The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-29
0PEN DAY and NIGHT
PHOENIX, ARIZ.. PROBABLY THE
WARMEsT TOWN ON THE
CONTINENT
NEARLY EVERYBODY CANDLES
Splendid Resorts for Those Who
Wish to Tempt Fortune All
= Kinds of Games Carried on Under
Protection of Regular License
Many Lottery Drawings.

Many Lottery Drawings.
$50 you've never been down in
Phoenix" said one fellow traveller on the
cars from Prescott southwark. well,
partner. you're a-going to see the gayest,
honestest and wholesalest gamblin' town
in the hull West Amt no town what can
touch her. Whopping big games been a.
runnin in Phoenix all winter. Seen many
man drop or win $500 or $4,000 in one
evenin at faro. Seen Chicago or Frisco
sports play roulette for hours with S.
gold pieces. I've been all over the West.
Spring and fall, for twenty-five years.
and. L tell you, friend, there's no town
that can touch Phoenix for wide open
ways"
There are about 5000 people in Phoenix.
The population has doubled in four years.
and is growing all the time. says the
DinVer Times. Eastern capital has
wrougt. wonders in the town and its en-
virons From sleepy adobe pueblo Phoe-
nix has been transformed into thriving,
up-to-date community. In her adobe days
Phoenix was famous for her gambling
and now in her cityhood and prosperity
she is a southwestern prototype of Mon
AGO. on the shores of the Mediterranean.
Betting is as common as meal taking
and faro, roulette and lotteries are indi-
genous.
While there aus, perhaps. some hun
dreds of men in Phoenix who are never
seen inside the glittering gambling halls
of their town, there could not be a more
wide-open community. Men of all classes
frequent the gambling places for some
part of each day or night.
NO SECRECY ABOUT IT.
The coming and going is as free as from
a pOstoff1ce. No green baize doors bar the
view. There are no dark secret stair
ways to climb to upper gaming rooms and
cards of Introduction and passwords
through hole in a door are unnecessary
to gain admission to gambling in the
wide-open town. If the gaming We're con-
Quoted in the very streets it could scarce
ly be more open and above board. AT
any hour of the day or night one may
step from Washington-the main thor
oughfare of PhoeniX-Straight into any of
the gambling saloons. Seven nights in the
week they are thronged with men, and
on Saturday and Sunday nights they are
crowded. Each game in the saloon is in
the center of a circle of spectators and
players, while as many more men stand
about the place and chat and smoke.
group of cattlemen just in from the
range; over there are miners who have
come with swollen wallets down from
Jerome, Congress- Wickenburg and Pres
colt; yonder are a dozen vaqueros in SOM
breros and spurs, and a few local mer-
chants. There are alfalfa ranchmen from
Tempe and Mesa; tourists in the latest
London fashion and hailing from a dozen
northern cities, and elegantly CARRIED and
1eweied gamblers from every city in
America. Day and might the gaming goes
ceaselessly on from September to May
Then, when the town settles down for
a-summer rest. the gambling proceeds
sixteen and eighteen hours of the twenty
four. Gamb bling is licensed at Phoenix as
at Monte Carlo, and thousands of dollars
are turned into the city treasury the
proprietors OF the. saloons every year.
A GORGEOUS RESORT.
The glitter and glare of several of the
gambling saloons are artisically created.
A lot of gold has been spent in the fur
rfshing and decoration of two or three
OF the larger saloons. The Palace of Ari-
iona is by long odds the most gorgeous,
gambling Institution of the Southwest if
not in the West. Veteran gamblers, who
have sat about the green tables for long
er than generation in all states and ter
ritOries, say the palace at Phoenix is
more ornate than John ATorisseys Goth
attractive than the old Crescent club in
New Orleans. At evening when the
throngs of visitors are thckest and the
gambling is in full blast there are few
more alluring and Sarsh scenes than that
In the palace at Phoenix
Imagine a great room TWENTY-FIVE feet
high "A fFieze of incandesccnt electric
lights run about the upper wall. and arc
lights Sputter in the ceiling The fres-
coed walls are set off here and there bv
costly painted copies of Venuses Junos
and Eurydices galore, all in elaborate
heavy gilt frames. A mammoth bar.
backed by great mirrors pyramids Of
gl1tterlng glassware and a blaze of COL
ored= lights, is on the left as one enters
A roulette game, about which young
men are packed four feet deep, is on the
right and opposite the bar Close to
the bar on the left heavy semicircle of
men-tourfsts cowboys, MeXicans and
professlorals-is packed closely about a
1aro table. NO one speaks there and the
watchful faces, tell the earnestness of
dealer and players. Often there are two
or more faro games in progress Farther
to the rear on the left is a high counter
of polished oak and mahogany where
several men sit and conduct policy and
lottery enterprises. A huge glass wheel
OF the typical lottery wheel shape stands
at a corner of the counter and three
times every day of the week ne drawinoyS
take place from It.
PROFESSIONAL ENTERTAINMENT
The young women who are EMPLOYED nv
the proprietors of the gambling halls to
cheer the hearts of its patrons and at the
same time keep up the bar receipts make
Il story by themselves. They are on dutv
In the saloons from Z p. M until mid
night, seven evenings in the week Their
ranks are recruited from the comic on
era choruses in San Francisco, Denver
and Los Angeles. The pay varies from
80 TO 81 a night. The Palace OF Arizona
employs Tour and sometimes six Young
women entertainers. They are usually
engaged for a season of a month or six
weeks and sometimes a young woman
proves so popular with the patrons of
the place that she is employed for several
months. Eevery evening at Z the younp
women appear at the saloon dressed in
gowns of most striking color.
There.is no programme Of music The
entertainers-as they are professionally
known in the territory-sing solos duos
or trfos, as they feel inclined, and the
music takes. A soprano may sing airs
from grand opera, another singer may
give coon songs and a contralto NAV war
BILE popular ballad. The tastes of the
men all about the hall are carefully oh
served by each entertainer, because the
period OF her engagement depends unon
her art and popularity. The young woman
entertainer in the giittering gambling Ga
loon has other offices. When she "a NOT
singing she must have an eye single +o
the profits of the bar. During her rests
between music she mingles among the
men who stand about the bar While
whisky, beer or wine do for the men tha
feminine singer takes a settler, a ponv
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