Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-06-05


IT'S day all day in the daytime and there Is
no night in Butte.
AT tins season Of the year, while the
snow is still on the ground, the city Is over
run with the gambling fraternity. As
summer opens up and each worthy makes
stake he slips away TO smaller mining
camps TO clean up all the money III signt;
be generally gets II. At sheep-shesrlng
time. which occurs IN June. certain SICK
individuals are missed from tdeir old
haunt IN the city and 20 after the money
of the herders and stock-raisers. lhey
know their men.
INCENTIVE TO GAMBLING.
In this section of the country, with
plenty of hard work and such meagre OBJ
portunities for recreation. the otherwise
sensible man seeks diversion IN gambling.
This popularity is fostered and pandered
to By tho practiced sharper. and the hard
earned money goes surely into the pro-
fessional gamblers pocket.
While in a cOny ersetIonal mood recently
one of the best-known gamblers dlvulGed
some interesting facts concerning the Gull
ling of the citizen with the sporting
blood Taking his cue from theatrical en-
terpries last summer he secured an adj
vance agent. This agent was fitted out as
a salesman tor Chicago house. whose
commodity consisted of fine grades CT
PLAYING cards. II is hardly necessary to
state that all these cards were marked. The
agents instructions were 10 sell the cards
or give them away 50 that every store IN
all the small hamlets would have them for
sale. "Sell 'em for two bits a gross il You
can't get more" said the gambler; two
BITS equals % cents.
One month after all the desired local.:
ties had been flooded with his brand OF
cards after the shrewd gambler started on
his rounds. He mad it all his own way.
The backs OF the cards were an open BOOK
to him. The game mostly INDUCED IN was
stud poker.n The Sweles are stud
fends." and would stake their clothes on
the game This suited the peripatetic
gambler. He cleaned up $4,000 IN two
months, went East. spent the money, and
then came back to Butte TO make another
stake. He Is now planning RAID through
bucolic and mining sections for this coming
summer.
Honor among thieves" and dog
won't eat dog" are two saws which ex-
perience q black eye among the gambling
fraternity.
In the expressive patois of the guild
thew do each other up" on the slightest
provocation. One house in Butte has gone
800 600 behind hand IN the last TWO
months because so many professionals
have "gone against the bank" They
know every move. play systems. and
ara the most undesirable patrons. "
the opportunity il offered these same men
will fix the cards in the dealers box so
that they have sure thing against
the bank. Only last week the proprietor
found gambler sanding" the cards IN
order TO beat the bank. This house always
leaves box of cards out with the bar
L. fh.l ~ - on
in the morning. The bartender on this
occasion stood in with the outside gam
bier and gave him the cards to NIX. Fortu-
na,elv for the head of the establishment a
friend saw the doctoring" In operation
and informed him or he would have been
ont TO the tune of $50. 900 or $4,000
Without much ado the drink-mlxer and
his "pard" were thrown out upon the cold
world.
GAMBLERS DEVICES.
Sanding" the cards consists in the ap-
plication OF sand TO the edges OF the cards
so that O keen-eyed man can procure q
fash Of the next card before IL comes from
the box. To a novice this device would be
thrown away. but TO gambler, whose
Bible is a deck of cards, the scheme works
satisfactorily.
Another method Of beating the bank is
supple aud yet hard for an outsider 70 use.
The first move is to get possession of the
cards in the dealers box. A man will
watch like hawk for DAYS until the op-
uortunity presents itself. When the
cards arc in his possession the gam
bier will puncture with q needle each
card with black SPOT in tho corner
With a sharp knife all indication of the
puncture is concealed.
This hole Is ninitesimal but enough
/ s. 10 of WORKING fnf
scheme. He places himself alongside The
dealer and watches the cards carefully
| IL there ~ an ace, deuce. and tray under
| the top. or soda" card, there will bt
visible to the gamblers eye dot of white
| This dot guides him and he dumps hi:
money around these cards, carefully
capped off with coppers." Until the
continuous luck of the player attracts the
| dealers suspicion the gambler IS All righi
| and the money goes his way. but II The
trick is discovered his game is up.
While there are few ways 10 beat
| the bank. the methods of the latter fol
cleaning out the players in front are legion
An expert dealer watches the system thai
every man is playing, and If there IL much
money at stake he can shuttle the cards in
| such q manner as TO bring misfortune
upon the head of the worshippel
OF a pet system. To deal out of 9
"two-card box" in this State is G
| penitentiary offence, and most OF the
CANDLES fight shy Of it; however, they
| are used occasionally and are termed q
squeeze" In order to win a game Of
| this description saarIed man keep:
| the cases. or tally of the cards, as they ar,
run out. 1t is obvious 10 any one familiar
with faro how little show plunger IL
front has with two-card outfit in the
rear. IL a card would win naturally the
dealer shoves 1t out under cover of the
losing card. and the wealth of the pool
fool in front goes to fill the yawninG
drawer behind.
In some sections of the State wheel. y
| hazard" and other sure things" are
still run surreptitiouslv. while over in
Idaho every species of gambling has full
swing.
PLUGGED THE WHEEL.
It was only year or so ago that we'll
| known md slippery gambler plugged thu
wheel of q co-laborer in the vineyard
| of the dishonest dollar 1t was at Wallace
In this State. He slipped into the room
one night, bored a gimlet-hole in the
wheel right below the heart. Into this h'
| poured lead inserted a wooden plug. ant
vanished the spot. On the following
morning he dropped casually into thu
establishment and dropped twenty-dol
| lar gOld-plece on the neart req. IL won
| and twenty more was placed with it. HI
left the entire amount standing, winning
again. This left HIM with $50 in front.
LET 'er CO." he said. The whee
! whirred $50 more into his pocket. Th
dealer smiled, thinking that such run o
luck wouldn't last. and sent tie whee
around. Then there was $3.50 in front o
the Spectator on chance.
Amt you going rather high?" aske,
the proprietor.
| oh. be sporty now, be sporty" replies
the gambler, and the wheel turned hear
again; $40 was in. the stack now. Tn
gambler made TENT of drawing it down
but the proprietor sang out: " BE sport.
yourself. now"
"All right, let 'er co." She went. ant
81, $50 lay in front of the man who had
| $40 gold-piece as capital.
Now, run her again. said the latter"
Haven't got that much in the drawer.
"What've Won got ,"
Five hundred dollars."
LET Ter 90 for that" and pocketin
$1.7s0 the gambler made OF, while th
owner Of the wheel shut up shop. The
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