The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-20
UP AGAINST THE BANK.
A Mechanical Faro Box That Even
Expert Gamblers Cannot Beat.

From the San Francisco Examiner,
There was some discussion of how
smart some men are and what fools Others
are to play against sure-thing games
when an old-timer said:
"Poker's all very well for small money,
but when you want to gamble you want
to play the king of games-faro. Now,
there's a game where you win or lose
your money quick, and it's a strange
thing that no matter how gambler wins
his money he always sooner or later runs
up against a bank.
"F'aro bank, when it's a square deal, is
the fairest game on earth, but the trouble
is it amt fair any more. If they don't
give the worst of it in any way they will
in another, and all the time you think
your system is wrong, and change from
three-one to double-out, and then to
break-even, the results always the
same. Your drop your pile. Why,
when most of the players had got onto
crooked box and someone gave away
the single and double odd, firm right in
San Francisco went to work and en-
ployed an expert mechanic, and they have
just completed the slickest faro box ever
made. / saw it at work not more than
month ago, and | thought | was up to all
the tricks myself, for have dealt faro
from FL Paso to British Columbia, but
was fooled, and it cost me $50 to find
was a sucker.
THE layout and box are just the same
as any layout, so far as you can see, DuJ
the dealer can make those cards turn
somersault in the box if he wants them
to. Suppose you are playing the nine 10
lose, and the dealer sees by means OF
small reflector that the nine will lose, no
just makes that nine change places with
the card under it, and instead of coming
out first it comes second and you lose.
The layout at the place in front of the
box is followed out, and when the cards
have been shuffied and put in the box tho
dealer pushes the box close up against the
layout, and this pushes spring and the
rim of the layout against the box falls
back and stays just as long as the box IS
held up against this spring
"Now in the box there is small, highly
poliseed mirror, and it is so placed as 10
take IN the card under the top card in the
box, and the dealer can see just WhdG
that card is. He keeps his hand on the
left side of the box, where he can reach
a small spring which shoots blade as
thin as a sheet of paper under the second
card and raises it up just the thickness
of the blade. Then he uses his knees, 10
which are attached the fine catgut, ana
this manipulate spring connected with
a clamp which comes out of the opening
under the layout and catches the second
card and pulls it out of the end Of the
box, the end opening outward and into
the opening under the layout when the
thin blade goes under the card.
1.-THE left hand releases the spring. IN
the box and the under card takes the place
of the one Withdrawn. When the spring
is again pressed the thin blade flies OUT
and the card which was under the layout
comes back into the box. This can all 90
done in three seconds, while the dealer Is
paying a bet or raking up his checks or
asking player what his bet takes. I've
seen good many tricks at faro, but TINS
is the slickest l ever saw. OF sourse, tne
firm making these boxes charges high Iot
them; but what's 50 600 when you don
need any bank roll in the drawer ana
every dollar put down is sure money!