The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-08-10
RUINED BY IT.
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The husband walks the streets OF the
city hopeless outcast.
He had friend who played policy and
this friend injected the gam bling poison.
One day business was slack in his Ex'
change Place place OF business ana the
friend induced him to 90 with him to d
policy shop. He saw how easily it was tc
preston on him after the enormous gains
for the money invested was explained.
The friend won $40 that uay.
Ii seemed big sum for so little effort.
TO get profit like that he would have
TO work early and late at his business,
and the winning seemed "A good deal big
ger when the dull state OF trade was
taken into consideration.
A DISASTROUS DAY.
The friend happened in another dull
day and that dull day was disastrous, for
the young man decided he would try his
luck to offset the dull business.
1t seems To be fate that makes the be-
rinner lucky He won $40 that day and
he looked upon 10 rs part of lis business
profit Every dull day he played policy
and he played it for large sums. He was
away from his store frequently and men
who wanted to SEQ him and do business
with him could not find him. He was
hanging around the policy shops. Like
all the other victims he spent "a lot of
time talking with the policy sharps
WHO were entertaining fellows. They
could tell of small fortunes won at the
game and in the Louisiana lottery. They
referred TO Donovan of the fire depart
ment who won 5000; To Field who got
Sl3, 600 and OF other men who had made
a ton strike at the game.
Field is now a poor man and Donovan
after playing good share of his 5000
back again and going down the scale of
life almost as fast as he could, committed
suicide short time ago.
THE SAME OLD STORY.
1t ia the story OF nearly all the victims
OF the game. The money slips away and
self-respect and am mbition goes with it,
until the level OF the tramp is reached.
Well the Exchange place young man
drank in the fairy tales Of gain, played
the game steadily, kept away from his
b is own money. for that that he had won
had gone into the hands Of the policy
ILen; customers could not find him and
they went elsewhere TO trade.
The policy player could not understand
why his business had fallen off and he
laid il to tho general state of trade.
Finally creditors became impatient at the
delay in the settlement of their accounts.
and then there came an attachment.
Then 10 became known that the young
man could not begin to pay his debts and
the contents OF the store were sold to
meet the long standing bills.
A GOOD MAN FOR THE SHARPS.
The man was ruined for business. All
he could think OF was policy and when at
last he could not raise money To play
with, lie became one of the employees and
WAS paid $40 week to- do the office work.
He was smart and he made good man
for the robbers.
Even with the terrible lesson vividly
before him he could not refrain from
playing the game and he visited the other
shops and spent his weekly wages. He
won sometimes and this only kept tine
fearful appetite alive.
Every day he dropped lower and lower
until he increased the quantity of ardent
spirits with which he endeavored to keep
his spirits up. He had not lost all recol-
lection Of happier days and thoughts of
his wife and children and his miserable
state helpod the growing inclination
toward drink.
In short time he became so obnoxious
that even the policy men did not care to
have him about and no went out into the
street to become what he is today, an
outcast
This great agency OF destruction can
To stopped az easily as faro bank and
roulette playing. There is none of that
in the city and tho police can prevent
policy by simply issuing an order and
seeing that it is executed.
CAPTAIN Matthew'S duty is plain.
The duty OF the chief OF police is plain
and the mayor knows that he could
stop policy by calling the chief of the
police departmont and telling him that
policy shall disgrace the city no longer