The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-09-25
MONTE CARLO BOATS,
Shell Game Workers Infest til.
East 23d Street Ferry.
Patrons Of the maspe,h Night Race,
Their Especial Prey.
PROTESTING, Respectable Pas,en,.
Abused and InsuIted.

Passengers who travel between az
CITY ana brooklyn by way OF the ferr,
running between East Twenty third stres,
ana broadway. Brooklyn, are bitter,,.
complaining of the lawlessness Witt
Is observed on board the ferry.boa,.
usually after dark.
1t Is claimed that gamblers have ,..r
sway and work the unwary passen..al
freely with the ancient but ent,o,ns
shell game. The harvest, II is al,sg.s
has been abundantly satisfactory 70 ~.
! gamblers since the Maspeth races bav.
been running, and no end of "sucker.-
have fallen into THEFT net
Last Saturday night, when s.vo-.,
passengers denounced the practice =
big row was nearly precipitated "a
Is said that as many as three shsn
games were being operated in m.
CABINS OF one of the ferry-boats ana
the gamblers received bets anywber.,
from 10 cents to $40, and, of course owl.
the cappers and the gamblers were N.
winners '
When the deckhands were appeaIsd
to they declined to interfere, but On
the contrary, stood about and watched
the fleeing.
One of the men who was u,,,o.
to the disgraceful proceedings ss,urdav
night, Harris Barnord, a match t..
porter. of 231 Pearl street, termed ,h.i
operations as positively an outrage and
an insult to respectable law-abidins
citizens.
am loath to believe" said he to a,
Evening s mir World, reporter to-day. that
are in the pay of the gamblers hpa
looks very much as IL that state of AZ.
fairs was true. y, al
o,t ~ came ian, back from Maspeth to thI,
o'clock. There was a biz crowd u Of b ni.@
sengers from the races. We had no
sooner left the Broadway dock in BROOK.
shell-game boards. They laid ~
boards on their knees and offered ~ ~
usual odds that man could not Dick
oul the shell covering the pea.
saw many OF the victims drawn an
py the cappers, for there were two or
three OF them to each game. I stood
up on one of the seats in the cabin
ana shouted to the men who were being
drawn into the game to avoid ths
books; 'Ae'
This aroused the gamblers to anger
anu sSNtTdi VI the CapDerS surrounded
me. l was commanded to hold INV
tongue or would be thrown through
the cabin window.
Other, OF the respectable passenger
sympathized with my effort to bring ira
gamblers to time, but II grew SO hot in
the cabin that l really was afraid 81
bodily harm. W
=, But the gambling continued on lust
the same until We reached this CITY
Before reaching here I had appealed 70
and threatened the deckhands to stop
the shell games. but to no purpose Even
when ] declared that I would report
their conduct to the Company, they con.
tinued to watch the game and hugely
enjoyed the sport eS"
Il don't believe that 1t would amount
to much to personally inform the Com.
pany. THE Evening world'' can stop
the nuisance. r
"On leaving the boat, two men gave
me their names and said: Call on us II
you need any evidence.
The names of the men are E. L. Chi.
chester, of ia East Seventy-first street \
and l.. Buelgelsen. of 1851 Lexington
avenue.
The slips of the East Twenty-third
street ferry. which Is run by the New
York Ferry Company, are on the New
York side, in the Eighteenth Police Pre-
cinct. or under Capt. John Gallaghers
jurisdiction. Inspector Williams In
whose district this Is, said this morns
ing that he had never heard of gamblesV
working the shell game on the ferry
boats, and that he would make an In
Vestigation.