Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-10
lNGLESIDE'S
BLACK RECORD
" st Z 4.
San Francisco Paying For the
Luxury of the Race r.,
Track.
The ROLL OF O
Happy Homes Wrecked, Prisons and
Suicides Graves Filled
With Victims.

The following graphic account OF the
evils resulting from gambling on the race
track at Ingleside is from the San Fran
Cisco Call of March 3 and was handed IN
to the Inter Mountain yesterday by a
well known business man of Butte, with
a request for it's publication. The pic
ture drawn is a startling one:
1.-The people of San Francisco are reap
ing a bitter harvest of disgrace, degra-
dation, Generalization and death from
the race tracks. Homes are beng
wrecked, regulations are being ruined ana
men and women are being made thieves
by the dishonest gamblers who are per-
mitted to thrive by the authorities at
Ingleside. The gates of a quentin
have closed upon many men who We're
made convicts by horse racing and the
portals are open for manym more who nave
lost honor and home in the dirty pool
created in our midst by the horse gam
blers. Men have fed from their homes to
hide the disgrace that came to them on
the race course. Some have found OBJ
Gvion and escape from he neers OF hon
EST men in suicide. The. public cannot
estimate the terrible damage that horse
racing has inflicted upon San Francisco
and it's citiZens.'
These words were spoken yesterday by
one of the most prominent police offlclals
IL lllS city. Inc IelIldlVS NclC oiiPCS
by the revelations and scandals which
have found their source in the last month
at the race tracks. Men and women are
stalking their honor, their homes, their
families and even their lives on the un-
even hazard of a horse race. When a
Captain Neall abandons mis- family, dis
graces his uniform and sacrifices his fu-
ture for a pool ticket the police simply
shrug their shoulders and add another
name to the black roll that racing gam
blers are writing for the people of San
Francisco.
When a Bernard Ward is placed behind
the bars and some one whispers the
book Makers" the police point to the rec
ords of San Quentin and the morgue The
officers are thinking q the McGlades, the
Nortons, the WelbuNns and the Wldbers,
types of hundreds, whose lives have been
wrecked or lost in the passion for gam
bling which the race tracks, have bred in
this city.
The evil has become of such terrible
moment that business men have been
forced to employ spoilers and send them
to theap pool rooms and tracks to watch
their employees. In public and private
affairs the racing habit has played sad
havoc. Merchants are afraid to trust
their own most trusted employees. In
public offices, such as that of the county
clerk, signs are c~onspicuously posted to
warn deputies that dismissal will be the
Immediate penalty for attendance at the
race tracks. A dread has seized upon the
custodianS of money and the facts war
rant their fear.
The police estimate that in the last six
years. over 300s men and a few women
have come under the observation of the
police for crimes committed under the
direct inspiration Of the race track. Not
all of these people found their dishonored
end in the ~penitentiary. Some killed
themselves rather than pndure their dis
grace. Others fled before the authorities
had an opportunity to capture them. A
few exercised influence and escaped pun
ishment. Many preyed upon their fami-
lies and sacrificed every dollar that had
been honestly boarded to pay the thefts
that kept the book makers in business.
Still others found their way to prison and
many are even now in the shadow of a
convict's cell. ~
There is no exaggeration in these state
ments, as official records constitute the
proof. The police also estimate that at
least 500 more men and women have es-
capped exposure by compromising with
the people they robbed. These compro-
misses have been accomplished through
private detective agencies, and are there
fore, not officially of record. The list,
as the authorities know it, however, is
appalling in it's evidence of the crime
and misery which the race tracks nave
bred in this city. Murder and suicide,
robbery and embezzlement, arson and
thefts large and small may be traced di-
rectly to The evil that thrives at Ingle-
side.
Clerks who were trusted employees are
convicts. Officers who We're honored
servants of the Federal, state or NUM-
cipal governments are behind prison
bars, fugitives from justice or suicides.
No class has been spared, and as each
new revelation adds to the terrifying list
Tho y,,hho uyn,1n xvhAr - to Ill a.
to end. A reference to a few of those