The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-07-04

ther eyes, and they all look to possess the
same mad desire to get a bet down. and
10 De willing to go any route not exclud
ing the path or crime, in order to get the
money TO bet when they are losers
Men who have studied the thing, and
who are not wont to speak at random.
say that as many men go to the dogs
mere every year through the sport of
kings (Which is the funny old way the
turf writer's st!ll have of abiding to fix
ed racing events. by the way) as meet
their finishes through excessive dalliance
with rum, and they've got facts and fig
ures on tap that would appear to sup
port their contention. A day never
passes over here that some disheveIeo
young chap, dragged into a police court
to answer the charge of having stolen
from his employer, doesn't tell the Judge
that the ponies" are responsible for his
dishonesty. All of this, however. Is an
old. outworn story. and the constant re-
iteration thereof has never been known
to do any good. The sport of kings
survives, and the needless young men
who have fallen before it take their lit
tie rides in wrist irons every day to the
penitential Institutions.
WIDE OPEN POOL ROOMS.
But the industry of the New York cops
in closing up the women's pool rooms is
in queer contrast to their complaisance
as to the pool rooms for men, Scores of
these establishments are again in full
blast. and no password or countersign is
requ red in order to pass beneath their
lintels. Many of them are right on
Broadway, others are away uptown, in
the heart of the residence district They
were all simultaneously closed up for full
~ four days about three months ago.
At the end of that lengthy period they
opened up and began to do business again
ION the quiet" and about month ago
they took their watchmen off the doors
and began to let all hanCs in. Now
they've taken the Swiss curtains from
Their front windows, and in some of
them you can look up from the street
and see and hear the telegrapher calling
bad, demoralizing. misery-creating out
fits, but il is difficult to perceive how they
can be any worse for women than they
are for men.
Officer, do you think It is consistent
to raid the women's pool rooms and per-
nit the mems pool rooms 20 run de
open?" an Interested elderly citizen in
quired of one of the red-mustached cops
during the raid on ne Seventeenth street
establishment Monday afternoon.
"G'wan." replied the cop, giving the
elderly citizen a by no means gentle proc
| in the back with his club. Went away
real quick, or you'll be de main cake in
| hard-luck WIZ youseself.''
SEEKING SUMMER HOMES.
The exodus of tenants or moderate
means from the moderate-priced flats ha:
| begun, and the proprietors and agents
| OF the moderate-priced flats are franti
| cally advertising that they will give one
| two and, in some rare cases, tire,
| months occupancy of their flats rent FREE
| to desirable tenants. The out-of-towI
| idea for the summer months has appar
I entity taken firm hold on the family me-
L over here who earn moderate salaries
| and who are compelled for the sake o
| convenience to live in the small flats dur
ing the cold weather There is scarcel,
| a medium-class fiat house in the city tina
| doesn't suffer from this summer exodu
| of families, who take to the little settle
| ments all over Long Island and over II
| Jersey when the hot weather begins. De
lightful little cottages of from four I
eight rooms, with all modern improve
| ments and with sizable yards aroun
them wherein the children can get. at oil
Mother Earth and make mud pies, ar
procurable in all of these suburban place
for from $40 to $50 month, and the sal
| aried men OF New York who are con
PEELED to coop themselves up in tin
| fats with their families during the win
| ter are finding out about these delightfl
| little domiciles in greater numbers ever
year. Many of them become so fascina
ed with suburban life that they decide
E stay away from the New York flats altt
| geIher, and that is why the suburba
$ building lot business around New Yor
$ has been on the boom during the pa
two or three years. 1t also explains WI
y J the owners of fiat houses complain TIM