The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-30
GAMBLERS MUST LOOK OUT
continued From Eighth Page.)

i,'sss no matter where they may go in the
r.,- If Savannah; that Isl your detectives
az 10 be instructed that simple removal
Gambling place does not satisfy the
iat.n, of this order. In the event that a
r,rlv suspected Of, or charged with, car
I,+ng on a gambling place opens up at an
bsr building he is TO be docketed with
ant further rotice. All such persons are to
G advised. when notice is served upon
them that there will be no second notice
..T5fs oder is to apply to policy shops
as well as 10 such other places as are sus-
n,,ted Of carrying on keno, poker, roulette,
or other games of chance.
elf any detective in the city's employ
moves derelict in the performance of his
duv under this order OF fails to carry it
ant I'm It's full intent and 10 the best of
his ability you will a once advise me
and place him upon the docket for imme-
date rial before me. The sentence, on
conviction, wifi be dismissal from the
fo~-e-'
Acting Mayor Tiademan, in speaking of
tAe matter yesterday, said that the order
was kept a secret in order that the gam
bers might be taken by surprise. If this
was HE intention of the Mayor and his ad-
y-.rs. they were very successful in car
rying il out. Both the gamblers and the
uubic were taken entirely by surprise as
the former have freely confessed. Even
the employees of the Mayors office, with
The exception of his. secretary. were una
ware of the order until they learned of ii
on the streets Thursday night.
Around the Gambling Rooms.
If some summer sojourner in foreign
parts had returned to Savannah and dur
ing the afternoon and evening had prom
enade1 the streets frequented by the gam
blerS and sporting element, without pre-
vious acquaintance with recent happen
ings he would have become possessed or
the deluson that the millennium was at
hand Though he would have been mis-
taken. there would have been ample ex-
cuse for the error of judgment
II he had been worldly minded and fond
OF the pleasures of this world if he had
been of the unregenerate and of the earth.
earthly, he would have been amazed to
fnd that those temples of the tickle god
deSs at whose shrine he had been wont
70 pay his devotions, We're stripped of the
tr9ppings and the lights and the bands of
Worshippers, that in the past had rendered
them attractive and pleasing in his sight
He would have missed the other devotees.
most of them well known to him, but
o,hers recent proselytes boys with the
first down upon their lips and the light
OF wild and youthful enthusiasm in their
eyes who thought by the mere force of
desire ana VIII TO conquer the inVincible
and successfully to contend with fate
He would have missed the attendant rev.
elry in front of the doors of the shrines.
the hungry bands who massed below in
the hope that they might receive largesse
from the hands of those favored of the
goddess, so that they, in their turn, might
offer homage to the divinity of chance
and make their sacrifices upon her altar
These were absent. There was woe In
the hearts of the sinful, for the gambling
rooms had been closed. Not absolutely it
Is true, for here and there a policy wheel
performed its wonted revolutions and dealt
out good and evil fortune to those who
had possessed themselves Of a right 10
participate in the spoil Here and there.
TOO, there might have been an occasional
game Of keno. 1t does not pass belief
that in places other than the gambling
houses there was every now and then a
game of chance, where dollars were the
stakes These, though. were the glazing
EXCEPTIONS, and even their glare was not
10 De seen at any great distance
Inc gambling rooms were closed the I'M
expected had happened the unlooked-for
mad been accomplished, with what graceful
ease and easy grace is known now of ev-
cry man. Nor is it wei for the gamblers
10 think that this determination on the
part OF the city fathers is evanescent or
temporary. doomed TO pass on the fickIe
oreeze. II is evident from what the po-
nee nave TO say on the subject, that they
mean exactly what they have said, and all
o. IL, ana that gambling has lived its day
III savannah, 50 long as they remain in
power Indeed, 10 some of the more ven
Ufesome of the brethren of the green
coth who had announced their determina-
ton to defy the law and to keep at arms
length those who endeavored 10 enforce it,
tne police have quietly intimated what
they intend to do, The intimation was
coiehed in the polii est terms possible, but
II was none the less clearly to be UNDER
stood that they intended to stand no dis
regard Of the law nor to tolerate any in
hingement Of the positive instructions the
gamblers have already received.
In this consummation that has been
re1chtd, the preachers and their allies who
lei that it is due to them, find abundant
cause for qualification and graduation.
lhey express themselves as more than sat
lshed with the action of The city authori-
ueS' and II is probable that a the next
meeting of their association resolutions will
ne offered and adopted, congTatulating the
mayor upon the course he has followed, and
promising him their support as long as the
present state of affairs continues, and the
law is diligently and faithfully enforced
The position of the police may be sue
Cnctly stated and upon rightful authority
IS that the orders they have received
from the Mayor are to be construed and
enforced literally, without prejudice or
paf,la.ity but also without compassion.
NY announce that this Will be done, and
-nuhate that the next arrested gamester
VIA not be permitted the glad alternative
VI me, but will find himself where moths
ma nothing worth corrupting and thieves
eit not likely TO break Inland steal Some
,Hlhg OF the Darkroom, speak-easy, tin
norm form of gambling there may be, but
we Old and time-honored sort, that
through constant tolerance had become al
most respectable and fiourished in regal de-
nance Of The law and everything else, is
al an end.