The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-02-22
AT MONACO.

New Worker who woa.
From the New Work Journal.
A King cleaned out at Monte Sarlo:
such was the story of the losing of $4,000
AT one sitting there by N-kin Milan Of
Servia the other day.
Monte Carlo is one of the last of the
gambler paradiscs left i'm Europe. and is
more like a uar.slisc than any Of the fam
ous spas which for IA long time attracted
such a brilliant although motley thirong
annually along the Rhine and on the bor-
der of the Black Forest.
Public gaming WAS suppressed through
ont Germany ON the first-Of January, 1871,
and all the people. good. bad and indifrer-
ent, who find life u bore. unless they are
i'm the neightorlioosI OF the green cloth,
and can hear the passionlcss voice of the
croupicr drawing ont the gaming dircc-
tons. took refuge around NJ. Blanc's
tablcs in the gay and picturesque princi-
pality of Monaco
The rock of Monaco stands ont boldly
i'm the ~in,iigo-.olorctl water of thc Mcslit-
beneath "a sky uniformly blue. "a
few miles to the northeast of Nice, i'm
France. The rock is less than 1.OOO feet
long and is not 10 feet high. but. capped
with the ancient castle and with many
other artistically arranged groups of
houses. il makes u ravishing picture.
Three narrow streets. %unning from the
sst,iars. to one of the ends az the plateau to
thc east. u terrace planted with pines,
Expresses, aloes, cactus. and other plants,
which gives tho landscape an African
look here and there platforms for artii-
lery or for scntincls suspended over the
sea: a castle, two churches-that il Mo-
naco. Further away. on the Plateau dies
S~pclugties. IL the Casino, whicl. has made
the fortune of the Blancs, and has
wrought the ruin of hundreds of incau-
France, winks ut the public gambling m
Monacn which she would not tolerate
within her own boundaries.
Irf- xss~V s.spg nm I0alt Tn nAk nm ~
la So near tai Nice and Canns's. IL kss ps
"a constant current through these cities In
slams. Germans, Rounanians, Poles, Aus
TRANS. Greeks, and-Ancricans, who
would never think of srcnains some
months oa the Riviera unless there were
"a chance. Ia ruin themselves there.
In 1ss; Prince FIor.,stan of Monaco
made "A bargain will, NJ. Blanc. the fam
Gus gaming resort .orvanizcr of Hamburg,
i'm Germany. by which Blanc received the
concession tn establish public gambling
OD ash down and S:D.uOO annual license.
NJ. Blanc was a wonderful little man,
always .';rrnting" some vast cYI~'ri:ncc.
big head. and eyes that shorls. like gig
lamps behind his sicc,aclcs. He founded
hc ~nonhpou.ly clir!stcussi Monte Carlo"
He made "a vast FOR u ~. and married
one of his daughters to Prince Ratziwill
and the other tai Prince Roland Bonalsartc.
He rolled in wealth. and WAS fond of MAX
ing eccentric donations.
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