The sun., 1897-07-22
GAMBLING IN NEW YoBx TODAY.
Reform Has Not Decreased Its Volume says
Ono who Knows.

This great, big, glorious city Is being run
under false pretences" said the old time gam
bier "The endeavors Of the goody.y .yoody, non
partisan schemers-undcr the slogan OF reform
to mind everybody elses business are turning
New York into paradise Of Pharisees"
The hour was in the afternoon, the scene
prominent corner in the precinct over which
Capt Chapman's whiskers wave, and where
memories Of Parkhurst and his unfortunate fol-
lower, Angel bennett, are fresh II not ex-
actly fragrant.
Look over there" said the gambler, point
ing to n four-story brownstone house adjoin-
ing the side entrance to Broadway hotel. DO
you SEQ those two cops in uniform loungng
against the area railingf Well, they're nos
looking for murdercrs, second-story thieves,
badgers or safe crackers. They are as you can
see, haImessly flirting with couple Of house
VIII The 'aaks efS II ioots tho bin" he continued
others, who in turn will dawdle in front Of that
house; the cost 70 the city each day being,
se 5 do
under the present village rule in New YORK.
IL, That's one phase Of the humbugg we put up
those cops are detailed to watch is occupied S BY
a bookmaker, or gambler II you like Stout,
around the front gate and warn You and me not
to enter, Meanwhile the proprietor smiles and
QOeB q uttle reform WORK or humDuRR1nR
his own hook. Patrons Of his place. who are
pass through a hotel on the next street, out OF a
back door, open gate in fence. and walk
>oldly, sneak IL SO disposed, into the gambling
house which is SO carefully guarded at the front
I've dealt monte in Idaho and faro in Frisco;
I've seen Chicago stagger along under n so
called reform wave, when thugs, sandbaggers,
and crooks OF all sorts piled their games un.
molested, and have always felt that had
show for my money and my life until now and
he NJ pharik
:. Hasn't gambling been driven out Of New
York. you aski I'll answer your question
Yankee fashion. Did Parkhurst remedy mat
ters by his crusade.against the social evil Is
raids on licensed dance ha1l. and his boy de-
tective woman huntingi Has the Parkhurst
upheaval and the succeeding Mysteries in the
pulpit and in police circles made this city any
peter morally, or any saferf No sir; gam.
bling has not been driven out of New York to
failing policemen to stand in front of that house
across the street is just about as effective in
put ting down games of chance the driving
ot women from one precinct to another is effec-
tive in ridding us Of the social evil.
- can show you to-day poker games, faro,
roulette, hazard and other games of chance
run the sneaking order, but run Just the
same. As to bookmaking and poolseling /,
your eyes are open and you know the streets OF
your city. you will experience no difficulty in
putting down a bet on any Of the races.
Of what is known a gentleman's game,
there are only few easy of access but the
police know all about this. They laugh in their
sleeves at the pretence Of running metropolis
on the basis of a village and they know, too,
that crookedness, deadfalls sure-thing games,
badger houses, and traps for the unwary were
never so plentiful as under the braIen, farcicl
Pharisaical rule Of so-called reform"