The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-01-25

buneo steerer or capper to skin gambler
1t takes three men 80 run faro table
the dealer, the watch and the counter
who get So night each, or SIS in all: At
this rate it costs s54 to keep these three
tables going single night. There are en-
ployed about this room not less thar twenty
i've men. Counting their wages at So each
which is the regular price paid-it costs
Sl50 night for help alone. For year of
800 days. this foots up to $40, 600. The
other current expenses, OF rent, light and
fuel, will run this up to $50, GOO year. The
game keeper reckons 10 make his profits
equal bis expenses and this will make the
earnings OF the place on straight game
yield $4,000 year
In a casual turn of the town there was
noticed to b, good S if business at a
dozen places, ana rne reporter was in
formed b ii there w; double as many Of
the clhb order where the latch had to be
reached from the inside.
Among the aces ,iole places. where d
man can be taken in for all that he is
worth, and which are SO mysteriously hid
away from the police, are Tom Clawson's
place around the corner on First South :;
Bars place, over TUFTS saloon on Main
street; Moser & Floods, back of the Mir
rori Fink " Hlnkle's, over the Gaiety
BOISE u Harris elegant departments over
the Wave; Sammy Riegel's back, of the
Congress; Dodd q Co.'s, over the Con
gfess; McDermont Sc Hines, over
Shades. These are just few starters and
should a man care to follow the thread UP
ne might make several other rich strikes.
Ex POLICE SERGEANT HALLER.
How many gambling houses are there in
the cltyp' was asked of eX-Police Sergeant
Hallef, who Is considerably of sport him
self, and who knows the lay OF the land Us
well as anyone.
The ex sergeant drew himself up to his
full height, and after assuming superla-
tive, supercilious air, said
An, there, you're asking it. There
must be thirty five of them. Well, you
see, to begin with, there is the Stone
Front the Tivoli, the Crystal (burned
QUIT and
AT this iuncture Mr.. Hallef to6k d sud
den stop, as If something had struck him
that it was not ali right for him to give the
thing away. He drew the rein on his
tongue by saying:
Il won't tell you, you may want to use
| itn
Seeing that Samuel had tumbled, the
conversation was turaed.
They tell some tall ones about the po-
lice" asserted the blonde darling, land On
OF them credits me with getting $3.50 of tue
swagi
"a pretty good pull for young man, -
limited the intel viewer
! i should say so,' IL piled Samuel, tying
up the end or his moustache about his
finger, and then letting out again.
| 1t Is safe to estimate that all the public
gambling houses will average up ten such
as the one described. This would make a
force OF 200 professional gamblers. 1t is
easy to see that these men who contribute
not cent TO the wealth of the city, take
out Of the pockets of their patrons about
81, 900, 600 year.
THE tIvoLI CLUB.
| Among the places that are a little tigh
! to get in is 1.-THE club" over the Tivoli sa
loon. This exclusiveness is not Without q
cause and several business men meet here
who would not be at all tlattered at having
their banker drop in on them at least they
would be little 5kittish about their pri
Vate banker seeing them make out d caech
on his bank for an evening losses at cards
! when the same amounted to several hun
dred dollars.
Again, it would not look well to have thu
taxpayer drop in and see city hall officials
up to their eyes in a Jack pot and raising
the limit. The cityha turns cut some sly
ola ducks and the fat salaries they get en-
ables them to carry on a strong game
| Members of the citycouncil who would no
dare to be seen by their friends at the Alt;
gambling after midnight-nor indeed before
it, can make sneak to the clubs and EN-
brace a game with all the reckless folly
which their exctable natures crave, ant
without having the game scrutinized by the
ultra respectable of the Alta. Then there
are several men who have more money
than skill at cards, who occasionally droI
| into the club. These are easily ''skinued'
| to the extent of few hundred dollars. anC
the enjoyment of walking away with theil
"pelt," and stuffing them in return by com
plimenting them on the stiff gam,
they played, is one of the happy sides o.
''clubn life. Then there Is the poor dup;
who thinks he is player and viii put VI
his watch to get stake for the fun of los
! ing it. No one knows the way he-is strain
ing himself to keep sup appearances mol
! how he is stinting MS wife of long prom
sed dresses and the hard pull she is max
ing to keep her old wardrobe together unit
the new one comes. The husband come
home late with red eyes, and when the
wife asks for few dollars shopping money
he replies: THE STingency of the none,
market is something awful and collection:
don't come in worth a cent? Had ht
said: my dear wife, we had an awfu
hard pot to buck against at the club las
night and | went bros for couple of hun
dred,' he would have tod the truth Blu
when a man goes to gambling he takes vi
| lying to cover his tracks. There are NOR
tricks in mems tongues than there are i,
cards; and especially, in the club-mau
catter- box when it is answering questions
put by the meddlesome wife on his return
from the game.
AT THE CONGRESS.
''Snowipg!'