The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-05
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GAMBLING IN WASHINGTON.
Faro Thing of the Past enator Pat.
tigrew's Unlucky Game.
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WASHINGTON, April 1.-Gambling. save
as lost art, is no longer picturesque in
Washington. Maybe. as Edmund Burke
says, this vice in losing all its grossness has
lost half its evil. In the days OF Thaddeus
Stevens, Senator Green off Missouri. and
Pearce of Maryland; Congressman Herbert.
from California, and Lawrence Keitt of
South Carolina. the gambling houses and
faro banks in the city of magnificent dis
tanceS We're the only club houses known TO
that period, and here the northern and
southern members of congress met on com
mon ground and in convivial Pleasures, the
joys Of the tSble and the music OF good fell
iows,lp, politics for the nonce were forgot
ten aud all the asperities of politics for
given, Till congress met the next day. The
favorite houses where the southern IN an
bers most did congregate were Joe Halls
and Prindles.
sHail was a poor white from Virginia VINO
got rich behind the faro table and became
very purse proud. About the time James
h. Polk was elected President Hail lived III
great grandeur in Washington. His horses
wore goid-mouated hgrness, and Cool Mar
TIN, the best preserved gambler of that
time, asserts it as one OF the substan 1. We
facts of the period, when the gamblers he Id
high carnival in Washington that Joe
out OF which his housekeeping bays ere
watered. But the tickle goddess OF fort une
and faro went back on poor Joe Hall and
| he fell financially, and was glad to get
greenbacks enough to keep the wolf from
the door. He became local preached in
Baltimore and was supported by volun tary
| contributions from the Washington gam
| blers.
| Faro fell into desuetude in Washin yton
soon alter treasury clerk robbed the big
vault of Uncle Sans on Pennsylvania ave-
nue. OF $4,000 and spent it at roulette
wheel in Parkeg's gilded palace of sin and
| gin. President Arthur resolved to move
! temptatio from the paths of tie impecun-
| ious clerks, so lie bede the commissioner
five of whom rule Washington-driye the
! faro money changers fr IN the national
| temple. and reluctantly they picked up their
| Iay-outs and fed. There may be AMI
! doubtless Is an occasional lurking poker room
/ where risky congressman waste their sala-
rles and the midnight gas, but king faro has
! abdicated, and all the glory OF Joe Hall.
and Jin Peadeton, and Dave Prindle, and
| George Parker is now represe lted across
| the long bridge at tumble down village
called jackson City, in forlorn brick
| house. Here is all that is left of the silvery
| splendor which blinded the eyes of the
GamesterS south and north before the war
I There is Just one wheezy faro bank across
the Potomac to Accommodate all the sports of
Washington city.
Last week Cool Martin, now most learned
pu dit amongst the gamblers of the past,
who lives ON the memories o. the days when
gambling was not under the ban, proposed
! to Senator Pettigrew of Dakota to 60 across
the bridge and try their luck at Jackson
City. Martin called hack, and the pair
were soon laundering across the 10 =
bridge. As the drove over the river and
! gazed upward at the sky P.ttigrew
recalled the brilliant Sergeant ) Prem
tls' OF Mississippi, who, the year before
| the senator from Dakota was born, won
/ 5000 from Hall and Pendleton's game in
one night, after saying to Mississippi con
| gresham, II feel tonight as if l could WIN
the stars from heaven Tho congressman
! from Natchez did "busin the bank, but be
! lost four big warehouses under the bluff
on the Mississippi, worth 100000.
Perhaps the rec election Of Prentiss was
the harbinger of bad luck, and Cool Martin
recalled, later on. that be had beard a black
| dog bark in frolt of the faro bank before
| they entered.
Both the ganesters went in.o the game
| with two stacks OF bus CHIPS; forty chips