The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-28

than silver dollar, but their cost is enor-
nous, ranging as high as 81, 600. If you
can gain the confidence Of any dealer in
gambling outfits he viii tell you that 40
per cent. Of the material sold is Of the
crooked" kind. This brings the percen-
tage of honest gamblers down to a fine
point.
THE ONLY SQUARE GAME.
Faro is called the only square game, but
as a matter Of fact the slick gambler can
make it surest thing Of them all. All ne
needs is a trace" box and deftness OF
fingers. All dealers have the latter ana
the other can be purchased for 500 to
81, 900. Then the player is at his mercy.
The legitimate advantage Of the banker
at faro consists in splits-that IS, Two c@IuA
of any denomination appearing togelner'
In this case the banker takes half the stake,
as in vingt-et-un. This advantage is estl-
mated with reasonable correctness as apOut
Is per cent. operating continuously
Pr4 the ssprivate snap fellows ignore
the percentage, and increase their winnings
by using either the Bug" box, the hog
hoy +be Needle Tell or the PIN Tell. :"
These names are quite suggestive, and tell
their own story even to the novice A saIe
yav to win is for the dealer to force out a
number of "splits." This is simply done.
MANUFAC Curing SPLITS.
He can use the double deck box, or ne
NAV use 'fstrippers'' to advantage. A pack
If sucb cards contains twenty eight caros
cut to an exact parallelogram and twenty
four cut with a curve on each side. 1haL IS
For illustration, suppose that one side OF
the faro Iayout-the king, queen, jack, ten,
nine and eight-are cut with a curve Inc
others are straight. No matter how OFTEN
+ha dealer may shuttle them, by simple
null with the fingers he can haul out all
the kings. queens, jacks, tens, mines and
Fights After a long, vigorous ana I'M
pressive shuttle he pulls the tWehIy-Io!uI
vide cards out Then with another swift
movement he butts them together, get
ting them in alternatively with the straight
cards He gives them a few rapid cuts,
which do not affect tho case in the least,
and places them in the box. This box is ar
ranged with a wide slot, so that by an
extra dig the dealer can shove out two cafds-
Thus the dealer knows exactly which are
the high and which are the low cards in
the box and he can pull them out at Will
according to the betting on the board
In making these shippers, it is not at all
necessary to have them run IN Dig ana niue
turns. They may be made alternately wide
and narrow from the ace around to the
king At any rate it is extremely hard
for even a sharp eyed man tie detect a
hy dealer in the act Of pulling out two
cards.
end Of the deal, but that occurs so often,
even in square games, that It occasions
no suspicion.
A crooked roulette table costs a mint of
money For those who do not know rou-
lette it can be described in this way: Thirty
eight compartments are made at the edge
of a horizontally revolving wheel, and an
ivory ball is sent whirling by the dealer
around the circumference of an outer and
stationary circle. Two of the compartments
are numbered co. and 80 O." The others
are numbered from one to thirty-six. The
ball. after spinning around the circle for
fifteen or twenty seconds. drops into one of
the compartments of the wheel. which is
moving in an opposite direction. If it drop
into co. or double 20 o. the wheel takes
all the stakes on the board.
If it should drop into any other compart-
ment the player, if he should happen to
have a stake on the right number, is en-
titled to thirty-dve times the amount of his
stake. while the stakes of all the other
players are confseated. 1t will be seen,
therefore, that the legitimate advantage of
the wheel is therefore as thirty-eight to
thirty-six, or a trife over per cent on
each revolution of the wheel.
The crooked table has an attachment, not
unlike that Of a typewriter. Tiny wires
connect with each Of the numbered com
partments, eighteen of the wires being con-
trolIed by one button and the remaining
eighteen by another. A slight pressure on
the button while the wheel is in motion
contracts eighteen of the compartments so
that 1t would be next to impossible for the