The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-28
TALES Of THE Town.
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''Sixty-two, 16, A. 25, &c, II, 25, As, So, IA
!, 50, hang it all, 1 haven't hit it there
let's see what's on the other row; A. 16
II, "a, Is, rs, "A, As. SO, So 81, IS; no. /
haven't touched that either. Eighteen
IA. 20, 1 believe 1 will quit playing. Can't
make cent someway. Hackdrivers
soldiers, newsboys and all of them make
a few dollars every once in a while, but
l cannot catch on
The above is a soliloquy by one of the
fellows who try to win $50 on the in
Vestment of q dime.
Somewhere in the city up a stairway.
around corner and in a dark room is a
policy shop. The agencies for the
writers" are located almost anywhere.
one can get ticket sometimes from the
Fellow who sells the Police Gazette, and
then again he can meet the agent on the
street Policy has become very fashion
able since the Twenty-fourth came to
| town. 1t is just as natural for a colored
man to play a gig a saddle or a
spider, as it is to eat. The chances
are big and the investment a small one.
One stands to win a whole lot and
very often they do win. Several around
the city are congratdlating themselves on
having pulled out a lot within the last
few days.
There are complaints made, however,
that minors are allowed to play and that
small boys are wont to eXDend their
street car fares and their lunch money
on policy, but this is denied as often as
reiterated, although it is fair to pre-
sumo that there is more truth than
| poetry in the assertion. Some of the
agents" are men who do not care where
the money comes from, so they get it.
1t is very likely that the game will be
! stopped if complaints do not cease.
Policy is a great game There are Is
numbers in a box and those which come
out are winners. One pays a dime for a
gig three and if they al m
out one gets a twenty. 1t looks easy, too,
but as only u numbers are drawn at a
time. it isn't so easy as it looks. A
spider is d combination which cannot
be explained without a diagram, but
when one gets spider one draws 60
plunks from the bank. Spiders are few
least destructive, when properly con-
Quoted. The chances are great and the
investment small, and when minors are
barred, there isn't the heavy loss
recorded when one sits down to a table
and plays a hundred or so against the
bank, or drops fifty on the wheel.
Just now. however. one of those periodi-
cal waves of reform has hit the city,
and there is likely to be a shaking up
among the gamesters. But it is stated
from skin games as at present. The
big gamblers say the small boosters are
not so numerous as reported. and al
though there are a couple of places
where a verdent green might be fleeced.
as rule they are not plentiful; certainly
not SO numerous as they were year
ago.
It may be news to a great many TO
learn that gamblers despise the crooked
methods as much as those who do not
gamble. The square gambler is content
with the percentage of the game and asks
for no more. The 'tin-horn" to him is an
object of disgust and the man who con-
ducts what is known as a well regu-
n Tad
a crooked nature to go in his place.
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The question as to how to regulate
gambling has puzzled many older mu-
inequalities than this. Without wishing
to express anything which may be con-
Strued as an excuse for its existence. 1t
may be stated that it is well nigh i'm
possible to absolutely spot it. When,
during a recent crusade it was decided to
close them all up. there were no less
that Sc clubs started, where the limit
was the ceiling.
A great deal of dissatisfaction is being
expressed over the action in connection
with the autopsy on the remains OF Miss
Eva Cohen. There is a feeling prevail !
ing to the effect that it would have been
a great deal better to have permitted
burial without inflicting upon the body
the horrors of such a scientific dissection
as was INDUCED in, all to no purpose
One of the physicians present declared
last evening that the autopsy was I'M
and never ought to have been permitted |
He also stated that it developed nothing; |
that the presence of the laudanum in the
stomach was no indication that she COM |
mitted suicide, and that no good purpose |
was served by the operation.
ct is no crime against the statute to |
take ones life he said. and in this |
poor girls case there should have been |
no further action than that of the |
coroner's jury. But, as is the case al
Lot, I,rrcrr hfa1i -nn
were anxious TO satisfy their morbid |
curiosity. and the physicians knives |
were put into effect. The remains We're
so thoroughly saturated so to speak, !
with the embalming fluid that no one
could tell whether the organs We're normal
or not although they appeared so. But the
cutting was done; the results nave peeh
heralded abroad and | presume the ones
who were so anxious for the autopsy are
In some localities, however,
the demands for an autopsy, such as
excited suspicion, although here the
causes We're apparent; the morbid feel
ing had to be assuaged-'
DIR. Harrison. who was Miss Cohen's
physician, was averse to having an au-
topsy performed, and protested against
It. He wrote Justice Sommer a letter
the evening before. strongly protesting
gainst it. but his advice was unheeded-
But if those who were so anxious to have
It performed could hear all the COM
mentS maze upon their COnuuCl, lAcNs |
90, would wish they had kept hands off.
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All sorts of tales are in circulation con-
eerninc the past life of the little woman
who sleeps her last long sleep. 1t is
said she renounced the faith of her faith
.rs, when in fact she had not. She was
member of the Unitarian society be-
,ause, as she expressed it, the faith was
rery much like that she had been taught
n her infancy. She has made a study of ;
heosophy. but did not embrace it, as
understood. She had her own ;
IDEAS of life and death, well defined, too.
md was prepared for her ending. as she
lad so stated several times TO her ply I
ician. She may have died from the eff
ects of the drug. which she was in the
labit of using. but from what she told
Dr. Harrison the day before. she was not I
suicide at all. as she ex-
'ressed herself as believing she was bet
er than she had been for some time.
nd held the hope that this summer she
would be a great deal better than ever