Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-09-07
BILLIARD TABLE CLOTHS.
Green the Prevailing Color. but Various Other
Colors Used.

Green the Prevailing Color. but Various Other
Colors Used.
Green is the color commonly used
the world over for billiard table cloths
it is color that is grateful to the eye,
it looks we'll by daylight. and lights
up handsomely by artificial light, and
does not easily show dirt. The green
cloths are made in various shades. In
this country the shade almost univer-
sally used is one of clear, bright,
beautiful tint called indigo green in
England there is used to a considera-
bic extent a cloth of an olive green.
But wherever billiard table was en-
countered, in Europe or America, in
Egypt or Australia, it would in all
probability be covered with cloth in
green of some shade.
Billiard cloths, however, says the
New York Sun, are made in various
colors other than green, these cloths
OF other colors being used almost ex-
clusively for tables in private bill lard
rooms. There are more billiard
tables sold nowadays for private
houses than ever before. and with the
growth of wealth and the spread OF
luxury greater proportion of these
tables are now made or finished to Or
der, to harmonic in design, ornamen-
tation ana coloring, with the rooms in
which they are placed. Even in such
tables green is the color most COM
monty used; if none is found in a
shade precisely suitable, cloths are
dyed OF the required hue.
MAROON oFTENEsT USED.
Other colors used in billiard cloths
are blue, maroon, red, gray and yell
low; it is possible. either from stock or
to order, to. get cloths in any color or
any shade OF it. OF these unusual
colors, maroon is the one oftenest
used, and blue next. Yellow is rarely
used, for it spots and shows marks al
most as plainly as white cloth would.
The larger number of tables sold for
private houses are combination tables,
that can be used for either pool or bill
lizards. They are of course finished in
keeping with themselves; that is, a
blue table would have all its trim
mings to match, pockets of silk netting
OF the color and shade OF the cloth.
Wha tever the color of the cloth, the
balls used on all these tables are the
standard balls commonly used on the
green cloth and cues are the same for
all tables, although there are made
fine cues in great variety in various
woods, including carved cues, and so
on, suited to any table.
These fine billiard tables, such as
would be found in stock or made to
order, many of them elaborate in de.
sign and beautifully carved, cost from
$500 mp. Probably from $500 to $500
would be the cost of most OF the finer
kinds of billiard tables sold for private
houses, but tables costing $1,000
would not be very unusual, and they
are occasionally made costing up to
81 500.
For private billisrd-rooms specially
designed cue racks are made, many of
them being made to stand on the floor
instead of being attached to the wall.
Cue racks also are made to order upon
occasion, of suitable woods and in ap-
propriate designs, to match the rooms
in which they are placed.
Markers are strung on wires at
tached to the cue rack, whose con-
struction is carried up at the sides to
support the wires between, at a con.
venient height. On the costliest Of
such cue racks the white buttons on
the strings OF markers are of ivory
and the black buttons OF ebony. The
cue rack itself may easily be a hand
some, as we'll as appropriate piece of
furniture, of fine woods and beautiful
ly carved. Cue racks are made at va
rious prices. up to, for the most costly,
$500.
Billiard tables in public billiard
rooms have to very limited extent
been covered with cloths of colors
other than green. One establishment
in Boston some years ago had its
tables, placed in three rooms, covered
respectively with red, blue and gray /;
but still, virtually, the only color used
in public billiard-rooms is green.
And while in private billiard.rooms
the other colors have come into use,
and their use in the circumstances
mentioned is increasing, yet the pro.
portion of private tables thus covered
is, after all, small; in these, as in the
public tables, the prevailing color is
still green.
The Party Realsnment.
The New York World is doing a
great service to the cause of the Re-