The morning times., 1896-05-03
SPORTS GO UP THE RIVER
Famous Old Gambling Place Re-
opened Last Night.
THEY WERE NOT MOLESTED
Two Yellow Lights on the Hills Be
yond the Auueduct Bridge Gave
Mystic Signal - Would BE Visitors
Were Closely Scrutinized at the
Thirty second Street Wharf.

Two yellow lights fliCkered against the
inky blackness OF the cloud-touched Nlr-
ginia hills just above the Aqueduct Bridge
last night and told to the knowing ones
who saw them that gambling operations
had resumed opposite Three Sisters Is
lands.
Tue lights continued to glimmcr until
the wee sudii nuurs Of the sunday morn
ing and no one attempted TO put stop
to tue lawlessness being enacted there.
From the wharf at the foot of Thirty
second street the little steamer Louise
made periodical trips an hour between.
The dimiputive craft would creep stealthny
up to the pier that formed the riverWard
end Of the small boathouse there. A man
sold tickets for passage on the boat, but
the passports were not sold indlscrlIn-
inately without regard to race, color or
previous condition OF servitude.
NO OTHERS NEED APPLY.
Only those known to the ticket seller or
his two assistants that stood beside him
and placed every newcomer under the
Roentgen rays Of their inspecting glances
were permitted to engage passage on the
vessel. AL other applicants were met
with a stare of antarctic frigidity and in
formed that no tickets were on sale, that
no boat was closer than the Seventh street
wharf and that the men were merely
lettering around the boathouse for their
health If one asked for further 1nforma-
ton he was given the suggestion that his
presence was no longer essential
Pedestrian wandered down to the little
house singly, in pairs, trios, and groups
The inhabitants Of Boston knew where
they were going. AS a Times reporter
strolled down the long hill of Thirty
second street a half score Of loungers at
different points en- route shouted Justify
the well-known numbers aud phrases OF
keno.
At the foot of the hill little colored
urchin piped off the famous ''7-11-44' OF
the policy row and broke into gleeful
shout at his ability to prognostigate so
readily where "de sports were going.
Everybody in Boston understood that the
gambling joint up the river was to open
last night and those that went were not
disappointed.
sNEAKED UP THE RIVER.
The first trip was made shortly before 8
O'Clock. About score of men had boarded
the Louise. Suddenly. without the sound
of bell or the shout of the captain, a muffled
splash was heard and the craft was Off.
The boat steamed so quietly away that
she seemed an animate object that was
holding her breath as far as possible to
prevent detection. A dim light shown
from both fore and stern while n small
green and red light glittered from the
respective sides of the pilot house.
Scudding quietly across the river the
Louise started upstre am. hugging close
| to the Virginia bank. AS she passed under
the bridge many of the foot passengers
did not notice her, she moved so stealthily.
| A small white cloud of steam, but no smoke,
| rose above her.
On her first trip the boat made but n
| brief stop at the landing where the two
| yellow lights glittered. II was long
enough for the passengers to hurriedly
land. however, aud the vessel a gain steamed
away and floated gently down the river