Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-02-26
GOODBYE, BOYS
The Sports Will Have 60 Abando. ysckssn
City Now.

THE NEW Law MAKES GAMBLING ILLEGAL IN vIa-
GINA AND THE POOL. CRAP AND OTHER GAM
BLING ROOMS THE OTHER SIDE or TIE RIVER
WILL HAVE TO SHUT rr.
The merry rattle of the chips Is stilled. the
roulette wheel has stopped it's tireless motion.
an anwon;ed silence broods DER the scenes
once gay aud the hell-toned voice Of the book
maker will not be heard for many a day calling
out the odds at Gutenberg and Gloucester;
the crap shooter aud the hazard man will want
. situation in the morning
Jackson City has shut mp shop.
An. sad vo-ds these and full of dire meaning
TO the many luck!ess ones who have gone forth
many time with lucre in their pockets TO try the
g-aces or Dame Fortune, aud then came home
without the lucre- In its stead they had Q
wealth of experience which, while il hardly
passes rs the coin of the re AIN, NAV stall be re-
garded as worth something in the great market
of life.
60 no more.
For all those who would like so much 20 get
even and for those others who are ahead of the
game and would like TO get sheader the OPP
portunity is gone. The staid figure Of
the old dominion state has put
| that hencotortL gambling is outlawed within
the territory over which she has control. This
| VIII put a stop to the staple industry at that
unique settlement at the other end of the Long
bridge. and all the hackers OF the sport. insist
ing that they have no intention of violating the
law, have come to the conclusion that they will
stop work in that par ticular locality. This, Of
[ course ID ON the supposition that the lawyers
they have engaged are unsuccessful in their
efforts to find some flaw in the Law. Unless
they decide tina; there is some loophole
all those who think they have more
wealth than they can dispose OF in other ways
VIII nave TO assemble together in rooms apart
from the inaddinG throug and there with green
| shaues closely drawn daily with the festive
Jackpot or exercise Their genius at guessing
whether the next number that turns up is odd
or even, black or red.
| REGRET OF THE SPORTS.
| The news that the governor OF VIRGINIA has
signed the anti-sambing bill introduced in the
legislature by Capt. Mushbach OF Alexandria
and passed after a hard fight. was received with
every evidence of sincere regret in many quar-
ters IN TINS city where sporting men make their
headquarters. Ever since the first
| news OF Ii reached here they have been dis
cussing the situation in little groups where ami
| mated conversation prevails. The general
opinion seems to be that the whole thing Is
dead wrong. They made hard battle against
| the adoption OF the bill and now that they
know themselves defeated they are taking it
dead game. as true sports should.
| The bill was aimed primarily against jackson
| City, which has long been regarded as an eye
| sore. In fact ever since gambling in the Dis
| trict was made illegal. IN the form in which
| the act now stands il makes il unlawful to make
1 write or sell pools or mutu0ls on the re-
suit OF any trottIng or running race. base ball
| match, election or contest of any kind, or to
establish. keep. lease, rent, or use. or know
| lngly suffer TO be used or occupied any house,
building or portion of building, vessel or
place on lana or water for such purposes.
| ! "A a 40 al
lawyers in the legislature the effect OF the hill
will be to close up Immediately all pool rooms
| in the state, whether they have licenses or not
| Any license, they contend, is imperative and
| shou not have been issued anyhow.
TRIP ON THE NOON TRAIN.
well, goodbye, boys" said the gateman al
| the Pennsylvania station today when the noon
train foI Alexandria and way stations was
ready. He addressed a group of we'll
dressed, notwithstanding citizens. who
were passing through the gates. He
knew them, for he had punched their
tickets every day for months past. The noon
tram Is the race train and carries over the
majority of the bookmakers who have not al
| ready gone over in carriages Today it also
carried a STAR reporter. The situation of
affairs was the only thing talked about in the
crowd. They were all interested in one way or
| another.
What the gamblers ought to do" said one
seHtieiiAn Ol III u curneT VI the car, IN lOud
| tone OF voice, lis to make fight against the
newspapers that have fought the gamblers. II
they would only refuse TO buy the papers or 20
trade with the people that advertise in the
papers we would soon see which side would
win. Gamblers have got to make a living
| somehow, and they are jus. as likely to get
hungry as newspaper men a.e any day in the
week"
SMALL CROWD AT JACKSON CITY
At Jackson City the crowd was considerably
smaller than usual The names Of the horses
were written upon the blackboard Just the
same, but there were no tickets being Sold and
about 1 O'Clock the word was given that
there would be no races today At the
turf exchange neither Mr.. Lynn nor
Mr.. Wall, the two men whose names are on the
sign that hangs above the door, were around.
Their representative. however. told The STAR
man that they had desire TO violate the law and
they would quit the business. As yet they have
10 plans to where they will go, and the
feeling seemed to be that there was no place
left for them around Washington. The same
story told at Jones pool rooms. The
smaller shops cannot work without the big
ones, as they have no telegraphic communica-
tions with the winter tracks
ONLY oNE PLACE RUNNING.
The only place that running today with
anything like its usual vigor was a room In the
rear of the buildings, where q crap table was
in full blast and two roulette wheels
were running. There was very little doing
and Jackson City of today not the Jack
son City of yore 1t is admitted that the hus
ness interests of the town had received ;iIeir
death blow, and in probability the halcyon days
of jackson City are numbered with the count
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