Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1897-08-12

their souis are plunged the heaks which |
viii never BE- lifted. Swing open the door Of |
fAAt man 5 heart and you see coil Of ad- i
ders wriggline their indesc1bable horror
nnti voa turn away and hide your face and
ask Goa 10 help YOU IL forget 1t. The
most q this evil Is unadvertised. The
community does not hear Of It. Ien de-
irauded III gambling establishments
are not fools enough to tell OF 1t.
once in awhile, however, there Is an
exposure, a. when in Boston the police
s"ooped upon a gaming establishment and
found In IL the representatives. of all classes
81 citizens. from the first merchants on
state street to the low Ann street gambler:
as when Bullock, the cashier OF the Central
Railroad Of Georgia, was found to have
stolen s103 900 for the purpose of carrying
On gambling practices, a. when young
man In one Of the savings banks Of Brook
lyn many wears ago was found TO have
stolen -40. 900 to carry on gaming practices;
as wnen man connected with q Wall street
Insurance company was found to have
stolen sl08, 900 to carry on his gaming prac
ticea. But that Is exceptional.
Generally the n ouey leaks silently from
the merchant 5 till into the gamester's wal
let. | believe that ono Of the main pipes
leading to this sewer Of fniquitv is the ex-
citemcnt Of business life. Is ii not sig
niiieant fact that the majority Of the day
gambling houses in New York are in prox-
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element OF stock gambling and from that
they plunge into the gambling houses. as.
when men are intoxicated. they 90 into a
liquor saloon to get more drink. The agi-
tation Tint il witnessed in the stock market
when the chair announced the word
.Northwcstcrn (" or Fort WAYNE" or
Rock Island or New York Central 4
and the rat tat tat, of the auctioneers
shammcr, and tho excitement of makingI
corners" and getting up pools and
carrying stock AMI n "break" from eighty
to seventy AMI the excitement Of rushing
around IN curb-tone brokerage. and til"
Sudden cries of 'Euver three Buyer
ton' Take en- "How many?" and the
making or losing Of 10000 by one opera
ton units n man to 90 home, and 50 he
goes up the flight ~ stairs amid business
Offices. to the dartly curtained, wooden
-hutt"rnd room. gavly furnished inside
and takes his place a tho roulette or the
faro table I}ut / cannot tell all the pro
cess bv which men get into this evil. 4
man went to New York. He was a Western
merchant. lie went into gaming
hou4" on Park place. Before morning he
had lost all hs money save Il, ana nc
movel ar0und,ah0ut with that dollar in his
hand. and after awhile caught still more
powerfully under the informal infatnation,
ha came ~ and put down tho dollar and
cried ont until thev heard him through the
saloon, "One thousand mics from home,
and my last dollar on the gaming table
Many years ago for sermonic purposes
and in company With the chief OF police Of
New York | visited fhc ofthe most brilliant
gambling houses in that city. 1t was
night and as we came up in front all
seemed dark The blinds We're down. the
door was guarded, but after a whispering
Of the officer with the guard at the door we
were admitted into the hail. and thence into
the parlOrs around one table finding eight
ar ten mon in mdlife. well dressed al the
work going on in silence. save the noise Of
the rattliug ''chin4N on the gaming table
/ In one paror AMI tho revolving bail OF the
! rouIctt . table in he other Parlor. Some Of
/ these men we were told had served terms
| IN prison some were shl wrecked bankers
/ and brokers ani money iraI"rs. and some
| w"r, going their first rounds Of vice-lut
/ all intent II on the table. as large or small
! fortunes moved up and down before them
4 Oh there was something aWfuliy sole mn in
! Tho silence intense caz". the sup
! pressed emotions of til" players No one
(! iookedup They uIi had money III TIE
rapids. and | have no doubt some saw.
rs they sat there. horses and car
riares. and houses apl lands,
anl home ani family rushing
! down int tho vortex. man : life would
not have been worth Il farthnG III hat pres
t,nee had he not been Accompanied by tn"
police If he had heen supposed TO be on 4
/ Christian GRAND u observation. Some Of
| these men went Nv private key. some went
III hy careful introduetion some Were
taken in by tn" patrons of the cstapIish-
mont. The officer of the law told me-.
4 .,\one g-ta in here,cxc.ft hv police man
aatc. or by. some Letter of q patron.' While
W. were there Young man "am' IN, put
hi- money down on tn" roulette table ani
lost: put more money lown on the roulette
tn IL and lost: mt moro money down on
The, roulette table anti lost; then feeling in
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