The evening world., 1894-07-13
Come On, Boys Make Your
Bets" the Cry While Pa
trolmen Walk By.
NO POOL TICKETS GIVEN OUT.
But Employees Record the Waoers
and There Is No Effort at
ConcsaIment.

There Is pool-room wide open In
broadway, in the heart of the Tenderioin
district, and only two blocks away from
the station-house at which Max schmitt-
berger presides. The persons who run
'his establishment say everything is all
right now that the Lexow Committee
has adjourned If you are well enough
acquainted to inquire. How sbeut the
police?' they will reply: oh, they're aJs
right; they've been Fixed"
This pool-room is at 1913 Broadway. a
few doors from Days Theatre. Years
ago there vas poo.-room there which
was run BY Michael Minden. The or
Ger which supt. Byraes issued to close
the pool-rooms ended the life Of that
establishment. but with the appearance
OF "hand-books' at the saloons Of the
city there has been revival of business
In Minden's old place
When the Lexow Committee turned its
searchlisht upon the dark places Of the
city, there was a slight check to the
handbook business but as soon as
the Senators departed there began TO
appear at the hotels and in the saloons
along upper Broadway the same faces
which had been seen through the grated
windows which had previously swsl-
lowed up the dollars of hackers of good
things, " cinChes,' and other certain.
ties of fate. Handbooks" are being
made to-day at perhaps twenty per cent.
OF the avenue saloons uptown.
The pool-room at 1918 Broadway Is
perhaps the simplest in point OF para
phernaia that ever did business in
hep NJ, Ia Il a.
cover the walls no loud announcer
calls out They're off. Glorians in the
lead no partitions separate the money
box from the betting crowd, and there
is absolutely no transaction not actu-
ally necessary 20 conduct a poo-room.
The operation of the room can be
seen from the sidewalk itself through
the swinging doors that give entrance
to "Mlier's' saloon. The front OF the
building is an ordinary upper Broad
way saloon facade, with four half doors
opening into the street. The visitor en-
tiers and tinds himself in front of cigar
counter. Further along Is barroon,,
where the attendants make no bones"
of discussing the good things that
might be bet on in the back room.
through the open entrance of which
with a throng decidedly more mixed in
its makeup Than the average group OF
RIalto loungers.
This rear apartment is reached only
through the bar, and with the races have
been run. for the day. reassumes the
aspect OF an ordinary saloon back
room" During the day but FIVE small
number OF chairs, the remainder being
pllel up on top OF the ice-boX to make
room for the crowd of SPECTATORS. The
prettlly decorated with oak trimmings
and several choice paintings hang upon
the walls.
Agsinst the rear wall is huge mirror.
click click" That this instrument IS
Of lt,tle use . the proprietors as means
later on. and although Jockeys, odds and
scratches are declared no Geographic
communication exists.
Thirtieth street, are RANGED four tables
IN row, at which four individuals
are sitting, each in his shrtsleeves and
prlmed for business. These tables are
so placed as to nj all that side of the
room from the ice-box 10 the rear wall.
At the FIRST is young man whose face
OF betting sheet Tall, with dark hair
falling straight down over his forehead,
with prominent features and an alert
look upon his face, he sits with ready
blank tickets, by inches in size. At
his lef, hand is an ordinary letter file.
Reside him, at the next table, ts a
medium. sized, light young man, before
whom reposes a percentage card"
Mo nurmurs in a low tone, "'Come on.
sovs. not much more time, come on.
now
u want 70 bet 81 on Florence" said
an Evening World reporter stepping
NJ 10 the table
Al right sir, what irtlals?" was
the prompt reply, and the ticket-writer
rued out card with &c Florence"
and stuck II into the letter-hle under Its
proper index. This pool-room has not
Vet gone hack 10 the old practice OF
issuing tickets to be presented after the
race and cashed, but memorandum Is
made as has been described, thus doing
away with the additional psrsphernslls
OF sheet and tickets
At the other two tables on this side OF