The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-17


one only. on the red. for instance. and red
had won. she would not have been paid
the fun amount OF 1920 francs that she
now had on hand, and had betted. so TO
speak, as that was 10 francs over maxi
mum. In summing up this case correct
~, and admitting that our American girl
won on the IL three times in succession,
we easily arrive at the total amount OF
the handsome little fortune which she
was at length prevailed upon to pocket"
1t may be stated thus:
Won in first bet of 20 francs. 100 francs
Won in second bet of $50
francs ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. $500 francs
Won in third bet of $50 francs. $500 francs
Total amounts won ...........l3S00 francs
or course, $3.50 Is quite nice little
fortune" to pocket at Monte Carlo, but
what an Insignificant sum it is to the over
Sl3S,000 which some of US saw an Amerl-
can boy win in two afternoons al that
same earthly paradise" a few years back
Harry Resented was from Chicago, and
he shares with a captain In the English
Hussars, a British squire by the name OF
Blythe, the late allan Thorndyke Rice,
Nine. Fanny Roberts. a famous demi-
mondaine of Paris midnight society. and
few others, the proud honor of having
won enormous sums of money at roulette
or at trente ct quarante in the principal
ity of Monaco. But Rosenfeds fame is
even greater than any of the Others for
it was of him and concerning him that
the popular song, The Man That Broke
the Bank at Monte Carlo" was composed.
The present writer saw all these zee
lebrities' make their big winnings and he
knows moreover, that with one exception,
each of them lost It all back again, and IA
great deal of their own money on top OF
it, The single exception was Mr.. Rice,
but then he was not a real sport" he
hadn't the right kind of backbone" TO
be a big player, and he was one of the
worst losers that ever gambled. In two
successive afternoons he won something
like $33 900, According TO his own story,
1t was $4,000 francs one day and S2000
francs the next and he said he stopped
playing because the excitement of win
ming so much money gave him severe
headaches Indeed, so unstrung were his
nerves by these two days of play that h.
left Monte Carlo and went on a visit to
Taggia, beyond San Reno, as he wanted
to see the birthplace of Rufini. the author
of Doctor Antonio" and other novels.
Three or four days later he was back
at Monte Carlo, and was pointed out as a
man who had won over $4,000 francs a
day at trente ct quarante TO a reporter
for the Associated Press, who, HAVING
learned his name and the date of his ar
TlNdl from IdIlst not lldtAs pun NHlS anu
that togetehr by multiplying eight days
by 10000 and thus produced a dispatcn
which told the United States world the
wonderful news of how the editor-propr-
etor of the North American Review had
broken the bank by winning more than
a million at Monte Carlo. He took good
care to leave out the word francs, and
naturally American readers put in tho
word dollars, so that a great sensation
nj In.
ism" rushed in with its usual boastfulness
1t was Hip, hip hoorayr all over our
country for the clever American who had
won so much by gambling, just as IL was
Hip, nip, hoorayw the other day for the
clever young oarsman who brought over
those diamond SOULS" from Henley.
Broke the bank at Monte Carlo" in
deed! Why. person or party would have
to win as much as 81, 100000 to do that, as
at no time in the winter season, between
Nov. 20 and April 10. is there ever less
than 100000 francs on deposit in the Ca
sino vaults. The winnings of the Casino
are so enormous that they amount to $16-
900 on an average for every day In the
year. This gambling day begins precise
ly at noon and 1t ends as precisely at II
o'clock p, NJ, 1t would be possible, may
be, If a dozen or so of the thousands of
persons who crowd into the place daily
and hastily bet on a game that has been
arranged for them to lose att would,
perhaps, be possible, should ten or twelve
players win 1000 or 5000 louis every day
during a whole week, for them to break
the bank" but not otherwise.
Every winter there are big gamesters at
Monte Carlo and determined efforts to
win large sums either by a System" or
skilful judgment, have been going on for
the past fifteen or eighteen years. But
there is no system, no cleVerness, no good
luck that can possibly beat the bank in
the long run. No kind of play or posi-
BILE calculation can guarantee success at
roulette. 1t Is perfectly fair, as the bank
never cheats, but the table and the scale
of payment on winning chances are so ar
ranged as to give the Casino a regular
percentage on all the stakes, so that the
bank Is bound to win. This certain COM
mission to the house amounts to per
centum of all money staked on each epin
of the ball at roulette, and to ~ per CEN
tum Of all the bets made on every deal
at trente ct quarante. The inspectors and
croupiers will tell you that this is their
list of odds-they openly admit the fact
They will not let any one play minute
before midday nor minute later than II
O'Clock at night; and, indeed, you are
never asked to play. You may wander
freely around the gambling rooms as a
mere lookeron; you may stroll, without
paying anything, into a magnificent hall
and hear a band of musicians, which is
quite the equal of our own famous Boston
Symphonic Orchestra. There is a reading
room, where there are over $4,000 books, as