The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-05-04

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We hope that between these two rivai.
we NAV at least reduce the evil while thu
6rht continues. BIT no one who ha:
any knowledge of the condition Of on,
cities today viii believe for one moment
that the poolrooms caz ever be sup
nrsssci 30 long as the -scc tracks an
iagaiixei by our lawmakers II il un
fair. IL il unreasonable. aad il Is legis
lation for disreputable portion OF Tia
community. The whole race track busi'
ness is Of the Same piece. tits gambling
,nre and simple. There Is not race
track in America that could live one year
without gambling.
/ charge the race track with the fact
of lowering the tone Of the nations life
at its centers. and Of lowering 1t to q
degree of debt and conscienceless CT.
frontery never before known in our his
tory, This fact was aptly illustrated re-
Gently when Alfred Tennyson. the poet
laureate Of the English world, was buried
In Westminster abbey. Tennyson was
the matchless songer who paid that
wonderful tribute 10 Albert the good.
the father of the present Prince OF
Wales. Thus he sang of Albert:
Who reyercnccd his conscience as his king.
Whose glory was rcdrcssing human wrong:
who spoke no slander-no. nor listened TO It:
Who loved one only. and who ciave 10 her.
Not swayins 10 this faction or to that;
Not making his high place the lawless perch
OF winged ambitions. nor a vantage ground
For pleasure, but through all this tract OF years
Wearing the white flower of a blameless life,
Before q thousand peering iittlenessas,
In that fierce light which beats upon a throne
And hlackens every blot!
SO sang the bard of the consort of her
who sits upon the throne and worthily
and with dignity impersonates the power
of the English people. And yet while
they were burying the great poet and
while the whole world stood with IN
covered head, even outside of England,
the Prince of Wales. instead of going to
the burial, preferred to spend the day at
the race track. The contrast between
the Prince of Wales and his father is a
very clear expression of the contrast be-
tween the tone Of national life today
and what it was during the life of Al
bert. And for this lowering of charac-
ter and of manhood the race track has
played one of the mightiest roles.
THE POLICY SHOP.
Second-The power of the pestilence
we observe in the development of the
policy shop of the modern city. Our
streets are honeycombed with these in
situations. in which boys as well as young
men are ruined from day to day. The
bootblack and the newsboy begin their
downward career from the time that
they can earn three pennies on the
streets. The extent to which this bust
ness is carried on is something appalling
to those who have ever investigated it.
A recent defalcation in a lawyers Of
flee of trusted clerk revealed the fact
that he had stolen 1926, 900 and lost it all
IN the policy shops of New York city. In
these shops workingmen spend their
hard earnings and leave their families
to starve. Boys, catching the spirit that
breathes through them, can be seen on
any street in the city, where they con-
gregate. tossing up their pennies and
gambling until the last cent Of their
earnings is lost, and until the last cent
of what they can steal is staked. What
the harvest will be when these young
gamblers have grown to manhood 1t
takes no prophet to foretell.
Third-We see the tremendous power
of this evil in our city in the daring and
defiant gambling holes themselves. There
IRE always from 90 to 100 gambling holes,
with all the apparatus of their species OF
chance game, running in full blast in the
iity of New York. These are the illus.
tration of the daring Of the gambling
spirit. The number of these institutions
and the number Of their immediate pa
irons in no sense measures the actual
gambling evil Of the city. We have
5000 barrooms, for instance, in New
York, and in every one of these bar
rooms there is room dedicated to the
gamblers, and there is not q night in the
year that there is not gambling in prog
ress in these barrooms. These are the
feeders to the 30 or more grand central
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 been
running continuously, with brief inter-
ruptions of few weeks, during all the
years since their founding and at the
same stand in the city.
DALY'S GAMBLING HELL.
In one Of these institutions it Is said
that one man lost in single night s11S.-
GOO. A young man from q western citv
recently arrived in New York and rnado
collections for his firm. He went TO Da-
ly's gambling hell and lost all the ready
money he had in his possession. Re
cashed the checks for the money he had
collected and lost that. He left DAYS
absolutely penniless, with his hotel bin
unpaid and not enough money left TO
get out of the city. The profits of Dalv's
house are often as high as SEQ, 900 or $780,
ooo In single day. When the game Is
opened at night, they start In with no
money in the drawer. The frst 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
Q 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 a young
DOCTOR who used to play here frequently.
ihe doctor played 500 on the colors.
ana continuous run Of luck put him
81, 900 ahead of the game in an evenings
play. did he keep it," asked the re-
porter. mo. Few people who play on
sne outside ever keep their winnings. A
. .e months after this winning won
.Io,ooV from the doctor in one nights
pay. re continued losing, and six
months LATER" said the gambler .wa
picked up the newspaper one morn;ng
and found that he had committed su;cidee
after robbing his sisters estate of q large
sum-" - 7" '0fse
Such are the higher institutions of