The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-27

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occur, and the declaration by interested
parties that nobody has committed sui
eide at Morte Carlo within the memory
of the oldest inhaDitant
But. of course, a really persistent truth
seeker will not stop with The statements
of employees, hotel clerks, hair dressers
and other old familiar retailers of gossip.
| They are quite as garrulous here as else>
where, except on one subject They are
not going to say i'll of the institution that
/ gives them each day their daily brea3.
OF course you can't really expect the in
stitution to blacken its own character,
but if you are bent on learning no stone
unturned to find out the real facts you
will go to the headquarters as a matter
of thoroughness You will offer the di-
rectors the uncoveted privilege of giving
their version of the affair.
The directors will scarcely cooperate
with you on this point. You must see NJ.
/ Georges Bornier so you are told But
! M. Georges Bornier is as elusive as your
/ chance Of winning would be if you should
/ sit down at NJ Bornier's pretty green
gaming tables First he is not to be seen,
because he is at Nice. Next you must go
TO the Hotel Monte Carlo to find him; at
the hotel they tell You that he has never
set foot in the place. Next, he is invisible
because he is at the opening of the Pic
ture Show, to which you will not be ad-
mitted The next time he is at the races.
Oh, it is not a simple matter to find mes
sieurs the Directors of the Anonymous
Society of Sea Baths which is the eu-
phonious if misleading title of the gam
bling company. AS a matter of fact how
ever, it doesn't make much difference.
People who have succeeded in the attempt
to question the directors say that it re-
suited in beautiful paradox. The man
Af Hair ion
caressing as a summer zephyr, but also
as black and impossible as a stone cliff
But one ought to give the directors
their due. In concealing the tragedies
which occur at Monte Carlo they are
pleasing almost everybody, except the
French newspapers they have failed to
substitute. Even the interested citizens of
the town, while denying in one breath
that there are any scandals to be hushed
up, tell you with a certain pride of the
annual sums of hush money paid by the
administration to the principal Paris pa
pers and to the local sheets which are
read by visitors to the Riviera. Aside
from the unpaid journals and a few men
and women who hate the place because
it has wrecked their lives, everybody else
is pleased to have everything disagreea-
BILE kept out of sight. The friends of the
suicides would be the last to complain
/ Nobody wants it known that member of
| Carlo.
Even visitors to the place want to keep
clear of any public connection with it. OF
course they do. How many Americans
would want it cabled to a home paper
that they were gambling at a table where
a man committed suicide? That's the
way the American physician feels about
the suicide the other day. If it came to
the point he would probably join the ma
tive population and declare that he never
saw a suicide at Monte Carlo; had never
been here, in fact except passing
through on his way to Italy," or "only
ran over from Nice for the day" The
number of Americans by the way, who
stay in Nice, but have Communication tick
cts to Monte Carlo, is astonishing. The
writer overheard one of them on the train
the other day. She was talking with an
! other American woman and suddenly eX-
claimed:
There! 1 forgot to send that tele-
gramr
"Oh. well, send it from Monte Carlo
as soon as we get there"
Send it from Monte Carlo? No, in
deed. How would that look? OF course, I
did lose the first I had there, but 1 don't
want him to know it,
Wise woman! When a man gets a tele-
/ graphic request for more money and it
is dated from Monte Carlo. he is likely
I to put two and two together and wonder
/ what the. wife of his bosom and his bank
/ account is up to.
Another American woman, who knows
| Monte Carlo of old, was surprised by what
/ she called the morbid curiosity of
man who showed an interest in the sui
/ eide. She seemed to think that a Monte
! Carlo suicide was too commonplace "a
! matter to be worth so much attention, es-
/ pecialy one which was so lacking in sem
/ sational details. She described one which
/ had come under her personal observations
and which seemed to have appealed to her
/ sense of the proper thing in suicides. She
! said that she was sitting a one of the
/ tables when she heard a pistol shot be-
! hind her. A man at the next table had
] lost everything, and then had put a pistol
! In his mouth and killed himself. To use
! the unpleasant expression of the Ameri-
can woman, the table was in such IAN
awful mess" as the consequence of the
dead mans falling forward upon ii, that
| play had to be stopped. The man was
| carried out, and the inevitab BILE attendants
| came back in few minutes with the in
| evltable information that 1t was moth
| ing but a mere scratch" The table was
covered with the ordinary cover which
| is put on every night the top was I'M
| screwed and removed, new one was put
on, and in less than half an hour play was
| going on as before.
A suicides table is not considered I'M
| lucky, anyway In tact many persons
think it brings good luck. lust as in the
shops at Monte Carlo the ia vor!te charms
| for sale are little gold figures of a man
| hanging from a post, the nu mber 10 In red
| and black enamel 0he go milling colors)
and a miniature roulette wheel Apropos
of charms. however, the Sun reporter
saw one man at the Cas- mo who had a
rather dangerous looking pendant on his
| watch chain. 1t was a small silver pistol,
| about six inches long. lr a place ike the
Casino, where a pistol shot sometimes
means death and ruin with all due apollo
giles to the directors for having mentioned
| this fact-a pistol attached to ones watch