Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-10-19
WOMEN AS GAMBLERS
The Mdzef Committee Takes
Up New Line of Work.
Culture Club Directs The Com
miifee 10 the Evil OF a Place
In Which She Lost Her Bets.

New York, Oct. 1S.-When the Ma
yet commite met this forenoon ii was
understood that today's hearing was
to be followed by a two weeks ad-
| journment. The new building code was
the order of the day, but that subject
to visitors is as dry as it should be i'm
portant, and as though to infusa spec
ial interest into the last session before
adjournment Frank Moss. the examin-
ing counsel of the committee had sub
poenaed for the morning hearing sew
eral well-dressed women. The fire.
quenters of the room where the COM
aittee holds its investigation had not
seen n woman on the witness stand for
among the subpoena holders was hail
ed as a relief from the monotony of
uncovered heads. But Mr.. Moss seem
ed in no hurry to call these witnesses.
AS if thinking their very presence a
sufficient apology for the intricacies of
the discussion on the building laws, he
let most of them wait until he got
through with some testimony as to
those laws.
Just before adjournment the COM
statement:
The commltte. at the conclusion of
today's session, will take an adjourn
ment until Oct. 81, when the sessions
will be resumed. In view of the state
ments quite generally made of late in
the public press that an early final
adjournment of the committee is con-
templated, the committee wish to state
most positively that this report is
without any foundation, and that the
yet been considered by the committee.
The recess is taken at this time at the
request of several members of the
committee who feel, after giving sew
eral months attention to the work of
the committee without any compensa-
spite in order that they may dispose
OF matters of business and personal |
nature now pressing upon Them
The committee began work with Mrs |
Florence V. sayer on the stand as first |
witness.
IN Trc CO..
said she had visited two pool rooms |
by women for women. The
rooms had all the paraphernalia of a
regular pool room, the cards We're
handed around by women, women
made the odds and women took the
money and made up the sheets. All
the attendants at the first place visit
ed, 212 west Forty sixth street, kept
by a Mrs. Mckay, We're women, but at
the place kept by Miss Wheeler, at III
west Forty-fifth street, men tended
the doors and posted Inc sheets. Mrs. i
Sayer produced cards of membership Il
in the Culture Club, which she said
secured her admission to the Forty
sixth street house. |;
1T was a mixed crowd 1 saw there"
she said. of all classes and ages.
There were perhaps sixty there the !
first visit 1 made. and the smallest
crowd I saw numbered more than
wenty. The youngest woman there
vas less than seventeen years old and
he oldest must have been more than
twenty-five years old. 1 had no diff
'ulty, to speak of, i'll securing admis-
ion to either of the places. Mrs. Carl, .
Who is here, accompanied me on my
lists. 1 bet at both the places and
ost all the bets I placed
Mr.. Moss said he would not cali Mrs.
2arl unless the committee wanted to f
ear from her. The committee evinced i
10 such desire and the women left / h
he court. a