Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-05-10

city of New fork. These are rne mus
tration of the daring of the gambling
spirit. The number of these institution
and the number Of their immediate pa
irons in no sense measures the aetna
gambling evil of the city. We hav'
5000 barrooms, for instance, in New
York, and in every one of these bar
rooms there is room dedicated to ths
gamblers, and there is not a night in tn,
year that there is not gambling in prog
ress in these barrooms. These are the
feeders TO the 80 or more grand centra,
institutions in which the professionals
ply their trade. Many of these gambling
institutions are as well established and
as well known as the great dry goods es
adjustments ON Sixth avenue, and some
of them are older. Some were estab
lished as far back as 1885 and have beer
running continuously, with brief inter
ruptions of a few weeks, during all thu
years since their founding and at tn,
same stand in the city.
DALY'S GAMBLING HE'LL.
In one of these institutions it is said
that one man lost in single night $l1S.-
900. A young man from western city
recently arrived in New York and made
collections for his firm. He went to Da-
ly's gambling hell and lost all the ready
money he had in his possession. He
cashed the checks for the money he haG
collected and lost that. He left DAILY s
absolutely penniless, with his hotel bill
unpaid and not enough money left G.
get out of the city. The profits of Days
house are often as high as $50 900 or $50, :
600 in a single day. When the game is
opened at night, they start in with no
money in the drawer. The first money
that is deposited there is that passed in
by the player who first buys his checks.
The manager of another one of these
established institutions recently said to
reporter. who asked him the heaviest
amount of money ever won at his table
at one sitting: Sixteen thousand dol
lars. This amount was won by young
doctor whQ used to play here frequently.
The doctor played 800 ON the colors,
and a continuous run of luck put him
SIC, 900 ahead of the game in an evenings
play" Ibid he keep it?' asked the re-
porter. mo. Few people who play ON
the outside ever keep their winnings. A
few months after this winning | won
$50, 900 from the doctor in one nights
play. He continued losing. and six
months later" said the gambler, I'VE
picked up the newspaper one morning
and found that he had committed suicide
after robbing his sisters estate of large
sum-"
Such are the higher institutions of
where the so called square
game is played. The great majority of
the gambling institutions are those
where tricks and liquor and sharpers
and cutthroats and dissolute wnning
are the levers used to fleece their vic
TINS. There is no trick too mean to be
resorted TO. The man that goes into the
average gambling hell in New York
usually comes out without dollar in
his pockets at last, and he is fortunate
f he can come out the front door.
These men do not hesitate, have not
iesitated again and again. at murder
when the winnings were so large that
hey were afraid of possible exposure and
.rouble. Again and again do the papers
n New York report mysterious disap-
,earances. Again and again i'll every
;ity of America are these disappearance
exported, and again and again do the
ides bring in the bodies of unknown
lead. The rivers with their secrets could
ell the story of many a life that closed
II play in gambling hell. How many
men are killed in our cities and spirited
Iway-thrown into the sewers, thrown
INTO the rivers-God alone knows. The
work goes on continuously, and the world !
S practically none the wiser.
There is no brute more heartless than |
he confirmed gambler. A group of |
gamblers recently went into a church |
nd broke open a vault, took ont a dead |
,ody, dragged it to the communion
able, placed it on the table and seated |
around this CHASTITY object. |
hey played cards. gambling through |
he whole night. This is but specimen
f the spirit of daredevil and of heartless
of irreverence and of atheistic
which is the necessary &C !
to the gambling mania
But the evil is far wider than this.
he gambling spirit today permeates the
tmosphere of the city. Our ~ chill
rem in the street breathe it. 1he papers
re full of it from day to DAY. 1t is no
ronder that it should touch all classes.
was amazed short time ago to hear
iy eldest boy. only 6 years of age, speak
ig with the utmost accuracy the Ian
uage of the race track. He told me
18th glee that be was a starter; that
hey had races every day out in the street.
lis playground was near Central park
n Ninety-fourth street. His playmates
rere the neighbors' children. They knew
he vocabulary of the gambler complete
Z. They knew the methods of starting
ices, of deciding bets, and had their
ice club organized. The truth is, the
r of the CITY Is full of il.