Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-07-03
TRICKS AT MONTE CARLO.
How the Great Gambling Concern Keeps
Hen From Winning Large Sums.

How the Great Gambling Concern Keeps
Hen From Winning Large Sums.
A typical row at the casino comes il
the nick of time as a postscript to the
yearly balance published by the keepers
of the notorious gambling den-sone-
thing like so6 dividend for every $50
share-andI t:,l,1a it as the earliest oppor-
tunity Ct exhibiting few Of tie ways
Of the pace. This IS the official version
sf the row AID =; cause: Two players
had been {. - c--pcriInenting with
success il :; ss5-e,,.iir ana Ingenious way Of
''givi 1, - c1:nc1 i zance." While
oae OF 80 = pant, 50-fr&nc notes
on SO ...:-'>-,,- IS, tie other, stand
Ing rig .e-.s......l -1c paying croupiers,
had coat-ir@l sip two or three 900
frame notes underneath the 50-franc one
each ti4lc tlc ball had favored his con-
fedcrate's stake The croupiers. busy
paying and scoopinS the stakes, did lot
notice the dodge ct first, but feeling that
there was something wrong established
q watch. VITA the result that the culprits
were caught IL the act. AS q matter of
course payment was refused, words and
blows ensucd, and with the aid of the
chuckers out the men were elected and
arrested.
Well, anybody who knows the ms and
outs of the place will take this version
with several grains of sas. That Monte
Carlo swarms with unprincipled ruffians
nobody will deny, but the organization
Of the partie precludes all possibility of
such childish tricks as the one above.
What with eight croupiers at every
table, the chef de partie, the inspectors,
the detectives and the losing players,
there are too many eyes on each stake to
admit even its probability. The cue of
the situation is in the word feeling, and
what wish to imply here in all earnest
is that nobody connected with the ad-
ministration Of the casino can admit a
suggestion of heavy gains on the punt
er's side-they know better. Old Blanc,
the founder of the place, used to say, Il
will give million to anybody who will
prove that he can win money at roulette
with certainty and there is good deal
more IN this saying than a reference to
the calcul DIES probabilities.
The fact is that nobody is allowed to
win largely. and that in cases of extraor-
binary luck the administration knows
what precautions to take. First of all,
the casino being in way a club, a card
of admittance is necessary. This card
must be renewed every day and may be
refused to an unpleasant punter without
giving him any reasons for it. But there
are other ways of getting rid of the OBJ
stinate winners. There is a regular
squad OF agents provocateurs, whose
mode of operations is very simple. They
pick quarrel over a stake with the man
pointed out to them, and as they are not
in the least particular about epithets or
blows, whether taken or given, a row be-
gins, a smiling inspector comes up with
re endorsements, invites you politely to
come with him and gets you out of the
precincts of the place. There he ex-
plains that although he has no doubt
you were in the right the rule of the
place is not to readnit those who have
been the cause of rowland there you
are
Quarrels about stakes are always plen-
tiful at Monte Carlo, and very often
they are genuine. In some cases, espe-
cially when the stakes are small and on
single chances, the administration pays
both claimants and keeps an eye on them
if unknown, for there is whole army
of ruined gamblers hanging round the
place, known to everybody in it, and ex-
ercising the profession of so called ..or-
phan pickers" (cueilleurs q orphelins). |
An ''orphan" is stake left by inexperi-
enced novices about minute longer than
it ought to be and kidnapped in the
twinkling of an eye by cueilleur who
has spotted his man. Croupiers and in
spectors look with benevolent eye on
those green 'baize pirates and generally
side with them.-Cor. st. James Gazette.