The herald., 1895-05-10

pools and making of books on races and
other contes within the city of Los An
geles.
The mayor and council of the city of
Los Angeles do ordain as foil
Section ]. 1t shall be and hereby is de-
cared unlawful for any person, either as
owner, agent or employee, to conduct or
carry on. or in any capacity to assist in car
rying on the business of pool room,
or to conduct or assist in conducting the
business of making books or selling
pools on races or other contests, within
the corporrte limits of the city OF Los
Angeles. Provided, that the ordinance
shall! not prohibit making books" or
selling pools" during race meeting, on
horse races run or conducted on any track
within the corporate limits Of the city OF
Los Angeles.
See. .. A pool room is defined to be
room or place where betting or laying OF
wa,ers upon the results of races or con-
tests is carried on as business.
Sec. 3. Any person who shall violate
anv of the provisions of this ordinance
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
and upon conviction thereof shall be pun
ished by fine of not exceeding $500 or
by Imprisonment in the city jail for
term not exceeding six months, or may
suffer both such fine and Imprisonment.
Sec 4. The city clerk shall certify to
the same shall take effect from and after
the 18th day of April 1895.
The ordinance was certified passed
April 3. 1895, p" BY City Clerk Lucken bach,
and was approved by Mayor RAIDER April
Sth. On the 18th it took effect
But, not It all discouraged, Durkee &
Fitzgerald and f. ID. Black e Co.. ad-
vised on the excellent advantages Agri
cultural park and University had for their
line of business and promptly secured tie
use OF the space under the grand stand Oh
the track and almost opposite the iudge's
stand. There, with the rafters overhead
and the flying horses practicing along the
stretch in front. they have rigged up
counter and desk. with telegraph instru
ment, and the Appropriate marking
boards. and there ever since the gambling
on "San Francisco and eastern races
has continued, and probably will con-
tinue. because there is no state or county
prohibition OF it, and Agricultural park
is just out of the city limits.
That the management OF the Durkee-
Fitzgerald Black and company comblna-
tion intend 10 intrench themselves there
to stay is evidenced by the fine calcalla-
tions they have made. They can book the
San Francisco and eastern races unhin.
dred under the grand stand, and
when there are local races not proscribe bed
by the ordinance. all they have to do is
to fix up their stands again down town.
Should the supervisors take nand IN the
game, the gamblers can move over to the
corner of the park So acres cut off by
the south city boundary line, and inside
the city they can play the local races to
their hearts delight.
Yesterday Herald reporter boarded a
University car and went out to play the
races" 1t is nice enough ride out, and
the walk on the short cut through the
field of tall and rustlng grain does not
prepare one for the sights at the grand
stand. There a motley crowd of fifty
odd men lounged about among few rows
of chairs that were lined up around and
in front of the counter and looking back
wards. The players were queer mixture
of gentlemen and vagrants-gambers,
men about town, fortune hunting adven-
turers and pool room fiends, dishwashers
and the general riff raft of society. A
few telephone sports were in the
gang-they wore their makeup here and
they could be heard in San Pedro. The
sight was strange one all during the
proceedings. A boyish looking, ely"
young man marked the boards at the
call of the horsy operator at the clicking
key and J. d. Black finished up the man
agement as the cold, shrewd-eyed book
maker Of the story. When the first race
WIS announced the crowd surged around
to the call from Black to Come up boys.
and play the first race in San Fran
CISCO" And the ostenratious sport threw
his money as conspicuously as possible