The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-09-18
Many Punished Through
Their Instrumentality.
AnderS0n's Joint Has Not Yet
Opened For Business.
Report In Circulation About His vtntur:
In Town OF Grams on.

There are just as many gambling dens
ago, but no more. Anderson place on
Plainfield street has not yet been set in
operation. and there are somo people who
profess TO believe that 1t never will be
opened. Old man Anderson is not paying
rent for nothing. however. and he un-
doubtedly intends to occupy those tene-
ments at the earliest opportunity.
There are some people who claim that
his hiring OF the old car shed In Cranston
was only a ruse, designed to draw atten-
tion from his movements in the richer
fields of Olneyville.
1t is also said that he engaged the car
she'd for different business than that OF
gambling. but what that business is could
not be learned.
HIS SPECIALITY.
His speciality is starting and backing
gambling ventures, and IL would be diff
cult to make any one who knows him
believe he wanted the car shed for any
other purpose. Some interesting parties
who have been patching the Plainaeld
street house received q report that the
place was TO be opened.
They called there the following evening
and tried to get In, but the doors were
fast and as far as could be discerned from
the outside all was dark and silent
within.
The report was false alarm but tho
place is still under close surveillance and
when the "opening day" cards ara hung
out Mr.. Anderson will be very likely to
be favored with call from at least one
unbidden visitor. Another place In the
town has been offered to Anderson, it IL
Ea 10 m n
In the Waterman building. 1t will make
little difference where he locates, however,
for IL the decent people of the neighbor-
hood don't object to bis presence, the
other gamblers in the town con be relied
upon to do so, so that he Is sure to meet
with opposition
SENTIMENT AROUSED.
Public sentiment Is pretty thoroughly
aroused against the gambling dens. An
ated.
They are not only an evil in themselves
but they inflicu injury. The gam blers
are vindictive as we'll as generous, as
many individuals and business firms have
reason to know. No methods of retalia-
tion are too harsh for them to apply to
any one who provokes their displeasure
by becoming identified with a movement
for their extermination. There was a
time when a well known gambler en-
ployed thug to go to Johnston from q
distant city to wreak vengeance on GER
tain individual whose conduct had become
obnoxious to him. The boycott Is
favorite mode OF retaliation and has long
been in vogue with the card fraternity.
HE WAS BOYCOTTED.
One business man in Olueyviile claims
to have suffered bv it for being at one
time remotely connected with a move
ment for the suppression OF the gam blers.
He lost business and was in other ways
annoyed.
Another business man is authority for
the statement that tho gambler make
frequent use Of this weapon TO get back
at their enemies. Once man Is placed
under the ban tho word Is passed around,
and strange to say their influence often
extends far beyond their own circle. and
even decent mem bers of the community
are sometimes mhde use Of TO aid them in
carrying out their retaliatory measures.
III the gambler can be kept out or
Cranston they can be driven out OF John.
ston. IL not. why not? The good people OF
Johnston await the answer from the
authorities.