The morning news., 1893-12-03
MORE BUzzARD THAN TURKEY.
An American Observations On
Monte Carlo and It's Casino.

Monte Carlo Letter in New York Herald.
DO you remember the old story of the
Yankee and the Indian? They shot a
turkey and a buzzard. When the time
came to divide up the Yankee said:
"Will you take the buzzard and l take
the turkey, or shall take the turkey and
you take the buzzard2"
QuOth the poor Indian: :-'But you talk
no turkey to me once"
Now that is how some people regard the
relations between themselves and the
Prince of Monaco. Sometimes they get
the buzzard But then again it occasion
ally happens that they take the turkey.
Perhaps the doctrine of chance gives the
fortunate prince more turkey than buz-
zard, but then people are not bound to
come here. are they They can calculate
beforehand their probable proportion oG
bird, and they can spend their income
elsewhere, if they are afraid of getting
too much buzzard at Monaco.
But to a man up tree am man up
a tree without any love of speculation
it is much greater fun to see the birds
placed on the table, and then to let the
prince and the public divide them up TO
suit themselves.
WITH FEELING OF REPULsION.
Until to-day l had never been in a
gambling place. ] have smoked opium.
gone down to the bottom of the sea in
divers dress, sailed heavenward in
balloon, tackled the ESquimau in the
frozen north where ] killed a white bear,
and INDUCED in almost every sort Of vice
and crime. But gambling has never been
a weakness Of mine. / have seen cock
fights prize fights, dog fights (the most
cruel and contemplate sport know of
and have fought New York cabmen,
fancy am case hardened. But ! will
confess that when | entered the Monte
Carlo Casino to-day il was with a feeling
of repulsion. 1t seemed to me that was
to be the witness of the sufferings Of I'M
fortunate doves held firmly in the fierce
talons of cruel hawks. People always
make out that the man who finds his way
into a gambling place is white, unstaiued
and innocent and that the keeper Of the
place is everything that is bad
But it is much of muChneSs On
presenting my card at the "commssariat"
to-day, / received ticket Of admission
TO the saloon in which the games take
place. On entering the hall my first i'm
preston was OF four hungry crowds
grouped round four tables at which there
was something to eat. There was the
same eagerness to force themselves to the
front that one sees manifested by a mob
Of people when there is free lunch in
sight. or when a horse and man have
fallen exhausted in the street. IL is on
these occasions-play, feed and catas-
trophe-that people in their impulse for
get all else around them and become so
many pairs Of eyes
Cayeat emptor. My first thought was
of the eager greediness Of the people to
invest. Ny next was, Do they know
what they are buying;
Do they carel Do they care so long as
the craving for excitement is satisfied II
they pay 9Of and win back 10f., are they
not the gamers, Is there not 10f. IS worth
Of happiness with which they must debit
themselves!
THEY ARE NOT BLIND.
Every one of them knows the chances
Of the bank The income Of the princi-
palIty is a matter OF common knowledge
Are they buying a pig in poke,
They stand with their little books or
cards iotting down the record Of the