The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-08-12
AMERICA 8 AON|E CARLO
GAY LONG BRANCH sam TO ma
JUSTLY ENTITLED TO
THE NAME
"GnDED GAMBLING HELLs"
The Western Idea Not Applicable to
Them-SOme of the Best Known
Clubs Where the .sTiger"
Holds Forth.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
Long Branch is the Monte Carlo of

are curious and refuse to accept the truth
OF the statement you can go to this Jer-
sey resort and find out for yourself. 1t Is
more than likely to cost you money
much money-or perhaps, more correctly,
whatever amount you may have, but your
experiences will teach you that there Is
no mistaking the truth Of the simple
statement in the first aragraph.
Gambling '.hells" there are in every
state in the Union, but they are for the
most part dingy affairs, run on the quiet,
or In the West, where the furnishings
are gaudy, but not the real thing. But 1t
was left to Phil Daily, John Daily, w M
Fitzgerald and DOC" Slater to establish
a gambling heaven" whose wide open
portals extend along the famous West
end drive that skirts the sea from the
sinful palaces of Long Branch to the
churches Of Asbury park, where tempta-
tons, If there are any, are reduced to the
least common multiple
Some years ago it was possible to buck
the tiger" in Gloucester. Later there
came heavy surf of reform that ended
in legislative tidal wave that swept
clean the state Of New Jersey from even
horse racing.
Then it was that the tiger" tired.
hungry and drenched with public send-
ment, crept along the coast In search of a
new abiding place. He stalked the length
and breadth OF the state and settled in
Long Branch, as the most likely hunting
grounds
The tiger did not make his choice
suddenly. He waited until he had looked
the entire landscape over and found that
there was more money in Long Branch
to the square mile than in any other part
of Jersey. Money is the only meat on
which this tiger" feeds. He camped
there and he hasn't been hungry a day
since he stopped.
In all the stories Of the West there have
been descriptions of "gilded gambling
halls" filed with American types from
the cowboy and the ranchman to the Chi
nese cook and the uniformed regular,
There are none Of these in Long Branch.
The parlors are the parlors of an embassy
in Washington, receiving the representa-
tives of a foreign legation-that Is SO far
as outward appearances go. And as for
those who frequent these places, they
are dressed fauItlessly and in the height
Of fashion. large majority in the semi
evening Tuxedo.
PENNSYLVANIA CLUB.
The largest and best known of these
gambling places or clubs, as they are call
ed, is the Pennsylvania, backed by Phil
DAILY. In the front are parlors, reception
rooms, cafes, Iounging rooms and all the
other appurtenances that go with a per-
fectly apportiened clubhouse. Here and
on the broad VerandaS you Will see many
handsomely gowned women, attended in
every instance, and conforming to the
most strict conventionalities.
But back from the green mint ices, the
Towering plants Of the verandas are more
parlors, and here 1t Is that you will find
the real Pennsylvania club. You will
strike one attendant after another and If
you pass muster and arrive in the parIors
you may know that you do not look like
80 cents, as your friends have often told
you, but like $50 at the least They have
no use for g. man with any less than
that where chips are worth so cents
apiece and come in stacks of 20 with
no remnant sales in the way of splitting
stack. It's worth running the gauntlet
of keen-eyed. polished line of hosts, and
It's worth paying for If you reach the
goal, just to know that you have made
others think you were the real thing, no
matter how great the deception. The
only admission necessary to become a
temporary guest of this club is a ''bluff''
that you have money and that you know
what you are doing.
If you don't size up to the required
| amount Of money one Of the carefully
dressed attendants will step I'D to you
and with much politeness say, "T beg
your pardon, but I don't know you"
just as would attendant of any other
well-regulated club.
When you have arrived at the parIors
there are more attendants with servants
in the rear. and it is hard to think that
even now you are not attending some
state reception, waiting for the dignftarv
who is to be entertained to make his ap-
pearance. Everything is quiet The room
is filled with men, but they are talking
In low tones, such as you would expect to
hear In the historical library, that is
When they talked at all. but for the most
part the men do not talk They think
And they think 80 hard that you can al
most hear them think. The heavy axmin-
ster Is inches thick, so no sound comes
from that direction. A few seconds after
you are ushered in and you will hear
above the sleepy, drooning sounds, low
toned voices calling "Twenty-stx black.
thirty-six red or double o green" and
then you will know that you have reach
ed Monte Carlo after passing Interlaken
and Como even If you did come via the
Pennsylvania railroad
! SAME AS AT MONTE CARLO.
Once hear the telegraphic click of chips
as they are placed by the players or
riffed into stacks by the dexterous ex-
pert Just behind the table, and you will
never mistake 1t for any other sound. 1t
Is like the smell Of smoking opium, once
experienced you VIII never forget it.
There is a fascination that every one
must feel who has a single spot of red
clay from the dust of which he was
an6
Jiayed the most important parts
1 the worlds history, and today they
have tremendous significance in many
OF the worlds religious rites. In Long
Branch while the church bells are ringing
the roulette wheel is still spinning. Sum
day Is looked upon as the big day
Among the men who crowded around
the tables were many we'll known men.
men with whom you are well acquainted
through the newspapers of the day in
business and professional circles in mol
ities and society You know their faces
very well indeed, and you have some
trouble In placing them. Then you know
that you have only met them from time
tie time at the breakfast table, not In the
real flesh, but In INTERVIEWS in PRINTER
ink. You can stand and watch these men
lose their thousands, two thousands or
more and not feel badly, but, unfertu-
1IooeO-oD eiiOy eAIG AAOL Tic only occupants of
these princely quarters. Elbow to elbow
With the richest men In the nation stand
young men who have just started on a
business or professional career.
Noises certainly jar one in such a place
They act ON the nerves, and SO the man
asement very kindly does all that 1t pos
sibly can to save the nerve of the visitor
for the sound that requires all the NERVE
the rolling marble
The game played is the same as that
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