Connecticut western news., 1893-05-04

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 We hope that between these two rivals we may at least reduce the evil while the fight continues. But no one who has any knowledge of the condition of our cities today will believe for one moment that the bedrooms can ever be sup pressed so long as the race tracks are legalized by our lawmakers. It Is un- fair, it is unreasonable, and it is legis- lation for disreputable portion of the community. The whole race track busi- ness is of the same piece. It is gambling pure 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 it to 8 degree of debt and constituencies eff 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 to Albert the good, the father of the present Prince of Wales. Thus he sang of Albert:
 Who reverenced his conscience as his king;
 Whose glory was redressing human wrong;
 Who spoke no slander-no, nor listened to 1t; Who loved one only, and who clave to her.
 
 Not swaying to this faction or to that;
 Not making his high placo the lawless perch Of winged ambitions nor a vantage ground
 For pleasure, but through all this tract of years Wearing the white flower of O blameless life, Before thousand peering llttlenesses
 Tx, bat lipht txphi inf hCofs sr1r,n a And blackens 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 un- 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 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- stitutions, 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 busi- ness is carried on is something appalling to those who have ever investigated it.
 A recent dedication in lawyers of flee of trusted clerk revealed the fact that he had stolen $125, 900 and lost 1t 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 it 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 are always from 30 to 100 gambling holes, with all the apparatus of their species of chance game. running in full blast in the city of New York. These are the illus tration of the daring of the gam bling 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 a room dedicated to the gamblers, and there is not night in the year that there is not gambling in prog ress in these barrooms. These are the feeders to the 50 or more grand central institutions in which the professionals ply their trade. Many of these gambling institutions are as we'll established and as well known as the great dry goods es- tablishments on Sixth avenue, and some of them are older. Some were estab- hshed 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 $118,- 900. A young man from western city recently arrived in New York and made collections for h,s firm. He went to Da- | ly's gambling he'll and lost all the ready money he had in his possession. He cashed the checks for the money he had collected and lost that. He left Daly's absolutely penniless, with his hotel bill unpaid and not enough money left to get out of the city. The profits of Daly's house are often as high as $20, 900 or ESQ., | 900 in 8 single dGy When the game is | opened at night, they start in with no money in tho drawer. The first money that is deposited there is thahcassed in | by the player who first buys his checks. The manager of another one of these established institutions recently said to 8 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 who used to play here frequently. | The doctor played $100 on the colors, and a continuous run of luck put him | $16,0O0 ahead of the game in an evenings play" "Did he keep it?" asked the re- | porter. "No. Few people who play on | the outside ever keep their winnings A l few months after this winning won S20,0 900 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 gambling where the so called square game is played. The great majority of the gambling institutions are those | where tricks and iouor and sharners