Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-15
They were taken before the magistrates and
remanded for trial.
kNTI-BETTING CRUSADE.
A CAMPAIGN AGAINST YOUNG GAMBLERS
OPENED In LONDON.
The Christian Youth Of the Metropolis As
sumo Heavy Observation-Disclosures
Takes Cognizance of tho Gambling Evil
and Will Move Against It.
tBY CABLE TO THE pIsPATcH.l

LONDON, March 14.-Several weeks ago
a number of very good young men, instigated
by some good elderly men better versed in
the ways of this wicked world. met at the
headquarters of the Young Mems Christian
Association in this metropolis and opened
tenders for big contract, having for
Its object the abolition Of bet
ting and other forms of gambling.
They unanimously allotted the contract
to themselves and have since been hard at
work upon the preliminary operations.
Some wild and very youthful enthusiasts
thought of storming Windsor Castle, pros
trating themselves at the foot of the throne
and remaining there until the Queen
agreed to order the Prince of Wales
to stop playing baccarat, but their
enthusiasm was damped by the announce
ment that the Queen had written to Mrs.
Arthur Wilson, in whose house the Gordon
Cumming scandal had its origin, not repri-
manding her for permitting and encouraging
gambling, but merely expressing sympathy
with her ior the worries resulting from the
public exposure of the scandal.
1t was evident that the crusaders could e1-
pect no sympathy in these exalted quarters,
bier game. 1t seems young clerks, shopmen,
errand boys and such have acquired the
baneful habit of "indulging in games of
chance during the dinner hour"
A vigorous campaign against these youthful
sinners was initiated at a meeting of the
Christian young men held last evening, when
q clerical Boanerges named Wakely Incl
dentally remarked that il newspaper editors
understood their business as we'll as he did
they would knock out all the sporting in
telligence and fill the vacant columns with
religious news.
Boanerges might have given q startling
illustration of tbe extent of the gambling
evil, by referring to the awful backsliding
of the Secretary of the Prayer Book Re-
vision Society, who confessed in the Bank
ruptcy Court only the previous day that for
years past he had secretly INDUCED in bet
ting and had systematically backed horses
with godly Contributor money. But that
would have brought the evil too near home,
and Boanerges and his young followers re-
solved to concentrate their efforts for the
present upon the dinner-hour sinners.
Other signs point to the continuance Of
this crusade for several months to come.
The first place on the order book of the
House o! Commons next Tuesday is taken
by resolution aimed against the growing
prevalence of betting and gambling" The
House of Lords will shortly send down to
the Commons a bill, making penal the send
ing OF money, lending and betting circulars
to lads under age, and great prominence
will be given to the general subject of
gambling at the annual meetings and con-
ferences of various religious bodies, which
commence in London the end of next month.
1t is not improbable that when the fana-
tics have become tired of it, the subject will
be taken up by practical men, whose first
effort will be to prohibit, under heavy pen
alties, the publication in newspapers of all
intelligence relating to betting and to abol-
ish priviledged bookmakers' stands at race
meetings,