The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-03-04

taken the places of those who had wit
messed it. everything was almost normal
again II Il more than likely that the
very person sitting in the chair which the
dead man had occupied did not know that
he was, so TO speak. in a dead mans
sioss.
What became of the dead man? Well,
nobody knows, except his friends, II he
had any and the Casino authorities, who
DENY the existence of dead men where
,bev are concerned As for the friends
II "a said that the administration of the
Casino does not wear itself out trying
to send 20 their right addresses any
corpses that may happen TO be left on its
hands There are even grewsome tales
of bodies sewed up in weighted sacks and
carried out to sea to be dumped overheard.
You can buy postal cards at Nice with
nsctorial representation Of this tale, which
Is probably untrue. But 1t Is hard to know
what is true at Monte Carlo.
Truth Is Hard to Obtain.
But. OF course. a really persistent truth
seeker will not stop witn the statements
of employees. hotel clerks, hairdressers
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 bread.
OF course you can't really expect the in
stitution to blacken its own character.
unturned to find out the real facts you
will go 10 headquarters matter Of
thoroughness You win offer the direc-
tors 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
NJ. Georges Bornier is as elusive your
chance of winning would be II you should
sit down at M. Bornier's pretty green
gaming tables. First he Is not to be seen
because he Is at Nice. Next you must go
to Hotel Monte Carlo to find him: at the
hotel they win tel you that he has never
set foot in the place. Next, ne is invis-
lille because he is at the opening of the
picture show. TO which you will not be
admitted The next time he ia at the
races Oh 1t is not a simple matter 10
find messeurs the directors OF the Anony-
nous Society of Sea Baths. which is the
euphonious. II misleading, title of the
gambling company.
But one ought to give the directors
their due. In conceaing the tragedies
winch occur at Monte Carlo they are
pleasing almost everybody, except the
French newspapers they have failed to
subsidixe. Even the Interested citizen of
the town, while denying in one breath
that there are any scandals to be hush
ed IN. tells you with certain pride Of
the annual sums of hush money paid by
papers 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
II has wrecked their lives everybody else
is pleased to have everything disagrceable
kept ont OF sight. The friends OF the
suicides would be the last to complain.
Nobody wants IL known that "A member OF
the family has killed himself at Monte
Carlo.
Even visitors 10 the place want 20 keep
clear OF any public connection with IT,
OF course they do. How many Americans
would want Il cabled to a home paper
that they were gambling at table where
man committed suicide? That's the
way the American physician feels about
the suicide the other day. II II came 70
the point he would probably Join the
native population and declare that he
| never saw suicide at Monte Carlo; had
never been there, In fact, except pass
ing 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
tickets to Monte Carlo. is astonishing
Monte Carlo Date Suspicious.
The writer overheard one OF them on
the train the other day. She was talking
with another American woman, and sud-
denly exclaimed:
''rherel forgot TO send that tele-
grant,
"oh. we'll. send IL from Monte Carlo as
soon as we get there"
send II from Monte Carlog No. in
deed. How would that iooky OF course.
| did lose the first | had there, but |
don't want him to know IT.
Wise woman' When a man gets a tele-
graphic request for more money and IL is
dated from Monte Carlo he Is likely to
put two and two together and wonder
what the wife OF his bosom and HIS bank
account Il 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 10 think that a Monte
Carlo suicide was too COMMONPLACE n
matter 20 be worth so much attention, es-
peCtelly one which was so lacking in
sensational details. She described one
which had come under her personal OBJ
servatiou. and which seemed 70 have APP
pealgd 90 her sense OF the proper thing
in suicides. She said that she was sit-
Ties NJ one Of tho tables when she heard
pistol snot behind her. A man at the
next table had lost everything and then
hsd pat a pistol iu hts mouth and killed
himself To use the unpleasant express
sion % the American woman. the table
Sss IN such an awful mess" as the
consequence q the dead mans falling
forward upon 80, that play had 70 be
stopped The man was carried out and
tte Inevitable attendants came back lu a
few minutes With the inevitable inforua.
ton thai "a was nothing but a. mere
aefatCh.~
A suicides table Is not considered un-
iacktt ans waF. In fact. many persons
thlnk u brings good luck. jast a. In the
ahoEs az Monte carlo the fav0rite charms
Zee sale are little gold figures % a maa
hanEiug from post. the number ~ IN
fel ard black enamel uhr gambling col.
cfai. and q miniature r8ulstie wheel
AQrupor - chaFms however. the re-
porter Jaw enc man az the Casino who
had rather dana eroiss -loakiGe pendant
on BIS watch chain. % Nas = snalI silver
pitlal thaal "a inChrs leua ln a plars
lsf thr cassHo. bets a ristol shnt some
Nr'fs means Death and ruin eith an due
Apologies CD ths dlrectar~ 80 haslrE men.
tafsea lhia fsaf-.s plsfni attached a. anefp
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