The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-05-15
NUMBER ELEVEN'S RUN.
ROULETTE HAD ATTRACTIONS FOR
A STRANGER FROM CALIFORNIA,

He Won $4,000 Because he Took
That Pasted Number Permitted.
Two Nights IN a Gambling House in
Twenty-sixth Street.
From the Netg York Sun.
One Of the most exclusive and aristocratic
gambling houses in New York is in West
Twenty-sixth street, not many doors from
Broadway. It is called "club" by the pro-
pretor, aud the cut~glass tumblers, the table
linen, the china and the design of the colored
glass in the front door bear the monogram of
8 club. The proprietor ana his associates.
the dealer at the faro table and the crou-
piers at the roulette wheel, pretend to
have the manners Of gentlemen and
are attired in evening dress invariably. In
the back room Of the first story is q supper
table that is always laden with rare deli
cacieS, cooked and served in manner that
might make Delmonico envious choice
wines, and fine cigars. that are offered
gratuitously and politely by carefully
trained servants to all persons who may
enter the house. The rooms are furnished
Win rich tapestries, orient al rugs, and oil
paintings. Except for its extreme ex-
ciuslVeness and the extra pretension to
elegance, the CLUB" is nothing more than
an ordinary gambling house.
IN the front door is false panel, through
which very dignifed and courteous COL
9fed servant trains his eye when the electric
luton Is touched outside. Only persons
VINO nave been properly introduced are al
I0"ed 70 enter. In nearly all other similar
p'aces IN the city, no matter how high or
now low the game or how exclusive the
patronage, are regular habitues, profess
sonal or emi-professonal gamblers, but
!uey are seldom, If ever, seen in the house
~ est 4Wenty-sixth street. The gamblers
suere are young men of the best social
standlug and family connections sons and
ueirS sowing their wild oats or slightly
Siuer men or the same good connec-
uons who take pride in being known as
men about town. The rooms are empty
generally until near midnight Then the
suung men begin to drop in very often
~. "t'u mowers or cotillon favors in their butt
souuoes and white gloves on their hands, and
nearly al ways in state of reckless exhilar-
n a;lou from the effects OF wine. From mid
tuiEuG until or o'clock in the morning
ICY keep the ball a-rolling. The game is
uEp' the lowest bid allowed at the roulette
seoie being 81. and the result arrives
bap'uy. II the young men are known to
tb. 1tNu AdIners ana good bank account
suey are allowed to sig checks until the
noprletor thinks they have lost enough for
s,6 Ialght. Then they may plead, 'Just
NV NV more" or Just $lO0,n in vain; the.
poprletor is inexorable and refuses
W accept their checks. He is we'll informed
$50 as 10 their financial standing ard their
t S.!ai position, and he knows far better than
Icy 10 the maudlin condition, when they
c o"'e gone far enough into their bank ac-
nio In.s. Inc same scenes are repeated every
tbsS ut with unfailing regularity; there Is
r nu same loss of ready cash the same Dor
tSr.ug from one another when two or
r b,oe come in together; the same resort to
800. signing, and the final pleading and
r. ooIleratlon when the time comes for the
foprletor to refuse their checks. They
, .ta7st awhile and finally toddle Off down
VOL. once IN while thoy win, but If they
blsr9, 3 n and more experienced in gam
tb otS naunts they might make observa tions
1 "yV would lead TO suspicious.
uor hen you 60 into a gambling house." a
tionos nown sporting man said, when cues
AM u ABOUT this place, land don't find
any y steady players that 60 there night in
nm mn 1 nlgnt out, it's generally safe to make
bd5vs oG i mind that something's wrong. II a
htoh rs - run run on the square, no matter how
ar "a o1e unit Is, you're almost sure to find
Wv E regular habitues. Another thing