The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-06-22
SlO,OOO,OOO FOR RACING.
That Is What New York Will Spend
This Year on Gambling.
How It Win Be Divided-It Is Said
That one-third Of It Is Gained Dis
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city OF New York and vicinity will ex-
hibit shortage of about 100000.
We have seen one great racing event so
far, the spring meeting of the Brooklyn
Jockey Club. The handicap cost the
good people Of New York and outlying
villages, not to mention the brilliant ar
ray of sports from all parts of the United
States that visited us on that occasion,
$1,000, 900 in round figures, so we are told.
Sixty thousand dollars of that sum went
for entrance fees alone, $4,000 for the
rent of the gambling booths, which is
only nominally paid by the bookmakers;
$4,000 for refreshments and incidentals;
the rest was lost in miscalculations
or otherwise, of the horses speed.
That fully as much money will be
spent on the great Suburban of the Coney
Island Jockey Club at Sheepshead Bay on
June 81 goes without saying Just look at
the array-Dr. Rice, Clifford Sir Walter,
Lamplighter, Leonawell, Lowlander, Don
Alonzo, Sport, Banquet, etc.-all Handi-
cap, Suburban, tuturity and Metropoli-
tan winners of the past. What further
incentive is wanted to open eyerybody's
pocketF The Gravesend meeting of Sep
TENDER OF the Brooklyn jockey Club,
when the Oriental Handicap will be run,
likewise promises TO be a million dollar
event, and the Manhattan Handicap in
october, run under the auspices of the
New York Jockey Club at Westchester,
Is sure of $1,000 head audience, just be-
cause the racing season is then about to
close.
Thus 81, GOO, 000,of the $40. OOO. 900 are ac-
counted for. The decoration day races at
West Brighton were not star event, but
succeeded pretty well in loosening peo-
pies purse strings. and similar proceed
lngs are now carried on day after day at
Morris Park. where betting will con-
tinue until June 10. On June 81 the
Coney Island Jockey Club will succeed
the Brooklyn and New York organiza-
tions in experimenting racing and betting
events until the end of the first week in
July. Then the Brighton Beach Racing
Association steps in, and from Aug. Is to
Sept. Bthe Sheepshead Bay race tracks
are once more thrown open, with the
tuturity stakes as special attraction.
Inc Brooklyn Jockey Club holds forth at
GraYesend after that until Sept. 20, to be
succeeded by the New York Jockey Club
at Westchester until Oct 10.
we are not a nation given to statistics,
and the law does not force private folks
to double bookkeeping actualities; but.
even if the income tax had become law
and European spy methods were intro.
| doubt If our sovereign citizens, and es-
| pecially our citOyenness, would care to
place to their discredit pardon, | mean
| on the debt side of their ledgers( their in
| dividual shares in the grand total OF bet
| ting losses and as to the names of the
| parties who drew on them so literally
| and so frequently lit was all spot cash
business), surely nobody would want TO
see them black on white.
NOTHING TO SHOW FOR IT.
Ten million dollars going, going, gone!
| On the 18th of October we viii ask our
selves what has becohfe of it? What have
we got to show for that tremendous out
| put? Where is it invested?
| We are mighty proud of our fresh air
| funds, our children's hospitals and all our
| Christian charities. They are literally
enough endowed; but as to ten millions
! hard cash for such purposes, that would
| be tax upon public revenue approaching
only the figures of beer and spirits CON
sumption.
And another question: Those SIC, 000, 900,
| where did they come from2
| Men who concern themselves with mat
tiers of public morality. of conscience and
intuitive ethical principles advise us to
consult for answer the columns of the
daily press in the period from May TO
| October, and especially those pages re
porting breaches of trust and robberies,
common theft and embellishments, defal-
cations and bankruptcies, forgeries and
| check raising practices; also cases of sui
eide, murder and insanity. The advocates
Of fair play" on the other hand, those
wishing to give the players an interest in
the game, "to make it exciting" prefer
| not TO be interviewed. If they could be
| prevailed upon to give their honest opin-
ion, they would say the friends of good
| horse flesh had used up their savings, had
| perhaps drawn some Of their salary in ad-
vance some might have gone so far as to
place mortgage on their house next to
| the lightning rod
l showed one Of these devotees Of the
turf clipping from London paper, con-
tanning the report of the gambling
census" taken by the committee of some
| legal society, and setting forth that
mothers of families bet away their
husbands wages and pawn clothes and
furniture to obtain funds for the Derby'
'Pshaw!' he said, this is not poverty
stricken England Our American girls
and women generally have little money
of their own. They can earn it, you
know, and why should they not spend it
In the manner most agreeable to them 20
But when | interviewed a number of
pawnbrokers on the east and west side
of New York and likewise of Brooklyn, 1
| was told, with many funny side remarks,
that racing days" and the twenty-four
hours preceding them were "hummers,
and no mistake
One mans word is as good as the
others, and all are Interested Accord
| ing to reliable data collected by we'll
known local society for the enforcement
OF the law, one third of the betting funds
spent on the race tracks of New York
and vicinity during the last few years
| emanated from criminal sources. AS
money is scarce just now, and the tempta-
tion TO better ones position by bold APP
| peal to fortune to which weak mankind
always clings, in consequence is greater
than ever. the percentage of ill-gotten
| wealth that has been and will be staked
! on the horses, not to mention the good
will of owners and Jockeys, is this year
expected to be largely in excess of previ-
| Gus records.
As to the honest betters, they will
| probably have to resort to the meaner
forms of losing their money French pool
and Investments without in the field
| bookmakers. The first is lottery pure
and simple, and the other more or less of
a bunko game.
J In the French pool, tickets are sold on
| all the horses in the race, the proceeds
being placed in one pool, minus a commits
sion for the croupier and divided among
the holders of tickets upon the winning
| horse or horses, so that ticket buyers lose
| Z Al.