The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-09-23

their wages are 80 n day win Doaru anu 'ous-
ing. Walters In the saloons earn uniformly
90 a week. One Of Theses Is a negro VINO lee'S
his importance as u former coal passer on mo
battleship Oregon at the battle OF santiago
You can hear Ia Nome on any evening both
the best and the worst music to be found any
where. Immense grsphophones grind out
! music hall songs and orchestral pieces In q
dozen saloons. In several other places girls
with yellow hair. short dresses and voices OF
great volume sing because" and Old VIZ
ginia, Far Away" 4 mining camp Il not
generally regarded n discriminating IN respect
10 music. but II has ideas Of summar Justice
and the authors of those tunes might be lynched
II they should turn up here But music. In
deed. charms to soothe u mining camp In
a certain saloon IN Nome a trio Of musicians
are employed TO whom the term artist mlghi
properly be applied. They are n vlollnlet' n
pianist and a clarinet player. Refined music II
the rule With them, airs from the great German
Italian and French operas, Spanish "ntZeS'
selections from famous Oratorlos and The t's'
compoItions OF American composers. They
have eI ploded again the notion that unedu-
Gated persons. the plain people. prefer rag
time airs and the popular songs OF the day 10
tho classica Of musical compositions Every
night that saloon Is crowded with an Interested
and interesting audience They are Interested
for they crowd up around the players untI
the lattcr have scarcely elbow room, and they
listen with open mouths They are INTEREST,"
ing because they are. as a rule. the kind ~ m'E
10 b. seen In the saloons Of downtown dis
tricts In great cities. The whole audience
Joined last night in tremendous applause o' the
"lntermczzo- from "Cavalleria Rlsiicana. and
cbeared after the clarinet man played an III
..z,. 49, 4, ,anJipuI,. ,,1aypr solo
While this performance was going on the
rambling tables were almost deserted and the
bar wa. temporarily ont Of business During
the playing The remarkable silence in the room
wa broken only 10y the come ~ebcn; look
cheerful and pay dat money, OF a solitary
and hilarious crap shooter At one end OF the
snloon and by a little disturbance over a
drunken maa who was being put out Last
SUNDAY nigh' a good docking woman in black
entered the saloon and asked the proprietor
20 be allowed TO sing She sang very wei
The Holy CIV accompanied by a little or
chestra. and IA she went out the rough but
respeCtful audience wondered II she WAS a
missionary or a woman without Il name A
woman'S standing Is not long in doubt IN this
camp and no respectable woman II ever insulted
II is almost an unheard-of sight TO sea n man
make his bet iE gold dust on a roulette board
or card table This Is not Il Dawson 81 the days
~ 1895. it il n civilized community where the
circulating medium is hard cash what there
il Of II Bu' there is u scarcity of hard cash
and the gamble II are complaining that there
isn't any money in town The days have
passed when Iindeberg placed sIi,o"o on rou-
letta I'm one evening and lost. by the way 1t
IA a rare thing 70 see a mar bet more than $50
NJ faro or roulette. ard ?j-cent stakes are com
Gf,,, all IN, rc,itafta Wlppl Is "a bur-
omcter of prosperity in a miniug camp. Five
forms Of gambling thrive more than any others
in Nome They are roulette, crap, chuck-n-
luck. faro and black Jack Occasionally a
gama Of stud poker is seen The roulette
board In use here allows eight forms Of betting
number column. odd or even. red or black,
high or low, four numbers, six numbers and
zero OF double zero Crap shooting is a great
game for small stakes and a crap board In a
popular saloon is never idle A tall young
man with red hair walked into a vell-known
saloon the other night with 50 cents In his
pocket He bought two chips worth 25 cents
each at the chuck a-luck table and placed
them on the deuce spot OF this hardest OF all
games TO beat The dealer turned his little
wire cage OF dice. Three deuces came out
and he paid the ed-haired young man six
chips A crowd gathered around the player
and he played the deuce spot with his sma
capital persavertngly and Invariably BY the
time he had accumulated $50 chiIs the dealer
stopped joshinR the young man When he
had hauded over q hundred moie he look d
glurn il ~ won all the money the young man
had he would win but 81 cents Three detces
came again The crowd Of spectators around
the table increased. the young man was paid
three times on a big stack H. left it all OF the
- .EI-.. I.,,,a " 1rtnA thA daalar aD atn
and No looked very sor. The red-haired
young man had before him nearly all the chirs
on the table white. red. pink and blue He
had won s7OO on a capital OF 50 cents A man
with a long brown beard nudged him
cash In. YOU damn fool. " ne said
The red-haired young man shook his head
He made three small bots and lost each time.
Then he heavily and In ten minutes was broke.
Three prOprietors Of gaml ng machines
have gone broke within the last few days, and
che cause is ascribed TO the presence here Of
several sharps who match their pracitised wits
against the p~ractised wits and the stolid con-
fdenca Of the gaming prOprietors and often
win In the contest. one Of these men touched
a faro dealer for eli 900 one night and the dealer
went out Of business. A blackjack man had
a similar reversal of fortune and gave w.
Since the recent advent OF the United States
court the majesty of law has been recognized
To some extent. but II has AT on n lettering
throne. A man named Joe Priest started out
TO thrash the United States District Attorney
the other day Priest had proposed to be
one Of two bondsnen for a man recently ar
rested and bound over for trial The District
Attorney had objected, alleging that Priest,
financial standing was doubtful. Priest said
I'm show him whether I'm good for that
none: or not. Said I wouldn't do. hey? I'll
Ak him. and started for the office.
Arrived az the office he wasted no time In
talk. but lit out with both fists at the Distric,
Attorneys face, There are multitudes 81
men In Nome who have little respect for some
members Of the court and they would have re-
joiced II the District Attorney had rece wed a
thrashing. But MIR. Wood IL from Montana
and he has seen mining camps before. He
f. a muscular man and knows how to use his
strength. In a minute Priest was lying quietly
In the street outside the District Attorneys
door. He was badly used up. and 1t was a
question whether he should he taken 20 the
morgue, the hospital or the jail. The decision
wa finally in favor Of the Jail and the man il
king there now charged with assault. Joe
Priest IL a man with a history. lie has been in
several mining camps, has been in turn wealthy
and peuniless and comparatively wealthy again.
He killed a man in a Western State some years