled in a
manner to drop into any designated COM
partment Suggestions such as these are
bound to leave suspicious in the public mind
far greater than any doubt created by the
questionable wall OF any man such as the
Baron de Pardonnet; but the tiger need rot
be like Caesars wife. and therefore. no mat
Ter how grave the suspicion. dupeS will still
hock around the green cloth and make sacri
tce before the we'll paid high priests of the
tickle goddess.
MI Duthie, botanical director Tor northern
lndla, advocates the use of the flowers of the
Calligonum for food in northwestern India
An English Protestant has discovered that
the recent strike in London was 1.-The work of
Jesuits, plotting, as ever, the ruin of Eng
land"
a bicycle which can be made into a ouadri-
cycle and can De used by either man or
woman, has been invented by Lancaster
genius.
Experiments by q Partisan scientist have
proved that daylight entirely ceases in the
waters of the Mediterranean ST depth of
Isis feet.
Boon lit. Siamese student who was gradu-
ated at Williams college last June, will enter
the Presbyterian Theological seminary at Au-
burn, n. Y, this fall
A little girl years old, living nine miles
southeast of Smith Centre, Kan, has plowed
twelve acres of ground for fall wheat with .
three horse riding plow.