Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-10-09
EYOURsI0NIsTs ROUT GAMBLERS.
Floating Monte Carlo Turned Into
Pirate Craft by Ira.c Passengers.

Pirate Craft by Ira.e Passengers.
New York, Oct. 9.-Piracy in its most
acute comic opera stage was the sensa-
ton in port when the steamship George
anna sailed in from the yachting fleet
Saturday afternoon Il captive in the
hands of her passengers. Their COM
plant was that they had paid their mon
ey to see the yacht race and instead
found they were on board of floating
Monte Carlo in charge of lot of Phila-
delphia gamblers here looking for ''come
ons."
In indignation the passengers met and
passed resolutions that they should take
charge Of the steamship. There were
protests from the gamblers on board, ana
several men were Knocked down and
hurt. There also was mutlny in the
crew, but the passenger pirates won, and
the steamship was sailed into port with
the union jack at half mast and the
American flag reversed.
At pier No. 1 the steamer, stopped for
moment, and several men said to be
gamblers, who had been running the
games on board leaped from the steamer
to shore and escaped. Three others who
could not make the jump took to the riv-
er and escaped with only wetting.
Then the steamship was taken to pier
No G., where the police We're waiting for
her in response to the signals Of distress.
A great crowd had gathered at that
| point, and. with all of the down town po-
lice reserves present, it was hard to dis
tinguish the men accused of gambling
| from the passengers who had been lleec-
ed. SO the gates to the pier were closed,
and nobody was permitted to go ashore
| until they had been identified.
| The leader of the 'piratos,' who had
| justification on their side in addition to
| numbers, was Captain CaA. Q. Norton,
| an old soldier from Hartford. He pre-,
sided at a meeting called by the indig-
nant passengers. who never got within
| five miles of the yacht race.
These are the resolutions passed at
that exciting meeting, while faro, ron
| lette, craps, poker and every conceivable
| gambling game were going on on board:
"Resolved That we hereby protest
against heing helpless majority on
board of a boat occupied and commanded
by a lot of thieves and gamblers: and
"'rhat we take charge of the Gcorgean-
ma, reverse the union jack to attract the
attention of the police and lower the
| American flag to half mast; and
THAT we stop all gambling aboard and
throw the gambling paraphernalia over
| board"
| The committee self elected did all this
| and, increased in force by the addition Of
| every passenger on board steamed for
| New York for an hour and a half with
the Georgoanna a piratical craft, with
| mutiny in the crew and half Il dozen bro
ken heads on board. Captain Norton,
from the bridge, had charge of the ship,
while the real captain was in hiding. The
| broken heads came when the union jack
was reversed That meant distress but
there was more trouble when the com
mittee of pirates drew the American flag
at half mast.
Report is that the Georgeanna was
chartered by New York gambler and Il
nan whose name is common through the
fact that he is a professional bondsman
On the Tuesday Of the race trial and on
Thursday the real inside of the purpose
of the steamer became known, and Wo
men who had taken the trip on thoss
DAYS to see the yacht races were disgust
ed by the language and scenes OH board
So the name of the boat spread, and i
was common report that she was in thu
| hands of n lot of Philadelphia gamblers
who were not here for the yacht races
but to make what they could on the out
side