St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-01-25

ing all over the country. Horse racing
and pool rooms are responsible for this.
Men won't sit down tOrplay bank now
when they can go to the track and win
$4,000 or $3O, 900 in an afternoon. This
state of affairs has been going on for
five or six years. and it's getting more
like England and Australia in this re-
spect every year. Bookmakers don't
make as much as people suppose; In
fact. not one in twenty makes money
nowadays. Such players as Pittsburg
Phil, for instance, cut down their prof
it's nightly. l never in my life
saw man win more money
than he does. / have seen men
win bigger money in one single
day than he has. but they don't make
such steady winnings assPhil. His Judg-
ment is phenomenal, and his memory
something wonderful. He is the only
man I ever knew who can name the
horses as they ran, one. two, three, i'll
every important race that has ever taken
place. Phil knows what he is about,
and whatever he tells you you can go to
sleep ON. ~.
I'm conclusion. to return to faro. Let
me give an Illustration to show how
men can play and be sure to come out
loser. Suppose six men, friends, put in
$500 each to play faro among each
other. There's bank roll of $1,000.
Now, one night three of these men win,
say, $500 apiece. They quit for
the night, and either go out
to see the town or else go
home to their families. In either
event. they're likely to spend $50 or 800
each, for it being easy money and they
liberal fellows, they think It's right to
spend part of their earnings, either by
giving money to their wives to buy a
new bonnet with, if they are married, or
in opening wine down town if they are
Single. They return to the game the
next night with, say, S700 left,
probably less. That night they
lose to the other three men, and they in
turn do as the first three did. for every
body knows that money won at gam
bling is usually spent freely in one way
or another, for it loses its value. This
see-sawing will continue until the en-
tire bank roll of $4,000 is gone, for it's
bound to go; it is only question of
time.
lone thing more under the head of
skickS.1 Not one-half of the money
said by 'kickers to have been lost at
gambling is really lost in that way. For
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in an Office acquires expensive habits.
He does not get salary enough to meet
the expenses of keeping mistress in a
private fat up town, owning fast
horse, and buying diamonds. So he
helps himself to the firms money.
Sooner or later he's found out. WHAT
did YOU do with the money! he is asked.
Il lost it in gambling he says, not wish
ing to give himself away about the girl
and other luXuries in which he has in
dulged. He lies, and he knows it, but
the announcement is publicly made
that he lost the money gambling, and so
gambling gets another black eye.
Finally, there is.not- the money made
in gambling in New York that. people
suppose is the case, | would rather
have per cent of the winnings at Monte
Carlo than 10 per cent of the gambling
winnings in New York, because in the
former place they keep all they win, land
there is no one bowling to get their
money after it has been once fairly lost,
and there are no kicks whatever" So