Smyrna times., 1889-10-30
Gamblers Must Go.
THE POPULAR CoNsC1ENCE AROUSED.

mr. EOE OhAb CONGClENCE AROUSED.
Under the above heading the Daily
Republican, of Wilmington, shows up
the peculiar tricks and devices of the
CANDLES to catch the people and ex-
tract their money to their own detri-
ment as well as the detriment the
candy man, peanut vender, lung tester,
&c, winds up with the folio wing about
the Fair at Dover:
A most extraordinary and multifa-
rious number of different devices and
machines were used for gambling at
the Dover State Fair Of 1899.
great variety of revolving disc,
with figures marked lucky and blank,
are used. If the player, who pays five
cents for the tossing of three balls,
tosses a ball into the small hole in the
top of barrel, three yards distant, one
time he gets cigar; three times, a
dollar
The same terms apply to throwing
baseballs at grinning and chattering
live "niggers" head looking out from
a hole in the side wall of shanty
about a rod distant
While no man can play against these
machines persistently without losing,
and while the majority OF players lose
all their money, and from the great
number Of unsOphisticated players
mainly the cOuntrymen and farm la
! borers-the gamblers at the Dover fair
! gathered in thousands of dollars. it is
said that the fair authorities sold Tor
cash the privilege of doing all this
! gambling, and that number of other
wise respectable young men Of Dover
/ in ,ol, T.
repute in hiring themselves out for
s,cappers, stool pigeons" and ''decoy-
| ducks" to help the unbridled and mer-
cenary horde of gamblers rob consid-
cradle multitude of their own dear,
deluded friends, neighbOrs and coun-
men Ofall their money.
The gamblers themselves are report
| ed as Growing over their gains, and say
ing the hardest machine of ali to stand
up against is "Leary's Belt Here
some thirty-One cards are placed on
end in the rim of revolving machine
some eighteen inches in diameter.
Inside the outer rim Of cards is a
| leather belt Of the same height. On
this are painted 500, $40, SIS, $40, So.
! 81, so as to fall under that many cards
respectively, and the balance are
blanks. The principal stands in
wagon with this revolving machine
| about opposite his breast and about
three or five feet higher than the
heads OF the players, who staud upon
the ground and designate the card
CHOSEN by placing a whip upon it.
One, or considerable number PLAYS.
lie then offers "a dollar for your card
sir" "A dollar for yours, sir" ana so
on. They all say no" for they each
have just paid a dollar for the chance
to win larger money. He runs his
| offers up until some one accents saw So
or 80, or larger or smaller sum. He
lItts the cards and shows most of the
Whips are on blanks, and the players
were not foolish for not taking his
| offer
The one he "wanted" bought off
turns out to have been on one of the
high fgures-Olten on the SlOO-card-
and SO curious ebulliton of feeling is
stirred up to play on. Once in a while
a man wins five or en'dollars if he de
terminedly holds on that long. One
man who played half an hour and won
something above the dollar. paid in
several times, said that he came out
three dollars ahead 1t is said the
principal can make that belt turn
inside and stop where he pleases. He
would not need to very often. The
game and his dupes are all in his own
hands, and, as to most of them. that is
where all their money goes.
CuuOusly enough, the class of Deo-
pie who played at the games included
the class that buy peanuts. A peanut
vender says it docs not paw" and
you will not catch him at the Dover
fair any more" Walters complained
they got mo tips" this year. The
gamblers got all the free and-easv-
tioating-lOo money. Nearly all the
small trades people, who gave some
thing valuable for cash received eTsrv
time, complained bitterly. The vast
array OF losers were all mad. The
Dover people were mad, especially
with the ''cappers" and the generally
popular disposition of the usual fair
attendants was fearfully dampened and
shocked, while the christian peoDle
generall absent themselves from gam
bliug fairs.
The gamblers "must go" or the fair
run down. 1t is said that the author
illes Oh the state Fair are the worst
sold" by the gambling horde, because
they leased to one man-the highest
6ldder--the unlimited privilege of sub
letting the gambler and "fakir" bus
mess, so that when they began to near
the reverberating thunder Of the duDed
and ravished crowd, it was too late to
abolish. this year, the grert enemy of
their good name and prosperity.
Many hundreds of the robbed plavers
looked like well-dressed, virtuous' in
dustrious bright-minded, respectable
but unsophisticated, honest and conf5' |
ing countrymen-mOstly young men
the very bone and sinew and nrida of
our State in the production of It's fun.
damental prosperity-our own friends /
nelghbors, constituents and SOVEREIGN
people. Let fair directors clean onl
every scintilla of gambling and every |
Vestige or remote semblance oft. Let |
them so advertise beforehand and omar,
antee there shall be no pool selling
ihen let all the Christians 90 to the
ialr5 and encourage the improving of
stock, cattle, horses, machinery. Yeg.
citation, cereal, and seed products. m9.
chinery. art, Horticulture, horticnIture
trult, industrial inVantio,,s 81 ~ - |