The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-19
a WOMAN GAMBLER.
An American. and said to BE Re
marlSnbIy Lucky.
From The New York World.

From the New York World.
Monte Carlo. April 15.-Mrs. McAdam,
an American, has just finished the most
successful season of any woman attending
the Casino here.
As she rose from the trente ct quarante
table to-day. after run Of bad luck, the
Worlds representative introduced himself.
She was not in the best of tempers as
she is keenly susceptible to the varying
fortunes Of the gambling table.
Al first she refused 10 speak for publ
cation, but Tegained her equanimity when
asked rs it true you are the biggest win
ner at Monte Carlo this season. She re-
piled:
Il have no means of knowing, but l
have done very wei indeed. There were
some men punters VINO must have done far
better"
1T is stated that you won $50 coo in the
course of yesterday afternoon"
THAT is true, but'--and she smiled re-
gretfully, 81 lost most of it the same even
ing. But I've won that amount several
times and have lost a good part of it, too
at later sittings. Still, ! have nothing to
complain of, although l have had heaps of
bad times and am only getting back some
of the money l gave the bank in former
seasons"
Have you a system?'
Il used TO have, but it is no use. You
can't circumvent a game of pure chance
like this with any system. l tried them
all and found them all worthless. l rely
entirely upon chance. l have no super
stitions about where 1 sit or who is next
me or anything of that sort. They are
more fatal even than systems.
Might 1 ask approxima tely how much
you have won and kept up to date?"
You might put 1t down at $4,000 or
thereabouts. but I've been having bad
luck the last two sittings, and fear I shall
lose 1t all. II / don't leave soon. My hus-
band is coming from England for me in
a few days, and then we return imme-
diately to the United States. 1 wish he
were here to-day. l should have been
between $4,000 and $4,000 richer than I
am"
Mrs AIcAdam is tall and slender, with
an elegant figure and fresh complex
ion and hazel eyes. She was dressed in
cllnging black gown, fitting to per-
lection. She wore a large picture hat
with black and white feathers. She is one
of the most distin guished-looking and
handsome women in the room.
She carried a thick roll of bank notes
in her gloved hand, while a large gold
chain purse, swelling with louis danged
from gold chain on the left wrist.
She returned to the trente ct quarante
table. threw a flfty-louis note $3.50 care
lessly on the black and lost. Then she
threw a hundred-louis on the red and lost
again; then another hundred on the red,
and, as the croupier called out NOR
gagne,' she turned petulantly from the
table.
Her features had undergone a striking
change while playing When she went
away she looked ten years older than
when she began
An official said to the World CORE
spondent
THAT is always the way with her.
When she is winning she looks young and
fresh and beaming, but when losing she
changes at once and gets quite haggard.
She should give 1t up. She cannot stand
the excitement even as well as most wo-
men players, but her luck this season has
been better than that of any one who
has Kept playing 50 long"