davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
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those who lose. Getting anything for
nothing is demoralizing.
when a youth thinks he can pick up
$50 or 800 in a morning at the track he
has perfect contempt for the quiet grind
which brings in SIS or 500 a week. He
thinks when be wins 500 that he is making
$50 day and spends it at that rate. He is
swimming on a bladder, and the bladder is
bound to break and then he can't swim
alone.
II am glad the papers are stirring up
this matter. People, every one, read the
papers, and If you tell every one just how
things are out at Ingleside they will get
up and sweep Ingleside and kindred mon
ster evils off the face of the earth
The race track on a holiday, resplendent
with its gay coterie of women on pleasure
bent, gayly decked in diamonds. furs and
silks, the demi-monde out for display, Is
one thing, and the race track on a regular
day of the long and tiresome season is an
other. It's women are not so gay. They
are poorly clad, anxious faced, ner-
vous, trembling wrecks, desperately
rushing down before each race into
the women's poolroom-innocently dis
guised as ''refreshment room
cIutching frantically at their hard
earned savings and wondering whether
to depend on their own judgment
or whether to trust to the advice of the
urbane, smooth-tongued official pool
BUYERS" The latter rush around jingling
tantalzing coins in their hands, hoping
thus to entice some poor victim into bet
ting a dollar, perhaps her last, on the
next race.
A different spectacle truly. On the gala
day, with laughter and jollity and reck-
lessness, one forgets, as he throws a five
or ten or twenty a race just for
a flyer" that down below in the women's
pooiroom hundreds of women, who cam
not afford to venture even a dollar, are
clubbing together twenty-five cents apiece
on which they hope, perhaps, to win
enough to buy necessaries for a forlorn.
poverty-stricken family. For that is what
hundreds of poor deluded creatures do
every day at the race track
The insults, too, that some women are
subjected to by some of the coarse
indecent men who attend the races
is in itself infamous. and the old
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tried to make her living out at the tracks,
could not stand the life and took poison.
1T took only about six months to ac-
complish the whole business
young boys are corrupted just as bad
ly. Some parents have no objection to
their boys going, others object, and the
boys will lie and steal to get out there,
and then pick up every vice in creation.
II have had parents bring their boys to
me and wonder what in the world was the
matter. The boys think it is smart to go
there and to copy as near as they can the
swagger and foulness they see. They will
do anything, and some things are not
printable in your paper or any other, for
the sake of tips.
"Women will stand shoulder to shoul-
der with the worst outcasts, talk, drink
with them, anything to get a tip. And
tips come high Tips come very high. The
touts and frequenters of the track are not
there to help any one to win unless they
get something fer it. Let every woman
remember that Betting is a business, it
is bread and butter to the touts. Bankers
or doctors or merchants do not tell their
methods to strangers. Neither do the
touts. though women when they begin
think the men are kind. It's all non
sense, and they learn it soon enough, but
not till they are where they cannot get
away
at is bad enough for men, but when a
woman begins SDe never stops III Is ike
drinking or crime of any sort, women lose
their heads.
II have had some queer experiences
since this motion to suppress the evil
came up before the Board of Supervisors
There was ore, a man it would surprise
YOU if 1 could tell you his name. He has
three daughters, and they are all in the
best society in San Francisco. One is
married and one is mere child. He has
plenty of money and he came to me and
said he was ready to put up any amount
II money could help pass this law. He
was so earnest I got him to tell me
why he was so intensely interested in the
matter.
MAN. I have three daughters and two
grandchildren. Every morning when I
take up my paper look 1t through to see
IL disgrace has come openly
''He is only one Of dozens who have
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them. I lost every cent of the $1,000 in
just three months; lost it by paving the
bookmaker for my tips, and the rest /
lost betting on the wrong horses When
ever the tips he gave me were wrong
ne try and console me by telling me
that he was also a heavy loser
SO much worry, the loss of all nv
money, has made me a physical wreck
and 1t affected nv liver so that / have
turned this terrible color and have lost
all my flesh. My friends of former days
don t recognize me, and now all that is
left is to play here at the track what
little money l get by mending clothes"
L watched the old creature as she
darted off to see how the betting was go
ing for the next event. and pretty soon
L saw her cornered by three other aged
women, and among them they made up
dollar to bet on the race.
One short, plainly dressed Portuguese
woman, who looked as if she had bent
over the washtub all her life, interested
me. / wondered how she could afford to
take the time to play the races. l found
out that her daughter works in a shirt
factory and gets 50 a week while as |
suspected, the mother takes in washing
She told me that she got up every morn
ing at $3.50 O'Clock and managed to get
the washing out and in again before time
to go to the races. She takes her little
pittance and that of her daughter and
hies away to her elysian fields-the race
track-every afternoon. l watched her
on the boat on the way home from the
track and she sat in a corner facing the
water.
l noticed she put her handkerchief to
her eyes frequently, and after a lew mo-
ments the tears welled up to her eyes
and overfowed running in a stream down
her careworn face. She had lost her
hard earnings.
The big majority of the women who
play the races l found to be ignorant
hard-working women, who have plodded
along all of their lives, saving little or
nothing, and TO whom the thought of win
ming a dollar and not having to earn it
seems, indeed, glimpse of paradise. This
chimera so works upon their Imagination
that they feel sure that they will win
and in time become rich through betting
worked to get the dollar, they think how
easy it is to make one by betting on
that dollar. They are simply hardWork-
ing women whose characters are too
weak to withstand the alluring tempta-
tions of the racetrack. And the manage
ment instead of protecting their foolish
weakness, continues to spread the allur-
ing snares.
One young creature. who always at
tends the races dressed In black. proba-
bly, to form a more striking contrast with
her painted cheeks and blackened eyes,
has a history that is only variation of
the old, old story of the racetrack. When
her mother died a few years ago she
was left with a few hundred dollars. She
was persuaded to try her luck at the
track by gypsy, who told her that sne
was lucky at games of chance.
The credulous young woman began to
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precept taught us by our grand
mothers that a woman who conducts her
self properly will never be insulted by
word or action is exploded if one goes to
the races. Even on the cars, where men
crowd in like so many cattle on a freight
train on their way to the track, they dis
cuss the various women present and
make remarks loud enough for them to
be heard by the woman under discussion.
l saw one young girl, modestly dressed
and quiet in manner, being leered at by
stout red faced man, with a decided
''horsey" appearance AS the passengers
filed out of the car he managed to squeeze
behind the girl, and 1 overheard him say:
you're winner yourself. I'd like to bet
my money on you.
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Dr. 2>3rs1 ace 07uck zye,maut| 9s~sc sx~ Ss sns


tried to give encoura cement, not only to
me but to every Supervisor who voted on
the right side. have no fear that the bill
will fall Let the people only know what
is actually going on and the evil will be
stopped Any one who votes with the
track might just as well go home and
pack his grip, for he is doomed. He Will
find out that it is true, too. There may be
a fight, but again there may not. People
seem determined, and think we can car
ry it.
1.-The business men say we can't afford
this continual drain. Money which ought
to go to pay tradesmen, to pay house rent
to keep up churches and schools, is divert
ed Some one has to suffer. Then again
those who win are little better off than
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NJ n
Y the two great race tracks the
city supports.
How does she do it?" he asks.
And the question remains unanswered.
The native himself does not know.
But San Francisco nourishes them and
nourishes them well, even if the peniten-
tiaries are filled to overflowing to do it.
The scores of poolrooms scattered about
the business portion of the city are the
stanchest ally the race track has. They
are the training schools The trusted en-
ploye, the clerk and the messenger boy
takes his first gambling lesson in those
pitfalls AS his knowledge Of things per
tanning to racing increases, his betting
operations assume larger dimensions, and
he is found on the race track
For a time fortune smiles on him. 1t
grows easy to pick the winning horses.
Then he becomes a plunger and loses.
He steals from his employer to get even,
and the doors of the penitentiary close on
him. That is one source of income the
tracks have.
AS the close Of every regular racing sea-
son approaches the average track patron
finds a balance on the wrong side of the
ledger. This is not surprising. Gambling
games were not invented to be. beaten.
The thoughtful speculator finds n&arly all
Of his acquaintance in the same predica-
ment. The papers come out in glaring
headlines, stating that Riley Grammar is
$4,000 loser, Pittsburg Phil is $4,000 be-
hind the game. and this or that plunger
is anywhere from ten to fifteen thousand
out. Misery likes company and the spec
ulator does not see where he is such an
idiot after all. Then he reads that Book
maker Johnnie Coleman is away TO the
bad; that Eckert & Co are behind on the
season; that such and such a bookmaker
is going to quit, and the situation becomes
complicated.
Who gets the money? Why the tracks
get it, of course An old gambler will
say: "Sit in a stud-horse poker game
long enough and the game will have all
the coin" The income of a literally pat
ronized race track is enormous.
Over a quarter of million dollars were
invested in the Ingleside racing plant, and
for itself. From the bar, restaurant,
programme and candy privileges large
dividends are received.
The bookies are each taxed $120 per day
rent and the Western Union Telegraph,
which furnishes service to the many pool
rooms all over the country, is a source of
much qualification to the track manage
ment, contributing over $1,000 a week.
Then. too, money paid by owners for
scratching horses, stake money, money
received from selling-race bid-ups and
fines inflicted on jockeys by the starter
all swell the earnings.
Oakland track was not so expensive 10
build as Ingleside, but it's profits are fully
as immense If not larger IL is conducted
on a more economical scale, and the
purses offered are smaller. The money
received from the books alone pays for all
the purses.
The piper must be paid, and there is lit
tie wonder that the Eastern visitor asks,
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How does San Francisco do it?" Twenty
bookmakers will handle on an average
$25 900 to a race, or $15OOOO on a days
booking. All of this money, however, is
not furnished by local patrons. Probably
the heaviest bettors are the Eastern
ones. But they are also the shrewdest.
Every spring, as the season draws to
close, the Eastern boOkmaker, with
corps of jockeys on his staff, will give
out for publication a memorandum of his
losses. When the new season opens again,
though, this same layer of odds is gen
orally first on the ground. 1t would not
be wise policy to state that he quit big
winner on the meeting. The tongue of the
gossips would be set to wagging.
Chicago, with its great. resources, can
support but a couple of months racing,
and New York, with its millions of peo-
pie to draw from and its numerous race
courses, only a trif1e longer period.
How does San Francisco support two
great tracks through a season lasting
nearly seven months?
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The girl flushed up and looked straight
ahead as If she did not hear his remark.
He followed her all the way to the en-
trance of the track saying things TO her,
while she continued deaf to his remarks.
She afterward told me that if it wasn't
for creating a disturbance and sensation
she would have given him a hard slap in
the face. "He has pursued me for
week in this same manner and I am sure
1 have been most particular not to no.
tice him, as he is so very vulgar and COM
mon"
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HEN the Eastern turfman
n crosses the Rockies for the
first time he looks around San
VI W Francisco and then marvels at
the two great race tracks the
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Continued on Page Twenty-six.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-05-26
FOR DRY FEET.
Tremendous Business Done in the Making o
Rubber Boots and Shoes.

The rubber is one of the most inter
esting articles of human invention. 1t
is the humblest item in the human
wardrobe. and yet one of the most es-
sential-a thing to be kicked into a
corner, unheeded and forgotten. as
long as the sun shines and the world is
fair. and when the rain falls and the
snow flies. and mud and slush cover
the face of the earth, then the rubber
rises paramount and supreme.
Last year there were made and sold
in the United States 50,oO0000 pairs of
rubber boots and shoes. That is two
pairs of rubber boots to every three
people That seems a good many. but
it must be remembered that there are
a great many people who wear rubbers
a very considerable part of their lives.
For instance, the miner puts on his
rubber boots the minute he gets out of
bed. and doesn't take them off until he
gets back into bed. The lumberman
would as soon think of going without
his feet. as his rubbers. OF course, in
the big cities, with the streets in d
pretty general condition of dryness.
rubbers are not a daily and hourly
necessity, but in the country II IS diff
ferent matter. Plenty of people in the
country clap on their arctics on the
first fall of snow in October and do not
shed them until April showers have
brought the May flowers.
There is 1000, 600 invested in rubber
footwear factories in this country, and
1900 people find employment in these
factories The United States uses over
one-half of the worlds supply of rub
Der, and one-half of what the United
States uses goes into boots and shoes.
Russia makes a large quantity Of rub
Der footwear and England has a con
siderable output, and France and Ger
many contribute a little toward the
great cause of dry feet. But the
United States probably makes twice as
many rubbers as all Europe combined.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-05-26
Worlds Food Requirements.

While the world. thanks to the fields
of North America. has probably grown
in 1889 the greatest crop of wheat
ever harvested, as one result OF the
depletion of American herds and the
devotion Of an otherwise impossible 10
900 900 acres to wheat production. yet
we must not lose sight of the fact that,
while the years harvest probably eX-
ceeds the great world crop of 1894 by
some 80 100000 bushels. requirements
have increased by more than lOoo0o,Oo0
bushels. and that the product of the
harvest of 1859 was drawn upon
month earlier than usual in order to
exc out defective supplies from the har-
vest of 1878. That is. while the world
harvest of 1889 appears to be some
30 0O0 900 bushels greater than the great
est preceding one vet it is defective
BY reason Of great increase in re
uuirements since 1894, as well as by the
fact that it must meet the needs of IL
instead of II months, says Self-Culture.
Basing an estimate of requirements
for the 1889 harvest year upon the
known increase of population and the
consumption of recent years as indi-
Gated by estimates, mostly official, OF
production in such years, the bread
eating" populations of European line
age inhabiting Europe. the United
States, Canada, Australasia. Argentina.
Uruguay, Chile, South Africa, Siberia,
and the whites Of the island and tropi-
cal colonies of Europe, will need some
> $50 600 900 bushels of wheat plus the
100 OOO. 600 or more bushels required to
cover the thirteenth month. Accepting
the highest reputable estimate of tbs.
outturn of the 1889 harvest in the
regions named. and adding 10000 coo
bushels for possible imports from
Southern Asia and North Africa, the
available supply aggregates 2,3S0,oo0, 600
bushels. Granting that these estimates
are approximately correct, It VIII be
necessary to make anticipatory drafts
unon the harvest of 1899 for about no.
O00 600 bushels, showing that even with
the largest out-turns the accumula-
| ton of reserves to tide over such de-
| fectiye harvests as that of 1897 is no
! longer possible, the power to make Such
| accommodations having disappeared in
| the absence of acreage increases pro-
! nortioned to the increase Of the con-
| Stunning populations.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-05-26
Advice to Fathers.

A writer in the Current North
American Review gives fathers some
good advice, selection from which we
print below. The subject is a large
one The responsibilities of a fathers
position are equalled. perhaps. by
those of no otker. and the father who
does not examine his conduct towards
his children is guilty of breach of
trust. 1t is the affairs of daily life
that count most in the formation of
character, and the suggestions con-
tanned in the paragraph quoted are
fair and pertinent.
You may fancy that it is a privi-
lege to your boy TO have YOU for a
father: but ii is at least as much a
privilege 10 you to have him for a son
provided you are a father to him.
and not mere idle and vicious ap-
pendage. And that sort of appendage
is precisely what a large percentage of
American fathers are. 1t does not
mend matters to say that you are fond
of your children. and. in proof of it,
to paw them and kiss them, give them
toys and candy. picture books, circus
tickets, skates and bicycles; or to
scold them violently and unjustly
when they happen to get upon your
nerves, or in your way. An ape can
slObber over its offspring, and give it
nuts or cuff it, as whim may dictate
Selfishness is at the bottom of our fail
ure to give proper attention to our
children; it is selfishness all the way
through. We want the fun of having
children about, without mourning the
liabilities. We want to have them
around us, when we are in the humor.
and to have them look nice. and dis
play all suitable merits and accom-
plishments, but we do not wish to be
bothered with the task of intoxicating
the same: that, we devolve upon the
public school. We would not allow our
most confidential clerk to engineer a
critical deal for us in the market or on
Change: but we have no hesitation in
permitting school teacher, to us I'M
known, underpaid, tired to death,
aVerse from her or his occupation
probably, and sometimes incompetent,
to determine the lines upon which our
own flesh and blood with his immor-
tai soul. is to take his departure in
life; lines whose direction and grad
ing will practically settle his future"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-05-26
Dried Peas and Piano Practice.

Leschetizky. the famous teacher Of the
niiIno in Vienna. often brightens his talk
with ded @i%sys he Pr sSid to
piece with SIX drle beg peaS wouid i'd Law
q 9bs P pH peas " on the p!ana rack side
side. Then when had PLAYED of :, the w piefS
through perfectly. or part OF \ w Tbai
ma wa 'f f through perfectly the second
P line II | would put another pea IN my
Poss+ Ana e E3q psrf &c q an Zines
i il Piaseu and ali the peas We're in my
IN successI P,t # made a single mistake,
P p9T in the third playing or the fourth
ya wGp Ids put ihs o1 sT R Rsai back
me rack anu With six dried peas is sure
t to- pa PFa as we'll as he can.-Ladies Home
Journal
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-05-26

The consumption of coffee the world
over is growing rapidly. The average
annual consumption in the decade 1870
to 1880 was 1872, 100000 pounds; in the
next decade it was 1920, 600 900. Last
year it was 1850 900, 900.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-05-26

The strength of the sentiment in
Massachusetts in favor of state aid for
good road building was shown in the
vote, rs to IA, by which the House
voted the state highway appropriation
Of 100000.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-05-26

LEAVE Portland, HOO P. NJ; Augusta,
LBS \. NJ; Waterville. r225 4. H.; Ban
gor, 200 A. NJ; Arrive Lagrange, SlS A.
Iron Works 945 A. NJ; Norcross, 9.44 A.
NJ; Sherman, 1911 A. M Patten, lilo A.
NJ: Island Falls, lilo A. NJ: Smyrna
Mills. 1l-45 A NJ; Masardis, 1;oS - p NJ:
p. NJ; Caribou, 2.25 p. NJ; Fort Fair
field 215 F. M; Dover and Foxcroft, 9l5
A. NJ; Guilford. $40 A. NJ: Monson, 1O12
A. N; Greenvilie, 100 A. NJ.
295 5N p II: W st 3.65 I. NJ: Ban
gor, 40 z. NJ. Arrive Brownville. 625 p
?. NJ; Island Fails. $40 z. NJ; Patten,
81 ?. n; IIqglton. 9S5 Fl: n n. cr,1-
ford, 7.O9 p. NJ; Monson Junction, rs T.
NJ: Greenvile S.25 p. NJ.
LEAVE Greenville, so A. NJ; Monson
Junction. G.2O A. NJ; Guilford, 6.S7 A. M.
Dover and Foxcroft, so a. NJ; BTowir
vile. III A. NJ; Lagrange, 7:51 a. NJ.
ARRIVE Bangor, $50 A. NJ.
LEAVE Fort Fairfield, 90 a; NJ: Car
ibou. 500 A. NJ; Pressure Isle, 6-2S a. N !:
Masardis. 726 A. Nj; smyrna Mills. Sl2
A. NJ: Island Falls, 9.15 A. NJ; Patten,
$40 A. NJ; sherman. 9.39 a; NJ N9rcross'
1899 A. NJ; Brownville, 1l.3O a. NJ; AT
NJ Augusta, $40 p. NJ; Portland, $50 r.
LEAVE Caribou. 11.45 A. NJ; Pressure
Isle. 1913 ?. NJ; Fort Fairfield, lib . "A N
P. NJ; Island Falls, 25S p. NJ; Patten,
2.55 P. Nj; Sherman. S26 P. NJ. Norcrqss,
426 P NJ, Brownville, 5.N p. NJ; La
grange, Col 7. NJ; Greenville, So T. N,
Moason, 345 p. NJ: Guilford, 40 z: NJ;
4 Doyer and Foxcroft, 459 p. NJ; Arrive
fbangtr.s Z Is Z. NJ; Wateryille, 95S +. NJ
10.43 p NJ; Portland, l.5O A. NJ
GEO. NJ. HOUGHTON,
Gen'l Pass. and Ticket Agent.
F. w. CRAM,
Y. r. and General Manager.
Dann 1NQ2
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-05-26
Railroads and Steamboats,.
MAINE CENTRAL R. R.
In Effect Nov. IT. 1898.


Passenger trains leave Augusta as fol.
lows: rrrpor-rr rp,r~o
GOING WEST-63O A. NJ. for Lewiston,
rsrmington. Phillips, Rockland, Port
onebec 1000 A. NJ. for Brunswick, Lewis
I'm Portland and Boston. Pennington,
phii1ips. Carrabasset, Rangeley, Rock
land. and Bridgton; sos +. NJ. local 20
Portland: S.4S Z. NJ. (eXpress) for Bruins
wick. Bath, Lewiston, Portland, Boston;
Connecting at Portland for Bridgton,
North Conway and Bartlett; 10 80 p NJ.
ION. Bath. Portland and Boston; 1.55 A.
NJ Portland and Boston.
GOING EAST-l.35 A. NJ. (night eX-
press) for Skowhegan, Bangor. Bar Har-
hor. st. stephen, St John, Halifax and
Aroostook county; 912 A. NJ. for Water
vile. Belfast, Skowhegan and Bangor,
Vanceboro, ST. Stephen, Houlton, Wood
stock. St John and Halifax; 1888 p. NJ.
local TO Waterville and Lewiston. via
press for Waterville. Bangor, Bar Har-
bor Old Town. Patten and Houiton via
r, x A. r. R.: $40 p. NJ. for Waterville,
oakland. North Arson, Bingham, Show
hegan Belfast, FOXcrOft, Greenville,
Bangor. Old Town and Mattawamkeag
rs r. NJ. for Waterville.
SUNDAYS-Going West, 1.55 A.: NJ; for
for Brunswick. Bath, Portland and Bos-
ian. Going East, 1.35 A. NJ, 9.l5 a. NJ.
Ana 225 r. NJ. for Waterville and Bangor.
The Night Pullman Train leaving at 10
A NJ. going east does not connect for
SkowhCGan on Monday mornings. or Tor
Belfast, FoXcroft or beyond Bangor, sun
day mornings.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-05-26
BANGOR & knOOSTO0K RAILROAD

Pullman Buffet ParIOr Cars between
HouIton ana Bangor on trains leaving
Uoulton at $50 A. NJ and Bangor at 4.4O