Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-01-24

months he coralled 100000. and it was
too much for him. He dropped IS 900
at one play and went on for a week. at
| tbs end Of which he hadn't a cent of the
100000, and had even gambled away
three-quarters share in his own bank.
With sure fortune staring them in the
face they chuck il into someone's else
bank.
LET me say here that the talk about
crooked faro-bapk dealers Is, to a great
extent, aosh. | know some of the crook
eldest box manipulators in the town, but
there Is no incentive for them to be dis
honest. The chances in their favor are
enough, and although some, for mere
love of it, would like to skin you, their
bosses are unyielding in their commands
that everything must be straight"
According to the expert the same mania
for gambling their rich winnings away
exists among book makers Or horse-rec-
ers, the owners of the horses vino win big
prizes, and a good many Wall-street
brokers, and, in his opinion, it is only
question of hours or days when they must
all go broke. There does not seem to be
one steadfast thought or consideration
given TO the rich commissions which, at
the end Of year, amount to big fortunes.
With any kind Of a business, all are
as dead sure of fortunes as you
are that you will have your break
fast this morning: but in the face of this
copper fastened fact, each one drops his
fortune like stone in a miE-pond, and
sees it distributed among the gambling
fraternity as the rings are distributed
which the stone has set going upon the
ponds surface.
"The same can be said of professional
poker players and the owners of poker
rooms" continued the professional one,
who by this time had reached sn all-night
drug shop and had spent so of mis- so
cents for a smashing drink of brandy
with a dash of choral in IL. "They all
drop every cent they make, sooner or
later. I know poker-rooms in New York
where the kitty in a single night has
reached $500, and there are plenty more
where the kitty is steady $40 an hour
All that the proprietors have to do is to
sit around and see fortune coming to
them. They have no risks, even such as
faro bank owners must contend with. The
kitty is remorseless in it's demands; it is
as the grinding of mill stone. Hour
after hour, day after day, and night after
night the tribute to it piles up fortune
tation to take a hand in the game is too
great, and he becomes mutton for the
other players.
"Whyf Simply for the reason that 80
out of every 100 owners of professional
rooms are old faro bank dealers. The
poorest poker players in New York are
these faro bank dealers. They are used
to quick play, and become restless in
poker game when the cards don't run
their way. They rush into every pot, take
the most idiotic chance in the draw, and
of course have to climb out ~ times out
of 70. There are few Of these owners
of poker -rooms who have adhered to their
caths not to play in the games in their
places, but this is no particular virtue, be-
cause they gobble the 'kitties' and drop
their playing bank.
| The English bark, Silbel, carrying a
| crew of twenty men, which left London
June Is, for Rangoon with a cargo of
case oil. has not been heard of since the
22d of July.
| It is reported that there was no sick
ness on board the United States steamer
| Galena when she stopped at Kingston,
| Jamaica, the 10th.
| About 1000 persons attended the re-