The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-04

MS courage. 10 go on QOu ping from 81
is less terrifying to the average man.
EFew people who have not sat long at
tables viii believe that the little ivory
bali is capable of falling any hour of the
day into the ''blackn compartments
eleven times hand running. Yes, and
more. The limit of the bank at the rou-
lette allows eleven doublings, and they
could give YOU twelve or fifteen even, il
they had say, twice as many clients play
ing constantly against them. There is a
charming demonstration which bears di-
rectly on this point in Prof. Richard
Proctor's book of Chance and Luck. ?
the chapter which contains the Russian
Lottery
The roulette is also popular for other
reasons. 1t gives quicker results. It's
mechanical contrivance of a wheel and
bali attracts newcomers. IL affords u
multitude of com binations and long bets.
Lastly, all Of Europe is packed full of
amateurs of roulette, each with his little
pocket wheel to spin at home. The ques-
ton with them all is to devise a means to
beat the wheel. The most of them,
of course, do not expect TO win the
rock of Monaco and everything upon it,
l have a friend who thinks he would
be glad to make a daily winning of
Sl2 with a $1,000 capital, which is
about the limit OF his patrimony.
! While playing. through the winter
season only, he would live frugally upon
81 80 day, to keep his head clear and his
nerves in hand. Then, with his accumu-
latious, he would take little villa by the
river Marine just where it meets the
Seine at Charenton, and occupy himself
canoeing until July /, Upon the lst of
each July he would betake himself TO
/ Trouyille, where he would stay until Oo-
tober. There he woul q walk the board
walk in bright blue sash the afternoons
and take sea baths the mornings. Oct.
Is he would return to Monte Carlo TO col
lect his revenues.
But first, NV friend desires to find
system which is not a broken reed He
says he knows 200 systems, each of them
"a dangerous mirage" no one of them
without its fatal jump" His procedure
should be recommended to the youth of
every land. BY day he is a clerk in a de-
partment of the ministry of war in Paris.
BY night he is a pilgrim of the roulette.
He has his own small wheel; he sits
alone and plays against himself in his
own room. Conceiving himself TO have
in every case a capital of $4,000 francs, he
PLAYS against bank, to which he gener-
ously comedies l 200, 900 francs of capital.
I BY playing every system with true pa
thence, he has never failed TO see the
%, 900 merge into the 1,000,0 900 soon or
.late, as surely as smaller piece Of wood
UPON buN ouildLG VI a bubhCbLuA VI WdttE
will be drawn to a larger piece of wood in
that same bucket when all is quiet and
calm. So he has never played the game
Of roulette for keeps.
FAIRNESS OF THE MONTE CARLO WHEEL.
Thus amateurs prefer the roulette at
Monte Carlo because they are hahituated
Ito its combinations in their private
"studies."
The Monte Carlo wheel is much more
fair than many others. 1t has but the
zero and not the 100" which may some
times be seen in other countries. When
thissOne zero wins the stakes upon the
numbers and columns are claimed by the
bank, as elsewhere, but all the bets on
the simple chances te. g., red or black or
odd or even) are only put lin prison. :"
You have played red and zero comes.
Your stake upon the red must stay there
till the next turn. Should red then win
you get your money back not doubled, as
you would in other cases. You will
have neither won nor lost. Should black
have come instead of red you would have
lost asin an ordinary play.
Each roulette table in full swing from
| 1lo'clock a. IN. till midnight will make
about $50 turns. In doing this the
croupiers will change twelve times in
four relays. Each table has six crou-
piers, whose business it is to rake in
- aAuo dd0 push Oub AGoSES WIFI blelE
delicate long-hanCle led hoes. Besides these
six each table will have two inspectors
on high chairs to preserve order and to
settle all disputes. Should two men
| claim the same stake (unlesS a steal is
| obvious) the bank pays both. But let
each man thus. paid beware of any future
errors. They will flag him. he will be
side-tracked in his progress toward an
easy life he will be shown the door; his
name will be inscribed upon book.
THE oRoUPIERs' CALLS.
When turn is about to be made upon
the Monte Carlo roulette the croupier in
charge calls out: "Messieurs, make your
! game" He sets the disk in motion and
! he sets the ball in motion. When the
! motion of the ball commences to slaclxen
| the same croupier cries: THE game is
! in" This is to inform the players that
| stakes can still be accepted for the
! moment When the ball strikes against
one of the small nickel-plated obstacles
| which are placed to check its dying on
ward motion, so that it will fall. the
croupier adds: "Rien ne va plus, ;" which
means exactly, mo more goes.n The
! croupier then calls out the winning num-
j Der, with the three single chances which
| depend on it, as: "Rouge (red), pair (even
nunbers), passe (the last eighteen)n
! The maXimums allowed at Monte Carlo
/
are these: On red or black, odd, even,
! first or last eighteen, you are allowed to
bet $1,000; on single dozens you may bet
! $500; on single numbers you may bet $36
4 Betting $50 on a single number, which
! pays 30 to /, a winner gets 81. 800 which
! approximates the limit which the bank
! has made on single chances, such as the
red or black. All other limits are ar.
4 ranged the same. The Monte Carlo rou.
4 lette will never lose to any single playe I
more than 81 200, or as near as may be
! What may be done by combinations OF
conspiracies among coterie of players is
another story-a story which every well.
4 appearing stranger will have whispered
! in his ear by old offenders in every stage
of pocket, up from obvious po7eryJ IL
seeming affiuence or real. 1t is all plague
The arguments Of some of these are
highly plausible.
/ COMBINATION PLYYERs
There are some candid enough to say
TO me, one of them has written in a
touting brochure, "'Since your method is
so sure, why do you not put it in pradticC
| tor your own account?' Although this
objection has its naivete and shows a
complete ignorance Of the question OF
play, l will ask you how long il has it is
since the architect who Conceives the
plan of house has been obliged to build
it by HIMSELF Must he not have the as
sistance of crowd of arms} The same
| with play.
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