The sun., 1897-10-10
SARATOGA MADE MONEY.
LITTLE WICK EDNESs WAS FOUND
TO PlE LAST SUMNER.


strtctIonu-PInus for RacinE Next senson-
The GnmbiinE Houses Made Money Toe
SARATOGA, Oct. 9.-Saratoga, after being
good. according to bluelaw standard FOR
twenty-four months, tried being moderately
wicked for four months this year. aud found
that n little wickodncss Is profitable thins,
at any rate from u pccuniary standpoint.
Months before the season of 1897 opened. 10
was announced that gambling. under certain
well.denned restrictions, would bo permitted
during tho summer. The result has been thar
Saratoga has had the most profitable sooson
it has known In years. For the past week 'ho
accountants OF The shopkecpers and the hoiei
proprietors have been at work, and they nave
found that their books show balances on the
right side sufficient to preclude the necessity
of enybody's eating snowballs here this winter.
There was neither horse racing nor gam
bling in Saratoga during the summer Of 1928.
The reform wave which was sweeping tho
country struck the town. Reformers ran tho
Government, and IL was announced that those
who violated the laws would be prosecuted
vigorously. The proprietor OF Morrisseye
Clubhouse was told that IL he opened his
doors he must stand the consequences. ITO
knew what those consequences would be ana
kept his place closed. Tho smaller fry among
the sporting fraternity took good caro- to keor
under cover. Gottfriod Walbaum and tho
factory racing dates from the Jockey Club, and
the race track gates were closed all summer.
The town, from June to Oct. /, was rs quiet
and pious as could be. The great hotels wero
all open, but tho summer brcczes found lew
boarders to obstruct their sweep Of the long
corridors and broad piazzas. At the end OF
the season the hotel ledgcrs showed big def
cts That was the price of reform, the hotel
people said.
Tho election in the early spring, after Q
winter during which business was done large.
" on credit disposed of reform temporarily.
Men Of more liberal ideas were put in Office.
A season moro profitable than any Saratoga
has known, since 1894, at least, has been the
result. Everybody, merchants. the keepers
of boarding houses, and the proprietors Of the
large hotels, have something substantial to
show for their summers work. The pastor
of one OF the village churches was asked the
other day what he thought Of the season. His
answer was:
Truly the Lord has been with US this sum.
mer. have just received all my salary that
was back from last year.
'well, Doctor" remarked his questioner,
Everybody says that the prosperous season 10
due to the fact that the race track and club
house were open; Do you mean to say you sano-
Far from it, my friend. How could you sug.
gest such b, thing to me- Gambling bn d y an min In.
Sa ths the lost he
money here But we should be charitable to.the
chasteped. @ Did | "a tel hi you that all my back
have been similarly benefited There arc many
Emergency Hospital and the Chidrens Home
| and the Day Nursery, the Home for Poor. Women,
o1Sers 5nS Many of S will 81
able TO carry on their WORK on larger scale
| this winter. owing to the liberal contributions
| made them nv SDOrtinR The banks
carrying fewer notes on renewal than they have
more promptly than for some time past
And this is not all; The money left in Sara
carry, out a scheme which would have been inn
possible, or nearly SO, at any time since 1894.
Of the Saratoga facing ASSOCIATION on and ddpIp paS
through project OF racing here next season suG-
mission and officers of the Jockey Club. The
Saratoga Racing Association, as at present
one of the nlagnatcs of Guttenburg when racing
! was in full swing on the heights OF Weehawken.
August h Bemon Presdent Of the heFt state @
Racing Commission and of the Jockey Club and
%ex,C9ngresssm1an % s s1 John Sanford Of Amsterdam, q
the IuTrcanla stock farm. met a number of
the leading citizens Of the town one evening at
Mr.. Sanford made speeches. They urged that the
race track should be owned. not by foreign
Then they outlined scheme for the purchase
of the track The scheme provided for raj sinl,
dents of Saratoga to make the purchase. Tho
management or the track TO be in the
hands m q a board Of trustees 10 be appointed BY
holders. This board was to have sole control
of 1.-THE the racing for a period of twenty years.
committee. of which W. Edgar Woollcy was
the Chairman, was appointed to secure from
price named by Wabanm am was a sss5 se eoG. which,
1nSludsd nnd ,a mortgage ON the properly of S25,
price, and not Walbapm's lowest figure. The
property cost about that amount. Wnen the
committee Of seven, Of which Col. H: s. Gle. ;.
lnent IS the Chairman. was appointed to can
This Committee is at MorS now U 'hf stk
about 300 900 has been subscribed.
is w%rk Sn offer FL 'hs @ be- made n
offer, Offer bur i Illl not be ss6Gooo. II he de-:
mediately to work to bull Id another race track,
which will be Completed in time for racing
apply to the Jockey Club for racing dates, and and
from what is known here it is believed that
greater favor with the Jockey Club than any
Mr.; Walbanm may make; In that event. he
track into corncd than to use 'M II FOR MS b.s race
was originally intended.
While Saratogians think a little gaming Is
good for the town, every man of substance and
every voter has has very decided notions about tho
sport. stranger who dropped into Saratoga
last summer would have had difficulty in ind
ing gambling bling resort without a guide. There
chance was operated. The clubhouse is on "a !,
side street, block from broadway, and the
three or four other games that were running
were still further removed from the princjna1
congregating points OF visitors.
Nobody could get into one of the places nm
less he was vouched for. The result was that
the gambling disturbed no one. 1t is a safe
prediction. now that 1t has been tried both
ways, that never again will wide-opcn gam.
bling be tolerated in Saratoga. e'
The system OF Regulating gambling which
in most instances. benefited the gambler a;
Wci VEL, ,r as the Ito town; w Early in the season the
The result was that never in tho history NJ tbc
famous resort was there such heavy play. For
several weeks the house was heavy loser. A
ocratic organizations in Now York and hn,
many time gone out OF the clubhouse broke in
about two months play. The brothcr.in-Iaw OF