Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-09-08
THE GAZETTE.
MoNnAY EvENING, SEPTEMBER 8
How thew Gamble at Saratoga.


For an hour before midnight and an nouE
after men come and go. The room Is we'll
f,le1 almost continuously. Everybody Ia
there. L. Ia The proper thipg TO visit the
club house when you go to Saratoga. Men
of business and OF the professions who at
home would never think CT entering gam-
bling-room, go TO The Saratoga club house.
Coloue Tom Ochiltree says be has heard
that even ministers of the gospel have been
seen examining the mysteries of the club
house Sure it is if you want TO 6pd q nsn
about u O'Clock p. H.. and he isn't ct his
hotel, the pace to look fer hiu, without re-
gard to mis- calling or habits at home, is the
clubhouse.
Along one side of the hall are arranged
the roulette tables Rouge ct noir has taken
firm hold on the country of its adoption.
10 the Wild Wee-at Eli Paso, Lsadville OF
Helena ten men play faro Where one risks
q dollar cn be red or black. 10 the Saratoga
clubhouse ten men gather about the wheel
aud watch tho little ivory ball 60 circiipg
round, where one site down 10 front
of the faro lay-ousand the dealer. 1t ia all
because Of so much going to Europe. Trav
eled Americans have got away from the
American game. They want "Reminiscences
of Monaco wLeD they visit Saratoga, so they
stake their dollars On the wbiriing wheel.
The raulet,e-playiug at Saratoga is without
system.
In an entire evening the visitor will hard
~ see one Of these devotees whc believes 1t
ia posei5ie 10 work out like mathematical
problem sure problem OF beating the game.
Occasionally ecms college students or young
banks clerka come in with scheme and a
Iittln If rnnnnv NnaU knGp g rfcOtd 0f
every roll of the ball and stake their chips
in accordance with their plan. Fer an hour,
perhaps, the scheme works TO the entire sat
isfaction of the group OF players. The stock
of chips accumulate most encoursgingiy, but
then, by an unaccounte6Ie turn, luck goes
against The plan The winnings and the
accumulated capital slowly but surely melt
away The discounted players withdraw
to discuss the weak point in their plan.
The most of the players have 40 method.
They have SIS, $40. $50 or $50 worth of the
chips and scatter the worries here and there
as the moment prompts. II they lose the
first investment they get up and &c away.
If they double or treble is hy q few lucky
hits they shove the chips across tbs table to
the banker, cash in snd leave. That Ia the
New Yorker's way of playing roulette.
These quick aud moderate winnipgs sre
said to have made hole in the bank &C.
count Of the clubhouse this Season.
a New York broker walked up to the
centre table last evening, waited Tor few
turns of the wheel, and threw dowr 500
bill on the big red diamond. Red won. The
roller began to pass over the stacks of chips.
The br ker shock his head r -etnrina the
chips tc the rack the roller opened the
drawer, coun;,d out 500 and handed i, 10
fhe broker will the originai bill Tno play-
err pockeiad the money and WALKED away.
He was dcne. If black had won he .u'd
have stopped with that one play just the
same II is from the steady players that
the wheel makes the winnings for the
housa